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by whartung 3y ago
Is there a "Common Lisp Electron" thing floating around? The GUI situation of the free lisps is pretty much a non-started for anything portable, just curious if there's a project bundling Common Lisp with a browser window, li
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by whartung 3y ago
Seems to me a solution is to have a "generic" queue handler that will take any message, and then have tenant specific queue handlers. Now, mind, I'm not thinking of a dedicated handler for each tenant, rather one that can rou
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by whartung 3y ago
An interesting scenario I heard was a fellow in, I think, Colombia. He was visiting, and was looking at his phone on the sidewalk. As he was looking at it, a pair of people rode up on a motorcycle or scooter, grabbed it out of his hand, and
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by whartung 3y ago
I can't say I'm widely traveled, I have no idea how desktop Office works, but Apple does this so well. Using their desktop apps, Pages, Keynote, Numbers, TextEdit, Preview, I never hit "Save". I just close the apps. When
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by whartung 3y ago
...and if you let it burn, it'll summon the fire department!
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by whartung 3y ago
Indeed, but there's something tactile about a tin box over, say, a plastic box. Mind there are some rather nice plastic boxes, but I think a cheap tin box rates a bit higher than a cheap plastic box.
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by whartung 3y ago
A perfect example of this was back when I had my breakthrough with Scheme and Lisp. I always struggled with fundamental terminology used in this family of languages, particularly lambda. Lambda as a term does carry historical baggage. The t
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by whartung 3y ago
My curiosity is piqued by the mention on the web page: I no longer use X11. And then proceeds to present his own framebuffer and rendering applications. I presume in order to show the PDFs and such that his processor creates. I&#x2
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by whartung 3y ago
Yea, my experience as well. Cramming a 11x14 foldout menu onto a phone pdf is not a good UX. That said, I find the kiosk app at Panera Bread a much better experience than ordering from the menu simply because there’s a lot more information.
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by whartung 3y ago
The feature and bug of the OSGI experience is its rather coarse granularity. It’s finer grained than, say, a WAR, but obviously much different than something akin to the Smalltalk or, to a lesser extent, Common Lisp. That said, make no mist
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by whartung 3y ago
It’s one thing to pause queries but can you also pause transactions that are in flight? How does that work?
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by whartung 3y ago
Many of the new town houses in Orange County/Irvine area are following this plan. They do not appeal to me, as I’m not fond of having to scale several flights of stairs, and the individual floors seem quite small, smaller than my first
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by whartung 3y ago
I don't see how Passkeys eliminates the need for 2FA. Seems to me, and I may not understand it, but it seems to me that Passkeys are more of a way to eliminate having to constantly re-enter you password, but do not eliminate passwords.
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by whartung 3y ago
Github 2FA is made extra fun because they only offer a single mechanic of replacing it (that I know of), and that's using the recovery codes. So, they forced me to use 2FA, and I dutifully printed out the recovery codes (don't wri
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by whartung 3y ago
Why not? Development is development. If I build a new assembly building for a new product, that roof is going to be mainstream, long lasting, cheap as I can get it, and billed to “development” because that’s exactly what it is. You can say
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by whartung 3y ago
Personally, interacting with users can be a source of great joy (it can also be a source of great consternation). I've typically found it much better to interact with the person you're making the dog food for so that you can get t
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by whartung 3y ago
Certainly not. Land, taxes, labor, etc. vary across the country, and that has an impact on local pricing. An extreme case is the McDonalds at the South Rim of the Grand Canyon, which is a small town, obviously catering to the tourist trade.
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by whartung 3y ago
These are some good examples: var $ = STR; var $h = new HtmlTemplateThing(); var $j = new JSONTemplateThing(); var name = "John"; var s = $."Hello \{name}"; // HTML escaped var h
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by whartung 3y ago
Is that true though? Are most people working at Google working on Ad tech, or on the services that the ad tech helps pay for? Now, to be clear, I don't consider GMail "ad tech", even though it is ad supported. I don't se
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by whartung 3y ago
The Pharo hackers write Pharo to enable them to make Pharo better. They are a shining manifestation of eating their own dog food. Outcomes of this effort are powerful version control and package management. I don’t know, but it seems quite
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by whartung 3y ago
Not just regular ball point pens, but with a rather long tip. You take a modern, generic Bic pen, and the tip is angular. It's a cone shape, ending in the ball point. The Spirograph pens had their ball point at then end of a tube that
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by whartung 3y ago
Cue John Goodmans speech from "The Gambler" https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2039393/quotes/?item=qt2347398&... (Warning, 4 letter words.)
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by whartung 3y ago
In the movie Blackhat, the Bad Guy communicated "anonymously" with his cronies by setting up (I think) a Bluetooth hot spot in an open mall. They all virtually crossed paths at some specific spot, where there was a radio and compu
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by whartung 3y ago
From the first link: They implemented lots of algorithms - CRDTs and OT algorithms and stuff. What’s an “OT” algorithm in this context?
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by whartung 3y ago
To be really pedantic, a $20,000 drone out of Yemen is 0.1% of Yemen GDP. A US interceptor of 0.000013% of US GDP. So, yes, I know, LOTS of details (like Iran) here, but the overall point being even if our $3M missile is more than their $20
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by whartung 3y ago
This is the Fast CGI model, using pre-forking in something like Apache. Apache creates a new process for each incoming connection, but pre-forks them (so they sit idle without a connection), and when those processes fire up, Fast CGI starts
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by whartung 3y ago
If you run an actual binary, the OS will not only cache the code pages, it will share them across processes. In the perl case, the actual interpreter is loaded, cached, and shared across the CGI invocations, while the actual script code wil
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by whartung 3y ago
It would be interesting what kind of clustering (if any) there would be if 1 million people were asked to pick a number between 1 and a million.
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by whartung 3y ago
We should ship over a few large containers of "Old Bay", perhaps that will help fix that problem over there. Blue crab are, indeed, "Good eats".
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by whartung 3y ago
People negatively affect by regulation complain about regulation. Say it ain't so! Any regulation of this type has a pointy end poking into someones back, regardless of the overall goal or intent of the regulation. Doesn't mean th

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