4lch3m1st

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by 4lch3m1st 7y ago
That's one dishonest headline. Air pollution areas are commonly associated with big cities, where the crime rate tends to be higher. The website clearly turned this into something else for no reason at all other than clicks.
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by 4lch3m1st 7y ago
In that case, you might want to check the wiki. There are still some examples missing, but they'll give you a general idea.
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by 4lch3m1st 7y ago
Hello. It was tested on Linux and FreeBSD. Works fine on any of those systems if you have SBCL and dmenu installed, though it might need a few tweaks on program paths of your configuration file. I plan to migrate this to a more flexible Ros
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by 4lch3m1st 7y ago
Hello. I currently use this daily to automate my workflow. I have no pretension of "selling" this as a very extensible tool that everyone should use, though I agree that I need to improve the README.
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by 4lch3m1st 7y ago
Hello, I'm the author. I just found out someone put this in HN again, I hope I can explain. This is basically a way to create menus and submenus for recurrent utilities. You can use a rofi or dmenu frontend. Once you bind it a key shor
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by 4lch3m1st 8y ago
From his talk on OOPSLA[1], I'd say that only Smalltalk and Common Lisp (through CLOS) were able to perform OO as Kay envisioned. Erlang is another story: it would probably be better to call it just actor model. But again, Kay himself
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by 4lch3m1st 8y ago
They shouldn't. I'm not saying that Git doesn't have commands that can be hard to understand fully, but the whole point of any abstraction is to hide the "insides" of any operation so you don't have to think ab
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by 4lch3m1st 8y ago
Though I agree that complaining like this can be a problem for people with zero experience, I don't think it is a valid argument against what OP is pointing out. Most of the process seems to be rooted on automation, which encourages ca
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by 4lch3m1st 8y ago
Not cool. This also seems to imply no support for Atom feeds as well. I have switched my media channels entirely to RSS/Atom feeds, though I only read them through Emacs. This cannot stop stuff like fake news, but it always seemed impo
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by 4lch3m1st 8y ago
This is beautiful, and a wonderful project to develop along with some friends. JPL nailed it.
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by 4lch3m1st 8y ago
It may sound like a harsh statement, but exactly because corporations are not like people, they seem to be harder to change, in my opinion. I'm not saying Microsoft can't change, but it's easy to forget that the main goal of
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by 4lch3m1st 8y ago
I think the thought of deletion is pretty much just one of the problems. I managed to delete my Facebook profile a few months ago, but the amount of pressure I often receive from people so that I create a new account is what impresses me th
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by 4lch3m1st 9y ago
I was going to answer, but the other comments already did :) Though most of it right now is just learning material for people new to Common Lisp, the project is actually for lispers of any level.
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by 4lch3m1st 9y ago
Hello. I'm afraid the main focus is to join all Brazilian or Portuguese-speaking lispers in one place, but we're not really supporting English-speaking ones, though you're very welcome to join (if you try keeping stuff in Por
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by 4lch3m1st 9y ago
While I expect a lot of people to not agree with what I am going to say, I believe this is much more linked to the political moment than to Twitter having a problem with "handling controversy". This just feels like an excuse to fi
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by 4lch3m1st 9y ago
I think the title might be misleading here. It doesn't really transpile Common Lisp to C, it requires you to write in a C-like Lisp dialect so it gets translated to C. Might as well have been an entire Lisp dialect with a compiler of i
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by 4lch3m1st 9y ago
I really wanted to test that, but the lack of Linux support is a bummer. Maybe in a few weeks...
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by 4lch3m1st 9y ago
Been using Mastodon and I can say it is indeed a very good alternative. One reminder to newcomers: choose wisely which server you'll join, depending on your interests. It will influence what and who you'll see first. Personally, I
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by 4lch3m1st 9y ago
Let's hope this move helps with the transitioning to Python 3. I'm not a Python programmer myself, but I'm tired of things getting hairy on Linux dependencies written in Python. It almost seems like I always got to have a Pyt
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by 4lch3m1st 9y ago
Pardon my ignorance, but isn't Flutter a little immature too? I remember playing with it and Dart a while ago, still didn't seem to have everything necessary to ship something to production. With that said, I think Dart isn't
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by 4lch3m1st 9y ago
Funny, exactly the opposite happened to me. I have been using VSCode for C++ projects and, after discovering that it had very poor support for the Scheme language, I was practically forced to try out Emacs. A few months messing with it and
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by 4lch3m1st 9y ago
One quick way to do that is by using NewPipe Android app. It has an RSS feed button. Plus, you get a lightweight YouTube frontend.
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by 4lch3m1st 9y ago
Just deleted my Facebook account in about two weeks ago and started consuming news through RSS and through Podcasts and some YouTube channels (which are also, surprisingly, RSS). I've never felt better. This might be a stretch, but thi
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by 4lch3m1st 9y ago
Does this support ProtonMail? I'm interested, but I'm also a bit paranoid with my mail privacy.
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by 4lch3m1st 9y ago
This is a horrible experience, but I must admit it's also a good laughing material.
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by 4lch3m1st 9y ago
So everybody loses, except the sctual target.
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by 4lch3m1st 9y ago
So actions justify the means? No harm was done to anyone but the employee, which could even be prosecuted for that, so everything was pretty much useless. And of course, if you're offering a service to someone, you're supposed to
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by 4lch3m1st 9y ago
I'm not really a Slack user, but isn't Keybase always an option?
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by 4lch3m1st 9y ago
I will need to take a more careful look, mostly because it was too complex for my understanding, but some of the code indeed look a little like Lisp. EDIT: Why do you say that?
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by 4lch3m1st 9y ago
Regardless, shouldn't you at least write documentation to isolate and identify confusing points of your rapidly evolving language? It's almost a matter of good practices; explaining something is usually the best way to learn it.

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