Per_Bothner

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by Per_Bothner 2mo ago
I haven't figured out how to flag a comment as offense - but the term "zog soldier" is anti-semitic and does not belong on HN.
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by Per_Bothner 3mo ago
"Defenestrate" was not in my list, but it's a word I would have gotten, as I know it from: (1) An A.C. Clarke short story ("The Defenestration of Ermintrude Inch", in "Tales from the White Hart", if I reme
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by Per_Bothner 3mo ago
"Frugal" most definitely does not mean "rather over the top" unless that is some new slang meaning I've never heard of.
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by Per_Bothner 5mo ago
Not always, but in this case the superior product (i.e. VHS) won. At initial release, Beta could only record an hour of content, while VHS could record 2 hours. Huge difference in functionality. The quality difference was there, but pretty
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by Per_Bothner 7mo ago
Kawa predates Clojure by a decade. (Kawa work started 1996; Clojure's initial release was 2007.) Also, Clojure isn't really focused on high performance, while that has always been a priority for Kawa, which generates bytecode simi
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by Per_Bothner 7mo ago
What a blast from the past! I too remember with pleasure the days working with Anthony Green (and others) at Cygnus. I like to boast that (apart from Java) Kawa Scheme is the oldest compiler-based language implementation still available for
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by Per_Bothner 1y ago
"COBOL uses a fixed width character format for all data (yes even for COMP). If you want a four digit number, then you have to use 4 character positions." That is incorrect. USAGE COMP will use binary, with the number number of by
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by Per_Bothner 2y ago
For me Tauri/Wry starts up pretty instantaneous. This is using Wry as the renderer for the DomTerm terminal emulator ( https://domterm.org ), invoked with 'domterm -Bwry'. This is on Fedora Linux 41 x64. Admittedly
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by Per_Bothner 2y ago
The libwebsockets server ( https://libwebsockets.org ) supports serving directly from zip archives. Furthermore, if a URL is mapped to a compressed archive member, and assuming the browser can accept gzip-compressed files (as most
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by Per_Bothner 2y ago
Completion for program P should be written and maintained by the "owner" of program P - and installed with program P. This is of course difficult when there are many different "shells" that each have their own "lang
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by Per_Bothner 3y ago
On Gnome, the Super (Windows) key does an Expose (show windows reduced-size and non-overlapping) and lets you launch applications (and more). On KDE 5, the Super key brings up the Application Launcher, which is nice. And Super+W (which is
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by Per_Bothner 3y ago
And people may judge you if you don't react in the way people think "normal people" react. People have been convicted of murder because police or juries though they didn't react the way they were "supposed to".
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by Per_Bothner 3y ago
Here is a screenshot: https://github.com/xtermjs/xterm.js/pull/4519#issue-17129655...
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by Per_Bothner 3y ago
I am working on a re-write ( https://github.com/xtermjs/xterm.js/issues/4800 ) of the xterm.js "BufferLine" data structures that (among other benefits) could potentially support variable-width fonts i
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by Per_Bothner 3y ago
The master branch of xterm.js (which will become version 5.4) has a new experimental support for grapheme clusters, combining characters, and partial support for variation selectors, based on Unicode 15. (Contributed by Your Truly.) For now
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by Per_Bothner 3y ago
To be pedantic: You're conflating the syntax of regular exprssions, with the (computer science) concept. Glob patterns are a kind of very resticted regular pexressions. Ksh extended the glob syntax so it has the full power of regular e
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by Per_Bothner 3y ago
That is true. Elon Musk has greatly affected the stock price of the Company Formerly Known as Twitter.
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by Per_Bothner 3y ago
Hank started out as a semi-comic blow-hard, but he evolved into someone heroic and sympathetic: While Walt "broke bad", Hank "broke good".
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by Per_Bothner 3y ago
Huh? Using a shell interactively is a REPL. REPL means Read-Eval-Print-Loop. That's what you do when you type commands to a bach/zsh/fish/nushell/... prompt. But it also how you type commands to a gnuplot or Mathema
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by Per_Bothner 3y ago
One of the issues R7RS-large ran into was in how to handle datatypes, such as collection types. Initially, Lisp-style languages had linked lists as the primary data type, but vectors were early added. So you had a "map" function (
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by Per_Bothner 3y ago
Or Kawa: (if (? p::Point obj) (... p:x p:y)) This succeeds if obj matches the pattern p::Point, declaring p to be the value of obj coerced to a Point. This is integrated with Kawa's static type-checking/inference.
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by Per_Bothner 3y ago
DomTerm gets the linked test right.
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by Per_Bothner 3y ago
I'm the author of DomTerm and the above-mentioned xterm.js PR. Both use the full UnicodeGrapheme Cluster Boundaries algorithm ( https://unicode.org/reports/tr29/#Grapheme_Cluster_Boundarie... ). However, I hav
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by Per_Bothner 3y ago
The complaint was about having to sign up to (register for) yet-another website.
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by Per_Bothner 3y ago
I believe we're talking about the equivalent of a small LED, like half your devices already have one or more of, but infrared and probably lower intensity. I.e. a teeny invisible glow. Even for animals that can see the glow, it would
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by Per_Bothner 3y ago
Of course laws can be applied retroactively. As a general rule, they shouldn't be, but they certainly can be and have been. "The Constitution of the United States forbids Congress and the states to pass any ex post facto law. In 1
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by Per_Bothner 3y ago
Sixel has the one advantage of being mplemented in xterm and a modest number of other terminals. Otherwise, it's a pretty bad format: Inefficient. Unclear and inconsistently implemented specification. All images have to be a multiple
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by Per_Bothner 3y ago
I think DomTerm (in addition handling sixels and extended emoji) does multi-plexing and remoting quite well. Remote access ( https://domterm.org/Remoting-over-ssh.html ) is done with a simple wrapper over ssh. Mosh-style pre
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by Per_Bothner 3y ago
There are many places in the US where housing is a surplus. The obvious example is Detroit (as well as other "rust-belt" cities), where many functional houses have been demolished because there is no demand. Many rural areas are
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by Per_Bothner 3y ago
Most of Palo Alto and Menlo Park are within an easy bike ride from campus. You can mostly stay on pleasant tree-filled residential streets as you admire the multi-million-dollar cottages. Though as others have commented: few undergraduates

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