acdw

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by acdw 4mo ago
In CL and Scheme, it's (let ((var1 val) (var2 val)) body...). So parentheses are used for grouping and function/macro application. In Clojure, parens are just used for application, so you have e.g. (let [var1 val var2 val] body.
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by acdw 4mo ago
I have heard of Smalltalk and it is intriguing but honestly I don't even know how to get started with it lol
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by acdw 4mo ago
It's ok because I'm a hobbyist programmer!
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by acdw 4mo ago
I use Emacs's built-in structural editing bindings, which doesn't have the auto-move-past any kind of paren/bracket thing. Maybe I could add that in. But I was talking about like, when refactoring, I'll maybe change some
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by acdw 4mo ago
This is very much what I meant in the post (hi, I'm the author :P)! CL has maps, but they're a pain to use - not just because of the syntax, but because of the relative dearth of standard library functions to work with them compar
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by acdw 4mo ago
Oh I've written an SSG in multiple variations of lisp, as well as sh, make, and most other languages I toy around with. It's been a good "kick the tires" project but I think I need a new one.
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by acdw 8mo ago
HAHAHAH Hell yeah that's praxis baby die mad about it
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by acdw 1y ago
> What works best for me is no modal editing at all. I used vim for 8 years and after switching to Emacs, realized that I'm the same. I was spending way more time (in vim) thinking about (to borrow another commenter's metaphor)
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by acdw 1y ago
could you share the code for that? thinking I could set up a fail2ban rule for these ips
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by acdw 2y ago
seriously, study after study shows that just giving people money is the most effective form of altruism. just give it away. go to your city's homeless shelter and give money away. write a check for your local school board. keep everyth
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by acdw 2y ago
I remember reading long ago that the average person changes careers 6 times. So that means that half of everyone changes more than 6 times.
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by acdw 3y ago
> Please do not post this article to Hacker News. oop!
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by acdw 3y ago
honestly I'm so sick of this attitude. it's the same as the recycling push...when like a dozen companies are creating the vast majority of pollution, there's not a lot us little people can do. HSAs are a symptom of an extreme
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by acdw 3y ago
$ cat ai.txt no $
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by acdw 3y ago
$ cat ai.txt no
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by acdw 3y ago
so Lisp is actually not a pure language, like, at all. Emacs is often written about as a big hairy ball of state and Lisp itself can be as imperative or statefule as you want. So while I don't know much about what you're designing
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by acdw 4y ago
I agree, and I've seen more "blogs" on GitHub lately. it's very annoying.
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by acdw 4y ago
I really wish people would stop writing blogs in naked GitHub repos.
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by acdw 4y ago
I humbly submit either bash, sh, or zsh --- they all put dotfiles in $HOME that you can't move (zsh technically /can/, but they're still dotfiles and you have to set them in ~/.zshenv). Very annoying IMO. Course, m
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by acdw 4y ago
God no LMAO
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by acdw 4y ago
Pretty much all of my Emacs packages are scratching my own itch. Most of them are at codeberg: https://codeberg.org/acdw
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by acdw 4y ago
Just hopping in to say : it's laughable to claim that open source projects have "hard-coded" anything. It's literally impossible to hard code things when anyone can download the source, edit it, compile it and run it on
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by acdw 4y ago
thank you!
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by acdw 4y ago
okay ya got me! i've read one posthumous book by bukowski and heard that one modest mouse song ... i should obviously read more because the random pick you gave is, indeed, pretty good. thanks for changing my mind :)
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by acdw 4y ago
I'm writing an ed clone in scheme. I hope to have autoindentation since that's about the only thing I miss with ed.
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by acdw 4y ago
I'm really bothered by the way you casually conflate an actual war in the middle east---the longest war in American history, by the way---with a metaphorical war on domestic violent extremism and neonazism. these are two very different
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by acdw 4y ago
Maybe I should read more Bukowski. Have you any recommendations?
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by acdw 4y ago
I mean there is no art there. There is art, there is angst, in OG punk songs, and the music helps. There is no art in Bukowski's poems. His line breaks are all over the place, he's cynical and bitter, and ... that's it. T
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by acdw 4y ago
honestly this is such a bad take and it really annoys me. it's okay if it doesn't come easily! some of the best works of art took ages to conceptualize and realize, and the fact bukowski thinks that's antithesis to art shows
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by acdw 4y ago
MISC is a really good name for these ---- I've been putting them in ~/src/vendor but I might just move em to ~/misc :D

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