compyman

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by compyman 15d ago
I am taking this as a reference to "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote"[0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Menard,_Author_of_the_Q...
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by compyman 5mo ago
Reading that - I'm really not sure that AT Protocol has a much better story there either. (as I understand it) the data has to live in a PDS, PDS are keyed by accounts, so you are similarly stymied for collaborative projects? I guess A
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by compyman 5mo ago
You might be being too pedantic :) https://spdx.org/licenses/GPL-2.0-only.html It's a specific GPL license (as opposed to GPL 2.0-later)
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by compyman 6mo ago
What did you need to fix! And what did you need KKP for? are you running emacs in eat?
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by compyman 6mo ago
You might be sort of interested in the Emulate-A-Terminal (EAT) package: https://codeberg.org/akib/emacs-eat which provides a very fast terminal emulator entirely in emacs lisp.
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by compyman 11mo ago
This is a very flat view - the Roman empire is born in a period of civil war, and after a relatively brief period of peace in the imperial core starts imploding and rebuilding itself in different configurations. The art and culture was very
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by compyman 11mo ago
I also think that a lot of the problems with yaml specifically are overblown, but this post is actually not about that! It is specifically saying the same problem exists in JSON/YAML/TOML, etc, which is that all these configuratio
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by compyman 1y ago
I think this might underestimate how gambling + kids games can reinforce destructive behavior. There are lots of similar tools that casino owners/game designers/sports betting apps/social media/&c use to build addict
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by compyman 1y ago
It seems very similar to an earlier paxos optimization called 'pig paxos' https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3448016.3452834
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by compyman 1y ago
I think the meaning is that the idea that compilers can only compile for their host machine is an ananchronism, since that was historically the case but is no longer true.
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by compyman 1y ago
I guess they are willing to take that risk to fulfil their religious obligations - If you aren't allowed to do business it doesn't really matter if that business is online or in the store. But I think that if you are familiar with
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by compyman 4y ago
I think this really underrates the 15 years of work that has gone into creating interlocking systems to generate geography, civilizations, people, artifacts, emotions, poetry, &c, &c. Especially because you can see, often, what spec
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by compyman 4y ago
This really misstates an important point - the Unification Church is not "believed to be behind" the assassination, it was a man holding a grudge against the Church. Pretty much the opposite meaning. I don't think this commen
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by compyman 6y ago
I think it's interesting that Lamport chose this style for Paxos Made Simple[0] Which iteratively goes through a process of proposing a solution for a problem (proposal 0: accept the first value the acceptor comes across) and then reve
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by compyman 6y ago
It's a pun! :)
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by compyman 9y ago
The specific event (i.e. having a barbecue) is a direct descendant from the Caribbean practice. It actually goes over this in the article, along with a very brief description of how barbecues have been used a political events since the foun
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by compyman 9y ago
Regional BBQ joints are afraid customers will forget their white supremacist past?
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by compyman 12y ago
In a similar vein, on of my professors is describing stringed instruments in scheme (based on the picture language) http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~mairson/Papers/ICFP062-mairson.p...