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The Kernel Programming Language(web.cs.wpi.edu)
3 points by ctrlmeta 4y ago|0 comments
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by ctrlmeta 4y ago
Lisp macros (and earlier FEXPRs) predate Zig by 53 years!
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by ctrlmeta 4y ago
As much as I despise P5fRxh5kUvp2th's personal attacks on you (personal attacks have no place in a civilized forum and the uncivil behavior of P5fRxh5kUvp2th should be condemned), I do feel tempted to point out that your responses do n
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by ctrlmeta 4y ago
> Programming language experts told Andrew Kelley, the creator of the Zig programming language, that having code which could run at compile time was a really dumb idea. Really? I can't believe that! Running code at compile time is a
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Macros in R (2015)(r-bloggers.com)
2 points by ctrlmeta 4y ago|0 comments
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by ctrlmeta 4y ago
The original title of the post is "IBM Redefines Hybrid Cloud Application and Data Storage Adding Red Hat Storage to IBM Offerings".
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What color is your markup?(t-ravis.com)
25 points by ctrlmeta 4y ago|12 comments
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by ctrlmeta 4y ago
> Historically, the first webcam actually predated the web. Contradiction? Maybe they meant that the first internet cam predated the web? Edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_Room_coffee_pot has more details
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by ctrlmeta 4y ago
Why are we seeing a dupe of a LinkedIn-style "motivational" post on the same day? The dupe was literally a few hours ago here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33038272
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Rebuttal to Stallman's Story About the Formation of Symbolics and LMI(web.archive.org)
3 points by ctrlmeta 4y ago|0 comments
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by ctrlmeta 4y ago
I don't understand it either! Unrelated GIFs in the middle of a tutorial looks silly and distracting. The same antipattern is seen in many tech articles too when they add a "hero image" to the article. The "hero image&qu
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The Appeal of Small Computers(andregarzia.com)
4 points by ctrlmeta 4y ago|1 comments
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by ctrlmeta 4y ago
> 4) As the value of these bonds fall, these institutions are asked to post more collateral. Why do the pension funds (and other institutional investors) need to post collateral? Where do the pension funds post their collateral to? I gue
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by ctrlmeta 4y ago
Can you explain what QE is and how long term rates are connected? Do you mean that the fall of pound is inevitably going to require UK banks to increase interest rates to make pound more attractive to investors? And what's the problem
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by ctrlmeta 4y ago
I asked this in a different post but did not get any answer, so asking it here hoping someone can help me understand this. Can someone more financially literate than me explain how BoE buying government bonds is going to restore financial s
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by ctrlmeta 4y ago
One thing I never managed to understand. If I run cat and hit ctrl+h, it does not delete the previous character but literally prints ^H. Why is it so? Who is responsible for interpreting ctrl+h and deleting the previous character and why do
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by ctrlmeta 4y ago
I have been following the developments in UK and the falling pound for the last week. Can someone more financially literate than me explain how BoE buying government bonds is going to restore financial stability? Will it slow down the falli
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by ctrlmeta 4y ago
Probably not what you asked but I don't use GitHub issues or any equivalent walled garden for things outside of development. It is bad enough that we rely on walled gardens so much these days that gives centralized entities so much pow
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by ctrlmeta 4y ago
I think it is a fair question. The older I get I see the less opinionated I get. The opinions get replaced with curiosity as I become old. The reason I am getting less opinionated is that as years go by I come across contradictions to stron
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by ctrlmeta 4y ago
Ah! Finally it clicked! Thanks for the nice example in your comment.
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by ctrlmeta 4y ago
> Expected time refers to a single operation. Amortized time describes the mean time of a series of operations. Pardon my ignorance but I don't see the difference between these two sentences. Expected time of a single operation = Su
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by ctrlmeta 4y ago
Exactly! An unfortunate truth about running live and complex services is that they break frequently in strange and weird ways and we need to write a fix as quickly as possible, get it reviewed quickly and then roll it out asap. The term &qu
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MSI Installer for GNU Emacs 28.2 for Windows(chaoticlab.io)
1 points by ctrlmeta 4y ago|1 comments
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Why OCaml?(ocaml.org)
98 points by ctrlmeta 4y ago|49 comments
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by ctrlmeta 4y ago
It does seem like a recipe for high inflation. But I want to understand why they chose this combination? Why play such a big gamble? There has to be some logic behind making this choice. But what is it? Were there other safer alternatives t
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For industrial use, in what ways did Common Lisp beat Clojure, and vice versa?(old.reddit.com)
1 points by ctrlmeta 4y ago|0 comments
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by ctrlmeta 4y ago
Very good list. As an open source user, I want to add that I look for two types of writings when I am trying to use a new open source project. The first type has official tutorials (not full reference, not API docs, but official tutorials).
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by ctrlmeta 4y ago
Yes! It surprises me that the reliability issues in charging an EV are not discussed more. This bears more discussion and subject to regulations. It is not ok for companies to push EVs to general consumers without creating a good safety rec
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by ctrlmeta 4y ago
But how many work areas have a charging station available easily?
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by ctrlmeta 4y ago
> We’re doing it wrong, according to a new Stanford study. This requires further clarification. What is it that we want to optimize? How do we know we want to optimize that?

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