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by ctrlmeta 4y ago
Agreed! Makes me wonder if all these blogging platforms are solving problems or creating new ones. For every discerning reader who may be wise to not trust what they read, there are thousands of gullible ones who would believe anything they
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You can't make secure payments in the Metaverse(shkspr.mobi)
1 points by ctrlmeta 4y ago|0 comments
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by ctrlmeta 4y ago
Just saying that these "feel like toys" is a very low-effort comment. Header-only libraries exist even if uncommon and they work fine when written properly. If you actually use a header-only library and it fails to link properly o
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by ctrlmeta 4y ago
> open source, means the source code is available, in my opinion. Hard disagree because I have been in the open source arena for two decades and I have never seen any notable project using "open source" to mean "source co
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by ctrlmeta 4y ago
Opensource has a specific definition and the definition includes: > The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program from being used in a bu
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by ctrlmeta 4y ago
I don't see the parent comment as necessarily an entitlement. They are not demanding anything in particular from Homebrew project maintainers. They are informing us -- the readers -- about the analytics behavior in Homebrew so that we
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by ctrlmeta 4y ago
The early PCs and BASIC provided such a simple and effective computing environment where any newbie could start reading the online manuals (known today as built-in manuals) that came with BASIC interpreter and start writing some simple code
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by ctrlmeta 4y ago
I don't know... The article does look like a veiled attempt at advertising their own community where they get to earn a $99 fee for every new registration. What I felt was in poor taste was that this motive of advertising and profit wa
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by ctrlmeta 4y ago
But once the company locks me out, I would neither have screen sharing nor video calls nor the DM list. Isn't it better to just use Matrix which may have less features but those features I can rely on for a long time without the risk o
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by ctrlmeta 4y ago
The popularity of Discord always surprises me! It takes hard work and time to create an active community. Why put all that hard work and time into a corporate-controlled platform that can lock you out of it anytime they want? How do people
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Evidence says Wikipedia is accurate, reliable. When will we take it seriously?(smh.com.au)
46 points by ctrlmeta 4y ago|85 comments
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by ctrlmeta 4y ago
> I’m also having affectionate memories of JavaScript and Python I am afraid, things are equally messy in JavaScript and Python too. "X language isn't fun anymore" is exactly how I feel about X = JavaScript, X = Python, X
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by ctrlmeta 4y ago
What did they do in the 1970s? Care to share more about it for people like me who do not know what exactly happened? All I could find was this - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_in_France but this shows imp
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by ctrlmeta 4y ago
> They aren’t terribly relevant to the situation where you just ate somewhere that does pay less than minimum wage. Sorry for being obstuse but I still don't understand. How as a customer I would know whether the place where I ate a
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by ctrlmeta 4y ago
> Them having a bad day and mistreating you doesn't mean they should be condemned to poverty. That's all good but why does this logic apply to the customers and not the business owners?
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by ctrlmeta 4y ago
> Unless of course you think people who are bad servers don't deserve to make minimum wage. Why should the responsibility of paying a bonus (a tip) to the server fall on the customer? Why shouldn't the business be held responsi
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by ctrlmeta 4y ago
> (def my-hash {:a 1 :b 2}) I don't know! That looks very unlispy. So much new syntax and inconsistent with the otherwise very uniform Lisp syntax. The Racket alternative > (define my-hash (make-hash)) > (hash-set! my-hash &#x
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Why Not: From Common Lisp to Julia(gist.github.com)
78 points by ctrlmeta 4y ago|19 comments
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by ctrlmeta 4y ago
Thanks for the reply. I do have some questions to understand how far vim-slime can go in providing a good lisp interaction environment. For instance, 1. Can I select an s-expression (along with all the nested s-expressions within it) and se
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by ctrlmeta 4y ago
https://github.com/jpalardy/vim-slime is a terrible SLIME to be honest! Wait! It is not even a SLIME. It just copies text from one text buffer and pastes it to another Vim buffer which is probably running a REPL. &quot
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by ctrlmeta 4y ago
Do you worry about correctness flaws in Julia that make it hard to write robust and correct code when you get deep into the weeds while developing libraries meant to be used by others or meant to interoperate with other libraries? It is not
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by ctrlmeta 4y ago
> It also uses sizeof to calculate the size of an array which would be good in any language except C It is a pretty standard and popular way of finding the size on an array. The only caveat is that the programmer really has to be sure th
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by ctrlmeta 4y ago
This does not look like SLIME. It seems to be just copying the text from one text buffer and pasting it to another Vim buffer which is running a REPL. That is not what SLIME is really! I can't even call this a poor imitation of SLIME b
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My Lisp Experiences and the Development of GNU Emacs(gnu.org)
32 points by ctrlmeta 4y ago|4 comments
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JSON-Lib: JSON Parser and Serializer for Common Lisp(github.com)
1 points by ctrlmeta 4y ago|0 comments
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by ctrlmeta 4y ago
How do you use SLIME in Vim? Isn't SLIME written in Emacs Lisp which runs only in Emacs? Honest question how you could run an Emacs package in Vim?
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by ctrlmeta 4y ago
I think the parent comment is suggesting that a comparison of CL vs. Clojure is more useful than the current comparison of CL vs. Racket.
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by ctrlmeta 4y ago
What abomination of a syntax is that! What does [ and ] do? Why does the 2 go between the brackets? What does a[2] do? Is it making a function call? It is a statement? An expression? Or some other magic? Why deliberately create such cryptic
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by ctrlmeta 4y ago
> Not deliberately obfuscated, true. But any code that contains tokens like "CAR", "caar", "CDR", "cdar", "CONS", "caddr", etc Do you code in Lisp? I do and I don't find it
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by ctrlmeta 4y ago
I had not read that. Thank you for linking to it and quoting the part that answers my question.

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