fasquoika

7 ms·

1.
by fasquoika 3y ago
Personally nearly every nice thing in my life either is a human or was made by one
2.
by fasquoika 3y ago
Reinventing polari is certainly one way to make yourself less understood...
3.
by fasquoika 3y ago
Well you're on a website called ycombinator.com so maybe the fixed point combinator Y = λf.(λx.f(xx))(λx.f(xx)) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed-point_combinator
4.
by fasquoika 3y ago
>There’s a well-established effect, common enough at this point to where some academic has probably given it a name like “The Twitter Dilemma” or something, that describes how a lie can be much more potent and contagious with exponential
5.
USB-C Confirmed for the iPhone 15(macworld.com)
65 points by fasquoika 3y ago|70 comments
6.
by fasquoika 3y ago
In New Jersey the Midtown Direct line famously paid for itself multiple times over by increasing nearby property values so much the state collected millions more in property taxes https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kearny_
7.
by fasquoika 4y ago
>A safe alternative is to use indexes instead of references. struct ParsedFile { contents: Vec<u8>, words: Vec<(usize, usize)> } >This works well, and you can make it ergonomic by wrapping the
8.
by fasquoika 4y ago
https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.34...
9.
Implementing Prolog via Microprogramming a General Purpose Host Computer [pdf](www2.eecs.berkeley.edu)
4 points by fasquoika 4y ago|1 comments
10.
by fasquoika 4y ago
GHC is nearly impossible to bootstrap if you don't consider the vendored transpiled C code to be source. Versions of GHC not dependent on GHC were never public AFAIK. https://elephly.net/posts/2017-01-09-bootstrapp
11.
by fasquoika 4y ago
https://tildeverse.org/
12.
by fasquoika 5y ago
Writefreely? https://writefreely.org/
13.
by fasquoika 5y ago
Closer to pi zero than pi 4 but you can order it right now https://aliexpress.com/item/1005003741287162.html
14.
by fasquoika 5y ago
Well, you didn't just find a cave, it was made for you by other people. Interdependence is a hallmark of social species such as Homo Sapiens. Even your caveman ancestors were probably reliant on one another in many ways. >It seems t
15.
by fasquoika 5y ago
http://www.coboloncogs.org/
16.
by fasquoika 5y ago
>It really clued me into how the language got such a following in HR/Finance applications. You got an array of everyones hours per day. Weekly total hours, pay, tax, medicare, etc, were all broken out in little calculative statement
17.
Pine64 July Update(pine64.org)
3 points by fasquoika 5y ago|0 comments
18.
by fasquoika 5y ago
>I was at a talk that had something to do with Unix. Fortunately, I’ve succeeded in repressing all but the speaker’s opening remark: >I’m rather surprised that the author of sendmail is still walking around alive. >The thing that g
19.
by fasquoika 5y ago
I'm guessing this is referring to the fact that early versions of Fortran stored return addresses in specific memory locations (at the end of the function definition IIRC) instead of on a call stack. This is why those versions of Fortr
20.
The Matrix Space Beta(matrix.org)
281 points by fasquoika 5y ago|94 comments
21.
by fasquoika 5y ago
> Perhaps it relates to using 36-bit words? Yep, before ASCII was standardized it was common for machines to be built with word-addressable memory and words that were multiples of six bits. Two octal digits easily represent a six-bit by
22.
A cgit/webgit alternative, written in Rust(git.alexwennerberg.com)
2 points by fasquoika 5y ago|0 comments
23.
by fasquoika 5y ago
This is how both TeX and m4 do quoting by default so presumably common when they were created (mid-eighties and early seventies respectively IIRC)
24.
by fasquoika 5y ago
>My guess is that Microsoft has a secret new OS (written from scratch) that's super modern and efficient and they're just waiting for the market opportunity to finally ditch Windows and bring out that new thing. I doubt it&#x27
25.
by fasquoika 7y ago
https://github.com/munificent/vigil
26.
by fasquoika 7y ago
>(now I know where it comes from) Both Julia and Ruby got this from Scheme and it might be even older than that.
27.
by fasquoika 8y ago
Alan Kay has asserted repeatedly that there's no place like Xerox Parc in the modern world. Not necessarily authoritative, but something to think about.
28.
by fasquoika 8y ago
> Further, when a variable is evaluated, you get both its value and a reference to it. This allows variables to be evaluated before being assigned to in assignments. This sounds weird, but it works with the above. You can make a "se
29.
by fasquoika 8y ago
"There's more than one way to name it"
30.
by fasquoika 8y ago
>Lisp (or Scheme, in this case) is a very simple language that gets essentially everything right. I have to wonder if you actually know all that much about Scheme. Undelimited continuations, for example, are pretty much strictly broken.

More ›