jaccarmac

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by jaccarmac 11mo ago
I commented elsewhere: Satantango is easily my least favorite LK so far. If you want to try something else, I would recommend The Melancholy of Resistance as a novel with similar concerns but better execution, War & War as a metafiction
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by jaccarmac 11mo ago
I've loved all of the work I've read except Satantango, so if you bounce of that novel I would recommend the rest. That said, I started with the short story collection The World Goes On and thought it was brilliant.
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by jaccarmac 11mo ago
I'm biased because I lived down the street from a bookstore connected to a translation publishing house, but I can't recommend translated fiction enough for opening one's eyes to the weird relationship between a person, their
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by jaccarmac 1y ago
A discussion by Joe is helpful here; It contains some code: https://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2003-March/007... "Crashing is loud" below is a phrase to combine with "remote error re
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by jaccarmac 1y ago
Over the past several years I have slowly patched the .NET version of Shen to run on Linux and modern .NET releases. I also learned about Higher-Order Perl the other year and have a dream of going through the book and implementing the exerc
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by jaccarmac 1y ago
Externs are the main user-facing hurdle, and there's plenty of JS that doesn't bother declaring its shape ahead of time or uses dynamic access patterns.
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by jaccarmac 1y ago
It's optionally self-hosted, without support for Closure's full suite of optimizations ( https://clojurescript.org/guides/self-hosting ).
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by jaccarmac 2y ago
> debugger hot reload Hey, that's (close to) the traditional Smalltalk introduction-trick! And this has been available since 1.1? How does one concretely do that in Java and why is it not widely known?
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by jaccarmac 2y ago
To add specifics: Dallas does not cover road maintenance with its budget and must sell bonds to cover the $10b in "deferred maintenance". https://www.dmagazine.com/frontburner/2024/04/a-voters-guide.
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by jaccarmac 2y ago
After browsing these comments, I would like to encourage fellow Dallasites to read László Krasznahorkai's short story "Nine Dragon Crossing", available in the collection The World Goes On. It's the most accurate thing I&
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by jaccarmac 2y ago
You're right that it's not entirely different. But I'll start with the simple version of the critique. Individual commuters make their decision about whether to make a trip based in part on the time that trip will take (a fun
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by jaccarmac 2y ago
Smalltalk can use a similar bootstrapping method, which blew my mind the first time I read and understood (see https://ftp.squeak.org/docs/OOPSLA.Squeak.html , "Smalltalk to C Translation"). In that world, ima
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by jaccarmac 3y ago
Slight tangent, but The Whale's Keeper ( https://ifdb.org/viewgame?id=5k15omg0bdbddxfr ) was an IFComp entry last year, built on a game engine for chat apps ( https://plotopolis.com/ ). I'm not sure h
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by jaccarmac 3y ago
Kinda. Shooting from the hip based on fuzzy gatherings from IPFS usage here, but as I understand it: The leaf-level data blocks will be shared between the Merkle trees, but at least the tip (the object a given hash actually refers to) and m
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by jaccarmac 3y ago
Looks like the YOW site and channel are down, but archived. The video is available at https://web.archive.org/web/2oe_/http://wayback-fakeurl.arch... , which I found via ( https://findyoutubevid
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by jaccarmac 3y ago
Could you elaborate? Feels like a fun riff, even if it's just about string-sorting algorithms.
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by jaccarmac 3y ago
The last couple years of evidence suggests that keeping the grid up requires a certain amount of central planning. On one hand, the frequency must remain relatively stable, globally. On the other, consumers don't want to deal with ever
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by jaccarmac 3y ago
I'm not familiar with X internals and am not sure if it's the same thing, but EXWM basically allows that (browsers run in buffers).
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by jaccarmac 3y ago
Not sure if either of the linked issues below are from you, but it looks like the referenced file in Log4CL references internal SBCL symbols which are liable to change in versions. Last I heard, the M1 build of SBCL was a bit unique, so it
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by jaccarmac 4y ago
People already install police cameras in their home. They have a corporate logo on them and are sold as a product with certain benefits. Of course, since we live in a world of nation states, there's some point at which Amazon interacts
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by jaccarmac 4y ago
It's interesting that The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata is not mentioned in Apostol's byline here. As a short piece, this essay focuses on the surface of the history and its immediate implications, but the novel investigat
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by jaccarmac 4y ago
Leaving aside the parts of this argument not worth dealing with (that is, most of them), you make the fundamental carbrain error. How do you think interstates, suburban development, and countless square miles of public roads and public park
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by jaccarmac 4y ago
Thanks for the heads-up about that file; I use a similar development setup and have been slacking on wiring Make rules together because I thought I would have to touch my own files. It would be nice if the files Python installed had better
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by jaccarmac 4y ago
I live in a suburb north of Dallas and on a short walk can see footpaths at the end of cul-de-sacs, former paths walled off with bushes, and former paths walled off with brick. The places where you can see the old sidewalk under the brick w
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by jaccarmac 4y ago
No expert on Clojure semantics, but I'm pretty sure what's being discussed is common to almost all runtime environments. When you pass an argument to a function, the function doesn't keep track of the name of whatever you pas
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by jaccarmac 4y ago
As it happens, you don't need much content to convince people that petty criminals are scum and the only solution is more and meaner cops and prisons. After all, the retail lobby says so!
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by jaccarmac 4y ago
The answer is that the stores claim shoplifting is way up and costing them immense amounts of money. As always, the only citations are the corporations and their lobbying group. It's standard tough-on-crime sophistry.
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by jaccarmac 4y ago
I don't think we agree that much. > And I think [starting with anthropology] makes zero sense, since the goals, structure and size of hunter-gatherers bands and large work organizations are not even remotely comparable. The relative
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by jaccarmac 4y ago
I can't speak to most of your comment, as I'm almost totally unfamiliar with Newport's work. And I might be reading too much into the New Yorker piece, though a glance at his Wikipedia page confirms that Newport works on dist
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by jaccarmac 4y ago
People call themselves all kinds of things. I fail to see why I should disregard good ideas because someone cynically used the same name for a bad thing.

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