martinflack

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by martinflack 2mo ago
Looks interesting but I keep getting "Preview error" (?)
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by martinflack 2mo ago
> enumerate -r 1 10 -- 'printf "%02d\n" {}' The printf zero-padding should be a built-in feature, as dealing with lots of filename structures and date structures needs zero-padding. I often end up doing things like &q
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by martinflack 2mo ago
In Lisp, those following programmers can simply macroexpand. With modern tools they can even do it inside their editor, co-located as replacement text in the same source file, connected to a live Lisp environment, if they wish. A great exam
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by martinflack 4mo ago
It might be useful if it remembered a bill for, say, 60 days, and could also comment on percent difference since the last one. "The total amount due on the bill is $83.89 which is 4% higher than last month's bill from the same com
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by martinflack 5mo ago
The CME offers Bitcoin futures which can be shorted if you have a futures trading account with a broker.
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by martinflack 6mo ago
I use `!!` quite a bit to repeat the output of the prior command as an argument. # it's in my PATH but can't remember where which myscript vi `!!`
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by martinflack 8mo ago
Ironically, AI may help get past that. In order to measure "value chunks" or some other metric where LoC is flexibly multiplied by some factor of feature accomplishment, quality, and/or architectural importance, an opinion of
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by martinflack 8mo ago
But the method of due process may be different, and the standard of proof to meet may be different. Revoking a visa is easier for the executive branch to accomplish.
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by martinflack 8mo ago
It's cool. Curious what libraries you're building on, from a web front-end perspective, to make the UI and charts etc?
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by martinflack 8mo ago
Maybe before 'vagrant up' you run 'sudo chattr +i Vagrantfile' to make it immutable. Seems to disallow removal of the attribute inside the VM, but allow it outside.
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by martinflack 9mo ago
It could've easily been defined that the else branch runs if the while condition never had a true value at all. In fact, I think that's more intuitive.
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by martinflack 11mo ago
Bluefish has had a release in October 2025 and the development page talks about gtk-3. Are you sure you've kept up to date with it? If you like it, stick with it.
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by martinflack 11mo ago
> and gave use the eql/equal/equalp/etc... hell. You don't like those? I've always considered them a fairly elegant deconstruction of the problem domain of equality checking. DWIM languages can get very confusing
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by martinflack 1y ago
And the last release was three weeks ago! Perl 5.42.0 was released July 3, 2025.
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by martinflack 2y ago
In fact, I recommend to newbies that their Lisp syntax highlighting shades the parentheses close to your background color. You get the best of both worlds: they fade away, but you can use Structural Editing.
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by martinflack 2y ago
There's nonguix as well: https://gitlab.com/nonguix/nonguix
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by martinflack 2y ago
> 1. The Javascript stops working when printed to physical paper. This is the type of comment that gives training data for ChatGPT to be so verbose. Ha!
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by martinflack 2y ago
> If I set my alarm for 7:45 am, I need it to ring when the clock says 7:45 am, wherever in the world I happen to be. Oh I desire more from my alarms. Ideally I would be able to set an alarm for 7:45am and mark it "all timezones by
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by martinflack 2y ago
I play around with quicklisp to develop and tinker. To test and deploy, I generally use Guix [0] to express a package for my application which pins dependencies to exact versions and optionally can run in a container. I have Guix installed
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by martinflack 2y ago
Yes. A sequence of consecutive hashes would match to a TV show or movie identifier in a local database; and that identifier is all that needs to be uploaded until there's a new TV show or movie identified.
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by martinflack 2y ago
I've lived in the US and UK and noticed what I think is a tiny cultural difference -- that signs giving instructions in the US tend to be brief and contain the instruction only; whereas in the UK I thought I saw more that add some text
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by martinflack 2y ago
I always liked it. I type lowercase, the computer speaks back uppercase. We know who said what. It's also nostalgia for BASIC. ;-)
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by martinflack 2y ago
I agree that real is better, but "fake" scenery lets you explore and ride virtually in all kinds of natural and urban surroundings, which might be interesting to some people.
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by martinflack 2y ago
> you trust the websites of your Linux distro vendor, but not netboot.xyz Well... yeah... that's not that crazy of a position to take. Not saying there's anything wrong with netboot.xyz, but it's a question of how many coo
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by martinflack 2y ago
Even for porting there's a bit of ambiguity... Do you port line-for-line or do you adopt idioms of the target language? Do you port bug-for-bug as well as feature-for-feature? Do you leave yet-unused abstractions and opportunities for
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by martinflack 2y ago
> It has grown to feel extremely natural. That's how all of Common Lisp worked out for me. It all feels strange, then after a couple years of hobbyist usage, it all feels natural.
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by martinflack 2y ago
That makes much of the sword part of the ceremony, but surely it's the "red cord raised by City police" that signifies some self-authority -- what other part of the country may purposefully and physically stop the monarch and
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by martinflack 2y ago
Oh, interesting. I just assumed a MN was selected by randomly selecting a path on the board and presenting the answer; that removes the possibility of being impossible. I wonder how it does work.
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by martinflack 2y ago
Many types of insurance that protect payouts to third parties include provisions that the insurer handles the lawsuit to defend the claim. This can be a convenience even to a wealthy person, especially one who doesn't get sued much.
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by martinflack 2y ago
> Which is easier; interstellar travel or building a dyson sphere? Assuming that we don't know what we don't know, and we need lots of testing and trial-and-error, a Dyson swarm is more doable because we can iterate a design fo

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