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by pedrow 2y ago
It isn't, but there is a poetry mode for emacs[0] and a mode for managing Python's poetry (which is a tool for dependency management)[1] [0]: https://www.bobnewell.net/publish/35years/poetry.html [1]: h
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by pedrow 3y ago
I had a look at the repo in https://sourceforge.net/p/recoil/code/ci/master/tree/ - I think the meat of it is a giant file called 'recoil.fu' (22481 lines long) [edit] it is written i
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by pedrow 3y ago
I believe they were based on Miranda[0] (1985) but they have a longer history than that, maybe under a different name. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miranda_(programming_language)...
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Clojurists Together – Firefox 116 release(clojuriststogether.org)
4 points by pedrow 3y ago|1 comments
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by pedrow 3y ago
I fondly remember using sites like this to download stuff (ok, apogee games mostly!) in the 1990s. I could FTP to the university VAX which would exceed my 'soft quota' of disk space every time, then I'd have to get the files
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by pedrow 3y ago
I think https://wiki.c2.com/?PlsLanguage is informative. PL/S was more suitable for writing low-level code due to some extra options and it didn't need a full runtime environment. Wikipedia suggests IBM didn'
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by pedrow 3y ago
For comparison FreeRTOS[0] is, at minimum, about 9000 LOC[1] at least according to the article (I don't know when it was written), so 2000 lines is indeed pretty small. [0]: https://www.freertos.org/ [1]: https:/
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by pedrow 3y ago
Are there, or have there been, devices where one might have seen Inferno running 'in the wild' e.g. digital signs, PoS terminals etc.?
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by pedrow 3y ago
Also you need a template to drop over the function keys. How would that work on a modern keyboard!? https://cdn.hackaday.io/files/1604126863067008/UI__3_WordPer...
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by pedrow 3y ago
I have an OpenBSD install in a VM for the reason cited by ninjin: > Personally, a different userland and directory structure usually also beats out Linux-isms. I just upgraded from 7.2 with sysupgrade then pkg_add -u and it worked perfec
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by pedrow 4y ago
This must be really disappointing for you - I think most people would agree you didn't break the 'spirit' of the rules even if you did maybe break the letter of the rules. It would be great if you could re-draft that clause i
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Make WLAN and Bluetooth basically work for CI20(lore.kernel.org)
1 points by pedrow 4y ago|1 comments
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by pedrow 4y ago
Imagination Technology's Creator Ci20 was a MIPS board for hackers released in 2014. Despite the subsequent decline of MIPS, people are still improving Linux support for this board.
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by pedrow 4y ago
I thought this was an enjoyable and informative article but [0] > As a personal comparison, my total lifetime output ... has been... [78 million words] And, yes, I’ll train a bot from all of that. for non-Wolfram fans - take cover there
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by pedrow 4y ago
There was a thing about tying shoelaces a few years back, for example this from the BBC [1]. Apparently I was doing it wrong but anyway I prefer the extra back exercise I get from bending down to retie. [1]: https://www.youtube.c
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by pedrow 4y ago
Would it be an option to compile your own versions of `ls` et al., maybe from the Darwin source (if available, I don't know) or one of the BSDs? Does what you're trying to do depend on the specific implementation of Apple's u
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by pedrow 4y ago
Is there a list of JEPs which includes the affiliation of the person proposing them? It would be interesting to see how many get approved. I would expect it's a lot easier to make progress from 'inside the tent' i.e. an emplo
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by pedrow 4y ago
Also Blade Runner reference
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by pedrow 4y ago
Can you just check, I don't think the line *p=1 will even compile given the definition of p
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by pedrow 4y ago
"Bootstrap" from which we get "booting up" and "reboot" is another one[0] [0]: https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=bootstrap
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by pedrow 4y ago
Is the aspect ratio part (needing to stretch from 8:5 to 4:3) because the IBM PC didn't have square pixels?
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by pedrow 4y ago
I don't know if he invented it, but I always associate that phrase with John Gruber, e.g. https://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/01/04/battelle-apple
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by pedrow 4y ago
I initially thought the name came from one letter after APL but, no, that would be BQM. You can verify this using the language itself > "APL"+1 "BQM" Overall looks interesting and definitely worth a play
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by pedrow 4y ago
I was initially thrown by the example code which doesn't look like C++ at all: main: () -> int = { ... } I learned this is 'Cpp2' which was also discussed by Herb Sutter recently[0]. I don't know if there is
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by pedrow 4y ago
Thanks. I have to look this up every time (I'm in the UK) so for those like me, 5th graders are aged 10-11 normally.
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by pedrow 4y ago
From someone who's read the 1st edition, what age would this be suitable for? From CP's description it didn't sound like it needed any advanced knowledge to read. I'm wondering if I could get my kids interested in it
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by pedrow 4y ago
Also it influenced Objective-C[0] - it's mostly C with message passing added to it. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objective-C
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by pedrow 4y ago
Have we properly considered the effect on Hollywood? No car chase is complete without the timely down-shift, the roar of the engine and (usually) the massive fireball when the villain drives into a wall. With EVs/automatic transmission
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by pedrow 4y ago
My SQL knowledge is very limited - I had heard of HAVING but not GROUP BY CUBE or COALESCE - but one thing stood out: "The rewritten sql ... ran in a few seconds compared to over half an hour for the original query." I know there
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by pedrow 5y ago
This sounds like it would need a lot of RAM to run (or, at least, more than was common in 1994). Can anyone comment on its system requirements?

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