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Patrick McGovern, the 'Indiana Jones of Ancient Alcohol,' Dies at 80(nytimes.com)
3 points by rauhl 1y ago|1 comments
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Lisp error handling (advanced): how handler-bind doesn't unwind the stack(lisp-journey.gitlab.io)
2 points by rauhl 1y ago|0 comments
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by rauhl 1y ago
Have you seen Common Lisp’s condition system? It’s a step above exceptions, because one can signal a condition in low-level code, handle it in high-level code and then resume back at the lower level, or anywhere in between which has establ
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What the Okta Bcrypt incident can teach us about designing better APIs(n0rdy.foo)
5 points by rauhl 2y ago|1 comments
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ghar: Home as Repositories(github.com)
1 points by rauhl 2y ago|0 comments
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Building a home router (2024 edition)(sweharris.org)
2 points by rauhl 2y ago|0 comments
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by rauhl 2y ago
> The unattended workaround is to have the tmux daemon spawn at login via `start-server` + enable some tmux settings like `exit-empty` plus some I can't recall regarding environment handling, but nobody does that. I just have my ter
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by rauhl 2y ago
> Ctrl+a from my cold dead fingers That conflicts with the standard Emacs binding to move to the beginning of the current line. Many years ago, I switched to C-z instead, on the theory that it is really easy to type C-z C-z when I reall
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by rauhl 2y ago
> But it solves a really important problem: How to exchange markdown documents that include attachments like images, video etc. in a standard way? Oddly enough, I was recently thinking of using RFC 822 messages with CommonMark bodies and
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by rauhl 2y ago
Really neat! It runs on the DM42 calculator from SwissMicros (no relationship other than being a happy customer): https://www.swissmicros.com/product/dm42
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DESK42: Calculator, spreadsheet, flight planner, text, graphics and games(github.com)
4 points by rauhl 2y ago|1 comments
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by rauhl 2y ago
That’s a minor thing I dig about Lisps: variables can be named foo-bar-baz, with nary a shift to type.
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by rauhl 2y ago
I forget where I first saw it, but I’ve been persuaded that the correct word is ‘confabulation,’ not ‘hallucination.’ Maybe it was this paper: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10619792/ The author
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by rauhl 2y ago
I think that it is. The article does raise some good points to consider, but at this point in my experience with it I believe that a lot of the complexity of Kubernetes is not something it introduces but rather something it exposes : it
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Is Kubernetes Worth It?(infoworld.com)
3 points by rauhl 2y ago|6 comments
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by rauhl 3y ago
A door. No Internet-connected camera. No doorbell. Not even a knocker. Just a door. No batteries. No hype cycle. No upgrades. No WiFi. Just a door. When someone is at the door, he knocks with his knuckles. It works. We’ll probab
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by rauhl 3y ago
The modern version would be https://www.omniglot.com/ , which has tons of real and constructed writing systems. It’s a reminder of when the Web was a bunch of neat people sharing neat things. No affiliation with it, just be
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by rauhl 3y ago
> I conjectured that it's Kubernetes. Just like XML, Kubernetes solves a problem, but it doesn't solve EVERY problem. Like XML, Kubernetes does a lot of cool things which were not common before it came around (unlike XML, I thi
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by rauhl 4y ago
Then the user is stuck with the macOS UI and macOS software. I have a very custom desktop UI based on a tiling window manager (WM); I tend to run it with one or two windows per screen, so that I can focus. I have a suite of synchronised co
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Kubernetes was never designed for batch jobs(betterprogramming.pub)
3 points by rauhl 4y ago|0 comments
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by rauhl 4y ago
Pretty neat! I see that you’re using Hunchentoot — are you concerned that it interns HTTP header names in the KEYWORD package? It means that a malicious client can use up all your RAM by submitting requests with random header names.
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by rauhl 4y ago
> Good to see that the good old "laptop doesn't go to sleep on linux" problem has never truly gone away. FWIW, I have a spare Windows laptop, just over a year old, whose WiFi does not recover upon waking from sleep about e
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by rauhl 4y ago
Weird, I submitted the exact same link yesterday and the dupe detector didn’t trigger: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32477938 No worries, it’s a great article and I’m glad folks are reading it!
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Mastering Eshell(masteringemacs.org)
3 points by rauhl 4y ago|0 comments
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by rauhl 4y ago
This comment from a few days suggests implementing ed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32015912 That strikes me as an excellent idea: it’s a pretty small tool, but it is useful and has just enough complexity to test th
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by rauhl 4y ago
This is a great example of why Emacs is so powerful: the activation energy to go from ‘gosh, that sounds neat’ to ‘cool, I implemented that’ is so incredibly low.
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by rauhl 4y ago
> Also knowing that the thing will last forever, take care of it and it will probably outlive you. Can't say that about an Apple Watch. I don’t know how many mechanical watches really will last a lifetime, but they will easily last
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by rauhl 4y ago
> accidentally coding Bubble Sort with no prior knowledge of algorithms Heh, I did that when I was a kid. I was so proud of myself, right up until I learned how bad it was. If only there were some way for the tech world at large to lear
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Stevey's Tech Talk E41: Emacs Part 2 – Emergency Emacs [video](youtube.com)
2 points by rauhl 4y ago|0 comments
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Stevey’s Tech Talk E39 – A guided tour of Emacs [video](youtube.com)
16 points by rauhl 5y ago|0 comments

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