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Show HN: Xlerb – A Compiled "Forth" for the Beam
6 points by shawa_a_a 10mo ago|0 comments
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Tube: A subway route planner in Dyalog APL (2011)(dfns.dyalog.com)
23 points by shawa_a_a 10mo ago|4 comments
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by shawa_a_a 11mo ago
It's been a long time since I've programmed Prolog so I'm not sure if these ideas are even relevant (global state might be more than enough!) ; but at first impressions from the readme this really reminds me of ETS https:&#x
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by shawa_a_a 11mo ago
I think that's going to be hard to find, depending on your definition of 'regular', tbh. The BEAM's grown up along with Erlang and so the culture and optimisations are built up all around function application, list proce
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by shawa_a_a 11mo ago
They're probably using some features of LiveView; I'm not too familiar with how HTMX works, but with LiveView you can define all of your logic and state handling on the _backend_, with page diffs pushed to the client over a webso
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by shawa_a_a 1y ago
For BEAM MCP you probably want to look at TideWave, which runs _in your application_ to give the LLM context and an execution environment. https://hexdocs.pm/tidewave/mcp.html
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by shawa_a_a 1y ago
I've heard of domain fronting, where you host something on a subdomain of a large provider like Azure or Amazon. Is this what you're talking about when you say > - Host on a piece of infrastructure that's so big that you c
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by shawa_a_a 1y ago
Surprised to not see Acko.net mentioned in comments already - he uses similar aids in one of his blog posts to break down complex numbers and ultimately fractals. Likely right up your street! https://acko.net/blog/how-t
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by shawa_a_a 1y ago
Agreed - updated with colour again
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by shawa_a_a 1y ago
It’s not the most accessible colour scheme - I’ll have a look and tweak it so dark mode is more readable. I’d definitely be really grateful for help with that! I’m not planning to publish to the Mac App Store, but it would be great to have
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by shawa_a_a 1y ago
Since going down this rabbit hole, I gave Anki another fair shot and actually RTFM :) the blog post warrants an update https://docs.ankiweb.net/deck-options.html#learning-steps Details what _actually happens_ when you pick
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Show HN: Reviving a 20 year old OS X App(andrewshaw.nl)
73 points by shawa_a_a 1y ago|32 comments
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by shawa_a_a 1y ago
I have been bedroom DJing, and wanting to expand what I can do with the hardware I already have. Using `midiex` for Elixir I’ve written a fully fledged driver for Ableton Push, letting me use it as essentially a 4-deck version of Pioneer’s
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by shawa_a_a 2y ago
This isn’t exactly the case. The camera has an actuating mirror on the end of the rotating arm that allows it to point at arbitrary angles. https://youtu.be/aXfTgCCsRSg (T=4:30) The emulating different lenses part is that w
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by shawa_a_a 2y ago
Not the other commenter, but my team has been using Elixir in production (soft real-time distributed systems) for several years to great success. The approachable syntax has been great for folks new to the language coming on board and sort
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by shawa_a_a 2y ago
A commenter on Reddit [1] pointed out that you can access the hearing test feature directly by using a special URL: x-apple-health://HearingAppPlugin.healthplugin/HearingTest I wonder if there’s a similar deep link
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by shawa_a_a 2y ago
It's a bold statement to call something a Prolog successor! Are you aiming for a general purpose logic programming language like Prolog, or targeting the use case of querying knowledge bases? One of the draws to Prolog is its immensely
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by shawa_a_a 2y ago
I would second Prolog as mind-blowing. I've found you're typically confronted with fully engaging with the core of whatever problem you're solving, and only that core. This is probably what can make it so frustrating sometime
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by shawa_a_a 2y ago
The comment character is also configurable: git config core.commentchar <char> This is helpful where you want to use use say, markdown to have tidily formatted commit messages make up your pull request body too.
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by shawa_a_a 2y ago
I don’t know about your particular use case, but it is never a bad idea to learn Prolog. https://www.metalevel.at/prolog The Power of Prolog is an extremely in depth, comprehensive introduction that starts right from fundam
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by shawa_a_a 2y ago
In the spirit of scratches, it was only at a recent 70mm film screening that I spotted the rig used for the floating pen scene as Floyd falls asleep in the shuttle. As the weightlessness begins, his pen floats away - if you look really real
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by shawa_a_a 3y ago
For anyone else interested, and to clarify, "the Book of Kells experience" is to stand in for the exhibit in the Old Library while it's closed for renovations until 2025 [1]. Rather than and Old Library, it's a huge red
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by shawa_a_a 3y ago
I've been intrigued enough to pull down Gnu COBOL and attempt to write some simple programs, and found it to be quite an alien universe in and of itself. Can you give any examples of the fully-fledged mainframe world differing from run
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by shawa_a_a 4y ago
This was exactly my thought. The title is 'A local, privacy first Notion alternative', but the site talks about > can I own my piece of the new internet today? Which screams 'digital assets'. Why do I need to 'ow
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by shawa_a_a 5y ago
I’ve recently incorporated exactly this into my journaling routine and find it a delight to look back on. At the end of the day I’ll be sure to write down one or two perfectly run-of-the-mill, but joyful things that happened to me, or that
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by shawa_a_a 6y ago
I’ve only watched his WiFi video, as well as his Lactose Intolerance gene therapy and felt he cane across quite positively. Are you alluding to specific negative behaviours he exhibits on stream that are edited from his videos?
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by shawa_a_a 6y ago
After using Windows 10 for a while I grew similarly fed up. I found OpenShell [1] to be a very faithful replication of the old start menu I'm used to from XP and before. 1: https://github.com/Open-Shell/Open-Shell-
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by shawa_a_a 6y ago
I don’t think you’re too far off with ‘leaving the space of normal C’, but I think it may help to see the context from which the author was coming when writing Cello [1] and evaluating it in that context. It’s been a while since I watched t
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by shawa_a_a 8y ago
What aspects of the law are disastrous for startups? What startups might see as a "massive regulatory burden", I see it as, at long last, a means of finally holding irresponsible companies to account. The spirit of the law is real
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by shawa_a_a 9y ago
To throw another one onto the _have you looked at X_ pile, Microsoft Research has put a lot of effort into the Why3 theorem proving platform, which is the backend for the verifier built into their (experimental?) verifier-aware, imperative

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