shawn_w

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by shawn_w 4d ago
7G? Man I hope not. I watched a fine documentary a few years ago about what happens when they try rolling 7G out... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Train_to_the_End_of_the_World
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by shawn_w 7d ago
People seem to bounce off Phlebas as a first go at (M) Banks. Player of Games is the usual recommendation for a first Culture book.
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by shawn_w 8d ago
I thought New Mexico was being renamed to New America.
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by shawn_w 8d ago
> It was the day my grandmother exploded. Probably Banks's most memorable opening line. Love Crow Road... Have you seen the tv adaptation? I keep meaning to watch it.
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by shawn_w 8d ago
China ruled Vietnam for a thousand years (111 BC–939 AD) so I'm sure there was some linguistic cross pollination. Though tomatoes come around long after that period...
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by shawn_w 8d ago
As used by NASA and SpaceX.
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by shawn_w 16d ago
Coffee going away was a sad time. I had a tradition of getting some from Center Camp in the wee hours of the morning on overnight volunteer shifts.
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by shawn_w 16d ago
Smoking weed is iffy; lots of federal cops out here looking for it, since pot is still illegal on federal lands. Just chilling and doing your own thing is certainly doable.
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by shawn_w 16d ago
Gotta go over to Orgy Dome for that.
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by shawn_w 18d ago
And for people who want to use something other than Linux?
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by shawn_w 18d ago
It was better next year.
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by shawn_w 18d ago
I always get here early, before the event officially opens, in part to get an up close view of all the art and camps going up. (I'm still not used to easy internet access at BRC, he says as he browses HN from his camp)
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by shawn_w 24d ago
Racket defines an evaluation order for function arguments (left to right).
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by shawn_w 24d ago
It's ugly and probably fragile and prone to break, but I found a way. Added it as an answer on that Stack Overflow question: https://stackoverflow.com/a/79997503/9952196
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by shawn_w 25d ago
It might take a custom #lang. I'll play around with it when I have some free time... That read-syntax doesn't just accept everything accepted by plain read is one of my biggest annoyances with Racket.
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by shawn_w 25d ago
Yeah, there's a toggle for it in read-syntax mode. https://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/Reading.html#%28def._...
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by shawn_w 25d ago
You forgot hash table and regular expression literals.
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by shawn_w 1mo ago
Are there any decent alternatives to reddit? When they finish killing off old reddit I'm gone, and will need a new time waster.
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by shawn_w 1mo ago
Guile keywords use the same #:foo syntax as Racket. The reader can also accept :foo or foo: notation. https://doc.guix.gnu.org/guile/latest/en/html_node/Keyword-R...
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by shawn_w 1mo ago
You now have to be logged in to reddit to use it.
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by shawn_w 1mo ago
Which one?
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by shawn_w 1mo ago
Yeah, that's a recent change. Probably the first nail in the coffin for it.
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by shawn_w 1mo ago
The Seattle Times is still owned by the Blethen family (who have owned it since 1896).
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by shawn_w 1mo ago
Depends on the politician.
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by shawn_w 1mo ago
I suppose you think Chuck Norris Facts are fake too.
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by shawn_w 1mo ago
Interestingly, By the Waters of Babylon was written in 1937, before WW2 and the development of atomic and nuclear weapons - events that obviously and understandably triggered that theme in later writing like Bradbury's.
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by shawn_w 1mo ago
My college was a DEC shop; I learned programming and how to use unix in labs full of dumb X terminals connected to Alpha servers. Still have a lot of nostalgia for the architecture.
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by shawn_w 1mo ago
I'd rather learn MUMPS or COBOL than use JS... not kidding.
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by shawn_w 2mo ago
The old Cree bulbs that Home Depot used to carry have been great for me. I need to find a new supplier though because the brands they have now are junk that last a year or two if I'm lucky.
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by shawn_w 2mo ago
The Troll is in Fremont, not Ballard.

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