To think that Paul Graham wrote two really solid books on Common Lisp...
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The Lisp REPL is not that different from the Unix CLI except it works on code objects instead of files.
My apprentice... there is an invocation, a secret word, that cuts through all the fabrications, rituals, politics, yes even armor, of our dying civilization. It is made of pure reality.
I will teach it to you on my dying bed so that you can use it in your hour of need. It is called: ` `
Installed World of Warcraft recently because I was up for some good, old-fashioned, open world PvP.
Found out there's no PvP servers anymore since a few years.
Uninstalled WoW again.
Suggestions for games welcome. (No EVE Online. I love that game but it's not what I'm looking for at the moment.)
Which AI Winter is this going to be? The Fourth, the Fifth?
Which AI Winter is this going to be? The Fourth, the Fifth?
Turns out, if let New Tab Suspender suspend most of my Firefox tabs (glares at RocketChat) my laptop suddenly gets very quiet and I can dev for hours and hours on a single charge.
Maybe our sole purpose in life is making billionaires richer?
Listening to Jean Michel Jarre again for the first time in decades: Oxygene.
It holds up. I was afraid it would disappoint like other music I used to listen to when I was younger.
Oh wow, even in this day and age my daughter's school sends an attachment as .docx which she can't open on Android (at least not by default on her version of it).
It's e-mail: just include the fucking text in the body of the mail!
I love saving a link in a tab for later reading and then it turns out it's a fucking podcast without a transcript.
The Apple tears in this thread are delightful.
I mean wat?: «People like me are too deep into the Apple ecosystem to ever reasonably leave.»
Also "looking for alternatives" but not really. Just making up excuses.
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Christina Warren (@film_girl@mastodon.social)
People like me are too deep into the Apple ecosystem to ever reasonably leave. Until/unless they fully neuter macOS, I’m here for life. And I’l...
«Remember "proof of location", and fancy schemes we crypto people would come up with that were based on network delay / speed of light calculations? Turns out people are looking into using that stuff.... for export control of AI chips»
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Remember "proof of location", and fancy schemes we crypto people would come up with that were based on network delay / speed of light calculations? Tu
Gambling sites are called "prediction markets" now.
Wrong opinions, tightly held.
Just to be clear, folks: "Wir haben es nicht gewußt" is not gonna cut it as an excuse this time around.
«Against choosing your political allegiances based on who is "pro-crypto"»
Against choosing your political allegiances based on who is "pro-crypto"