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I basically feel the same way. In a way it is very liberating. All of those esoteric languages that were on my ever-growing todo list are now things I can let go of. Ultimately we …

I'm glad to find out it's not just me! My homelab has a lot of domains on .home.arpa, and I was getting issues related to this.

I'm glad I'm not the only one. What keeps me on mac, however, is the hardware seems so much better than the alternatives. I'd love a macbook quality linux laptop.

Smalltalk was the lisp machine of the future. Of course, now even Smalltalk is a thing of the past.

Why are all of the comments about the name? The author literally said this is a toy project for educational purposes... There are thousands of projects on github. This isn't even t…

This article is insulting. It is trying to paint the picture that all of us who go against the mainstream are deluding ourselves if we think it is anything more than the digital eq…

The fact that this exists shows that there is a serious problem in the python ecosystem. I'm sure it solves a real problem, so I'm not knocking the author. It's more of a "state of…

shoutout to Mithril! Has always been an under-appreciated gem.

From the abstract: "Evidence links lifestyle factors with Alzheimer’s disease (AD). We report the first randomized, controlled clinical trial to determine if intensive lifestyle ch…

I took that as hyperbole. Hard to tell how intentional it was, whether it was a joke or not... But yeah, obviously it is not true at all.

Smalltalk, by far, is the best in this category.

Here is a whole course, with videos and links to slides and readings. https://github.com/margaretstorey/EmseUvic2020

I agree. I once attempted this on a javascript project (a personal project, not at work), after reading about APL/J/K people and their philosophy. My constraint was: I should never…

"john ousterhout's book is the only book on how to write software that has any actual evidence behind it." This is false and hopefully no one takes you seriously when they read tha…

There are also studies showing a plant-based diet can reverse Alzheimer's symptoms as well. It has to do with atherosclerosis.

I see that kind of thing all the time. Usually it is about static types. People think that dynamic languages aren't "serious", or something. It is laughable that these people still…

It's true. Streaming services are really a downgrade in this respect. I don't get why they don't include the same sort of bonus content that DVDs had.

This is how I interpreted it as well. The others seem to be arguing due to a misunderstanding of what was said/meant.

There's something about it where it doesn't feel quite right when using the mouse as a GUI app. Compare it to something like Sublime Text. I can't quite describe it exactly. It jus…

It's a valid concern. But I just want to point out that shelling out to other things is part of the "paradigm" when using a shell-like language. If you embrace this paradigm, you w…

I'm surprised that old printers like that go for $80-120 USD. I'm pretty sure you can buy a new inkjet for $50. If I wanted to do something similar, what is the cheapest type of pr…

I agree. I will mock 3rd party APIs sometimes so I can test that my system correctly handles failures. For example, what if I get a 500 response from the API? With my mock I can ea…

> Margaret Hamilton worked out how to write bug-free software during the Apollo 11 project. The IT industry collectively went, "meh." I have tried to look into this before, and I n…

I had lexical highlighting in javascript for a while, but IIRC I stopped using it because the plugin didn't play well with JSX. To be honest it wasn't that big of a deal. Definitel…