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For those interested in the history of alternatives to port numbers: Chaosnet[1] in LispM/ITS times used names for describing which service was being requested. On the TCP side, a …

TeX uses -- (double hyphen) for producing an en dash and --- (triple hyphen) for an em dash, and that's pretty darn longstanding and well-established. And FWIW, the English writing…

There is an ISBN URN namespace, but I don't know whether anyone maps it to anything. https://www.iana.org/assignments/urn-formal/isbn

I don't have experience with the Fedora version specifically, but forum/email bridges tend to run into problems with differing expectations of the medium. This is even more true if…

I use a layout with an AZERTY-style shifted digit row for coding (and for everything else). A quick check of one C++ codebase I've been working with shows ~20× as many instances of…

FWIW, the common utility library Serapeum offers ‘op’ which it claims is from GOO, which is quite similar as a short positional function utility macro without being a reader macro …

That's the source! That's the one I remembered but couldn't find! Thank you.

Having skimmed the article, I think he's correct about the most common use of macros (by far the single most common type of macro I write in CL is a body-to-lambda transformation, …

Notably, Yukihiro Matsumoto took substantial inspiration from Lisp while designing the Ruby language. You can see historical Lisp terminology in the Ruby interpreter sources (at le…

> So what I usually do is compile a list of melodic hooks from popular songs my students enjoy. Every so often, we’ll play them and let the student try to pick them out on the pian…

The copyright to the Outlook binary isn't owned by the users either, even if they're running it on local hardware. The Opus 4.8 weights are (we assume) the same between users, but …

> it's much easier for everyone involved to ship a server binary like Valve has done for ages This is drifting some from the original specific topic toward the broader conflict, bu…

Most of the problem with browning is the physics: it requires temperatures well above boiling, but the default microwave absorber is water which will tend to saturate around boilin…

You might both be interested in https://malmesbury.substack.com/p/my-journey-to-the-microwav... regarding the history of microwave cooking (not mine). The microwave oven wasn't kno…

That's called CESU-8. https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr26/tr26-4.html

Not what anyone was talking about. Training corpus ≠ inference engine.

The dependency cycle is actually the functional mechanism of the code, because they subvert the dedup mechanism in the package manager using a random generation trick. Each recursi…

The tag list at the top of the page includes “satire”.

I think this is just semantic drift (though I am broadly sympathetic to “boo semantic drift”). I see this business use of the term as treating the “mind attuned to being immersed i…

What is the source line at the end representing there? I've read The Restaurant at the End of the Universe , and while it definitely contains (and I see it as a major cultural anch…

Are you grouping the implementors with the crackers because they understand the limitations of the technology, or are you saying they're directly working with each other to scam th…

The “keep up the appearance of working” story feels like a misleading comparison to me, because the motivations are pretty much reversed. In the hypothetical factory, there's an ex…

Escape analysis that sinks a local allocation is great in itself, but for newtypes for things like “trusted HTML vs plain text”, I feel like the primary benefits are deeply interpr…

What you're describing isn't uploading the game, then, but uploading a stub with a transclusion of the game. I'm not the same commenter, but surely that doesn't answer (what I see …