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I've been vegan for a couple of decades now and during that period I've had that time to observe meat eating people get all upset about veganism at various dinner parties during ev…

Yeah I adopted it after exploring other languages after learning to program in Turbo Pascal 5. Bit later I started using it for mail and news (Gnus) and other things. It’s a life t…

Forths such as FlashForth https://www.flashforth.com/index.html on the Arduino support multiple tasks .. in addition to including a compiler and interactive REPL

What's the reasons for that?

> Clojure libraries target microservices with a precision that .. I’m not sure what that means exactly, but no one is using Rails only for building out micro services. They’re usin…

This might be what happens when the community seems to follow “composable libraries over frameworks”. You still have to do the composing, and it’s not obvious how to do that.

Perhaps that stance has changed over time. In Clojure, there's the clojure.string namespace just functions wrapping java.lang.String methods https://clojuredocs.org/clojure.string

Common Lisp has it too, via https://stmx.org/ I believe it supports the Intel TSX stuff if present and falls back to a software implementation if not present.

Should have put it into fundamental STEM education

I use an 8 foot, iron digging bar ahead of the post hole digger.

There’s also a pretty active Forth channel on Discord

Of course you don’t have to switch, since you can brew install bash 5 or whatever the latest is and then chsh to it, but if you want to use it as an opportunity to change shells, c…

There must be an interesting story behind Apache’s dogged insistence on OpenOffice.

What’s the difference between internal and external valuation?

Well, we take a distributed approach where I work currently. Some of it is in an Excel or a Google Calc spreadsheet, some in Confluence, the project README.md, random Git comments.…

Unfortunately my first thought is to wonder if they’ll scrap it after I’ve invested some time into it.

I hand totally forgotten about that. Wasn’t it called dosfs? It put metadata in files that would show up in DOS when you rebooted.

I was sure it was, but now I’m not so sure having read a few the sibling threads

There’s some Emacs modes for that

> Self selects the programmers willing to learn rust down to an elite handful. How true is that?

> ed .ssh/config I think this is my ed use-case as well. I've noticed I need to "apt-get install ed" sometimes. The standard editor is not always standard, it seems.

Probably most Common Lisp implementations.

This was my immediate thought when I looked at the numbers, but I didn't want to be "that guy". I think if all you ever work in is Python, it's still nice even if it is a tiny impr…

My favorite film adaptation of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tScAyNaRdQ

In my experience the pain will come later as it grows, I believe it.