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I commented elsewhere: Satantango is easily my least favorite LK so far. If you want to try something else, I would recommend The Melancholy of Resistance as a novel with similar c…

I've loved all of the work I've read except Satantango, so if you bounce of that novel I would recommend the rest. That said, I started with the short story collection The World Go…

I'm biased because I lived down the street from a bookstore connected to a translation publishing house, but I can't recommend translated fiction enough for opening one's eyes to t…

A discussion by Joe is helpful here; It contains some code: https://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2003-March/007... "Crashing is loud" below is a phrase to combine with "re…

Over the past several years I have slowly patched the .NET version of Shen to run on Linux and modern .NET releases. I also learned about Higher-Order Perl the other year and have …

Externs are the main user-facing hurdle, and there's plenty of JS that doesn't bother declaring its shape ahead of time or uses dynamic access patterns.

It's optionally self-hosted, without support for Closure's full suite of optimizations ( https://clojurescript.org/guides/self-hosting ).

> debugger hot reload Hey, that's (close to) the traditional Smalltalk introduction-trick! And this has been available since 1.1? How does one concretely do that in Java and why is…

To add specifics: Dallas does not cover road maintenance with its budget and must sell bonds to cover the $10b in "deferred maintenance". https://www.dmagazine.com/frontburner/2024…

After browsing these comments, I would like to encourage fellow Dallasites to read László Krasznahorkai's short story "Nine Dragon Crossing", available in the collection The World …

You're right that it's not entirely different. But I'll start with the simple version of the critique. Individual commuters make their decision about whether to make a trip based i…

Smalltalk can use a similar bootstrapping method, which blew my mind the first time I read and understood (see https://ftp.squeak.org/docs/OOPSLA.Squeak.html , "Smalltalk to C Tran…

Slight tangent, but The Whale's Keeper ( https://ifdb.org/viewgame?id=5k15omg0bdbddxfr ) was an IFComp entry last year, built on a game engine for chat apps ( https://plotopolis.co…

Kinda. Shooting from the hip based on fuzzy gatherings from IPFS usage here, but as I understand it: The leaf-level data blocks will be shared between the Merkle trees, but at leas…

Looks like the YOW site and channel are down, but archived. The video is available at https://web.archive.org/web/2oe_/http://wayback-fakeurl.arch... , which I found via ( https://…

Could you elaborate? Feels like a fun riff, even if it's just about string-sorting algorithms.

The last couple years of evidence suggests that keeping the grid up requires a certain amount of central planning. On one hand, the frequency must remain relatively stable, globall…

I'm not familiar with X internals and am not sure if it's the same thing, but EXWM basically allows that (browsers run in buffers).

Not sure if either of the linked issues below are from you, but it looks like the referenced file in Log4CL references internal SBCL symbols which are liable to change in versions.…

People already install police cameras in their home. They have a corporate logo on them and are sold as a product with certain benefits. Of course, since we live in a world of nati…

It's interesting that The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata is not mentioned in Apostol's byline here. As a short piece, this essay focuses on the surface of the history and it…

Leaving aside the parts of this argument not worth dealing with (that is, most of them), you make the fundamental carbrain error. How do you think interstates, suburban development…

Thanks for the heads-up about that file; I use a similar development setup and have been slacking on wiring Make rules together because I thought I would have to touch my own files…

I live in a suburb north of Dallas and on a short walk can see footpaths at the end of cul-de-sacs, former paths walled off with bushes, and former paths walled off with brick. The…

No expert on Clojure semantics, but I'm pretty sure what's being discussed is common to almost all runtime environments. When you pass an argument to a function, the function doesn…