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Gotta keep that applications barrier to entry going...

Yes. I suspect that the term "Latinx" was invented by some gringx.

Growing up in Moore, Oklahoma in the 1960s and 1970s, my mother frequented the C.R. Anthony's store in the City of Moore Shopping Center. They used pneumatic tubes; the person at t…

CanCon 2.0?

What kind of hardware would one need to use the model with reasonable performance?

Darn. Now nobody can attach it to a car, like in the urban legend.

How does one debug with GnuCOBOL?

I can only speak for myself, but Python struck me as much simpler to learn and understand than Perl. Also, my hatred for sigils burns with the heat of a million suns, going back to…

12:30, the Mamas and the Papas

Libraries bring author $$$/reader down considerably.

True. We'll see. I run VMs on the computer, so it's nice to have the RAM anyway and I might as well max it out.

Nice. Just ordered the 64 GB of RAM to max out my computer w/5600G at 128.

Ah. Thanks. Yes, "accolade" in English is an award or privilege, or the tap you get with a sword when you become a knight.

I'm curious. What is "accolade-free code"? It's referenced and highlighted as if it had a link but it doesn't, and Google appears to think it's a hapax legomenon (or whatever the e…

Sigh. Now I have to track down a copy of The Memluks' album Partida, so I can listen again to their classic "Joe's Thymus" (inspired, I'm sure, by the Readers' Digest "I am {Joe's,…

Perhaps the thing to do is put it in a git repository, so people can retrieve the version they want.

To schools that have motivation to actually educate children?

If you refactor, how does that affect email searches including pre-refactor subject lines?

It's the difference between evaluating all the elements of a list, consing them, and returning it all at once and evaluating the elements one at a time (i.e. lazy evaluation). Save…

Whoa, man, that's too sharp, too piercing...

The article mentions Steven Newman, author of Worldwalk. Neat guy. I met him in West Des Moines (or maybe Clive?) when he was promoting his book, and got an autographed copy, which…

Without a desire for self-preservation? I hope not. If nothing else, if I spend $$$$ on a self-driving car, I want it to have some sense of self-preservation, so it won't obey rand…

Has anyone tried to run it under WINE?

The intent, as I understand it, is that "declaration should look like use", so that the base type is on the left. If you declare int *foo; then *foo is an int. IMHO the existence o…

I agree that in C, the disciplined use of goto is the way to go, but the "ok so far" version could be better written: if (oksofar) { oksofar = something_done = do_something(bar); }…