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Nobody ever is. You’re forced into it by external events, and you either kinda make it work, or don’t. It was, after all, changing times and dumb moves by a mad despot that caused …

Supposedly Roy Cohn was startled by how easily he was discarded when he wasn’t useful anymore. Makes me wonder who will be the next in line with the knife.

Safer threading for performance improvements was part of it, as I understand.

https://github.com/clj-commons/rewrite-clj is an absolute superpower for this kind of thing, if you were using Clojure. It always saddened me it doesn't get more exposure. As good …

Hs stuff is really cool. Building out a whole construction yard, vehicle by vehicle. Very worth a look if you haven’t seen it.

That’s really interesting, as a long time clojurist and recent rust user. Can you expand on that, or is it too early days?

Nerd sniped on the first entry. The first sentence of the first entry. The first minute of the video in the first sentence. The first comment in the video, etc. If anyone was going…

Rust also runs on picos and Esp32s, if that’s your jam.

May I ask if they are direct paper to screen transfers, or if there are specific features/apps that add extra value? I do a lot of work in (paper) engineering notebooks, and I'm cu…

This is a nicely in depth and enjoyable read, especially as a long time software engineer, who's recently become interested in raspberry pi's and microcontrollers.

Since devcontainer.json works fine on docker desktop, I usually use that, but I do use codespaces frequently for review and small patches, as well as exploring new libraries. I'm s…

There are multiple GDSs, and AFAIK neither Expedia nor Booking.com use them. The space is way more confused and competitive then your comment implies. The best writeup I've seen on…

Tamam?

Heh, the creator of Lisp probably was "God enough" to redef constants as he saw fit.

I always thought it was because AI dominated the shallow parts of the galaxy, but there was something that wouldn't let it expand down to the deep.

It doesn't really fit into that setup. When given an article 15, you can demand a trial by court-martial, so it doesn't really have a parallel in the civilian job market. It's usua…

If you are interested in physical copies, I highly recommend "The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War" , and others in the Landmark series. I got a …

It just proves that people can write Fortran in any language, even containers.

Swiss neutrality goes back much farther that that, IIRC. Early 1500's. Different political organizations back then, of course, but the Swiss have been doing the neutrality thing fo…

I don't have any experience with howitzers, but I had a couple of years on a M1A1 tank, and you have to remember that heavy combat vehicles are designed to fill a particular role u…

I'd argue that those are toys, not tools.

hmmm. Does "two, billion-plus exits" or "two billion-plus-exits" work better?

Of the two billion-plus exits I've been (peripherally) a part of, the most recent one was Clojure, and the one 10 years ago was Python. I've also seen several Clojure projects and …

I did not say it was trivial, nor did I belittle his very real achievements. What I was attempting to say is this quote is needlessly cavalier with people's lives, and should be ta…

So a man who had never fought in a battle and owned slaves thought other people's lives were cheap. Jefferson made significant contributions to both America and the world, but that…