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There are some great remixes to Kenny Chow's legendary intro to the amazing "One Must Fall 2097" that manage to retain and enhance the tracker feel: - Original: https://www.youtube…

There's no need to pay for questionable courses. Here's an excellent free alternative that covers all the basics: https://haqr.eu/tinyrenderer/

Current SOTA models work great with Emacs Lisp and Common Lisp. Giving access to the REPL enables them to do an amazing job but they still work well with Unix input/output static c…

Official chess competitions are taking place under stringent monitoring conditions and even then, with professional reputations on the line, there have been multiple high profile c…

6$ / TB / month is a fool's bargain even for something as low as 10 TB. One can buy a used LTO-6 drive for a few hundred bucks and build tape libraries that span hundreds of TBs. T…

The vast majority of MUDs don't even implement the full TELNET protocol, just a small subset. In typical MUD fashion, fundamental TELNET parts like option negotiation were either h…

This doesn't apply here, a wealth tax is levied against assets not income.

If you want Scheme, go use Scheme because these are not arguments for Common Lisp. There is tons of value in the CL specification being this big and I'm happy I can still run code …

Great story! I also read Neuromancer for the first time in Greek translation (Αίολος), around 1995, knowing nothing about the book otherwise. It was a blind buy in a bookstore sole…

A lot of the power of Forth comes from its metaprogramming capabilities and having the compiler available at runtime, all wrapped in a tiny footprint. Similarly to Lisp, it empower…

I see the following in code written by newcomers to CL frequently: (optimize (speed 3) (safety 0)) but it is a very bad habit to get used to, in general, and may create the impress…

Stallman has done more to safeguard our freedoms than all the critics and corporations that are happy to exploit his work put together. He’s also been extremely prescient and decad…

> I commented that Patagonia made great stuff and actually cared about their materials Last I checked a lot of their clothes were full of forever chemicals and processed plastics b…

It should become clear to everyone that reads his work that "management theorist" Stafford Beer can best be characterized without any doubt whatsoever as a charlatan. Cybernetics c…

I always saw VLC as subpar. A typical case of software that's just trying to copy what the pioneers do. As we all know, mediocrity it not antithetical to popularity, and VLC has be…

Folks who find this useful might also be interested in otel-profiling-agent [1] which Elastic recently opensourced and donated to OpenTelemetry. It's a low-overhead eBPF-based cont…

Wizards for me falls flat (kinda like "soul of a new machine" that's often recommended but which I found a complete waste of time) while the Dream Machine, Dealers of Lightning [1]…

There's no JS interpreter in EWW [1]. If you're forced to use a different browser, having JS off by default is not hard to get used to. [1] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manua…

These bugs can be described as the major or minor mode evaluating code that is provided as part of the buffer that the mode is being enabled for. The two semi-recent examples that …

What's of greater importance here is not this specific security issue, but the default configuration of MIME handling in Emacs which can turn any unexpected evaluation bug -which w…