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> Also, serious off-topic question to the motorcycle enthusiasts here: how do you cope with the fact that your weekend leisure ride is often a massive noise disturbance for hundred…

Holy crap! It's the "Loving Common Lisp" author! Haven't had a chance to finish it yet, but it's awesome and I really appreciate the updates!

> a cruise, but a cruise with ~30 other people, not ~6000. This is the sort of thing that tempts me - an enchanting vision, like something out of "Death on the Nile", only minus th…

Sounds like a very expensive way to do nothing. I can do nothing at home virtually for free.

> An embedded Lisp that supports a true REPL would be a god-send. I might be misunderstanding your requirements; "embedded" can mean so many things these days. But what do you thin…

> I don't want half finished changes forever committed to history. This is exactly why I hew to squash+rebase. As I like to put it "I don't care about every little sneeze a develop…

> Most definitely sharp edges, and your bevels, matter when you are really pushing it, especially if you are racing, and most especially if you are on extremely hard or even water-…

> So what people do is instead of carving perfectly, they deliberately slip to create some friction and slow themselves down. As an amateur alpine tourist who is deathly afraid of …

> I think interesting take on the same idea I saw lately was "Every Dead Body on Mt. Everest Was Once a Highly Motivated Person". It seems not that new but still. I mean, everyone …

Forget the up-arrow, C-r is a life-saver for us Emacsers who have to go to CLI for whatever reason.

It's not short, but I was introduced to the concept in a video series on FLOSS Linux audio tools: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdPPPeq82hw&list=PLf_MTToSAx... Specifically, you …

Honestly, for public facing read-only websites, it's perfectly fine to redirect HTTP to HTTPS. There's just too many cases where you aren't going to get everyone to put " https:// …

> Show me a program that has no bugs and I'll show you a program that does nothing at all! "Every program has at least one bug and can be shortened by at least one instruction -- f…

> I find some people just give feedback poorly and equate that to others not taking feedback. Too true! I find it helps if I think of it as an engineering problem: "what can I say …

> you just don't see how Always, always assume this is the case - it might frustrate you to no end, but until you have conclusive evidence something is "wrong", it's best to ignore…

> "I'll think about it" Unless you're being totally earnest, this one reads like "I'll take it under advisement"[0] [0] - https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/ed82da6b-db48-49aa-a105-f190e…

To play Devil's advocate, I'd like to point out that many of these egotistical assholes are "trying" to "help" - by "trying" I mean their communication skills are poor, and by "hel…

This is awesome! While I'm nowhere near being able to leverage this right now, I am currently going through the painful process of "databasing" raw documents into SQL, and I can te…

> it sounds like you're describing the possibility of calculating his expected weight gain based on how much he ate and how much he exercised, and I don't think that's possible. Th…

> Remarkable the hand waving people go through to excuse dishonesty because they want to believe it so badly. What I find remarkable is how badly people want to ignore just how bad…

> It read like a ban to me. Then you need to increase your reading comprehension. I nowhere said or implied "ban". Or you need to examine your biases; are you perchance a libertari…

> I haven't tried those, but surely it is easier to overeat on fries and hamburgers compared to a salad? This reads like someone who might not have been in America much. Friend, le…

> But I did remember thinking it was weird he puked so early in the film. I brushed it off as "everyone is different", and forgot about it. That's one of the few things I still rem…

The simple fact is that no amount of alcohol is good for you. Same goes for smoking anything , marijuana included. Also, processed meats are definitely carcinogens. Yeah, cancer ca…

> i guess that means you can't write security bugs in lisp, right? I know this is sarcasm, but there's a reason Greenspun's tenth rule holds true.