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Is this a joke? Am I going crazy? I don't like this future we're going towards where we have to trick our software (which we can no longer understand the workings of) into doing wh…

What does "burn-after-read" mean? Just that it can't be retrieved a second time?

What? How do you derive that reading from the parent comment?

When I used `pass`, I synced the password store between all my personal devices with Syncthing (non-centralized file syncing tool) and kept the store history with git. This worked …

Indeed, his dedication to fitness and taste in fine leather clothing is quite admirable!

It's a band-aid solution really, but I can recommend you check out the launcher Lawnchair. It looks and behaves much like the stock launcher, but is far more customizable, letting …

Oh ok then, I forgot that there aren't people who are further right-wing than the Republican party...

Wait, that /only/ works on MacOS?

Your website design is delightful!

I made the exact same move for the same reasons a few weeks ago. The UI is a little... dense, but plenty featureful and made working with required oauth for my school Outlook email…

IRC bot! You just need to pull in a lua sockets library to get going.

Ukraine, like countries often do during war, has temporarily banned amateur radio activity: http://www.arrl.org/news/amateur-radio-in-ukraine-ordered-of...

Or pattern matching that takes account of the empty list case. Orrrrr using a fold! I usually find when I start matching on list values that the function could be better expressed …

Nor is "central planning" a socialist concept. The only remotely consisent throughline in the vast spectrum of socialist thought has been democratic ownership or control of one's w…

That's still functional, monads aren't impure or anything :)

There's a lot of different lisps out there, but in general: - simple syntax - extensible with macros that mesh well with the language - tend to be expression-oriented, which some p…

That's what's in the sidebar, but a quick browsing of the posts in there suggests a more socialist bent to me.

It's something in between IMO. A moka pot cannot produce the pressures necessary for making traditional espresso, but it does produce a strong, slightly viscous coffee and occasion…

Fennel is a lispy language that transpiles to, maintains the semantics of, and seamlessly interacts with Lua! It’s a fun little language to mess around in, and does a good job show…

There's a certain level of bastardhood at which it becomes hard to feel sympathy for someone's demise. I don't know which side of the line Thomas Midgley Jr. is on, but he's reeeaa…

Could... could you enlighten me please?

Is this not almost how logic programming (prolog, etc.) works? You tell the language some things which are true, and then it'll be able to infer answers to "questions" you ask: htt…