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Have you seen Common Lisp’s condition system? It’s a step above exceptions, because one can signal a condition in low-level code, handle it in high-level code and then resume back …

> The unattended workaround is to have the tmux daemon spawn at login via `start-server` + enable some tmux settings like `exit-empty` plus some I can't recall regarding environmen…

> Ctrl+a from my cold dead fingers That conflicts with the standard Emacs binding to move to the beginning of the current line. Many years ago, I switched to C-z instead, on the th…

> But it solves a really important problem: How to exchange markdown documents that include attachments like images, video etc. in a standard way? Oddly enough, I was recently thin…

Really neat! It runs on the DM42 calculator from SwissMicros (no relationship other than being a happy customer): https://www.swissmicros.com/product/dm42

That’s a minor thing I dig about Lisps: variables can be named foo-bar-baz, with nary a shift to type.

I forget where I first saw it, but I’ve been persuaded that the correct word is ‘confabulation,’ not ‘hallucination.’ Maybe it was this paper: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti…

I think that it is. The article does raise some good points to consider, but at this point in my experience with it I believe that a lot of the complexity of Kubernetes is not some…

A door. No Internet-connected camera. No doorbell. Not even a knocker. Just a door. No batteries. No hype cycle. No upgrades. No WiFi. Just a door. When someone is at the door, he …

The modern version would be https://www.omniglot.com/ , which has tons of real and constructed writing systems. It’s a reminder of when the Web was a bunch of neat people sharing n…

> I conjectured that it's Kubernetes. Just like XML, Kubernetes solves a problem, but it doesn't solve EVERY problem. Like XML, Kubernetes does a lot of cool things which were not …

Then the user is stuck with the macOS UI and macOS software. I have a very custom desktop UI based on a tiling window manager (WM); I tend to run it with one or two windows per scr…

Pretty neat! I see that you’re using Hunchentoot — are you concerned that it interns HTTP header names in the KEYWORD package? It means that a malicious client can use up all your …

> Good to see that the good old "laptop doesn't go to sleep on linux" problem has never truly gone away. FWIW, I have a spare Windows laptop, just over a year old, whose WiFi does …

Weird, I submitted the exact same link yesterday and the dupe detector didn’t trigger: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32477938 No worries, it’s a great article and I’m glad f…