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nil, to Lisp
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Only thing I love more than is

nil, to Lisp
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Why does no one talk about the fact that .rtf is simply the worlds ugliest sexpression language? Jokes aside has the / world surfaced a nicer rich text format?

nil, to random
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I guess my version of “I won’t eat the bugs” is “ I won’t program in Python”. I would sooner go back to php. To Perl. Visual Basic. Excel formulas. JavaScript itself.

nil, (edited ) to random
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The UI experience is almost explicitly concurrent. Yet we program for them as if they are linear shell scripts. Longing for . It is tragic to me that was born 30 years too early. I want process affinity networks not fucking dom hierarchies. Just say that out loud “dom hierarchy” sounds like a tongue in cheek punk band detourning fascistic language (please understand I do not mean to kink shame) to be provocative - nope it’s what we teach our young. I am not kidding here either. Shit like react exists because of how problematic it is to make hierarchy efficient. Cybernetics (real shit like wiener and beer [the csp channel being the reification of the algedonic signal] not fancy robot hands) constantly directs us to emulate nature. Where is the hierarchy in the forest? To whom does the orchid ask permission to connect to the mycorrhizal network?

nil, to emacs
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I just want to say as an prisoner (if I had a car it would have a bumper sticker that said “my other editor is a post modern lisp machine”) that the ux is awful. Executing a mortal kombat fatality on my keyboard to save a file is sadism.

nil, to random
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This should exist: A but for the where you can specify how many 16bit processors you want up to 42. Maybe as part of a meta game you can unlock processors as you learn new concepts.

nil, to random
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Ghosts of future past.

nil, to random
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Playing and wondering why we still don’t have a Shining Force Online. Phantasy Star Online is wildly successful it just makes sense. The turn based nature could allow for a more asynchronous experience too similar to correspondence chess (obviously with agreed upon turn time limits etc).

nil, to random
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Title: Hypermedia Systems
Authors: CARSON GROSS, ADAM STEPINSKI, DENİZ AKŞİMŞEK
Review: very well written and good explanation of the what/why/how of and hypermedia as it was intended. My only qualm was numerous code formatting/layout issues when ever a code block crossed pages eg missing and duplicated lines. Sometimes these lines are referred to by the text which can add to the confusion. I love the cover though and the font choices!

nil, to random
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What is the word beside nondeterministic to describe the behavior/semantics of alt!/choice in in respect to the fact that it is implicitly not “functional”? Normally imperative is the opposite of functional but that doesn’t feel nuanced or even right.

nil, to keyboards
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Wow I forgot I had ordered this! Two volumes (plus extras) of Shift Happens including slip case. Having just flipped through this book already makes me unreasonably happy!

Cover of Shift Happens volume 2

nil, to Lisp
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In a different shard of the multiverse SaaS means as a Service. And it’s awesome. Instant deployment of code to all client images. Replaces what we call the database, the internet and the browser. Obviously has a flavor of layered on top and upon that. I want to live in that shard. Also in this dimension smalltalk is predicated upon a typed pi-calculus not classes and inheritance. Ok that’s my fever dream.

nil, to random
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Considering I am obsessed with vintage programming languages it is surprising that I have never tried a vintage development methodology like waterfall. I am legitimately going to attempt it for my next project. Vast diagrams and entity relation charts, sequence diagrams - the works! All before a single paren touches the buffer. I think I might even wear a white shirt and tie with a pocket protector to get into the zone.

nil, to tetris
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Sadly I can’t prove this but last night I got an all-clear at the exact moment I won a round of - I play a lot of that game (and not to brag but I win a lot. I am level 97 not including the levels I lost when replacing switch) and this is first time that has ever happened. Almost like one of those water bottle flip trick shots or something.

nil, to random
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I love Nintendo but I find it so annoying that I can’t play switch games without active internet connection. For what? To make sure I’m not playing on my other switch? What are we doing here. I’m with that other person who posted recently - I just want a dedicated Tetris device. But now I am addicted to Tetris99 so it needs really good AI.

nil, (edited ) to random
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For real. Inherited one of these from my grandfather and the other from eBay (when it was good for books)

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nil, to random
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One of the reasons for the rejection of is that it is as much (if not more so) about what technology CANT and SHOULDNT do as it is about what technology can do. It’s the Jeff Goldblum character in Jurassic Park of the sciences. This disgusting fantasy of limitless growth and the promises of infinite pleasure come the singularity is the soma. Is the opiate. Is the spectacle.

nil, to random
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Just had the disgusting realization that objectivist types view Elon Musk as Galt.

nil, to random
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I would love for there to be a concurrency game jam. Actors, CSP, dataflow - all the cousins are invited! The only rule is you have to use your chosen concurrency paradigm in a substantial way. async/await need not apply.

nil, to forth
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Saw that post about http://cosy.com/ which is an on top of a - right up my alley. I scroll down and see he is using his APL dialect to disprove climate change. It was sort of cool to experience what being into qanon must be like because for a minute I was like “damn… maybe? I mean it’s APL!”. is a hell of a drug.

nil, to bbs
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I will say it again: mastodon NEEDS door games. I just want to play or with people in my feed. forever.

nil, to Lisp
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Did all the other people know about from ? I only stumbled upon it whilst searching for a process network definition language. Not exactly what I had in mind but pleasantly surprised to see !
https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/Legacy/IR/nistir6459.pdf

nil, to random
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Feeling nostalgic for fan games that never got released beyond screenshots on shining force central. I can’t even find the old threads or remember the names but there was one that was 3D with ps1 level graphics that I badly wanted to play.

nil, to Lisp
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my first lisp program in Morse code is of course nil:

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nil, to forth
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More (moore) forth! #forth #eforth #subleq

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