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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,
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@katzenberger absolutely! I guess I should explain I am living out an alternative timeline in my head where Turing lives longer and McCarthy doesn’t get caught up in the red scare and works with wiener and stafford beer and we get an earlier version of the internet/cybersyn (one computer per neighborhood) that sends sexpressions encoded via Morse code. I guess this ties into the new realm of fantasy I have been trying to make happen:

nil, to random
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UX without design is CSP. This is a good thing. Semantics over aesthetics. Function determines form.

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

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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,
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Damn I journeyed to the last page of the fan work forum and I couldn’t find it! I recall there was some drama as it departed from just being a turn based strategy game so maybe it was deleted.

nil, to random
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Gonna be a wild night! Nils is one of my favorite authors so I am very excited!

abnv, to FunctionalProgramming
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I learned to escape the imperative programming languages, which in turn got me interested into and . Turns out, most of the real-world compilers are written in C and C++, so here I am back at square one.

After years of avoiding it for decades, I taught myself in the last couple of weeks. So anyway, does anyone want me to write a series of posts about making a interpreter (https://github.com/kanaka/mal) in C++?

nil,
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@abnv I am voting yes for the blog posts! The other irony of sufficiently high level functional programming is that you want it to seem imperative on the surface! Like cursors in reagent/cljs letting you imagine you have variables/registers even though it’s a single atom under the covers. I am sure the Haskell lens paradigm from whence cursors came is even more elegant. Monadic even.

nil, to random
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Does anyone else spend a lot of time thinking about what the developer experience of a pure could be? I think the immediate issue is the language itself needs to have CSP primitives baked in and not layered on (no matter how cool the party trick). I say this because the debugging experience can’t be wading through state machines you did not write yourself. Exene (written in concurrent ML) is only prior art I am aware of. Maybe stuff?

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,
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@Feufochmar thanks for the tip - eventually figured out how to deactivate my old switch and make this one primary! What a relief knowing I can play tetris99 locally next time the internet goes down for me.

nil, to Lisp
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Always makes me happy when I search for a topic and find that someone I look up to already asked the same question:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4138294/first-lisp-with-macros

nil, to random
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brokenix, to random

This like testing for fp

nil,
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@brokenix yeah let’s make room for 4 blub examples and ignore entirely.

nil,
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@brokenix afraid I can’t follow the arbitrary operator precedence rules. I kid, big Haskell fan, just a bigger lisp hierophant.

nil, to random
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I want this on a shirt!

nil, to random
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The only true magic in this world is the negation of subjugation. Crowley tried to say this but people only remember the “do what thou wilt” part and not the “love under will” refrain (in other words - the medium of love is consent: the negation of subjugation).

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,
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@stahlbrandt looks like they will have a few more for sale here: https://shifthappens.site/store/ - also just noticed they have a machine keyboard print which I definitely need in my life.

nil,
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@gvv yeah I was stoked to see the space cadet keyboard but found myself staring in pure nerd bliss as I flipped through looking for it! So many terminals I wish I could use!

nil, to random
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Imagine if YouTubes algorithm was oriented towards optimizing you as a person (surely they actually know your long term goals from 2 decades of e-mail harvesting?) instead of rewarding rat holing and echo chamber psychosis. Just fucking imagine if we used these same techniques for the betterment of the individual and society as a whole. Oh yeah and no fucking ads. Fuck.

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,
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This better conveys what I mean: https://kevinhoffman.blog/post/fediverse_gaming/

nil, to random
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Any other listeners? Any other podcasts you would suggest?

peron, to random Spanish

\o/ Hi hackers! 28th anniversary.

nil,
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@peron still my goto soundtrack for programming!

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