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My name is Paul.
I like bicycles
I'm some form of socialist/anarchist and pro-labor / unions.

I like all of the programming languages and switch too often between them.
vi not vim, but emacs is ok too especially when doing lisp stuff.

I R Pedestrian

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pkw, to random
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I'm really digging this pattern in CLOS of extending a class and using :use-reexport in the new package definition to pull in the base class.

It makes code growth and juggling easier. I can extend a class by just changing an import statement, and then if I want to fold that new class code into the base class I can do that, and go back to the old import stanza.

The code that is dealing with the class (base or child) instance can stay untouched.

NatureMC, to nature
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The best ever about by @firstdogonthemoon "So we sit together and hold each other's hearts for a moment ..." https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2024/apr/29/a-cup-of-tea-and-a-biscuit-for-the-end-of-the-world

pkw,
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@di0v0n @NatureMC @firstdogonthemoon Yeah for example organisms will likely evolve to digest plastic and other pollutions.

(after we or at least most of us are gone)

pkw, to random
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system admins know that just increasing disk space for users only means they will use more space. Meaning, ironically all things being equal it makes everything worse. Backups are more difficult. The probability of disk failures goes up. etc.

From what I've gathered traffic engineers know this same thing about adding lanes to roads.

Capitalism, and "just add more", and "it has to scale", all are things that punt on using the wonderful human brain to solve problems.

(like a train)

pkw, to random
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The human mind/intellect has a massive blind spot when it comes to undoing things.

This is a call to action not a criticism.

I think it's healthy to look at how primitive we are in lots of ways. And hold it and seep in it.

We just aren't anywhere near as advanced as we think we are.

I am thinking that is actually more of a singularity threshold.

We also have MASSIVE problems being benevolent. Because c'mon most benevolence at a civil level is BS posturing and lip service.

Adam_Cadmon1, to random
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Ya'll are too patient with trolls

pkw,
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@Adam_Cadmon1 It feels like the lessons learned from trolls on usenet and mailing lists are the same for trolls now.

Once they have clearly shown they aren't for the dialog but just to get a rile out of people, then the best thing is to ignore.

That's why block is so amazing to me.

pkw, to emacs
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Is there an idiomatic way to kill multiple times to the same buffer?

In vi I can go through a bunch of different files "gathering" kills into one buffer and then yanking them all into one place.

ElleGray, to random
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Can NONE of my dreams come true 😞

pkw,
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@ElleGray https://yewtu.be/watch?v=8PtW0bNYQ70

fkamiah17, to random
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WEEK 30: From the tents of Gaza ...

pkw,
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@fkamiah17 😢

StillIRise1963, to random
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The coverage of the college protests is such a fucked up gaslight.

pkw,
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@StillIRise1963 I made the mistake of having NPR / VPR on when driving to a friends house. They so obviously manipulated the words to blame everything on the protestors AND they basically insinuated that they are all anti-semitic.

I wanted to throw my radio out the window.

pkw, to random
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The VPS thing happened right around when I was gearing up to colo a couple of 1U rackmount servers.

I missed the opportunity and I want to do it. If I did it now, I'd need to find a location in the Northeast US.

I'm guessing outside of Boston somewhere. IDK.

Any recomends for a colo facility in the Northeast US?

Yeah this is probably not a good idea.

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It is not antisemitic to protest Zionism and Israel's treatment of Palestinians (war crimes, crimes against humanity), no matter how many times they say it or who says it

They're just trying to silence legitimate dissent in the most cowardly dog-whistle way possible

pkw,
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@pleaseclap One good thing is the facade seems to be breaking.

10 20 years ago that antisemitic wolf crying would have worked.

Now just like lots of effed up shit happening, people are seeing right through.

I was pretty sure when this started my liberal friends would defend Isreal, and they haven't.

pkw, to random
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I signed a non-compete agreement for my current job and it bothered me a lot.
It says for a year after I quit i have to get approval from them before a new employer can hire me.

Obviously I won't follow those rules, that I agreed to.

Also the auto delete feature for posts after n weeks is great 😋

amoroso, to Lisp
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MakerLisp Machine is a Lisp and CP/M single board computer with a 50 MHz eZ80 and up to 16 MB RAM. It runs a Lisp on bare metal system as well as CP/M 2.2. The Lisp dialect is a blend of Common Lisp, Scheme, and C.

How cool is that?

https://www.makerlisp.com

pkw,
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@amoroso This is awesome, and so is standing for something. 😎

pkw, to random
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At what point was Italy or Germany officially considered fascist ?

When can I say the US is a fascist state?

(this is rhetorical)

mms, to random
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Also, why are folks Open and Net get so much more cult following compared to FreeBSD from people?

pkw,
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@yeti @mms Hey maybe calling certain BSDs cults while tagging them all, is not the best solidarity building exercise.

pkw, to random
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Anybody recommend a free or open source database that can do vectors?

I use elasticsearch at work and would like to duplicate or imitate what it can do with vector indexes on my own.

#vectordb #database

pkw,
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@ascherbaum Thanks! this looks great. I am very comfortable with postgres.

(edit: made me think to look for something for sqlite)

this looks cool too:
https://github.com/asg017/sqlite-vss

dorgaldir, to Autism Dutch

I feel this so hard. Why can't people just be clear about what they want?
@actuallyautistic

pkw,
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@dorgaldir @actuallyautistic The the tax form asking if i own my own home ...

the bank does, but the answer is still yes. same energy

louis, (edited ) to random
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What do you manage your Todos?

#todo #projectmanagement

pkw,
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@louis We are trending at roughly 97% of votes being flat out wrong.

This is very interesting :P

pkw, to random
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The only code AI is going to replace any time soon is garbage code.

Most code that I read at "serious work jobs" is pretty bad.

So this low bar for AI isn't very impressive.

It seems like people are trying to reason around the need for semantic understanding.

Like I see uses for LLMs on a case by case basis.

But a hammer cannot replace a carpenter.

pkw,
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Maybe I'm doing the "no real scotsman" thing right now.

pkw,
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Ok maybe what I am seeing is that I think programming at large is still in the "astrology" stages of scientific evolution.

So talking about AI replacing programmers just doesn't mean anything to me. Yes you can replace a human fortune teller with a coin-up one.

pkw, to random
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OMG all economists are rong.

The whole profit motive itself is inefficient because it siphons resources from the target of need.

StillIRise1963, to random
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I still can’t get over the fact that people discussed trickle down economics like it made any fucking sense.

pkw,
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@StillIRise1963 It's still alive in spirit when cities will provide incentives to corporations to come.

Like the profits from the corp. will trickle down to the locality.

pkw, to random
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