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It's defined by an ANSI standard; see (http://clhs.lisp.se).

There are a handful high-quality implementations, both free and commercial, many of which can generate efficient native code. When you can stick to the standard, you can reasonably expect your code to work across implementations and platforms.

The existence of the standard also means that you can often use code that is decades old with few changes. Furthermore, there are actually bodies of old code that you might want to use, because of its relatively common use in AI and academic communities in the 80s and 90s. See, for example (https://www.cs.cmu.edu/Groups/AI/0.html).

It's designed to support interactive programming to a greater extent that any other language except perhaps Smalltalk. For example, the ANSI standard defines functions you can use to change the definitions of classes at runtime and have existing instances automatically updated to use the new definitions.

Like Racket and Chicken, it has a good library ecosystem. The ecosystem is supported by a good package manager (https://www.quicklisp.org/beta/). That package manager is in turn supported by a decent documentation-search site (http://quickdocs.org).

Several Common Lisp implementations support easy delivery of programs as a single, self-contained executable. The buildapp library (http://quickdocs.org/buildapp/) shows how this may be done in a cross-implementation way by supporting both SBCL and CCL.

The Common Lisp community has been around for decades, as have some of its prominent members. There's a ton of useful, practical knowledge in the community. It does have a bit of an unfriendly reputation, and that's sometimes deserved, but with some patience and persistence you'll find that it also contains friendly and helpful people who know a lot about the language and its effective use.

You can find a guide to the community here (https://common-lisp.net/community).
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> The other factor to consider is that people who are too cold can layer up but someone who’s too hot doesn’t have an option other than working from home.

While true in the abstract, the real reason why most office buildings are "cold" is because indoor climate regulations are based on empirical thermal comfort models that were developed in the 1960s, and thus mostly based on the metabolic rates of men instead of women.

https://www.nature.com/articles/nclimate2741
In vim, I can run:

:r !man bash | col -b

the col utility will strip backspace characters with the -b switch (along with reverse line feeds).
I spent one month in Patagonia this year. My Patagonia gear held up extremely well while trekking, climbing a mountain, and sleeping in tents and cars.
It really isn't that hard on Linux. Basically:

1. define your dependencies (try to be conservative so you're not reliant on bleeding edge features)
2. Make a good app that people want with a fairly simple build step
3. Support one or two major distributions
4. Ask for help in bundling for everything else
5. Fix issues as they're discovered

If you ask nicely and people want your app, the community will help you out with the rest. Just look at Steam, which is really only supported on Ubuntu and SteamOS, but is packaged by pretty much everyone.
The scientific consensus is that climate change is happening and that it is human caused. Being "skeptic" about this is like being a flat earther. Baseless skepticism is not any better than blind faith.
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Sounds like they didn't dress it up.
That line of logic towards gun ownership made sense when the constitution was written, and the musket you owned was not far off from the musket a soldier was issued. What is your ar15 going to do to an unmanned drone six miles in the air? Or a missile launched from a battleship hundreds of miles off the coast? We’ve long passed the point of the second amendment. The only reason guns arent’t totally banned now is because how entrenched the arms industry is in american politics.
Given tear gas I am not sure about chemical warfare (although that also has to do with relative effectiveness).

And there is far more infastructure required for chemical weaponry production and use more complex than throwing a bottle of bleach and ammonia mix.
US per capita is still higher the China and India. It seems that the US thinks they are more entitled to output more per capita simply because they are decreasing.

the US is still an order of magnitude higher than India in per capita emissions
Terraform allows you to call an arbitrary shell command in you machine, not just trigger some webhook.
I’m excited about this but fearful that it will create unfair (I.e. monetary) incentive structures for FOSS maintenance.
"I doubt there’s a legit use-case for a mainframe even in business environments"

You're incorrect. The most common one is to run legacy software, and not just banks. Insurance, retail, utilities, financial, manufacturing, etc. Some companies have been around before x86 hit the scene and already had significant investments in their in-house computing infrastructure.
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I made a choice-based game a few months ago about dealing with the political realities of climate change, inspired by Sara Teasdale and Ray Bradbury's There Will Come Soft Rains.

You can play it online here: https://tinyurl.com/43softrains-v1-1

I have been considering pursuing funding for making similar choice-based games like this one and integrating them with classroom curriculums.
There was a discussion in the Github issues. From that it was pretty clear this was a done deal. If the project is no longer maintained, why would they. And they had the PCP reimplementation ready.

You seem to imply there was no communication, and I stopped the project out of the blue. That is a misrepresentation.

Nobody stepped up to take over maintainership, and I don't see anyone doing that now. But if someone wants to try, I can unarchive the project and restore the PRs and issues.

If not, the king is dead, long live the king!
This was the topic of The Submarine

paulgraham.com/submarine.html
This approach is similiar: http://tom7.org/mario/
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Yea as a NYC resident who travels to SF I’m always amazed at the cost of the BART system. Seems super shitty for low wage workers traveling long distances.

And it adds up so quick, with no unlimited option.

I guess it’d be like taking the Metro North or LIRR to work everyday but it still seems like a lot of money to me.
This makes no sense. Moving emphasis from Production (work) to Consumption (leisure) increases carbon usage, and halts progress towards more sustainable technologies and conservative behaviours. Climate progress takes effort not entertainment.
> A much older example: The C standard library includes a function that's very narrowly useful for copying strings into fixed width buffers with no terminator, called strncpy()

Arguably, what makes C the perfect example is not necessarily its standard library functions per se but the language's official string data type.
What user-defined value types did CL have in '95? Also, are you sure about VB having had them then?

As for AOT, there may not have been sufficient demand from Sun/Oracle. I only joined relatively recently, but we generally do expensive things only if we believe they have a huge benefit or in huge demand, and we believe it can be long-lasting. The assumption is that any new feature will require maintenance for 20 years, taking away resources from other things. So if something is expensive, even if it's cool or some people could find it very useful -- we don't do it. The assumption is that the ecosystem is large enough that others can, and will.
It’s just all so silly. I mean honestly, the CEO spending time yelling at people for what they’re wearing. Madness.
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>> the main reason why no ones does this is because you would be missing the most useful aspect of React which is compatibility and consistency with the rest of the React ecosystem. So you cannot separate React from its ecosystem. All this complexity has become tightly intertwined.

This is just plain wrong. Firstly using JSX or not will have 0 impact on compatibility with other libraries in the ecosystem because they are not coded against JSX they are coded against what JSX is compiled down to. The main reason people use JSX is because people like it.

Also you say the complexity has become intertwined but I don't hear any examples of how that is the case?
Eh, I think 5 is important because it shows that there's a vested interest in keeping the project going. I absolutely do make decisions on what to use based on who is using it because switching to something else after a project dies is a royal pain, and I don't have the time to maintain it myself (though I can certainly submit patches here and there).
Holy crap! I never knew

curl cheat.sh/<command>

was a thing. All these years....
For me the obvious has always been why would we never be able to just hit the off button on it?

How many other machines have we created that are impossible to turn off or have endless supply of uninterruptible power?
Before using Terraform I tried to use Puppet to manage AWS infrastructure. It was a fun but short adventure.
The idea of having all your configuration in one tool is nice but Puppet just isn't that tool. The one thing I found lacking the most, which made Terraform the tool for the job, is awareness of state. Having the triangle of what configuration you want (HCL), what configuration you expect to have (state) and what configuration you actually got (real world), with the tools to observe the differences between these and the ability to make careful changes is just what you need for important infrastructure changes.
With Puppet every change felt like Fire-and-pray. Sure you can run a 'noop', but if anything changes in between that and the actual run that could trigger another resource you would be catch by surprise. On OS/App level the impact can often be contained, but on infra, not so much as you would have reduce the powerful features of Puppet to much as to it not being a benefit anymore.
See also
playfun/learn fun, a game-agnostic AI that uses raw uninterpreted memory bytes as it's signal:
http://tom7.org/mario/
This is obviously not true. How would you stop runaway methane release from permafrost for example?
Do you also store all of their email, searches, and websites they visit attached to that id?
Yea, as much as it's easy to make fun of fashion conscious bankers wearing Patagonia as a status symbol, let's not forget that their products are also really good at what they're supposed to be used for.
It could be that they all bloom when they receive a certain signal from another plant of the same species, and that they will set off that signal after storing up for 130 years after the last bloom. So even new plants will receive the signal and bloom, but the trigger takes 130 years to re-arm.
I'm reminded of the nuclear flash helmets for pilots.
The heads of government and ministers don't get to keep the fines for themselves. It's in their self-interest to get themselves bribed by Google, not to fine them.

Secretly taxing Google by making a privacy law, giving businesses years to prepare for it and hoping Google violates it anyway doesn't even make sense. Taxing them using, well, taxes is easier, quicker and more likely to work.
There's an interesting history of the Japanese diaspora in Brazil and Peru [0, 1]. Essentially Brazil was looking to "whiten" its country at the same time that Japan was facing economic crises, jumpstarting the immigration.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_Brazilians
1: http://isaacmeyer.net/2017/08/episode-207-across-the-sea-par...
People do actually wear Patagonia gear there, it's just that there are cheaper alternatives.
I think about this all the time.

America has an apocalyptical culture. Probably from the cultural imprint of our end times themed christianity during the early years. That whole book of revelations madness. (The Puritans who first colonized the New World were fruitcakes, even back then.)

But we did come very close to snuffing ourselves with nukes a few times.

And ever since I started paying attention to ecological collapse, mid 1980s, pretty much all the predictions have come true. (The only confusing bit there is we've also had amazing technical progress, masking the underlying destruction.)

I so hope that I'm just being an alarmist and it's all going to work out. I have kids, and hopefully grandkids one day. Yet I remain concerned.
It is going to kill European websites that rely on ad revenue and all third party European ad networks too.
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The problem is more complicated because most Indians have arranged marriages where the women has a bit of less power to begin with
Possibly one of the best Nova titles ever - "Rat Attack" follows this phenomenon: https://www.pbs.org/video/nova-rat-attack/
Apple tries again with MacBook Pro keyboard design
> I've just made a unique ID for you, it's XYZUser. This is unique to you, and I'm storing this on my computer indefinitely.

I was under the impression that individuals keeping notes for non-commercial purposes is not governed by the GDPR.
In the book "Bill Gates Speaks" there is funny old story about negotiations between Microsoft and IBM.

In the first day of the meetings Bill Gates and others from MS show up wearing casuals while IBM guys come in with black suit and tie. Next day MS guys all have suit and tie while IBM guys are wearing slacks and cotton shirt to blend in.
So MS changed their mind not porting UI libraries to Net Core?
There are certainly cases where you need the features of glibc over musl, but those are pretty rare IMO, and you can always implement a missing piece yourself if using musl saves you enough in maintenance overhead.
Just buy a Gameboy. Good games are timeless.
You can use Firefox.
Yeah banning its use outside law enforcement sounds like the worst option given it is anti-transparency and accountability while allowing abuse. It woukd be far easier to selectively hide misconduct that way.
Trick: You can use just

>file
Per the article, it is 100k jobs. That's a lot of jobs
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We have the Kathmandu brand down under
And some of those developers don't need the money, but would love for their tip-jar to auto-feed into a charity (or other project!) of their choice.
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I don't think AC in the Bay Area is much colder than AC anywhere else.
I've always done it as: `> file`
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I only have experience in non-development creative work, but one-off payments/donations are much more anxious than monthly. Sales of t-shirts/songs/ebooks could be higher than what I get monthly on Patreon now, but:

1: I could never be sure. One month it was $0, the next it was $3, the next it was $40. This is impossible to plan around. It's even worse now with everything moving to SaaS. It's easier to justify a subscription to something like EastWest Composer Cloud or Splice when I have a bunch of people subscribing to my work who've been there for months or a year.

2: I didn't know who they were. This was fine in the good months, but then I hit long stretches with nothing coming in, and I had no idea why. Did the platform make some change? Did my products fall out of fashion? I was at the mercy of opaque storefront logic and priorities.

And I don't mean in the creepy surveillance state sense. I know most of the people subscribing to me on Patreon through Mastodon. When they unsubscribe, I know why because they tell me. I sold tens of t-shirts years ago. I've never seen someone wear one. Nobody sent me an email. Sales collapsed one day and never returned. Patreon subscribers tell me good things about my music and writing all the time.

Neither of these is 100% a problem with one-off contributions, but the level of communication never matched this.
I hear you on the parallelism, the flip side is that each neuron doesn’t need anywhere near the flexibility of a general purpose CPU.

I think many of the AI algorithms can run on GPUs, where core counts can get into the thousands (still very far from millions). But these are largely independent — the interconnects between GPUs are not on the scale of neurons.

My guess: we develop specialized hardware that, over time, will increasingly resemble organic brain structure.
I am not sure what you are implying here. I have zero interest in maintaining the project. This was the last blow to a dying project.

The king is dead, long live the king.
Give it time. How many Polish only speakers do you see in Hamtramck in spite of the large Polish-descended population there?
Terraform serves to translate a descriptive statement about a desired infrastructure state into the sequence of API calls that will bring about that state.

Given something like
"I want three auto-scaling groups, each containing a minimum of three instances of type m4.xlarge, in the AWS us-west-2 region. And I want an S3 bucket that has permissions set up so that only the code running on those instances can read and write to the bucket. And I want a load balancer between all of them. And I want the instances to run Ubuntu 18.04 and to install these 6 dependencies on startup. And I want a large pepperoni pizza[1]."
Terraform will read your credentials and make it happen.

[1] https://github.com/ndmckinley/terraform-provider-dominos
I know Teller wanted to come across as calm and respectable so that people would take him seriously, but if he could look back now he would probably have acted like a deranged lunatic preaching in the streets about the dangers of carbon pollution.

I also think the same of Carl Sagan. For all his wonderful and critical achievements, I bet if he could see how things turned out, he would have unquestioningly devoted his life to spreading awareness about climate change here on Earth instead of focusing on astronomy and nuclear war.
Of course Terraform does not use YAML. I mean that YAML or other approaches like HCL allow for a declarative style while maintaining some constructions like for-loops or conditionals.

Having your infrastructure in an inventory-like codebase makes it clearer to reason about. It can't go too crazy like most programs end up like
Ever tighter policies in China are strangling the world biggest gaming market
>If it was $0.0002 instead of $2, it would be used for translation and other tasks humans are better at then current software.

Err, people pay way beyond $2/hour for translations...
Slightly tangential, but I’ve come to the conclusion that this is the political way forward for big countries:

1. Have a single CO2 budget for the whole country, with an aggressive, Hard to change roadmap of yearly reduction of said budget down to zero in the not too long future.

2. Estimate the CO2 footprint of every single product, incl. imports by one or several neutral organizations. This doesn’t have to be perfect as long as it attempts to be fair.

3. Tax every product according to this budget using supply/demand markets (certificates trading).

4. Redistribute the tax, especially to mitigate the hardship on low income households and domestic companies.

In my mind, this would create a gigantic incentive for CO2 reduction for your citizens as well as domestic AND foreign companies. Crucially, it would not require any global agreement and consensus. Apart from perhaps renegotiation or canceling of trade agreements on the side of the country that implements the policy.

Note, that you can replace CO2 by greenhouse gases or environmental impact in general. I just use it as a shorthandle.

Very curious about your opinions.
Regardless of whether the emergency handle is connected to a physical brake or if it sounds a alarm, there is an emergency brake. If the driver removes their hand from the dead man's switch, the emergency brake engages. But that's a side-road to this discussion.

Unless you can point to official advice from TfL that states otherwise, I'm just gonna come out and say that I think it's best to stick to the advice TfL give at stations which is not to pull the emergency handle if someone is unwell. Whatever the precise action that results from pulling the handle (whether that's sounding an alarm, engaging a brake, or whatever), I don't see what it would achieve between stations and especially when TfL say not to do it.
This is such an unbelievably broad question. The answer could be practically anything.

Instagram is getting more popular while Snapchat is dying.

BTS is super popular worldwide, and they’re still getting more fans.

???
What is the practical difference between “calling an arbitrary shell command” and “calling an arbitrary lambda”?
I'm embarrassed that I didn't know total annual US CO2e emissions have _dropped_ since circa 2005. My only source when I wrote my comment was the in-browser graph in the Wolfram Alpha search result for "us greenhouse gas emissions history" (https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=us+greenhouse+gas+emis...), which presents a data period of only 1990-2005. A more complete source is https://www.c2es.org/content/u-s-emissions/.

Thank you for reminding me not to hastily extrapolate data when it happens to fit my expectation of what's going on, and when actual data are readily available.
> TempleOS

RIP Terry Davis.
Aren’t the people who fought nuclear power in the 80’s just as culpable? Would there still be any coal plants running if we’d started to move to carbon free sources back then?
And where is the lie?

Maybe you should read the announcement and leave it at that.
You don't have an email in your profile. I'm very interested in learning more. This sounds like something an enterprising hacker could set up in the comfort of his own home.
I think their commercial Github Enterprise product does this exactly.
Also, the whirling blades that move randomly up and down the length of the tunnel seem downright unnecessary.
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The individuals come together to create a society with rules. To be a part of society one must follow those rules.

Ethics, to me, have a place there, and it would be better in all cases to establish those rules or norms in your society, or your culture, rather than regressive actions like banning something.
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Doubt it. This program only started 3-4 years ago.
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Could this result in moving to countries that don't have such policies, thereby allowing for increasing emissions (ie carbon tax havens)
> And if you feel discouraged by the notion that they are bad omens, why not consider the silver lining: While it's true that the flowers signal the death of the plant, they also symbolize new beginnings, since those who rely on supercentenarian species like madake can eventually expect a fresh, healthy and abundant supply of new shoots which will last for a very long time.

This would fit very well with the notion that starting a new era also means a new start. (It might make people a little eager to overreport I suspect.)

(Before Meiji era, Japanese emperors used to routinely proclaim new eras when some notable event happened or they just felt change was needed. Common reasons are big earthquakes and other natural desasters, for example, but there also eras that were started over the sighting of a white or red bird or the find of a gold mining spot (it actually turned out not to be). (The mean era length is something like 5 years.))
It's interesting that no one does. Between the various retro-gaming and computing crowds one would think there's enough of a market for CRTs that at least one company would still be making them.
Gaming is one of the most profitable industries in China’s tech sector. China's gaming industry generated almost 40 billion USD last year. It is doing well but the future is very unpredictable. Strict local regulation and trade war together is just not a healthy combo.