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Computing enthusiast

Ontario, Canada
Joined June 2011
thanks @UPS for delivering my package… somewhere. i have no idea where it could possibly be
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can’t believe i prepaid the customs this morning considering you can’t even deliver it to the right fucking address
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apress has been killing it with the lisp books recently
I had a dream last night that @linusgsebastian was yelling at me to move out of canada and get off the dole
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I don’t know what to make of this. I’m not on the dole???
it's such a shame that self (the programming language) has such an unsearchable name. if you search for "self object system" you get mostly results for python
really wish apple would fix the stupid issue with 3 monitors where desktops 2 and 3 will randomly swap monitors after waking up from sleep. so annoying to have to reorder my windows all the god damn time
ah, apparently racket supports this out of the box!
destructuring and backquote are clearly duals of each other. i wonder if their syntax can be unified in some way
destructuring and backquote are clearly duals of each other. i wonder if their syntax can be unified in some way
sicp's chapter 4 is really making me wish i had quasiquote
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lmao, nevermind, i totally have access to quasiquote. this helps a lot
sad to learn that - as of ventura - preview on the mac no longer opens postscript files
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the original sin of the web is that it didn't bake in authentication. so much bullshit stems from this
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(which isn't to say that sorting that all out was possible in the context of the time)
there’s no such thing as a smooth, compassionate layoff
Struggling w/ 2 things: 1. The brutal way Elon's firing people - try to log in, your credentials don't work. Don't be a hardo, that would suck. Plus, we're in a tech downturn. 2. Being shocked at the # of ppl Twitter had in certain positions (100 people in PR)
honestly the best part about learning lisp is that while there aren't many books on it, the ones that do exist are generally sublime
funny that modern cpus are essentially harvard architectures in a von neumann trench coat
when it comes to lisp you'll often see mention of the insight that "code is data". but "data is code" is equally as insightful and framed that way it's more immediately applicable to other languages
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(in other words, interpreters are underutilized for many applications)
all large domain specific applications evolve a need for a generalized query language
any sufficiently complicated domain specific application contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of a SQL database