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SighMagi··on Idio by Example
Cool I really have enjoyed playing around with Idio. Most specifying I really love the Lisp influence you have in Idio!
SighMagi··on The FBI alleges TikTok poses national security concerns
Have you been on TikTok? All I see on it are large breasted women, NASA stuff and dog rescues.

I do wonder if there’s any lobbying going on from Facebook or Google to help bolster their Reels and Shorts products, both of which seem to be garbage and miss the point of TikTok (the two way interaction).

SighMagi··on Idio by Example
Can this be used as an interactive shell?
SighMagi··on Mom handcuffed, jailed for 8-year-old son walking half a mile
I read it as probably sarcasm, but no, in practice conservative state governments like the one in Texas like to micromanage your life (who to love, what you do with your body etc.)
SighMagi··on A brief interview with Common Lisp co-creator Dr. Scott Fahlman
That was indeed where many of my teenage hours went - hacking out game experiments in DJGPP and Allegro on our family’s 486. It was also my intro to Emacs which stayed with me for decades afterwards.
SighMagi··on FTX faces potential hack, sees mysterious outflows totaling more than $600M
That was my first thought. Not FTX related, but I just got another email from Coinbase reassuring me that they’re not gonna use customer funds without permission. I have in the past moved my shit out of Coinbase wallets because of doubts about that. Honestly though I just want to GTFO of crypto at this point…
SighMagi··on IBM unveils 433 qubit quantum computer
Using an algorithm specifically for 21, I believe
SighMagi··on From Common Lisp to Julia

    (print (a) (b) (c) (d))
would be

    print(a(), b(), c(), d())
SighMagi··on In defense of linked lists
There’s so much code marked “unsafe” in there…
SighMagi··on We've filed a lawsuit against GitHub Copilot
I did not see that coming.
SighMagi··on Nushell: Introduction to a new kind of shell
I think you must be unfamiliar with job control, but I could be wrong. How do you Ctrl+Z a foreground job, maybe several, and then switch between them.

All of what “powershell” provides depends on knowing you want to background something ahead of time, and even then I don’t think you can make it the foreground task (maybe wait job comes close) There is even a Github issue on it, which I’m afraid I can’t be bothered to go find again

SighMagi··on TikTok is “unacceptable security risk” and should be removed from app stores
I am a late comer to TikTok (was curious after a recently reported news article on the potential booting/sale of TikTok back in the Trump days). All it shows me is large breasted women and “crystal polishers” (which I never knew was a thing). Everyone uses fake names - it’s not like Facebook where people offer up their real stuff. I’m kinda confused around where the security problems are.
SighMagi··on Nushell: Introduction to a new kind of shell
In the past, I've toured these alternate, non-POSIX shells like Nushell. A lot of them (e.g. Powershell, Elvish) don't provide job control. I looked into how job control works and it's kind of a bother, so I see why they might have elided it. I wonder if multiplexing the terminal using tmux or screen is a good enough alternative the job control for many use-cases. You do lose state (i.e. environment variables, working directory), but if all you want to do is run something else maybe it's good enough.

I personally haven't tried living without job control though.

SighMagi··on Nushell: Introduction to a new kind of shell
How do you use bash and lua together?
SighMagi··on Elon Musk Owns Twitter; CEO and CFO have left
What’s with the sink?
SighMagi··on Audiobooks on Spotify
Time for Spotify to “Play Fair” with musicians.
SighMagi··on IEEE Hosted Gitlab Instance
An IEEE service that would be actually useful.
SighMagi··on Asdf – language tool version manager
It’s also super easy to integrate with non-POSIX shells, if you’re into that kind of thing.
SighMagi··on The Young People Working for the Most Evil Companies
Add adtech/surveillance eg. Facebook, Google and Amazon to that
SighMagi··on What Makes the Zig Programming Language Unique?
Lisp user here, I couldn’t quiet tell from all the Zig syntax, but is “comptime” here like having the whole language available to you to do whatever you like at at compile time like in Common Lisp?
SighMagi··on NASA Tests Gigantic Slingshot for Hurling Objects into Space
I think this might work great from a celestial body with no atmosphere, but on Earth this company has bullshit written all over it imo
SighMagi··on Xonsh: I don't remember how to write a for loop in Bash [video]
It’s got parsers for several versions of Python iirc. I’ve used it for a while, but somehow it feels slower than even bash.
SighMagi··on NYU organic chemistry professor terminated for tough grading
Look, these kids are paying customers in a for profit system. Actual education is beside the point.
SighMagi··on Bruce Willis Sells Deepfake Likeness Rights So His 'Twin' Can Star in Movies
Reminds me of Stanislaw Lem’s The Congress film adaptation.
SighMagi··on Smooth scrolling 60fps on MSDOS 286
There were 8088/8086 machines that had VGA as well
SighMagi··on Holonforth
These automobile contraptions are cool, but how do I hitch it to my horses?
SighMagi··on What Modern Humans Can Learn from Ancient Software
Check out F83 Forth in DOS. It’s a goddamn masterpiece.
SighMagi··on Lockfree Algorithms (2010)
That was my take away from "lock-free" talks, as well as needing a deep understanding of the machine's memory model and instruction set.
SighMagi··on Meta and Google are cutting staff
Low performer here. This is absolutely true. I cannot figure out how I was not let go even a year ago so asked the Director about it in 1:1 and she flat out said they can’t hire so it doesn’t matter.
SighMagi··on Texas Instruments TMX 1795: the almost first, forgotten microprocessor (2015)
Is there a Forth for it? Search inconclusive..
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