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fourthark··on Pseudo Scheme: Scheme Implemented on Top of Common Lisp
> Pseudoscheme consists primarily of a Scheme to Common Lisp translator that is written in Scheme. To obtain a version of the translator that runs in Common Lisp, it is applied to itself.

Yes!

fourthark··on A blast from the past: Disassembling DOS (2020)
Thank you!
fourthark··on A blast from the past: Disassembling DOS (2020)
I saw Schulman present how he discovered the dirty tricks Microsoft used to hobble Windows betas on DR-DOS, using similar techniques. This was at Ralph Nader's Appraising Microsoft conference in 1997.

It's covered in another of his books, Undocumented Windows.

Impressive work, and very brave at the time.

fourthark··on The Flexipede Revisited
SVG version doesn't fully animate in Android Firefox, looks good in Chrome!
fourthark··on Llama.ttf: A font which is also an LLM
llama.pdf when?
fourthark··on Gemini Flash
How do you know?
fourthark··on Peter principle
You'll never get promoted with that attitude.
fourthark··on What Cannot be Skipped About the Skiplist
Pretty sure I learned about skip lists as a lock-free data structure that is relatively easy to reason about (but it was a while ago and I’m not finding confirmation in a quick search).
fourthark··on Backlog size is inversely proportional to how often we talk to customers
Yes, because you just don't look at the list at all.
fourthark··on What comes after open source? Bruce Perens is working on it
Isn't that an instance of the license not working?
fourthark··on Australia to ban engineered stone
You implicitly lay responsibility on the worker first, then on the employer, then on the customer.

Perhaps if the order of responsibility were reversed, it would lead to better outcomes.

fourthark··on Mounting Git commits as folders with NFS
Only with v28, a year or two ago.
fourthark··on The bash book to rule them all
My whole life, I've been lied to. Thank you.
fourthark··on Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft
What.
fourthark··on Persuasion through status rather than argument
I guess you have a more narrow definition of ideology!
fourthark··on Persuasion through status rather than argument
It's a definition, not a consequent. Definition is equality not if-then.
fourthark··on Persuasion through status rather than argument
Merriam-Webster: "Ideology: a manner or the content of thinking characteristic of an individual, group, or culture"

No ideology = no characteristic thinking.

If you think you don't have ideology, you probably have the dominant one. Or don't think.

fourthark··on Persuasion through status rather than argument
Unless one doesn't think at all, or is completely inconsistent, one will have ideology.
fourthark··on The newline cat mystery
Probably not this simplified example.
fourthark··on Show HN: Penrose Pipes
Hmm, I haven’t seen that Firefox issue, thanks!

If you play a larger grid on mobile, I guarantee you will see the page zooming and scrolling when you only want the puzzle to.

fourthark··on Show HN: Penrose Pipes
Thanks!

Maybe. I think the priority is to improve the CSS so that it plays better on mobile - it should not scroll or zoom at the page level.

Then maybe PWA it? Everything is client side already.

Some discussion is here:

https://github.com/gereleth/hexapipes/issues/44

fourthark··on Show HN: Penrose Pipes
Thanks!

It gets harder on larger boards, because the border pieces are a big hint. (But it’s still pretty easy.)

fourthark··on Hedge Fund Made a Killing Betting Against Lina Khan
My understanding is it's the precedent from the past 50 years, rather than the law, that emphasizes "consumer welfare".

Source: Matt Stoller's book "Goliath".

fourthark··on An analysis of the Google antitrust trial
He meant "you".
fourthark··on An analysis of the Google antitrust trial
It was the exposure of Microsoft's business practices to daylight that had the greatest effect, IMO.
fourthark··on It's okay to make something nobody wants
Seems like his point is the inverse: if you don't want it, how will anyone else?
fourthark··on Apocalypse Proof: 33 Thomas Street in New York City
Not in this one; 33 Thomas is later than the buildings you are thinking of.

You'd want to glance inside ex-AT&T 32 Ave of Americas for the full art deco.

That's a great story about the half floors!

fourthark··on H2Fly – Breaking the Hydrogen Barrier
H2. Twin fuselage. Get it?
fourthark··on How to type “blimpy” in Emacs [video]
Looking for better ways to type blimpy in my document.
fourthark··on The Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus
That's when I finally caught on!
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