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jasaldivara··on Lisp's Influence on Ruby
I don't want to be a gatekeeper, but Clojure, Janet and similars doesn't even have cons cells; that's hardly 'the same programming language'.
jasaldivara··on I have officially retired from Emacs
If you are on Linux/Gnome, try out Stage:

https://flathub.org/en/apps/io.github.aganzha.Stage

jasaldivara··on I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii
Whats wrong about Github pages?
jasaldivara··on Sheets: Terminal based spreadsheet tool
Do you know TreeSheets[1]? It kind of sounds similar to your notebook idea.

https://strlen.com/treesheets/

jasaldivara··on Hacker News.love – 22 projects Hacker News didn't love
Not just Tailwind; most of the listed criticism are still valid and relevant, even after those products had success.
jasaldivara··on Microsoft makes Zork open-source
I suggest: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/LispBook/book.pdf

jasaldivara··on Linux mode setting, from the comfort of OCaml
I don understand: If there are so many developers willing to contribute with non OCaml languages, why they don't just implement their own mod installer in Perl, Java, PHP or whatever a "sane" language is?
jasaldivara··on Laptops with Stickers
I don't get what's miserable or unhappy about criticizing the political incoherence of some people. You may disagree with them, but why the personal attacks?
jasaldivara··on Laptops with Stickers
If you won't say who is the person you're talking about, can you at least tell an example of that cringe behavior?
jasaldivara··on Abstraction, not syntax
I think if people want a more powerful, programmable config language, maybe they should use something like Lua or Scheme instead of reinventing the wheel with those new niche languages.
jasaldivara··on The wire that transforms much of Manhattan into one big, symbolic home (2017)
For correctly obeying the rules, you first need to understand and interpret them.
jasaldivara··on Father tries to block daughter's euthanasia in landmark Spanish case
Any scientific source on that "well accepted fact"?
jasaldivara··on Inkscape 1.4
I don't think they are saying "proprietary" as in "secret, closed source", but just as in "custom format" that is built around one particular application.
jasaldivara··on An ordinary day with a Linux mobile device
I assume those scripts are edited on a regular desktop/laptop computer and then uploaded to the phone
jasaldivara··on Writing a BIOS bootloader for 64-bit mode from scratch
> I do not know what the next-best single-user, single-process, non-bloated OS would be to run on modern hardware that still has some reasonably modern software and can be used for distraction-free (hobby) development the way FreeDOS could.

Not sure why would you want a single-process OS on modern hardware, but there are some alternatives that run much less things on the background than regular Linux: Haiku, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, or some lightweight non-glibc, non-systemd Linux-based like Adelie or Alpine.

jasaldivara··on Linux When?
It's just common online courtesy to add to the title a short description of the project like (Zed, code editor) to save users some valuable time.
jasaldivara··on HTML-first, framework-agnostic implementation of shadcn/UI – franken/UI
There are Javascript frameworks and CSS frameworks. Tailwind is the later one. Even the Tailwind front page describes it as a CSS framework.
jasaldivara··on The Apple Jonathan: A 1980s concept computer that never shipped
Well, if you don't populate all expansion slots, it takes more space than it needs.
jasaldivara··on Ledger
This, but with SQL instead of Excel.
jasaldivara··on FreeBasic
With GOSUB you can use RETURN, but not with GOTO. GOSUB is for subroutines. (At least that's how it was on MS BASIC.)
jasaldivara··on FreeBSD 14.0 has reached – RELEASE
What advantages do you find over Linux?
jasaldivara··on Lichee Console 4A: Mini Laptop with a RISC-V Processor and 7 inch display
What's wrong with Pinebook Pro's keyboard? I have one of those, and the keyboard works just fine.
jasaldivara··on Zig is now also a Windows resource compiler
There are GResources for the GTK/GObject ecosystem:

https://docs.gtk.org/gio/struct.Resource.html

jasaldivara··on Tell HN: My bank just sent me brownies (and it's pretty f'd up)
I wish my bank was fucked up enough to send me brownies on my birthday
jasaldivara··on Pocket gets worse the more you use it (2019)
Maybe if you have big amounts of RAM and never turn off your computer nor close your browser.

I like being able to read my bookmarks a week, or even a month later.

jasaldivara··on The ARM powered ThinkPad x13s, as a developer
In my own experience, Chromium browser (which is the base for Google Chrome) works much better (faster) than Firefox on my Pinebook Pro (ARM, Linux).

But I think the author is using Chrome under emulation, so bad performance is expected.