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I've been vegan for a couple of decades now and during that period I've had that time to observe meat eating people get all upset about veganism at various dinner parties during even though I don't advertise it or even talk about it.

What I've concluded is there's just NO WAY the world is going to do the right thing until the entire Amazon rainforest (and forests in general) have been converted to food production for food animals, dusty fattening lots for slaughter stretch to the horizon and all fresh water sources are drained.

So sensitive is the subject of what one consumes!

Maybe once climate disasters become more common and the price of meat becomes far too expensive for value menus will we start to change course. But I doubt it, we'll probably build meat factories in space before that.

In the meantime, those precious ag jobs are probably more threatened by automation than impossible burgers.

Yeah I adopted it after exploring other languages after learning to program in Turbo Pascal 5. Bit later I started using it for mail and news (Gnus) and other things.

It’s a life time tool that grows with you.

Forths such as FlashForth https://www.flashforth.com/index.html on the Arduino support multiple tasks .. in addition to including a compiler and interactive REPL

What's the reasons for that?

> Clojure libraries target microservices with a precision that ..

I’m not sure what that means exactly, but no one is using Rails only for building out micro services. They’re using Rails to go from nothing to a production ready web application, with all the incidental complexity taken care of, in a very short time.

It’s been a few years since I was involved with Clojure ecosystem - what is the Clojure experience equivalent to say, the original Rails demo from back in 2005? The last I tried, all the parts seemed to be there, but much painful assembly/“composing” was required and not all the parts fitted which ended up producing a lot of awkward complexity needing desperate decomplecting.

This might be what happens when the community seems to follow “composable libraries over frameworks”. You still have to do the composing, and it’s not obvious how to do that.

Perhaps that stance has changed over time. In Clojure, there's the clojure.string namespace just functions wrapping java.lang.String methods https://clojuredocs.org/clojure.string

Common Lisp has it too, via https://stmx.org/ I believe it supports the Intel TSX stuff if present and falls back to a software implementation if not present.

Should have put it into fundamental STEM education

I use an 8 foot, iron digging bar ahead of the post hole digger.

There’s also a pretty active Forth channel on Discord

Of course you don’t have to switch, since you can brew install bash 5 or whatever the latest is and then chsh to it, but if you want to use it as an opportunity to change shells, consider checking out some of the newer interactive shells like nushell, elvish, xonsh, oil etc. Some of them are even based on actual general purpose, fairly common programming languages.

There must be an interesting story behind Apache’s dogged insistence on OpenOffice.

What’s the difference between internal and external valuation?

Well, we take a distributed approach where I work currently. Some of it is in an Excel or a Google Calc spreadsheet, some in Confluence, the project README.md, random Git comments. Sometimes we annotate the classes in the code with documentation and sometimes even generate the documentation from that. It’s all a little confusing TBH. Some of our models are cross domain and have meaning depending on context.

Unfortunately my first thought is to wonder if they’ll scrap it after I’ve invested some time into it.

I hand totally forgotten about that. Wasn’t it called dosfs? It put metadata in files that would show up in DOS when you rebooted.

I was sure it was, but now I’m not so sure having read a few the sibling threads

There’s some Emacs modes for that

> Self selects the programmers willing to learn rust down to an elite handful.

How true is that?

> ed .ssh/config

I think this is my ed use-case as well. I've noticed I need to "apt-get install ed" sometimes. The standard editor is not always standard, it seems.

Probably most Common Lisp implementations.

This was my immediate thought when I looked at the numbers, but I didn't want to be "that guy". I think if all you ever work in is Python, it's still nice even if it is a tiny improvement.

My favorite film adaptation of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tScAyNaRdQ

In my experience the pain will come later as it grows, I believe it.

Reminded me of Jim Hall and his Chaparral 2J https://www.roadandtrack.com/motorsports/a32350/jim-hall-cha...

> “.. and we calculated, we could actually drive it on the wall around Sebring.”

On top of this I think there’s classical music, which none of then large streaming services get right, hence Primephonic and IDAGIO. Apple bought Primephonic so I wonder if they they intend to release an improved metatdata model with Apple Music.

At primary school in Australia we had monkey bars like the ones in the photos. Made of 2” steel tubes, probably galvanized and polished over time by decades of kids greasy palms. You know what that feels like. I think they must behave been about 5 meters high total. When I was there it was just that and the dirt below it. You knew as a kid to be careful - that shit must be hard wired into us.

I had since moved to the US, but I visit every few years. Over time it’s been “made more safe”. The first thing they did was add finely desiccated rubber tube to the ground. I guess a kid who falls, eventually bounces.. must be a nice way to land after breaking all kinds of stuff on the way down. A few years later, they chopped the bars to half height. Whoever is making decisions is doing it reluctantly, I think. Years later the rubber shredding is there, but the bars are reduced again - it’s been modified to a simple set of three swings.

So boring. I think it’s the parents overthinking risk.

Juul didn’t lobby hard enough to achieve the same political clout.

> I’m no longer a Linux user. Now I am a BSD user

Bless these fellows who still hang on. I was one of them for a time.