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rjsw··on FEXPRs vs. vtable: how LispE interpreter works
Lisp has had good native compilers for a long time, just use one of those.
rjsw··on Words, Words, Words
You could A/B test this. Post something not translated or cleaned up by AI.

You may find that a technical audience is more tolerant of non-native speakers than you think they will be.

rjsw··on Slate EV truck starts at $24,950
What do you consider good range? Ford [1] and Stellantis [2] have small EV passenger vans.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Transit_Courier#Tourneo_C... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citro%C3%ABn_e-Berlingo

rjsw··on Slate EV truck starts at $24,950
That range is typical for European mass-market EV cars.
rjsw··on Package Managers need global hooks
Ruby gems can run anything at install time.

I know of some that download C sources from github and compile them as part of the install (not build) process.

rjsw··on SMPTE Makes Its Standards Freely Accessible
People at NIST contribute to ISO standards.
rjsw··on The room the economy can't see
Pay UBI only at the level needed to live in the place with no jobs and cheap housing.
rjsw··on Wages in America Are Too Low for the 30% Rule to Work for Renters Anymore
Commercial new-build apartments happen elsewhere in the world, plenty of them in my city.
rjsw··on Apple boss Tim Cook says prices to rise due to memory chip costs
Meta had a perfectly fine WhatsApp client for KaiOS phones, they disabled it.
rjsw··on Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users
Am currently trying to open a business bank account in the UK, several banks require running a proprietary ID validation app.
rjsw··on U.S. science is in chaos
A fair bit of "science" is about providing training to the following generations. Sure, your example isn't going to turn up any new insights into structural racism but it is something that you can point grad students at to learn how to capture data.

Diabetes is getting worse, just saying that "we looked at poor people's problems 50 years ago so don't need to look at them again" isn't going to flag it up.

rjsw··on The Manhoff Archives: Color photos of Stalin-era USSR taken by a US diplomat
I would suggest that the male deaths will have been concentrated in a smaller age range than the female ones.
rjsw··on Lisp's Influence on Ruby
... or just use Common Lisp.
rjsw··on Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight
With au jus.
rjsw··on Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight
You can still buy KaiOS phones, I have one.
rjsw··on The OnlyFans Economy of American AI
I think the fear is that it might insert some "phone home" routine into the source code that it generates.
rjsw··on Several injured in Boeing 787 nose-gear collapse in Frankfurt
There are plenty of older planes with "retract wheels automatically when airborne" buttons that work by detecting a reduction in pressure on the wheels. There are also plenty of runways with slight bumps in them. The two do not work well together.
rjsw··on Several injured in Boeing 787 nose-gear collapse in Frankfurt
One post said that the plane was only 4 months old.
rjsw··on When su replaced login for becoming another Unix login
That is how Lisp Machines worked.
rjsw··on French-Iranian author Marjane Satrapi, author of 'Persepolis', dies at 56
There have been fairly recent descriptions of the kinds of Iranian architecture that provide passive cooling in hot weather.
rjsw··on French-Iranian author Marjane Satrapi, author of 'Persepolis', dies at 56
A more recent influence came from the Sykes-Picot Agreement [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sykes%E2%80%93Picot_Agreement

rjsw··on Dumbphone 2
I found mine on Amazon shipped from France. The reviews were all over the place with some people complaining that they had ordered a dual-sim version but only received a single-sim one, I took the chance and got the dual-sim one that I wanted, maybe some inventory co-mingling had been happening.

It is a shame that it isn't widely available, someone could maybe write a Signal app for KaiOS.

rjsw··on Dumbphone 2
I have a Nokia 6300 4G that matches all of your list of requirements, including acting as a hotspot.
rjsw··on Chuwi Minibook X
Lenovo T495s.
rjsw··on Linux/M68k
I guess I could contact them to describe how to write an interrupt driven keyboard driver for the late model Macintosh machines. The documentation provided by Apple was incorrect.
rjsw··on News about Raspberry Pi 6 and Microcontroller Development
More than one person is buying Rockchip powered systems. A new high-end RPi has to at least match the hardware features of a RK3588 or RK3688.
rjsw··on Ferrari Luce
They could make an EV Purosangue.
rjsw··on Ebola Outbreak Now Third Largest Recorded and "Spreading Rapidly"
The DRC is a former Belgian colony, so yes.
rjsw··on Neutron scattering explains why gluten-free pasta falls apart (2025)
I think the Tesco own-brand pasta is good right now, also think that Barilla used to be better a few years ago.
rjsw··on GitHub's take on age assurance for developers
Go and play outside.
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