ruricolist

"It's also why Catholic nuns were over-represented in early computing."

Would you mind expanding on that?

I did actually do most of the initial development on Clozure.

I have actually reached the point of being able to load Instaparse.

There's more to the story even than that. I read the draft of "They Stopped The Moving Sands" in The Road to Dune and wondered: whatever happened to the dune control project? It turns out that the grasses they planted then to control the dunes are now regarded as invasive species, and Boy Scouts earn merit badges by ripping them up.

There is a fork that supports Python 3:

https://github.com/snmsts/burgled-batteries3

Thanks, you just saved me a headache.

Just because all the other reactions are so hostile: even granted that some people are less susceptible to advertising, our susceptibility will vary. There will be times when we are tired, preoccupied, upset, distracted. Advertisers can afford to blanket us with advertisements, to lie in wait for our moments of weakness.

Of course the habits we form now -- reaching for our phones, bringing up Google or Uber -- will persist into our old age. But chances are that by then there will be no Google, no Uber, and nothing recognizable as a phone. Imagine an old man repeating "OK Google" into his empty palm. That's our future.

I think you can use Anarki in exactly that way:

https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki#racket-interop

Personally, I think Wikipedia broke the web; it absorbed a world of individually maintained, individually slanted resources into a mass, then slowly drained away that personality in favor of a neutral POV, one edit at a time.

What Lisp is this? I can understand what it's doing but it's clearly pre-CL.

I remember once reading a quote to the effect "Don't think of them as parentheses, think of them as handles."

This is not so much a Lisp problem as an SBCL problem. SBCL just doesn't have a very good garbage collector. I nearly gave up on Lisp fighting with it, but ultimately switched to Clozure instead, and never regretted it: Clozure has a fantastic garbage collector. I run Clozure and Postgres side by side on one 4G Linode without a peep.

How does the trick with the screwdriver work, exactly?

There's Freeciv (http://www.freeciv.org/) if you want to try one without spending anything.

This is from "La lingua por ni":

https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_lingvo_por_ni

One could argue that Esperanto's reliance on derivation through affixes makes it in a practical sense a Semitic language in European clothing.

"Patrulo" would also work.

"Ino" and "ulo" are practically redundant, which makes it (I think) the easiest way to sneak in a masculating affix.

You certainly can be your own editor, but you have to wait a few years between the writing and the editing.

Kerf also uses keywords, I believe.

They might all be dead by now.

Doesn't everyone on Android use Timely?

Clozes could help, if the question can be expressed as a series of steps or as individual facets.

I'm not an optometrist, and I haven't worn contacts in years. All I can tell you is that they weren't nearly as much of a hassle as people make them out to be. I just have strong, but not vision related, reasons to prefer glasses.

I have anisometropia even more extreme than yours. I wonder, have you ever tried contacts? For anisometropia, the closer the prescription is to the eyes, the better. I choose to wear glasses now, but I still have to go out of my way to find small enough frames (unfortunately out of fashion) that the lenses sit close enough to my eyes that the images converge.

Thanks, that's useful.

I'm pretty sure I knew about that at one point, but then forgot -- possibly more than once.

Perhaps a public shaming will help me remember this time.

Regarding the syntax for URLs: I for one think Markdown is better here. I have seven megabytes of notes in Org mode and I still regularly mess up the order of the URL and the text.

Since you have to uninstall and reinstall WSL to upgrade it, it makes more sense to store your files on the Windows file system and symlink them into your home directory.

I've been using vcxsrv.