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Yeah I felt that Quicklisp doesn't have the same features as package managers in other languages, and https is one of them. Also it's run by a single person which doesn't have too much time to constantly update the libraries.

In comparison I found Clojars^[0] for Clojure better and community driven like NPM. But obv Clojure has more business adoption than CL.

Do you use CL for work?

[0]: https://clojars.org/

One of the best P2P software at the time. It was so simple and effective and allowed people to call real phones with Skype credit.

A genius product ripped my Microsoft. Have you used Microsoft Teams recently? Bad UI, hard to configure external hardware and good level of incompatibility, missing the good old "Echo / Sound Test Service". At a point I even installed Skype of my old Android but was sucking up too much battery.

I'm intrigued by Symbolics Genera too. It would have been interesting seeing further development of Lisp OS, especially when they would have had internet connection. Rewriting part of your OS and see the changes in real time? Maybe web apps could have been just software written in Lisp, downloaded on the machine and directly being executed in a safe environment on top of the Genera image. Big stuff.

I thought about a similar problems because I always find really interesting blogs (mostly on HN) but I don't have a real place to store them, so they get lost when I close the tab. I can save them in the favorites but I'm not used to check favorites regularly.

Feeds are a tangent solution because they give you only the new stuff. Feeds transform blogs into social media platforms where what matter is the new fresh content, ready to "feed" the algorithm. But blogs and personal sites are different. High quality content is usually written in a single article, maybe in the past, and it will not be shown on your feed.

Actually I judge a blog on what's already written in there, so I want to read more articles but maybe just not right now. If I add the blog to my RSS reader I would only read future content.

Another patch to this problem is Instapaper. I can save there the most interesting articles and read them later, but the entire-blog view is missing.

I would like to have a way (platform) where I can save a blog and read all/some articles, with a standard formatting (custom blogs are nice but not always comfortable to read) and not having a default sorting for recent articles.

Thanks for sharing. A lot of insight about office politics and the importance/role of the management

In Australia, BYD Shark 6 is currently conquering the market for the EV utes.

I wish there's something like Obsidian with the same support for org-mode that Emacs has. A few pros:

- Organize notes in org-mode is much quicker - The best support for lists (and I do list most of the times) - Tags and properties - Perfect integration with agenda - Great TODOs support - Code blocks with highlights, execution and results

That’s the marketing that they do, one gadget to replace them all. In reality I’ve an analog watch at my wrist, I’ve a powerful flashlight (mostly using my smartphone tho), I’ve a dslr camera and TV. One friend of mine his into boats and has multiple GPS devices properly adapted to boats. So the one fits all is good for generic users, but if you rely heavily of certain technologies, specialised gadgets are better, less distracting and more reliable.

4/5 kobos? What did happen to them? I suspect the screen broke after a fall. Happened to the one of my sister. In that case try to use an harder cover because 4/5 are a lot

I think ereaders are cheap if you used them heavily. I read on it every day and I take it with me wherever I go so I can read instead of scrolling of my phone. I’ve hundreds of books on my Kobo and is really the best tech gadget I have, and it cost me around $130 if I remember well.

If you compare the cost for example to a gaming console, is it justified? Probably depends how much you play video games. There are heavy players and people that play video games only occasionally. Same for readers.

Yes the price is slightly increasing but still justified for people that used them frequently. With a good cover they become pretty resistant and the battery stays for weeks.

P.S. Interesting insights in the article about the price factors and patents.

Thanks I've taken notes on the improvements. Also I've checked your website pages on Lisp and I'm discovering so much staff :)

> false premises, false conclusions, and bad good ideas in-between.

False constructive criticism (since you've spammed your stuff 5 times), and bad (hostile) behavior which, I found, it's way more common in the Common Lisp community than in other languages.

I just gave my experience of testing the creation of a Common Lisp web app using different libraries, and instead of a guide of >20 pages, I condensed a bit of code in a single article. I could not find a quick tutorial for Caveman so I decided to write a short one. Is it such an issue?

> Burn this article with fire ;)

You probably got triggered for my conclusions but I still stand for it. I really like Common Lisp and I'm a Lisp fan in general, but to write generic modern web app I think there are languages that fit better. Most of the web app they would not benefit from having such a powerful language as Common Lisp in the back-ent, I would even think it can be harmful in some cases when you need to hire, and I say this having worked with Lisp dialect in production.

Josh Betts is a good bloke!

Author here: You're right! I did that in the article. First I showed how to use the modern libraries, then wrote a quick custom library that compressed my original app in 29 LOC[0].

[0]: It came out shorter than the guestbook demo in Python-Flask.

Have you checked out webtorrents? You can download movies from the P2P network sequentially and so watch them while they download.

Unfortunately, my uni was free admission, so the first year helps filter out unprepared students.

I might suffer from a bias, but what I did was study to pass the test. I don't expect everyone to pass every exam as I don't expect everyone to get a degree. Universities need to be hard if they want to keep their reputation and not be outlived by online courses on YouTube. A degree, more than a certificate that the student attended some classes, should prove that a person is capable of thinking, studying and doing hard work.

In a European public university ~10 years ago, I did a class in discrete mathematics in my first year as a student and it was hard. The professor was going fast, not following any book or notes but writing everything on the blackboard. During that hour I needed to pay constant attention to the lesson, take notes, going home to find explanations in books or online about what I didn't understand. At the exam, there was a quick pre-test to filter out some of the students. I think there were maybe around 150 students if not more, that tried and only 30 that went to the final exam. I was one of them and passed it with a good mark. It was my first exam in my first year, and I still remember it to be enjoyable because I appreciated the hard work required.

Two years later, I heard that some students didn't pass the exam and wrote a letter to the faculty director, demanding an easy way. The professor was replaced with another one and they passed the class.

Even in reputable public universities, professors have to adjust their teaching to make sure enough students are satisfied with their facutly choice so they can continue receiving government funding.

Caveman2 is a good framework used with lack and clack. There are tutorials on the web.

Nespresso machines hide the coffee inside plastic capsules. Why?

1. You don’t know what coffee you get, you cannot really vary the coffee anymore and maybe try a different local one (where I live we have local coffee). Then you don’t even know if it’s just 100% coffee or they add something else

2. Why consuming plastic for a simple thing like a coffee? Plastic is NOT recycled in most of the countries and its bad for environment if not properly managed. Burning plastic increase pollution, but leaving it in the nature can take 500 years to dissolve. Why a simple thing like coffe powder, kept in a glass jar, used in a metal coffee mocha, now has to become the new trend to involve plastic? It’s literally the same thing, just worst for the environment.

I like how the sets in the articles show that you cannot love your profession

Give it another go! _The Anatomy of LISP_ is the first entry in the bibliography.

Nice, I wonder if there was a translation on a modern Lisp.

This article is from 2014, the year should be included in the title

Yeah, the Italian highways were a high engineering project. Even the asphalt quality that still used today has the ability to absorb water pretty quickly and don’t leave dangerous patches of water on the road with heavy rains.

The problem is that all the highway projects, despite being government financed, are now mostly in the hand of large private companies and rich families (Benetton) which made the price usage skyrocket. Traveling by car in Italy is now expensive for residents, and the alternative roads are slow and dangerous. In Switzerland the annual highway subscription is ~€40

> By offering sites a non-invasive alternative to cross-site tracking, we hope to achieve a significant reduction in this harmful practice across the web.

The value of words is leaving the web.

I subscribed for a month for try photoshop and got locked for an entire year with costo growing after few months. I was able to terminate my subscription by changing payment to an empty prepaid card.

Look better than new in my opinion

I would not even share personal matters like those with an AI.

Not a syntax error. TryClojure is running on SCI which is a interpreter that uses a Babashka version for Clojurescript compiler, not Clojure JVM.

Babashka cli returns this, telling you clearly what the error is:

   user=> (+ 2 2 + 3)
   java.lang.ClassCastException: clojure.core$_PLUS_ cannot be cast to java.lang.Number [at <repl>:1:1]

really good talk from Rich Hickey: Clojure for Lisp Programmers - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPNkH-7PRTk&t=3837s