Alexis King

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[Alexis King @lexi_lambda]

“Put up in a place
where it's easy to see
the cryptic admonishment
T.T.T.

When you feel how depressingly
slowly you climb,
it's well to remember that
Things Take Time.”

— Piet Hein

[Alexis King @lexi_lambda]

@_saagarjha lol I made almost this exact post in a discord server a few months ago

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@samth Was that really up for debate?

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@scheminglunatic The C Standard Cannot Be Replaced And Will Never Be Destroyed https://t.co/qpzFTvdaVn

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racket-nonogram now supports automatically generating “mega nonogram” puzzles from standard puzzles

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@samth it’s just a very nice way of writing comments!! I don’t really understand why it isn’t more common tbh (well, okay, I do: it’s because most programmers seem to hate writing comments in general. but you know, skill issue)

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while working on this I have begun to understand why there are no mega picross implementations on the internet

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been working on a racket implementation of nonograms/picross that supports networked co-op https://t.co/vWRpLSNMd4

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for the record, I do not consider this an improvement

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Anyone else ever think about how fucked up it is that there’s no easy way to type em dashes on English keyboards outside of macOS? I feel like they are kind of an essential punctuation mark, comparable to if keyboards somehow didn’t have any way to type semicolons.

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I have published my first new blog post in four years https://t.co/nLqgz9bO0c

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@tomjaguarpaw @tritlo @kerckhove_ts I’m not enormously fond of HasCallStack, but it’s undeniably useful. And if you think of it as a compiler directive in this way, then its behavior in this example doesn’t seem so scary. Of course two different identical TH splices can generate different code.

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@tomjaguarpaw @tritlo @kerckhove_ts Indeed, in a language with a sufficiently powerful macro system (Racket), it could really be implemented this way. But TH is not powerful enough to do this as it lacks a requisite piece of macro technology (syntax parameters), so a pseudo-constraint was a convenient alternative.

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@theogcb405

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This is not posturing. There are other tenets held by my coalition I do not feel as strongly, and some I even disagree with. That does not change what I believe in my heart and my soul. It is easy to take a stand when doing so brings pride. Find a way to believe in something!

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I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately, and I would add something: we must believe in something good. We must allow ourselves to believe that there are things in the world that are good and beautiful and true, and that they are worth defending and fighting for.

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I believe that the difference between truth and lies matters. I believe that scientific progress and an ever-more-nuanced view of our world is an incredible achievement of our civilization. I believe that welcoming those unlike ourselves is something to be proud of.

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update: someone has posted a remarkably extensive answer to this https://t.co/819Y8AF3sA

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does anyone know the origin of the variant usage of “grovel” to mean “to rummage” or “to exhaustively search” commonly used in computing circles? if so, please answer my question on English Stack Exchange about this! https://t.co/S18x0LTf2m

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@mycoliza sickos.jpg

[Alexis King @lexi_lambda]

does anyone know the origin of the variant usage of “grovel” to mean “to rummage” or “to exhaustively search” commonly used in computing circles? if so, please answer my question on English Stack Exchange about this! https://t.co/S18x0LTf2m