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Friday Social: What is your favorite non-Lisp language? in c/lisp@lemmy.ml

[-] amoroso@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago

1. What Lisp programming languages do you use?

I use pretty much only languages in the Lisp family. Since I'm a hobby programmer I'm the boss and get to decide what tools to use.

2. What non-Lisp programming languages do you use?

None, at least regularly.

3. What is your favorite Lisp programming language? Why?

Interlisp and Common Lisp because my daily driver is the wonderful Medley Interlisp development environment, which supports both dialects.

4. What is your favorite non-Lisp programming language? Why?

AWK. I love its combination of simplicity, abstraction, control paradigm, and support for rapid development.

5. What is that one thing about your favorite non-Lisp language that you wish to see in your favorite Lisp language?

I wouldn't necessarily want to see AWK or some of its features in Lisp. Some of these features are already in Lisp and, as for the others, I don't mind dusting off AWK itself when needed.

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An annotated Lisp bibliography (simondobson.org)

submitted 6 months ago by amoroso@lemmy.ml to c/lisp@lemmy.ml

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The Rise and Fall of Steve Jobs’s Greatest Rival (every.to)

submitted 6 months ago by amoroso@lemmy.ml to c/retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org

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I've recently turned 20. What highly specific advice you, lemmy users, would offer me? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

[-] amoroso@lemmy.ml 5 points 7 months ago

Learn to cook (which saves you money) and do all the house chores (including ironing).

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Office workstations (lemmy.ml)

submitted 7 months ago by amoroso@lemmy.ml to c/retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org

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Up to the 1990s there were workstations designed for software development (Lisp/Smalltalk Machines by various vendors), graphics and CAD (Apollo, SGI), and general purpose systems (Sun, HP).

Was Xerox Star the only office workstation?

Were there other dedicated workstations (not high-end PCs or Macs) designed for office and business tasks? Of course there were word processing machines. But I'm not sure they qualify as they didn't play in the same league as the Star and were much less versatile.

Why people gave up using linux? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

[-] amoroso@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago

Although it did have an nVidia card, my PC was an otherwise ordinary machine running Ubuntu, not a gaming rig or something custom built.

Why people gave up using linux? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

[-] amoroso@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 months ago

I love Linux. But I got so exasperated with system updates breaking X-Windows and dropping me into the console with no clue what to do, for some time I intentionally deferred the updates.

I wanted a stable daily driver, so in 2015 I switched from Linux to ChromeOS. Now I'm back to Linux with the Crostini container of ChromeOS and Raspberry Pi OS on a Raspberry Pi 400.

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The Inside Story of PC Magazine, PC World, and Macworld’s Origins, as Told by David Bunnell (technologizer.com)

submitted 8 months ago by amoroso@lemmy.ml to c/retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org

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Yo, what was your first computer? How old were you, where and how did you get it, what did you do with it, etc. in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

[-] amoroso@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago

My first computer was a Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48K in the early 1980s when I was 17. My parents agreed to buy it and I used to device to learn about computers, which I was curious about as I had played a bit with the Apple IIe and the Sinclair ZX-81 of some classmates.

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Common Lisp tips (github.com)

submitted 8 months ago by amoroso@lemmy.ml to c/lisp@lemmy.ml

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Why do you use the terminal? in c/linux@lemmy.ml

[-] amoroso@lemmy.ml 7 points 8 months ago

Because it's the most effective and powerful tool for putting the Unix philosophy into practice.

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2023 Medley Interlisp Annual Report (interlisp.org)

submitted 9 months ago by amoroso@lemmy.ml to c/retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org

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Disclosure: I'm a member of the Medley Interlisp Project.

Why don't telemarketers give up on unresponsive numbers? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

[-] amoroso@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 months ago

An alternative is to ask questions about features of the pitched product or offer.

Why don't telemarketers give up on unresponsive numbers? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

[-] amoroso@lemmy.ml 4 points 9 months ago

Possibly saving time and resources.

Why don't telemarketers give up on unresponsive numbers? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

[-] amoroso@lemmy.ml 9 points 9 months ago

Okay. But if a robocaller doesn't lead to results, it may be programmed to give up on unpromising numbers.

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Why don't telemarketers give up on unresponsive numbers? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 9 months ago by amoroso@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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When receiving unsoliciting phone calls by telemarketers, many people consistently hung up, don't bait, and don't interact. So why don't telemarketers delete from their databases such phone numbers that don't lead to any sales or other business benefits?

Maybe the cost of keeping the numbers is so low telemarketers just don't bother. Or keeping track of what numbers to delete may actually have a cost. Or perhaps telemarketers hope those people will eventually pick up the calls.

Any insight?

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Ctrl+Alt Museum retrocomputing museum photos (photos.app.goo.gl)

submitted 9 months ago by amoroso@lemmy.ml to c/retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org

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My photos of a visit to the incredible Ctrl+Alt Museum retrocomputing museum in Pavia, Italy. Mind blowing.

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Doug Lenat's source code for AM and possibly EURISKO w/Traveller found in public archives (white-flame.com)

submitted 9 months ago by amoroso@lemmy.ml to c/retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org

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[-] amoroso@lemmy.ml 13 points 10 months ago

While I don't downvote posts with emojis I'm most interested in reading tech content, where emojis feel redundant and distracting.

Screencasting tools with Wayland support in c/linux@lemmy.ml

[-] amoroso@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago

VokoscreenNG is a screencasting tool that works with Raspberry Pi OS, I tested it on my Pi 400. And it's also easy to install, just sudo apt install vokoscreen-ng gstreamer1.0-pipewire.

I've updated the post.

If you had to choose one programming language that you had to use for the rest of your life, what would it be? in c/programming@programming.dev

[-] amoroso@lemmy.ml 38 points 10 months ago

Lisp, the language that has them all.

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Screencasting tools with Wayland support (lemmy.ml)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by amoroso@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Can you recommend any screen video capture tools compatible with Wayland? I’ll use such a tool on my Raspberry Pi 400 under 64-bit Raspberry Pi OS Bookworm, so I'd prefer one with appropriate Debian binaries.

Update

VokoscreenNG is a screencasting tool that works with Raspberry Pi OS, I tested it on my Pi 400. And it's also easy to install, just sudo apt install vokoscreen-ng gstreamer1.0-pipewire.

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Why do washing machines prevent opening the hatch just after the washing cycle ends? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by amoroso@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Most washing machines have a timer that prevents you from opening the hatch just after the washing cycle ends. Instad you must wait for the timer to go off, usually a minute or two, before you can open the hatch.

Why? Would letting the user open the hatch immediately after washing ends pose any safety or other issues?

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Register Spill (registerspill.thorstenball.com)

submitted 1 year ago by amoroso@lemmy.ml to c/programming@lemmy.ml

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An informal newsletter in which Thorsten Ball, of Writing an Interpreter in Go and Writing a Compiler in Go fame, shares his thoughts about software engineering.