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fmakunbound commented on Plant-based ‘beef’ reduces CO2 but threatens ag jobs   news.cornell.edu/stories/... · Posted by u/PaulHoule
fmakunbound · 4 years ago
I've been vegan for a couple of decades now and during that period I've had that time to observe meat eating people get all upset about veganism at various dinner parties during even though I don't advertise it or even talk about it.

What I've concluded is there's just NO WAY the world is going to do the right thing until the entire Amazon rainforest (and forests in general) have been converted to food production for food animals, dusty fattening lots for slaughter stretch to the horizon and all fresh water sources are drained.

So sensitive is the subject of what one consumes!

Maybe once climate disasters become more common and the price of meat becomes far too expensive for value menus will we start to change course. But I doubt it, we'll probably build meat factories in space before that.

In the meantime, those precious ag jobs are probably more threatened by automation than impossible burgers.

fmakunbound commented on Emacs Timeline   emacs.brause.cc/timeline.... · Posted by u/susam
juice_bus · 4 years ago
Has anyone here 'adapted' to Emacs after starting out with Visual Studio / Code / etc? I have tried multiple times over the years to give it a shot but it hasn't stuck.
fmakunbound · 4 years ago
Yeah I adopted it after exploring other languages after learning to program in Turbo Pascal 5. Bit later I started using it for mail and news (Gnus) and other things.

It’s a life time tool that grows with you.

fmakunbound commented on Introducing multitasking to Arduino   blog.arduino.cc/2022/08/0... · Posted by u/pyprism
fmakunbound · 4 years ago
Forths such as FlashForth https://www.flashforth.com/index.html on the Arduino support multiple tasks .. in addition to including a compiler and interactive REPL
fmakunbound commented on A looming copper crunch and why recycling can’t fix it   mining.com/the-looming-co... · Posted by u/simonebrunozzi
ChuckNorris89 · 4 years ago
Come to Austria. The entire country revolves around cash.

I rarely see someone pay with card at the supermarket and it's most likely a foreigner. Small shops and cafes don't even take cards, only cash and the rare time they do it's only for larger sums.

Also tips are common almost everywhere.

fmakunbound · 4 years ago
What's the reasons for that?
fmakunbound commented on Clojure needs a Rails   blog.janetacarr.com/cloju... · Posted by u/janetacarr
waffletower · 4 years ago
Clojure libraries target microservices with a precision that no other language ecosystem has. In essence, Clojure web services developers rail against Rails and other bloated, unnecessarily complected (https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy/) frameworks of the 90s. As a Clojurist I too rail against Rails. I don't think that expansive model fits the problem space. I have had painful experiences in the past maintaining Rails projects wondering why they didn't know of DRY. If there is a essence within Rails that you feel could be distilled into a lean Clojure model, build it out in a library and share it.
fmakunbound · 4 years ago
> Clojure libraries target microservices with a precision that ..

I’m not sure what that means exactly, but no one is using Rails only for building out micro services. They’re using Rails to go from nothing to a production ready web application, with all the incidental complexity taken care of, in a very short time.

It’s been a few years since I was involved with Clojure ecosystem - what is the Clojure experience equivalent to say, the original Rails demo from back in 2005? The last I tried, all the parts seemed to be there, but much painful assembly/“composing” was required and not all the parts fitted which ended up producing a lot of awkward complexity needing desperate decomplecting.

fmakunbound commented on Clojure needs a Rails   blog.janetacarr.com/cloju... · Posted by u/janetacarr
fmakunbound · 4 years ago
This might be what happens when the community seems to follow “composable libraries over frameworks”. You still have to do the composing, and it’s not obvious how to do that.
fmakunbound commented on Clojure needs a Rails   blog.janetacarr.com/cloju... · Posted by u/janetacarr
mark_l_watson · 4 years ago
“Idiomatic Clojure code calls Java libraries directly and doesn’t try to wrap everything under the sun to look like Lisp… Where Java isn’t broken, Clojure doesn’t fix it.”
fmakunbound · 4 years ago
Perhaps that stance has changed over time. In Clojure, there's the clojure.string namespace just functions wrapping java.lang.String methods https://clojuredocs.org/clojure.string
fmakunbound commented on Software Transactional Memory (1997)   dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.114... · Posted by u/luu
hardwaresofton · 4 years ago
No modern language I know of beats Haskell’s support for STM:

https://wiki.haskell.org/Software_transactional_memory

As I always say, Haskell is the Mercedes of programming languages.

fmakunbound · 4 years ago
Common Lisp has it too, via https://stmx.org/ I believe it supports the Intel TSX stuff if present and falls back to a software implementation if not present.
fmakunbound commented on Senate passes bipartisan bill to subsidize U.S.-made semiconductor chips   washingtonpost.com/politi... · Posted by u/lettergram
fmakunbound · 4 years ago
Should have put it into fundamental STEM education
fmakunbound commented on Texas Has Always Been a Great Setting for the Apocalypse   texasmonthly.com/arts-ent... · Posted by u/drdee
dmix · 4 years ago
How do you put down fence posts? A brief googling says they should be 36 inches deep.
fmakunbound · 4 years ago
I use an 8 foot, iron digging bar ahead of the post hole digger.

u/fmakunbound

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