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rcarmo
31,677karma·6,896submissions·July 17, 2013
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I remember when 8-bit machines ruled the Earth, IOS was a Cisco thing, and e-mail bounced around via dial-up, back before the first AI winter.
I'm now enjoying the new AI spring and doing all sorts of fun stuff.
Profile and secondary social links at https://carmo.io, blog at https://taoofmac.com, @rcarmo@mastodon.social.
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Guest mode is poorly designed. What Chromecast _really_ needs is minimal access control to stop people from taking over each other's devices. Using ultrasound (that, by the way, I can hear, and I…
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Nope, just something I've been keeping track of. Needs macro support, for starters, and this fork ( https://github.com/masukomi/gisp ) is adding tests.…
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Nice. Now all I need is for someone to turn https://github.com/jcla1/gisp into a slightly more complete LISP and I'll have a nice environment for all kinds of ARM systems. E…
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This is pretty cool in the sense that it seems more flexible than CoreOS. I'll be looking into it for container hosting for sure...
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That's _very_ interesting. I wonder if anyone got it running on ARM.
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Well, then, I'll just go and get rid of my Macs. And the Magic Trackpads I use on my desktops, too. Not really, no.
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Moom is pretty handy, though.
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That would be a no.
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Please don't. As a Pythonista turned LISPer, I've heard all that stuff before. What is pretty stupid is being unable to use Plan9 on a modern laptop with a trackpad -- again, check my commen…
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Thank goodness I'm not alone! Where have you been all this time? :)
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My first thought was "oh PLEASE, let them keep distributing the CLI-only SDK". Why? Because I got burned by Eclipse so many times I got used to developing solely with vim and ant - then I st…
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Yeah, but that makes sense at the OS level. UX-wise (and generally speaking, for most common uses of a computer these days), Plan9 is, sadly, almost useless. I myself only use it because I _like_ mess…
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You can check my other comments for more, but a couple of old-time UNIX folk I know described it as being dropped into a bare X11 environment with twm, a flint knife, and the Acme editor. Acme is amaz…
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Seconded. 9front is _way_ ahead of vanilla Plan9, although that's a relative statement in such a tradition-bound community.
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Or an ESP8266. My guess is that the board will be comparatively expensive.
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Obligatory rant about too many IM apps: http://the.taoofmac.com/space/blog/2014/11/13/0830#the-insta... …
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Hmmm. Cute. I can probably drop those straight into my Bottle stuff.
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It will import cython stuff, and vice-versa.
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Oh, and earmuffs become EARMUFFS, which is also nice.
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You don't need to translate it -- you can import modules both ways just fine -- THAT's the killer feature.
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FYI, this is what's been eating into my Clojure output. The Hy REPL starts up instantly and the interop is so good I find myself writing small projects in Hy instead. Here's a wiki implement…
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sigh it seems I'll eventually have to update this: http://the.taoofmac.com/space/blog/2014/11/13/0830#the-insta... …
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What you're saying, in a nutshell, is that you based your expressed views solely on your own experience and use cases. That, I think, is what made the Plan9 community tank over the years -- I…
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You can run inferno (which has a similar userland) as a process in Linux, and I have plan9front on a Raspberry Pi that I use as a terminal (with vt and ssh2 to log in to other machines as well as VNC …
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Using pyzmq comes to mind. It might even work with IPython.
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I haven't used a mouse on my desktop (any desktop, really) in over four years - I use Apple's Magic Trackpad to get the same experience and precision I have on my laptop. That said, consider…
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Yes, I am well aware of the EFI support. But the status quo in terms of UX is hideous (barely above twm-grade), and it is currently next to impossible to use Plan 9 on a modern laptop with a touchpad.…