Janet was the first Lisp that made sense to me. Its simplicity is what helped make it ‘click’ in my mind. It’s nice to see my sentiment towards Janet echoed here.

The basic, starter-level equipment in order to do this is very easy to obtain. You should be able to find a unit that will convert component and/or S-Video into a digital signal for very cheap.

Because Lemmy does not replace Reddit for me – but rather, it’s a different thing altogether.

Truthfully, I’ve not tried them.

I was about to make a comment along the lines of “I’ve already learned how to do command line things, my OS already comes with a few shells, why SHOULD I take the time to learn a new shell?” — but then I reflected on this and realized something: it’s the same thing as saying “Windows comes with Explorer/Edge, why SHOULD I go through the trouble to pick up a new web browser?” And yet, I unquestioningly download Firefox first thing when I install a new OS, hmm.

You’ve made me think :]

Maybe one day I will actually understand the appeal of all these super fancy shells. They seem kinda cool on the surface but I also feel like I’d never use any of their actual features.

awk is wonderful! You can do some very incredible things with it.

Mmmpf, tar czf archive.tar.xz directory is Just Wrong to me. The “z” means gzip! Use “J” if you meant to use xz compression!

I’m not sure how booting corporations and their advertisements off of the platform will affect individual artists one way or another.

The kind of promotions that big businesses do is, well, incomparable to the kind of self-promotion that an artist does. It’s a different beast entirely. At the end of the day, I’d be happy to see individual creators promoting their creativity!

We’ve had alternative PostScript interpreters for decades, but being able to see the OG code is pretty neat.

Thanks!

Frankly, this sounds kinda conspiratorial. You’re not willing to step into a local shop for fear that it might not actually be a local shop?

Otherwise, there truly are more options in my area than in your area, in which case, I’m sorry to hear that.

(Edit: typo)

I might become a fan since I have been very interested to the franchise for a long time, but haven’t played anything yet. Would you recommend Felghana on PSP to start with?

Truthfully, the only ones I’m aware of are the “In the News” panel of Wikipedia’s English landing page, and wikinews.org.

I’d be curious to hear what suggestions others have, too

I think the very best alternative to Amazon is: don’t shop online at all. Support your local businesses!

Surely there’s shops in your area where you can get those kinds of things – your list doesn’t have anything too exotic or difficult to obtain. Unless your tastes are out of the ordinary somehow.

This is the video that made me fall in love with Technology Connections. I’ve been a huge fan ever since it was released

With practice, you begin to realize that things are more common than they are different. Think about you how you know how to drive most cars, despite learning to drive in only one or two of them at the beginning. I guess it’s a “When in Rome…” mindset.

Spam detection is HARD to get right. How do you ensure your spam filter never has false positives? How do you know #2 on your list won’t cause problems later? And most people don’t have time for item #3, sifting through everything in the ‘waiting room’ which will never be empty.

Your system seems to implement a whitelist of people who would be even allowed to contact you. That goes against the fundamental “push” nature of email, if you see what I mean. Remember that just because an email is unsolicited, doesn’t mean it’s spam.

Nah. Seems like a waste of time and money, and I am deeply skeptical of any ecological benefit it’d have. I think it is far more pressing to protect today’s endangered species – which is something we can do RIGHT NOW.

This is the right answer. I certainly wouldn’t say that Lemmy is “for” programmers, but it attracts a certain kind of audience, doesn’t it.

It all started with my Texas Instruments graphing calculator that we needed to buy for school. When I realized it was exactly the same way to make your own games, I learned ActionScript 2.0 to make early Adobe Flash interactive thingies. Then I wanted to make computers do “real” things, beyond the sandbox that is a Flash program. That’s when I picked up Bash, and then Ruby, and then C… eventually you can fast forward to today, where I make a living as a build engineer working on the code for speakers and headphones!