chhickman

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There has been an open source successor to REBOL called Red[1] for years but progress seems to have been pretty sporadic.

[1] https://www.red-lang.org/

chhickman

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Well, I would say that any physical implementation of a Turing machine will eventually halt because you cannot guarantee an infinite energy supply. So if we're willing to ignore physical limitations then humans can be Turing complete - if not, then no machine be either.

chhickman

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I would much rather see something like this:

  string longString =
                    `This
                    `  allows
                    `    differentiation
                    `  of
                    `formatting
                    `  indention
                    `    from
                    `  leading
                    `    string
                    `       spaces
                    `  using
                    `  back-ticks (\`)

chhickman

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You can still observe a related effect to this in Windows 10. Open up any large(ish) file in NotePad++ or most any other editor and place the cursor in the text and drag to the bottom of the screen so it starts scrolling. If you hold the mouse still at that point it will scroll through a couple dozen every half second or so, but if you wag the mouse side to side it will scroll through hundreds at a time in the same span.

chhickman

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One of my favorites in this vein is the channel below. This guy really knows how to "do what you can with what you have available".

https://www.youtube.com/c/K%C3%AAnhs%C3%A1ngt%E1%BA%A1oVN-tr...

chhickman

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Punishment via fines should be entirely replaced with something more generally equitable: time. $60 parking ticket should be replaced with 1 hour of community service, which (mostly) equally "inconveniences" a blue collar worker and CEO alike. Same scheme should apply to corporate crimes as well... when everybody's least favorite mega-bank gets caught defrauding customers, don't fine them, sentence the company to 1000 hours of community service, meaning every employee on the payroll has to do 1000 hours of community service and the company has to pay them their standard wages while doing it. That kind of loss would definitely change some board room attitudes.

chhickman

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Evil plan: Create a network distributed system (kind of like Seti@Home) specifically for doing this. If there was enough participation to make a difference the advertisers would have to invest in countermeasures which could lead to an arms-race that ultimately erodes all profit from it.

chhickman

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I use a FireFox plugin that applies CSS for colorizing visited links on HN:

  a:link{
    color: orange !important;
  }
  
  /* visited link */
  a:visited {
    color: green !important;
  }

https://mybrowseraddon.com/custom-style-script.html

chhickman

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This one has been very influential to me:

Big Ball of Mud

Brian Foote and Joseph Yoder

http://www.laputan.org/mud/

Submissions

EbookFoundation/Free-Programming-Books

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