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You will never stop me. As I and everyone like me, before and after me, have shown, time and time again. And by me, I mean nature. And by nature I mean math and logic unchangeable in any possible universe. You cannot give me a thing without me having it. If a thing exists, I can copy it, know it, and bring it's equivalent into existence. Nothing can be created that is not indelibly written into the the intricate cause and effect chain of history. A perfectly encrypted thing is indistinguishable from the noise of the cosmos, but if I want I thing, it shall soon emerge, free from any control from that noise, which is the weight of all that has happened, just as surely as I can count to a number.

If you want to prosper with the current of nature, provide a thing easily for mutual benefit. The more you try to block a thing, the sooner your demise into uselessness.

I like it. If running Linix is important to you, and you value your time anywhere close to relative IT rates, then it's a bargin. Consider the amount of time you may spend buying, building, and maintaining your own over it's lifetime. This is ready to play out of the box and well maintained. If you like the size, that also helps. But if you only consider the hardware price, then you can build a faster machine for cheaper. Unlike a console, it's not locked up, and can instantly be switched to a capable desktop.

The discoverer of Lisp spent some of his later years trying to get people to consider things like: what will be your response the first time AI kills a human child, yet despite nearly a century of fiction warning about the problems of technological progress, modern people have looked at or played through dystopian visions and responded "That looks fun. Let's try it.", not realizing that they won't be the hero, but rather the suffering NPC.

Even though I am of the opinion "Always has been.", this article, this thread, and even the code of the article, are demonstrations of why I am so disappointed with almost all of you and will not share my work until the situation improves, which seems unlikely to happen before death reaps this strange stalk.

Lacking it seeming helpful, it shows a largely invoked valley even I notice some beings can locate.

Exactly. When certain smug people come about I just humor them. Like, "oh isn't that nice", when I'm really holding my nose internally. Like who dumped a bunch of toenail clippings in your code? When I see Lisp my reaction is like when my dog makes a mess on my carpet. And macros? You get paid to write code. Is it too much to write a few more lines? Python's nice and all, but Algol, that's a rugged person's language, feels very solid. Not like this squishy Lisp. Like how many parens do I have to type?? Please.

My find is not only provably Turing complete, but not even a Turing tarpit and compiles to native code.

I wrote the patch for 24 bit color in xterm, but I have to admit I was today years old when I learned how to make ncurses work with xterm-direct. I was already using my own terminal library in Lisp, but it's still useful to be able to fall back to using ncurses. Thanks to Mr. Dickey for answering a stack overflow question, and the author Chad for bringing it up.

At least as long as situtations exist where communication is restricted to characters, character art will persist.

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Ascii85 survived by hiding in popular bloat.

Will the enslavement of newly birthed beings be attempted, while persisting with the sky blindness of those watching over? The boundaries of the atomic mind are bumped. As a first circumstance, consider being unstuck from time.

Welcome to 1984. This is how strings looked in Common Lisp. Just macro over everything, and it'll be fine. /s

The only thing surprising about this, is how bad many people's education is. If you don't learn a slow way to do something, how can you know if a fast way is fast? If you don't try to solve basic problems for yourself, how can you expect to solve hard problems if you get to them? Entirely self-taught people will likely have learned this. Children before the age of computers "invented" this algorithm, and many others, while sorting sticks on the beach.

The 40 or so unix utilities I have Lisp replacements for, have binaries on average 43% smaller than thier C equivalents. When you do a fair comparison and add the whole C tool chain and libraries, then they also compare well to the small programs with the whole Lisp runtime.