algernon.st

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Very Interested in Lisp and Smalltalk.
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Erratic.
Slightly Gnostic.

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2026-05-07 08:54:28 UTC

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are some of the normal cont constructions like async/excs and that, expressible delimited?

2026-05-03 14:29:08 UTC

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the idea of compiling shell scares the shit of me. JS being JIT compiled is dodge enough.
also how the hell are you going to type it when most linux tools presuppose semi structured text. it works for windows and .net because theres an ecosystem and a known object format other code can agree on. a shell using GObjects sounds equally dodge because of the hacks inherent to gobj

2026-04-17 17:24:08 UTC

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first example that comes to mind is `cl:with-open-file`, which desugars into `unwind-protect (progn body ...) (close-file)`, but this can be solved alternatively with `call-with-input-file` from scheme, and uses higher order functions instead.
so if you have a suspicion that HOF do not get inlined properly, then macros are the alternate tool.
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2026-04-14 19:38:59 UTC

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https://stateofutopia.com/papers/2/we-broke-92-percent-of-sha-256.html i think

2026-04-14 19:21:43 UTC

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the minute they do that there would be 100% sha256 cracking, since there was like 92% already

2026-03-07 10:51:32 UTC

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does this count? https://www.magicsplat.com/ttpl/index.html, not an ISO/ANSI standard but

2026-03-07 10:47:47 UTC

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i tried but no cigar.