I have successfully built my first #Emacs package. I want to clean it up a bit before I consider releasing it though. Also, while I can build a simple (single file) package, buildig a multi-file one is still eluding me.
When I try to install it, I get the following (less than helpful) error message:Wrong type argument: stringp, nil
Is there a way I can get more detail on why this is failing?
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So Katy has a #Jinhao10 and today the clicker seems to be jamming. When pressed, it seems to resist extending or retracting the nib. I'm giving it a cleaning right now to make sure there was no debris or anything in there stopping it from working, but I don't know if that'll fix it.
Has anyone experienced this before? Is there a fix?
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So a good cleaning seems to have done the trick. My guess is that some small piece of debris got in the mechanism somehow.
I mean, this is the sort of thing that you expect of a $12 dupe of a $300 pen, I guess.
Is the trap door opening/closing properly? It could be wedged somehow. You should be able to poke the nib unit through it manually with the top removed and see if it works as expected.
Also when it's apart you can press the rear of the nib unit up into the tail and press the button and see if it operates normally that way.
Then you at least know which end of the pen is misbehaving.
As a side note, I'm now pretty much convinced I'm somewhere on the spectrum. This felt a lot like the way I've heard an autistic meltdown to be. Sounds were particularly jarring. Katy was packing up her equipment to send back to her old job and the sound of the packing tape was actually painful.
I can think of a number of other incidents where I've become seemingly irrationally agitated at something that should have been a minor thing, and any form of external stimulus whatsoever only made it worse (which really sucks when people try to "help").
Am I way off base here?
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That's very much an AS response. Some noises, physical sensations, environments are just intolerable, as if they're actively attacking your brain the way allergens do your immune system.
Finding out that my responses to things were *real*, and not just me being temperamental, was a big help.
Katy likes these YouTube channels where they teach about canning and such. One of the people in one of these videos is wearing a shirt with what looks like an AR-15 that says "defense is not a crime".
What in the cinnamon toast fuck do you need an AR-15 to defend yourself from?
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>> What in the cinnamon toast fuck do you need an AR-15 to defend yourself from?
30-50 feral hogs
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Got my hair cut for the first time in probably a year because I have an interview tomorrow for a job I really want to get (and think I have a pretty good shot at).
It looks decent, but has revealed a good deal more grey than I'm accustomed to seeing.
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Is there any branch of the provincial or federal government that we haven't had to deal with today?
I suppose it's possible.
“Slopsquatting” in a nutshell:
1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but
2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but
3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So
4. Now the LLM code points to malware.
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: Hallucinated package names fuel 'slopsquatting'Thomas Claburn (The Register)
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#Today I was asked for the first time if I'm a senior citizen. I mean, I have some grey in my beard, but I was masked so it wasn't visible.
I feel like I'm a senior citizen. Does that count?
TIL that Instacart now charges a "membership" to get higher priority on assignment of batches. This does not guarantee you anything, it just allows them to further exploit a workforce they're already working to the bone.
Do they not realize that many (if not most) of the people who are working this job are doing it because they don't really have any other options? And they expect them to pay for the privilege now?
Just when I thought they couldn't possibly get any more predatory, they pull this shit.
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Yep, quite a few places, though they generally don’t talk about it much. Quantum computing, chip design, logistics, and drug discovery are a few that come to mind.
If I were to make a broad generalization, they tend to be fields where deep subject and algorithmic expertise is more valuable than relatively more-easily-replaced developers.
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Which is, of course, not to say that e.g. Python/JavaScript/etc developers don’t also need subject matter expertise, but the necessary understanding is generally shallower and less entangled with the algorithmic complexity.
(Again, painting with a very broad brush here.)
There’s also an axis of software lifecycle, too. If you’re constantly changing requirements it’s less valuable to remember last year’s nuances. Different economics than if you need to ship something stable for years.
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@curtosis I have to say, the kind of job that would be looking for Lisp developers sounds like the kind of environment I might actually want to work in. I've been pretty depressed about the state of the modern tech industry.
The last dev job I had kinda burnt me out because every month or so, I was on to an entirely different project and never had a chance to develop that deep level of domain knowledge on anything. It was very frustrating.
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I will be releasing (the alpha version of) a social media meta-client one of these weeks.
It works on desktop, Android and #SailfishOS. But I don't know if a one man shop counts for your question.
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We gather example companies that we find here: github.com/azzamsa/awesome-lis… Mind you it's nothing official. There are job offers sometimes on reddit, but also on the two LinkedIn groups, sometimes on Twitter alone, and sometimes you get a direct message (happened).
There are many in the quantum space, such as HLR labs. reddit's /u/stylewarning works for it. They released the impressive Coalton and even contribute to SBCL.
HLR, Ravenpack and Keepit are probably still hiring.
Awesome Lisp Companies. Contribute to azzamsa/awesome-lisp-companies development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Personally, as a solo developer, I use CL more and more in my stack, ditching Python the more I can. I wrote about it: lisp-journey.gitlab.io/blog/ru…
Instead of extending a Python software I write independent modules in CL. It works well for standalone scripts too (read a DB, process data, send everything to a FTP, to a web service, by email…) It's such a joy.
On Discord, we see some are in big tech©, wrote their personal tool in CL and now it's part of the team's stack.
-- Last week I finished a new service written in Common Lisp. It now runs in production© every mornings, and it expands the set of services I offer to clients.Lisp journey
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You can find here 2 interviews of small teams using CL. One "secretly", one in a great open-source product:
"questions to Alex Nygren of Kina Knowledge, using Common Lisp extensively in their document processing stack"
lisp-journey.gitlab.io/blog/li…
"Arnold Noronha of Screenshotbot: from Facebook and Java to Common Lisp."
lisp-journey.gitlab.io/blog/li…
Recently, the awesome-lisp-companies list was posted on HN, more people got to know it (look, this list is fan-cooked and we add companies when we learn about one, often by chance, don’t assume it’s anything “official” or exhaustive), and Alex Nygren…Lisp journey
Here is a list of companies that "use Lisp Extensively in their stack":
github.com/azzamsa/awesome-lis…
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Nyxt browser is written in common lisp.
I'd say common lisp is alive and well.
One thing I really dislike, is the amount people think hosting data is hard.
People talk about needing dozens of cores or gigs of ram to host a database or a website. They get impressed by projects where someone runs a website from an Apple ][ or a pi0.
We, as free software advocates, need to remind people that the charger for a Macbook Pro is enough to run a website, not the Macbook Pro
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One of the reason I like static websites is because of the low overhead on the server.
Also you don't have to back up the website because it's already on your computer. Just backup your computer.
And because of this static websites are very portable and can even be run on free hosts. Just be sure to use your own domain so when the free host goes squirelly you can move.
Blogs, audio, video, full websites all have static host solutions.
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Use your raspberry pi or your old system and use duck dns if you don't have a static ip.
Hosting is not expensive and can be done on the $10/year plan, just paying for your domain name.
Own Your own platform. Everything else goes away or gets enshittified.
Except SDF
And the Internet Archive
They did go away for a few days at the end of last year.
Soon to be a blog post using my own program, Plain Text Blog.
Thanks
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@silverwizard Remember in the 90s when there was no internet at all because powerful enough computers hadn't been invented yet? 🙃
Seriously though, I ran my first "server" on a Pentium laptop over a dial-up connection.
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@silverwizard That said, I fully understand how the average person* could not be bothered to figure out how to do it. The technology industry has done a great job of reducing all their offerings into little magic black boxes that everyone's afraid to look inside of for fear that they'll break them.
* The average person will never read this post because the fedi is too complicated and scary.
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One thing I want to focus on is internal - not just internal messaging. I hate all the times I see a youtuber show off their Battlestation. Or when someone builds a handheld device with a full on Raspberry Pi.
Though the ESP32 has been good for this.
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Reasons somebody may have misspelled a word: glitchy phone screen, non-native english speaker, they expected their spellchecker to fix it and it failed, dyslexia, standardised spelling is a fake invention of the printing press industry to sell more moveable type
Reasons somebody my have substituted a homophone (eg their and there): Their dictation software fucked up, their spell checker fucked up, they're a non-native english speaker, they were thinking verbally, standardised spelling is a fake invention of the printing press industry to sell more moveable type.
Reasons somebody may have put in the wrong word: Their spellchecker did a substitution and they didn’t notice, their dictation software fucked up, they speak a different English dialect in which that word was correct, they were editing the sentence and made a mistake.
Syntax errors very rarely indicate unclear thinking. They're just typos. It's the logic errors that fuck everything up. Anybody judging the value of an argument based on syntax is missing the more important picture: the printing press companies have lead us down an evil path, but its not to layt too eskayp
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Happens to me all the time, especially when I'm composing a post on a dinky phone screen with on-screen keys that are tiny pixels I must mash with my meaty sausage fingers.
I tend to compose non-linearly, maybe writing the conclusion last, then write the main points above it, and only then do the intro. That's often more than the max 500 chars, so then I go back to shorten sentences, change verb tenses, remove adjectives. If I'm not careful, that can result in weird syntax & spelling
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But taste better! Nothing compares to the crafted by hand real thing!
You lack vision !!!.
We need to build Parent Crushing Machines to provide a stead supply of Orphans for the Orphan crushing machine!
@mattblaze@federate.social
what if Russians put fluoride in the water to steal orphans' precious bodily fluids?
"oh, come on! If we don't build it ourselves, someone else will!" 🤷🏻♂️
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dystopian novel: “don't build an orphan crushing machine”
corporation: “we built the orphan crushing machine from this dystopian novel!”
That Nexus won't torment itself, baby*. 👈😎👈
*In case it's not abundantly clear, I'm not actually calling you baby.
And then they extort you by saying: "Hey, but wouldn't you rather have an Orphan Crushing Machine that *didn't* accidentally leak the data of their parents in an incident, rather than one that did?"
And yes, the only answer to this is: Stop the madness and also stop collecting that data. But capitalism means you're right when you deliver shareholder value I guess.
Dear state and local governments: STOP using Google Drive as your only means to disseminate public information.
Private systems are not public, they are subject to arbitrary access controls with no public oversight or appeals process, and therefore they do NOT meet your responsibility to provide information via public means.
This means you, #Brattleboro and #Vermont. #VTpol
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Anxiety's been bad again lately. I am moderately worried about losing the apartment. Taking steps to try to keep that from happening, but sometimes just trying to engage with the problem brings on a panic attack.
I have medication to help with that now, but it makes it hard to think clearly. I will survive this one way or another, but my life is going to have to change. I don't handle change well.
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Yeah I think the most important thing that people don't tend to get about anxiety/panic is how crippling it can be and how it makes dealing with some everyday things all but impossible at times.
And of course not dealing with those everyday things makes everything worse and things start to spiral.
Do you have someone who can help you? Someone you trust to *get it* and, at least, just be with you through this stuff?
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It should come as no surprise to anyone who's been paying attention that I've grown disillusioned with capitalism over the past several years. What's interesting to me though is that any time I express this publicly, there are no shortage of capitalists who falsely assert that I am claiming that communism is the ultimate solution to everything. This is a false dichotomy.
I am not saying I have the answers to the world's problems. I just have eyes to see that the emperor has no clothes.
Edit: typo
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6 lines free for anyone that wants to play on this PDP-11/70 running Version 7 UNIX.
ssh misspiggy@tty.livingcomputers.org
Drop in "com" to have messages displayed on the terminals.
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writing a guestbook entry on a pdp11 isn't something you can do every day.
Great idea 👌
What does the DL380 G4 do?
Haven't seen this baby in awhile!
I know where I'll be hanging out.
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@mvilain I'd never heard of this, and DuckDuckGo isn't telling me much. What markets did the DECDataSystem target?
(I used 11/70s early in my career, though. RSTS/E and 2.x BSD.)
Just beautiful. Great reminder how pure and powerful Unix once was.
Thinking about it, my first serial-line terminal login on a SysV machine was back in January 1990, eons ago. It was a big tower case server with a 68020, and even then it was considered an older machine for legacy projects and unimportant enough to let newbs like me have a go at it. Your machine is about a generation or two older, and still running strong. Great job!
Hey #Unix folks recommend me your favorite games that can run in the terminal that aren't:
1) the most basic boring arcade stuff like snake or missile command
2) roguelikes/dungeon crawlers (love em but there's no lack of those)
3) chess, backgammon, etc., more meaty board games sure but there's already a million easy to find ways to play chess in a terminal
edit: 4) IF, I know where to find plenty of that, forgot this one
This is for my machine with no gui so when I say terminal I mean terminal not just like "text based and looks like it'd be in a terminal maybe".
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Have you investigated interactive fiction? The game that has stuck with me as a good introduction to the medium was Photopia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photopia
There are likely many other on-ramps to text adventures, probably newer and better games, but I just thought that one had pretty colors 😉
XorCurses - github.com/jwm-art-net/XorCurs…
Greed - catb.org/~esr/greed/
CurseofWar - a-nikolaev.github.io/curseofwa…
Liberal Crime Squad - lcs.wikidot.com/start
StarLanes - github.com/mmpub/StarLanes
chroma - level7.org.uk/chroma/
pokete - lxgr-linux.github.io/pokete/
There are a few different tetris, pacman and sokoban clones.
A remake of Xor by Astral Software for Linux, using Ncurses. - GitHub - jwm-art-net/XorCurses: A remake of Xor by Astral Software for Linux, using Ncurses.GitHub
So much fun can be had with a scripting language and a terminal emulator.ctrl-c.club
I believe old versions of Dwarf Fortress have an ncurses mode which runs in the terminal. Dont think its supported anymore on the steam/itch release though, sadly.
(I hope DF doesn't count as a roguelike or dungeon crawler 😀 )
A game, written in Bash, that is a somewhat retro-a-like shoot 'em up. Hopefully. - GitHub - wimpysworld/antsy-alien-attack: A game, written in Bash, that is a somewhat retro-a-like shoot '...GitHub
bsdgames, but I wanted to specifically recommend hunt from there as a multiplayer shooter. Surprizingly fun for what it is. Only works in multiplayer though.
I think I have this in acceptable condition for someone else to try it... git.sr.ht/~rlonstein/wordwhiz-…
A rewrite of a little word tile game I first wrote in 2011 inspired by the Wordsmith game in my first Tivo.
exceptionally cursed but: I once hacked a ncurses TUI display mode into a Gameboy emulator, using half-height unicode blocks to get 2 square-ish pixels per text character. worked badly, but worked nonetheless
unfortunately I don’t think I still have a copy I can share, but if you have the time and the know how it is both possible and very funny
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Text-based games are often forgotten and neglected. However, there are many ASCII gems out there waiting to be explored which are immensely addictive and great fun to play.Steve Emms (LinuxLinks)
are you certain? It could last I checked!
[PRINT_MODE:TEXT] in data/init/init.txt
@via unreachable I didn't have an init folder under data. I added it and got the following when I launched it, I got the following error:
Display not found and PRINT_MODE not set to TEXT, aborting.
@me it looks like Debian moved stuff around; try editing /usr/share/games/dwarf-fortress/gamedata/data/init/init.txt
Change [PRINT_MODE:2D] to [PRINT_MODE:TEXT], and you should get curses output.
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in reply to Jonathan Lamothe • •So getting a stack trace doesn't seem to have provided any useful additional information, but I have a potential starting point. When I look at the auto-generated
*-pkg.elfile from the installed single file version, I notice that there are some additional parameters passed todefine-packagethat were not mentioned in the elisp documentation.I'll have to have a closer look later.
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Function: define-package name version &optional docstring requirementsThis is from the documentation for
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in reply to 🇺🇦 Myke • •@🇺🇦 Myke True enough, though I still want to know how to do it.
Plus, for larger projects it's sometimes easier to separate things out for clarity.
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github.com/protesilaos/denote
GitHub - protesilaos/denote: Simple notes for Emacs with an efficient file-naming scheme
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in reply to 🇺🇦 Myke • •@🇺🇦 Myke Yes, it can be done that way as well.
That still doesn't negate the point that I want to know how to build a multi-file package.
Besides, sometimes I like to learn stuff just for the sake of learning it.