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New comment by cwicklein in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

cwicklein — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:23:36 +0000

Sitting in a reclined position on the train, I’ve had a MacBook fly into my face when the car lurched and slice my nose open. Bled all over.

New comment by cwicklein in "macOS's Little-Known Command-Line Sandboxing Tool (2025)"

cwicklein — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 15:32:20 +0000

I believe GUIX is implemented in Scheme which makes Scheme a natural choice for expressing configuration. Lisp tend to be a natural configuration format for anything written in Lisp. Highly functional configuration processing comes practically for free.

New comment by cwicklein in "macOS's Little-Known Command-Line Sandboxing Tool (2025)"

cwicklein — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 15:15:46 +0000

I’ve written a personal system in Common Lisp for building third-party software on macOS (coincidentally somewhat similar to GUIX), and I use sandbox-exec to isolate execution so that only intended requisites affect the build process and so that installation is strictly confined to the configured destination directory, no scribbling outside the lines.

I think Bazel uses sandbox-exec on macOS.

New comment by cwicklein in "Apple I Advertisement (1976)"

cwicklein — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 19:47:42 +0000

Expandable to 65K. I don’t recall seeing SI units used in this context until by hard disk manufacturers years later.

New comment by cwicklein in "Want to piss off your IT department? Are the links not malicious looking enough?"

cwicklein — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 23:40:51 +0000

Bravo!

New comment by cwicklein in "Felix Baumgartner, who jumped from stratosphere, dies in Italy"

cwicklein — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 13:24:00 +0000

And me of Francis Gary Powers.

New comment by cwicklein in "Days since it was DNS"

cwicklein — Sat, 18 May 2024 19:57:18 +0000

I think it’s implied that it’s been zero days since the underlying cause of some such problem turned out to be DNS related. The number zero being hard coded implies that the root of the problem is always DNS. But, let’s give MTU its due.

New comment by cwicklein in "Why is Common Lisp not the most popular programming language?"

cwicklein — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 23:50:34 +0000

I had the same thought about conditions a few days ago and discovered this:

https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-package-conditions-jl/...