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New comment by shawn_w in "Playa Phone"

shawn_w — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 01:44:46 +0000

Coffee going away was a sad time. I had a tradition of getting some from Center Camp in the wee hours of the morning on overnight volunteer shifts.

New comment by shawn_w in "Playa Phone"

shawn_w — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 01:34:19 +0000

Smoking weed is iffy; lots of federal cops out here looking for it, since pot is still illegal on federal lands.

Just chilling and doing your own thing is certainly doable.

New comment by shawn_w in "Playa Phone"

shawn_w — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 01:32:44 +0000

Gotta go over to Orgy Dome for that.

New comment by shawn_w in "Is it safe to call print in a Python signal handler?"

shawn_w — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 05:28:29 +0000

And for people who want to use something other than Linux?

New comment by shawn_w in "I co-founded Burning Man. The festival has lost its soul"

shawn_w — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 03:46:03 +0000

It was better next year.

New comment by shawn_w in "I co-founded Burning Man. The festival has lost its soul"

shawn_w — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 03:44:04 +0000

I always get here early, before the event officially opens, in part to get an up close view of all the art and camps going up.

(I'm still not used to easy internet access at BRC, he says as he browses HN from his camp)

New comment by shawn_w in "A Friendly Introduction to Racket"

shawn_w — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 23:54:33 +0000

Racket defines an evaluation order for function arguments (left to right).

New comment by shawn_w in "A Friendly Introduction to Racket"

shawn_w — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 09:21:52 +0000

It's ugly and probably fragile and prone to break, but I found a way. Added it as an answer on that Stack Overflow question: https://stackoverflow.com/a/79997503/9952196

New comment by shawn_w in "A Friendly Introduction to Racket"

shawn_w — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 03:52:23 +0000

It might take a custom #lang. I'll play around with it when I have some free time...

That read-syntax doesn't just accept everything accepted by plain read is one of my biggest annoyances with Racket.

New comment by shawn_w in "A Friendly Introduction to Racket"

shawn_w — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:16:57 +0000

Yeah, there's a toggle for it in read-syntax mode.

https://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/Reading.html#%28def._...

New comment by shawn_w in "A Friendly Introduction to Racket"

shawn_w — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 22:55:05 +0000

You forgot hash table and regular expression literals.

New comment by shawn_w in "old.reddit.com Now Requires a Login"

shawn_w — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 05:03:09 +0000

Are there any decent alternatives to reddit? When they finish killing off old reddit I'm gone, and will need a new time waster.

New comment by shawn_w in "Racket v9.3"

shawn_w — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 01:22:36 +0000

Guile keywords use the same #:foo syntax as Racket. The reader can also accept :foo or foo: notation.

https://doc.guix.gnu.org/guile/latest/en/html_node/Keyword-R...

New comment by shawn_w in "uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook"

shawn_w — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 15:21:33 +0000

You now have to be logged in to reddit to use it.

New comment by shawn_w in "Crickets as pets"

shawn_w — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 03:27:04 +0000

Which one?

New comment by shawn_w in "A physicist rigged his pet hamster’s wheel to upload to Strava"

shawn_w — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 19:41:57 +0000

Yeah, that's a recent change. Probably the first nail in the coffin for it.

New comment by shawn_w in "USA Today Co., partners with Palantir to analyze audience data"

shawn_w — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 03:52:56 +0000

The Seattle Times is still owned by the Blethen family (who have owned it since 1896).

New comment by shawn_w in "Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery"

shawn_w — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 20:53:17 +0000

Depends on the politician.

New comment by shawn_w in "Discovery Loop"

shawn_w — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 18:01:03 +0000

I suppose you think Chuck Norris Facts are fake too.

New comment by shawn_w in "There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf]"

shawn_w — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 22:19:49 +0000

Interestingly, By the Waters of Babylon was written in 1937, before WW2 and the development of atomic and nuclear weapons - events that obviously and understandably triggered that theme in later writing like Bradbury's.