Tuesday, April 05, 2022

Docker dev environments, Lisp and others

Docker images for many dev environments / prog languages;
in particular useful for Windows users

Explore Docker's Container Image Repository | Docker Hub

CodeSignal/dockerfiles: Dockerfiles for CodeSignal user code execution @GitHub

codesignal/lisp - Docker Image | Docker Hub

fib.lisp

(defun fib (n)
  "Naive recursive computation of the nth element of the Fibonacci sequence"
  (check-type n (integer 0 *))
  (if (< n 2) n
      (+ (fib (1- n)) (fib (- n 2)))))

> docker run --rm -v ${PWD}:/lisp  -it codesignal/lisp:v10.0.0

# cd /lisp
# clisp
[1]> (+ 1 2)
3
[2](load 'fib.lisp)
[3](fib 8)
21
[3](quit)
# exit

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Amazon => space internet?

 Jeff Bezos and Amazon just hired everybody but SpaceX for Project Kuiper | Ars Technica

Amazon announced launch agreements with the following companies as it seeks to build out its constellation of 3,236 satellites:
  • Arianespace: 18 launches of Europe's new Ariane 6 rocket
  • Blue Origin: 12 launches of the company's New Glenn rocket, with options for 15 additional launches
  • United Launch Alliance: 38 launches of the company's Vulcan rocket
  • final nine Atlas V rocket launches from United Launch Alliance