ArchieMaclean

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by ArchieMaclean 5y ago
> In weakly typed languages like TypeScript I guess you mean JavaScript? In regards to speed, I really really recommend Vim. Macros are sorely missing in a lot of editors, and they are really a great way to skip a huge amount of repetiti
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UK Home Secretary considering removing right to anonymity on social media(independent.co.uk)
91 points by ArchieMaclean 5y ago|124 comments
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by ArchieMaclean 5y ago
It's because the paper they are referencing is testing the use of immunosuppressive therapy to treat myocarditis. The conclusion that was reached was that it doesn't work. Needless to say, that's not how myocarditis is treate
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by ArchieMaclean 5y ago
The source it gives for the mortality of myocarditis is a paper titled "A clinical trial of immunosuppressive therapy for myocarditis" I.e. they were testing a possible treatment. The conclusion was "Our results do not suppor
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by ArchieMaclean 5y ago
OK, thanks. I don't know any Lisps very well but I may have to change that :)
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by ArchieMaclean 5y ago
Is there going to be a theme?
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by ArchieMaclean 5y ago
That's a good point. I'm not sure about murders going down with united activists - it seems the people targeted are generally the ones organising activists into groups, so if there were more they might be of greater focus. It&#x27
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by ArchieMaclean 5y ago
Of course I'm not "okay with corporate murder". I just wanted to see some context as to why the rate was increasing.
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by ArchieMaclean 5y ago
While you won't be able to get a hard number of people, you could get a general number/trend (e.g. by counting the increase of people to rallies)
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by ArchieMaclean 5y ago
Ah, that makes a lot of sense.
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by ArchieMaclean 5y ago
Of course we should be doing all we can to prevent murder! It is just always hard to tell with statistics and having a more honest statistic (that, say, shows that murder rates have doubled while number of activists have increased 30%) woul
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by ArchieMaclean 5y ago
How does this compare to the growth in the number of environmental activists overall? Edit: it was pointed out below that it's probably more influenced by an increase in environmentally damaging activities such as logging. Edit 2: Yes,
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Wheel Reinvention Jam(handmade.network)
1 points by ArchieMaclean 5y ago|0 comments
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Asynchronous Programming in Nim(peterme.net)
7 points by ArchieMaclean 5y ago|2 comments
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by ArchieMaclean 5y ago
I think the hard part with this is that because CSS properties are so context-dependent, the compiler would have to somehow figure out a way to translate your simple property into the correct one, without knowing how your HTML is structured
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by ArchieMaclean 5y ago
On mobile, if I put the cursor on any word and press any key (even backspace), the word gets repeated at the current cursor position. Something to do with touch events not being handled properly maybe?
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Learn the workings of Git, not just the commands (2015)(developer.ibm.com)
2 points by ArchieMaclean 5y ago|0 comments
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by ArchieMaclean 5y ago
Based on my understanding from the article... Iterators change over space, Futures change over time. In iterator, every time you call 'next' you get a value until the end when you get nothing. In Future, every time you call '
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by ArchieMaclean 5y ago
Julia has a fair amount in common with Lisp, especially with macros. You can use metaprogramming to edit the AST of a Julia program, like Lisp. See https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/manual/metaprogramming/
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by ArchieMaclean 6y ago
My favourite example of this is Sibelius. The 'Quit Sibelius' button is precisely where you'd expect to find the 'Next' button. This video shows it at 6:33 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dKx1wnXClcI&a
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by ArchieMaclean 6y ago
See also nanochess https://nanochess.org/chess4.html
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by ArchieMaclean 6y ago
> Search is not a great solution either, since it is rarely used As a Vim user, I use search all the time , largely because it's so easy (just / and start typing). I don't have much experience with large code bases, but t
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by ArchieMaclean 6y ago
Idris has 'holes', where you tell the compiler that you haven't written this part yet, and it will compile while ignoring the hole. They're really useful for rapid prototyping, and also for helping you develop, as you ca
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by ArchieMaclean 6y ago
They may be wondering if the BIOS is FOSS. E.g. LibreBoot https://libreboot.org/ > Non-free BIOS/UEFI firmware often contains backdoors, can be slow and have severe bugs. Development and support can be abandoned at
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America's Can't-Do Spirit(axios.com)
2 points by ArchieMaclean 6y ago|0 comments
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by ArchieMaclean 6y ago
- Oil industry denying climate change [0] [1] [0] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/apr/13/climate-cha... [1] original source of Guardian article: https://www.smokeandfumes.org/do
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by ArchieMaclean 6y ago
JITs work based on assumptions that types/values will stay constant. So, here it probably assumes that it will always be working with integers. So it will be much more efficient in cases like this as it is pretty much pure, simple comp
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by ArchieMaclean 6y ago
Can you give an example of where doing this is useful?
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by ArchieMaclean 6y ago
The GNU Humour [0] collection may be of interest. Also Dylan Beattie has done some great songs on YouTube [1] (I especially like 'Bug in the JavaScript' and 'You Give REST a Bad Name') Here's a couple I remember fro
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by ArchieMaclean 6y ago
Programmer: I'm going out for a walk. Programmer's partner: While you're out, could you buy some milk? And the programmer never returned.

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