CornCobs

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by CornCobs 5y ago
I believe a lot of what makes Tcl the way it is is precisely because it does things different from most other languages with regards to closures, lambdas, scoping etc. If Tcl had the other stuff, would it need upvar/uplevel or its funn
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by CornCobs 5y ago
It's definitely a country and region specific thing. Where I come from Telegram reigns supreme amongst young people. It's practically the default at universities. Custom stickers, polls, really useful bots - make it perfect for gr
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by CornCobs 5y ago
I don't know, half the other stories seem to suggest they don't play well together. What ram did you buy? Crucial?
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by CornCobs 5y ago
Hope this isn't too off topic: I've noticed increasingly in the past few years, news article headlines of this exact form: <something good>. Then <something bad>. Personally it often feels like clickbait to the point t
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by CornCobs 5y ago
Fellow T460S-er! Is yours 4gb soldered or 8gb soldered? What ram did you install? I'm always worried about incompatibility with the soldered ram so I never upgraded
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by CornCobs 5y ago
Vertical tabs on edge and sleeping tabs have ruined my tab discipline and that's a compliment. I keep so many more tabs open than before and they don't get in my way. Collections are also an actually useful feature for recording b
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by CornCobs 5y ago
Wait what? Wow Heroes 3 is a childhood game of mine. I remember spending hours in the map editor just drawing maps and placing enemies and resources all around. Glad to see it still alive and kicking! Who to watch?
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by CornCobs 5y ago
I love reading write ups like this. It's an extremely empowering feeling to realize that all these opaque software and cryptic errors are ultimately also written by fellow programmers. You CAN understand it, you CAN take matters into y
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by CornCobs 5y ago
Fantastic idea! Another benefit I can think of having such a repository combined with this markup language is powerful semantic searches - filtering by sets of ingredients, and perhaps adding the ability to add tags to the recipes
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by CornCobs 5y ago
The discussion here has me thinking of the many times I just use a simple plain text editor or notes app on my phone, when what I really needed was a lightning fast, minimal spreadsheet. Does anyone know of such a software? Can read multipl
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by CornCobs 5y ago
I somehow can't download TFA, but I can't imagine strict R being anything similar to the current language. A huge chunk of the language's functionality depends on non-standard evaluation
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by CornCobs 5y ago
Sure thing!
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by CornCobs 5y ago
I'm working on a similar domain, music transcription. The challenge is to estimate note values (how many beats is a note supposed to be as represented in the score?) and I'm not sure what would be the a good way to measure transcr
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by CornCobs 5y ago
In particular I'd shoutout ggplot as an amazing DSL for graphics. It truly is a language of itself for describing visualizations as mappings from data to graphical layers. And yet being a library it seamlessly interacts with the rest o
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by CornCobs 5y ago
Gonna hijack this thread a bit to ask Thinkpad tinkerers: is the wifi card a normal part to replace? I'm on a t460s. Or should I just get an external network adapter and live with an antenna
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by CornCobs 5y ago
Agreed. I personally think of parser generator/parser combinator as similar to framework/library, where in the framework you have much less control and often have to rely on "escape hatches" to make custom stuff work. Wh
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by CornCobs 5y ago
I beg to differ. If you are talking about dplyr, it has a much smaller and consistent API. And I learned python first. It is certainly interesting though, how there are so many people firmly in opposite camps. I really cannot imagine how pa
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by CornCobs 5y ago
Disclaimer: only have dabbled in Koka slightly. Not very sure if this is what you were asking about but yes, you can write functions that are polymorphic in their effect. E.g. the map function takes a function that has some effect e and the
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by CornCobs 5y ago
I think the author makes a valid point about this though - that it is precisely because of the limitations of SQL that we think this way. If SQL was a much more expressive data processing language we may not even require an app layer. I do
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by CornCobs 5y ago
Iosevka. Beautiful thin characters
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by CornCobs 5y ago
For me even the desktop experience is pretty buggy. Has anyone else noticed that sometimes reddit divs jitter up and down like crazy? Seems to be an issue caused by scrolling
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by CornCobs 5y ago
Julia allows you to input Unicode characters via latex names though. I think that's a sweet spot of ease of typing and expressivity of characters. Honestly I really hate seeing mu_a, delta_k and company all over the place. If we are go
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by CornCobs 5y ago
Indeed I was not aware of that feature. Thanks!
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by CornCobs 5y ago
Interesting! What I noticed when approaching the problem was that there is quite little information on scaling up. I also don't think there are good out-of-the-box solutions covering a wide range of use cases. Dedup (basically cross-pr
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by CornCobs 5y ago
Have you heard of notepadqq? I haven't used it but I'm aware that it's supposed to be a sort of replica of notepad++
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by CornCobs 5y ago
Yea pairwise string matching for problems like record linkage is O(n^2) and is really infeasible for larger data. I once had to deal with a problem like this (matching business entity names against a large database) and ended up preprocessi
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by CornCobs 5y ago
I agree that Advanced R is a fantastic resource; however I do not think reading it is a good way to learn R. Advanced R explains the whys not the whats, and someone coming into R, who hasn't encountered any of the stuff Wickham gives i
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by CornCobs 5y ago
This sounds like a highly biased perspective of both R, and what it means for a language to be respectable. If you define a language that "will expand your programming views" as one that can verify correctness easily then yeah, R
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by CornCobs 5y ago
Sorry if I'm ignorant, but isn't running CI locally basically just running tests/build normally?
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by CornCobs 5y ago
Welcome to whose like is it anyway - the show where everything is made up and the points don't matter

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