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by aidenn0 6mo ago
> Can't have rail accidents if you don't have rail taps side of head Sure the US has low rail-usage per-capita, but it's still enough for 50% more passenger-kilometers per year than Spain.
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by aidenn0 6mo ago
This was just in my local news 2 days ago; it doesn't seem that strange for California: https://www.santamariasun.com/news-2/fatal-dui-case-closes-w... Last year I was on the jury for someone who drove drunk, caus
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by aidenn0 6mo ago
It's not unusual for lisp interpreters to lack TCO. Also the (relative) popularity of dynamic binding in Common Lisp reduced the opportunities for TCO. There's not really a consensus in the parts of the CL community that I'm
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by aidenn0 6mo ago
I was told that one of the designers graduated high-school in '81 and college in '85, so the HS calculator was an 81 and the college calculator was an 85.
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by aidenn0 6mo ago
That explains the maximum size of 4096 elements (exactly where a bitmap would be smaller).
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by aidenn0 6mo ago
Thanks for that name; that's the exact layout I was considering. See also https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.05053
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by aidenn0 6mo ago
Binary searching a sorted array is isomorphic to a sorted binary tree with implicit child pointers. It seems to me like there should be a sort order that stores the items as a fully-dense left-shifted binary tree from top-to-bottom (e.g. li
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by aidenn0 6mo ago
The size is 1..4096, the range is implied to be the full 16-bit integer range.
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by aidenn0 6mo ago
If you are storing 16-bit integers, wouldn't an 8kB bitmap be even faster?
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by aidenn0 6mo ago
I don't know kernel very well; what will the value of person print as?
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by aidenn0 6mo ago
More like a giant steel guitar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steel_guitar
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by aidenn0 6mo ago
How do Lisp developers deal with XML and JSON? Convert it to s-expressions. As a common lisp developer, that is only very vaguely true for me. The mapping I prefer for json<->Lisp is: true: t false: nil null: :null []
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by aidenn0 6mo ago
Similar, but IIRC I used esnes, not zsnes.
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by aidenn0 6mo ago
Just last week I called something blue and my daughter objected; she said it was green. After discussion we both agreed it was was teal and she said roughly "but teal is a shade of green." To me Teal is a (admittedly greenish) s
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by aidenn0 6mo ago
Given the historic opposition of many employers to unions, perhaps this should be tagged NSFW?
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by aidenn0 6mo ago
> ...how can you be against an entity whose main objective is to safeguard and work for your interests over your employers? This is like asking how people can be anti Google when Google's mission is to "organize the world'
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by aidenn0 6mo ago
I personally suspect that the overwhelming majority of those complaining would find a different reason to not learn lisp if the Emacs barrier were removed, but I very much might be wrong.
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by aidenn0 6mo ago
Construx is what I played with. It was only sold for a few years.
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by aidenn0 6mo ago
1. It is a potential first step on the way from non-programmer to programmer. 2. "Easy enough for a non-programmer" may also say something about how easy it is for a programmer.
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by aidenn0 6mo ago
How does its strength compare to MMA structural adhesives? What materials is it compatible with?
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by aidenn0 6mo ago
Won't a fired .22 bullet be sized to the depth of the grooves due to obturation?
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by aidenn0 6mo ago
The publishers conspired with Apple to force Amazon to increase its margins. https://jolt.law.harvard.edu/digest/e-book-conspiracy-apples...
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by aidenn0 6mo ago
That pricing really only started in 2010. Prior to that, publishers would sell them to Amazon at (presumably) a similar cost to wholesale physical books, and Amazon would mark them up much less than the physical books.
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by aidenn0 6mo ago
If that's enough to make a language pure OOP, then Common Lisp is also a pure OOP languge: CL-USER> (class-of 42) #<BUILT-IN-CLASS COMMON-LISP:FIXNUM>
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by aidenn0 6mo ago
I'd like to read a good article or book about the tension that exists between efficiency and resiliency. At the simplest level, unneeded redundancy is always less efficient, but also more resilient.
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by aidenn0 6mo ago
I was interning at a company that made networking gear that was put out of business when their largest customer canceled an order within a week of the delivery date. The customer ran out of money. In terms of where you are in line of debto
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by aidenn0 6mo ago
There's a lot of moving parts here: 1. Competition is much lower in a lot of places. 2. Customers prioritize convenience and (perceived at least) low-prices over being treated well. Look at airlines: Unless you happen to be traveling b
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by aidenn0 6mo ago
I was about to give away my old PC, but I think it could be worth my hassle to sell it for the RAM now (64GB DDR4).
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by aidenn0 6mo ago
Most lisp implementations use a moving collector of some kind, so heap fragmentation is less of a concern. As far as constant factors go, this library is a middle ground; they strive for low constant factors in their algorithms, but it reli
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by aidenn0 6mo ago
SBCL's gc is historically overly optimized for throughput at the expense of everything else. It also predates common availability of parallel systems. There's a new GC that addresses those things. That being said, for batch proc

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