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by armitron 8y ago
Your hypothesis is entirely wrong. Overdoses happen because desperate people get their drugs from the black market where purity fluctuates. Read the article again. Fentanyl getting mixed into heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine. This is wha
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by armitron 8y ago
One of the best references on BEAM is here: https://happi.github.io/theBeamBook/ You can skim it in order to see the major differences with the JVM. For me, the fact that BEAM has out of the box m:n threading [lightwei
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by armitron 8y ago
The key idea behind SICP and the philosophy of Lisp is metalinguistic abstraction which can be described as coming up with and expressing new ideas by first creating a language that allows you to _think_ about said ideas. Think about that f
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by armitron 8y ago
Ruby: Almost everything is an expression unlike Python, has symbols unlike Python, closures and anonymous functions are not crippled or second-class unlike Python, has full continuations unlike Python. Lua: Simple, minimal syntax which is c
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by armitron 8y ago
It would not have the same power. There are many ideas in SICP that trigger breakthrough moments (metacircular evaluator, church encoding, code is data / data is code, tower of interpreters, emergence through abstraction) that would ea
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by armitron 8y ago
CLOS is metacircular, implemented in itself. Moreover, it decouples state (classes and instances) from protocol (generic functions and methods) and through the MOP allows you to reprogram every aspect of its behavior. Python's object s
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by armitron 8y ago
Mostly agree but: Lua is a Lisp-lite, Ruby maybe a Lisp-lite, Python? No way, I'd go as far as say that Python is antithetical to the Lisp philosophy and yes, I know Norvig has claimed something similar in the past. It's still ina
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by armitron 8y ago
There is no Python-based version, Abelson and Sussman only produced one SICP based on Lisp. It is unfortunate that there are other courses by people not associated with Abelson and Sussman that have kept the same name but not the material.
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by armitron 8y ago
Where do you get the "inferior support for multi-threading/multi-core" from? SBCL and ClozureCL (among others) support both with no issues. Dated tooling? Not if you compare it to Clojure tooling, SLIME is lightyears ahead in
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by armitron 8y ago
It is illuminating to read the output of such minds as Kent Pitman, Dan Weinreb, David Moon, Richard Gabriel, Rodney Brooks, Guy Steele and what they have to say about Common Lisp and the standardization process, in places such as comp.lang
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by armitron 8y ago
The way I do things, is to treat the cable modem as already compromised and connect it to a router 100% under my control (running Linux) that will perform additional firewalling and/or act as a wireless AP. I will never let a border de
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by armitron 8y ago
(Mostly talking about SBCL) Mature native code compilation (including runtime assembler), type declarations that lead to optimizations in generated code, SBCL compiler can use declared types for compile-time type checks, read/compiler
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by armitron 8y ago
If you're talking about the A600 version that sits on top of the original 68k, it's disabled and never used for anything.
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by armitron 8y ago
The last time fs-uae updated its core to match WinUAE was in 2016-12-11, from the dev notes: "Updated emulation core from WinUAE 3300b2." Since then, WinUAE has had _6_ major releases, the changelog is visible on the front page an
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by armitron 8y ago
The best Amiga emulator (WinUAE) only runs on Windows and is still not quite there when it comes to emulating hardware expansions. Its ports to other OSes have been abandoned and the best candidate (fs-uae) is moving at snail pace whilst la
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by armitron 8y ago
Here is a good rebuttal by John Gray: https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2018/02/unenlight...
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by armitron 8y ago
First, the definition: Psychonautics (from the Ancient Greek ψυχή psychē ["soul", "spirit" or "mind"] and ναύτης naútēs ["sailor" or "navigator"] – "a sailor of the soul") refers b
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by armitron 8y ago
Any experienced psychonaut knows this is utter bullshit. It doesn't take a lot of LSD or psilocybin for one to experience "unconscious" thought, it is amongst the first things to manifest on a trip. To clarify, this is cognit
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by armitron 8y ago
Extremely powerful psychedelics are legal in many parts of the world, even the US under specific circumstances [peyote], some have been used for thousands of years. I can only see "abuse" as bullshit justification to keep them ill
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by armitron 8y ago
Standard medical advice? Are you even reading what he wrote? His doctor did not clear him to fly. It's crystal clear from the way they conducted themselves that the insurance company would find any excuse to deny his claim. It's
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by armitron 8y ago
Python is nothing like Lisp, please stop with the generalizations. When it comes to stupid comparisons, Ruby is more Lisp than Python, at least it's got Symbols. Python is not homoiconic, it doesn't have {reader/compiler&#x2F
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by armitron 8y ago
Python is nothing like Lisp, where did you come up with that? Three things that are key in Lisp: Symbols, environments and lexical scope. Python has none of these.
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by armitron 8y ago
ITA software [1] (acquired by Google) runs on SBCL. ITA people work on SBCL full time. Maybe you should tell us what is broken and/or completely missing? I have this feeling you've never used Common Lisp and are making things up a
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by armitron 8y ago
> For ages I couldn't figure out how exactly I would be able to use Quicklisp libraries to create something, and then create an executable from the source code. If you use SBCL, which is by far the best CL implementation, it's
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by armitron 8y ago
He's adding "1" to the pointer that points to the variable "b" which in this case is allocated immediately below "a" in the stack. Thus adding one will make the two pointers equal.
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by armitron 8y ago
And yet another problem is people who talk about things they have no personal experience with, resulting in them parroting something they saw or heard and propagating blatant falsehoods. Which is what you and the person you replied to, are
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by armitron 8y ago
I think when it comes to C, there are no smart programmers. Everyone is like a monkey with a grenade. They very few people that have proven to be exceptions to this, can be counted on one's hand and thus do not invalidate the premise.
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by armitron 8y ago
The momentum will never be there, Lisp is not geared for public consumption period. The commodification of programming and proliferation of languages like Javascript and Python means not only that the "masses" lack fundamental und
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by armitron 8y ago
The poster to whom you replied has missed the essence of Nietzsche's writings. There is no such thing as "pure nihilism". Rather, Nietzsche talks of passive and active forms of nihilism with passive leading towards detachment
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by armitron 8y ago
Nihilism is exactly what Buddhism represents, in its passive form (rather than the active form of nihilism that Nietzsche offers as a solution) which is why the term "passive nihilism" is used by Nietzsche and Schopenhauer to desc

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