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by asplake 1y ago
> It seems that the designers of Lisp 1.5 thought of function names as being different from variable names--the Lisp 1.5 interpreter looked at the property list of the named atomic symbol first, and so it can be argued that a function wa
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I Spoke to Britain's First AI MP and It Got a Bit Weird(politicshome.com)
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by asplake 1y ago
As a manager, attention in your scarcest resource, and lack of context (strategic &/or operational) is a problem for everyone. The two are connected.
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Formal Inertia(daedeluskite.com)
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by asplake 1y ago
Why that line in particular? It seems not to be about the quality of the content. Part of the issue is that businesses were advised to produce useful content, but the motivation for doing so is disappearing. A net negative, surely?
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by asplake 1y ago
As they say here in the UK: Location, location, location. Or there’s Mark Twain: Buy land, they're not making it anymore.
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by asplake 1y ago
What other languages have been influenced by Go?
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by asplake 1y ago
s/nomadic/monadic/!
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by asplake 1y ago
> These are really concepts needed to make up for the limitations of a pure functional layer of abstraction in an imperative world. Yet they have been found to be much more widely useful. Closures as callbacks, generators as the basis fo
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by asplake 1y ago
Programming languages in practice borrow heavily from functional programming. Polymorphic types, closures, generators, immutability, various nomadic things etc all came from there.
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by asplake 1y ago
Quoting Pierce’s book Types and Programming Languages (which I’m reading now): “Barendregt’s article (1992) is for the more mathematically inclined.” That’s in a book designed for a graduate course.
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by asplake 1y ago
Even with cyclic relationships between types, immutability makes cycles within instances difficult (without laziness anyway). A syntax tree would be a good example.
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One Reason Typeclasses Are Useful (2011)(coalton-lang.github.io)
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by asplake 1y ago
Kerfuffle is British - quite common here. 19th century Scots apparently!
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by asplake 1y ago
Well I learned that FrameMaker still lives! Takes me back to a past life. Who uses it now?
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by asplake 1y ago
The article refutes that somewhat: > I find this particularly interesting because this isn't fundamentally a problem of the software being written in C. These are logic errors that are possible in nearly all languages, the common fa
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by asplake 1y ago
I'm neither American nor of the political persuasion of its current government, but I'm not alone in seeing it odd that the outputs of research funded by my government and/or yours is paywalled so egregiously. I for one would
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by asplake 1y ago
Interesting! I’m working on toy/educational generator of ML-style tagged variants and associated functions in C (for a compiler) and when I’m a bit further along I will see if they’re compatible.
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by asplake 1y ago
How do you get that title from that post?
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Scoop: Trump admin cuts contracts with scientific publishing giant(axios.com)
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by asplake 1y ago
UK too. Edit: > Paracetamol is the Australian Approved Name and British Approved Name as well as the international nonproprietary name used by the WHO and in many other countries; acetaminophen is the United States Adopted Name and Japan
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Scrap Your Type Classes(haskellforall.com)
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Empire of flight: Why birds don't drive Bentleys and we humans will never fly(aeon.co)
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by asplake 1y ago
> You don’t obsess over one thing. You move lots of little things forward. No grand initiatives. No reorg. Just constant, low-key, under-the-radar nudging in the right direction. It's not terrible advice, but it scales less well tha
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by asplake 1y ago
“… well enough to reproduce 50-token excerpts at least half the time”
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Sizewell C nuclear plant gets £14B go-ahead from government(bbc.co.uk)
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by asplake 1y ago
That’s the closest so far, thanks!
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by asplake 1y ago
Nice!
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by asplake 1y ago
> The traitorous eight was a group of eight employees who left Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory in 1957 to found Fairchild Semiconductor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traitorous_eight
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by asplake 1y ago
Yes I’ve played with Gleam. A nice small language but bigger than I had in mind. That’s mainly to look under the covers, which in Gleam’s case involves other language platforms, so less interesting in this context.

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