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by astrobe_ 2y ago
> This manner of response is stupid and infantile. I hope you can talk to me directly next time. I made it pretty clear I didn't wish to continue that conversation, so I wasn't responding to you. There will probably be no next
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by astrobe_ 2y ago
> But the topic is readability not viability. Pretty much all programming languages have some readability issues, dealing with them via coding conventions. Thank you, that's part of what I was saying. > Nowadays we want our text
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by astrobe_ 2y ago
> The lisp source code encodes more information, and what is added is highly relevant to the process of reading it Lisp isn't that easy when you don't have supporting tools, mainly a coding editor that auto-indents, re-indents
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by astrobe_ 2y ago
I have addressed that point twice already. This is tiring. I discovered Forth a long time ago and thought, there's no way this language is viable , and yet it was used in prestigious projects. It made me curious so I tried it, dropped
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by astrobe_ 2y ago
> Something is harder to read if it takes more effort to read it. I think the smiley was a sufficient warning not to go there. Define harder . For whom ? etc. > hold that information on a stack in your head. I have proactively addres
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by astrobe_ 2y ago
Yes, Forth is point-free at its core, the only named variables that exist are global variables. The standard defines local variables as an optional extension.
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by astrobe_ 2y ago
> objectively more readable Certainly not "objectively" in the literal sense, because there's no measure of "readability". But you can define one if you want, so that we can argue about its biases and relevance ;
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by astrobe_ 2y ago
The comparison between Lisp and Forth that is often made is very shallow. It's more than just prefix vs postfix. Lisp takes garbage collection for granted, Forth is designed to avoid any complication and doesn't even have heap all
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by astrobe_ 2y ago
When I look at the credits of popular animes, very often I see what looks like Korean names, as if most of the animation has been outsourced. Could it be related?
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by astrobe_ 2y ago
Le Point has been criticized for anti-muslin tendencies by anti-racist associations [1] among other criticism about dishonest behavior. Its director of publication have been found guilty of libel against Chinese people, yet he is still empl
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by astrobe_ 2y ago
Yes, it's the same greek root as "peripheral". A "périphérique" is a main road tha goes around the city. Paris' peripherique is called Le périphérique because it is famous a probably the largest in France.
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by astrobe_ 2y ago
> asking it to execute this type of program in order to come up with a solution I may be showing my ignorance about this tech here, but I believe the LLM doesn't even try to solve a problem; they try to generate a discourse that cou
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by astrobe_ 2y ago
To be fair, criminals are (fortunately) not always intelligent, especially the rabble they are trying to catch; or at least, the "small fry" isn't, but that's precisely how - I suppose - they hope to catch the bigger fis
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by astrobe_ 2y ago
Article 12 of the declaration of Human Rights : No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection o
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by astrobe_ 2y ago
> This seems like an infeasible solution in most if not all real world cases I've seen. Especially if you have a system with 15 years of legacy and some thousands of man-years of effort put into them. > Now, the obvious "don
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by astrobe_ 2y ago
> GP calls this "coincidence" to convey the feeling of lots of complexity just narrowly avoiding catastrophe in a process that is hard to grok for someone getting into C++ I think that's what they said themselves: >>
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by astrobe_ 2y ago
The recommendation of using the most recent standard is very slightly inconsistent with this, because in rare cases your code could be reused in weird embedded targets that only have an unmaintained proprietary C compiler. That was already
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by astrobe_ 2y ago
That doesn't prove anything, but from an etymology perspective both "conscious" and "cognition" mean "know together". One can easily spot the common "co-" prefix which carries the "together&
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by astrobe_ 2y ago
Interesting take. This reminds me of Blade Runner, which, I read, takes place in 2019.
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by astrobe_ 2y ago
What is this obsession with making computers human-like? We can put those machine to better uses than forgetting, having biases, making subtle or gross mistakes (hello, ChatGPT) like we do. The AI that some apparently consider top-notch tod
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by astrobe_ 2y ago
Excluding from the problem domain the tool - and the constrains that come with it - namely the computer, isn't it a bit arbitrary? I think nowadays the only major languages that don't provide GC are C/C++, and one use them ty
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by astrobe_ 2y ago
> One big problem is that for any product/feature not used in isolation in a very controlled context, simplicity is often suboptimal, inflexible and limiting. "suboptimal" from the global perspective, because to me a simpl
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by astrobe_ 2y ago
Of course. If you were running an evil open-source company, you would favor "solutions" that generates demand for the services you sell (training, tech support contracts,...) while maintaining the belief that all this is necessary
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by astrobe_ 2y ago
Also regular expression engines.
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by astrobe_ 2y ago
> Also, if you can compile to bytecode ahead of time, then that could save the time needed to parse the text of a sql query to bytecode at runtime. I think we already kind of have that already; one can prepare a query/statement and
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by astrobe_ 3y ago
> Let’s be clear: schizophrenia does not cause racism Depends on the type of racism. If it's a false sense of superiority - probably the most common type of racism - well, maybe. But if it's the belief that some type of people
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by astrobe_ 3y ago
I wonder what was the state of navigation systems for planes at this time, because among the car GPS brands, one finds for instance Garmin, which is an avionics company.
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by astrobe_ 3y ago
It's probably still the case a little ; I've seen 21st century projects shipping a dozen or so of makefiles because in Unix/Linux land there's so many little variations, like BSD vs Linux. I seems to me that Autotools i
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by astrobe_ 3y ago
> no/low-alloc code has it's place ... Which is pretty large in the embedded firwmare field. However that's not systems programming but system (singular) programming.
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by astrobe_ 3y ago
Maybe OP refers to vocabulary search order manipulation [1]. It's sort of like namespaces, but "stacked". There's also the old MARKER and FORGET pair [2]. The dictionary pointer can also be manipulated in some dialects.

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