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by bradrn 4y ago
> … it isn't particularly closely related to Sanskritic languages, nor to Western Indo-European languages (Greek, Latin, Germanic, Slavic). This is actually an interesting and rather subtle point! The IE languages are usually divide
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by bradrn 4y ago
Nicaraguan Sign Language is a full language, though.
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by bradrn 4y ago
> We've seen several new spreadsheet implementations pop up in the past years, including ones with built-in programming capability, but none of them really seem like as big of a deal as Gsheets/Excel adding lambdas. I think thi
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by bradrn 4y ago
On the other hand, sometimes it’s better to avoid naming functions, especially if they’re small and only used once. For instance, if I’m doing something like ‘map (\(x,y) -> (x,y+1))’ to increment the second element of each item in a l
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by bradrn 4y ago
I’d be interested to hear what this would sound like if each function call weren’t converted to a nice-sounding arpeggio first… I suspect it wouldn’t sound as good, but would be happy to be proven wrong!
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by bradrn 4y ago
I use the latter, mostly since it has the same vowel as in ‘Python’.
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by bradrn 4y ago
> Sanskrit is only spoken in India by an estimated 25,000 people out of a population of more than one billion, the university said. This is a somewhat misleading explanation of what Sanskrit is. The Sanskrit language is the ancestor of m
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by bradrn 4y ago
There’s lots and lots of different systems: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yan_tan_tethera#Systems_by_reg... . Some have methera , some have pethera , many have something else.
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by bradrn 4y ago
> But I quickly ended up in dependency or type hell when I tried using them. Wouldn’t know about the dependency issues, but the newer ‘optics’ library [ https://hackage.haskell.org/package/optics ] has much simpler ty
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by bradrn 4y ago
(2019) — although it hasn’t affected the correctness of the article, as far as I can tell
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by bradrn 4y ago
There’s Inflex [0], which has a very interesting (and I think better) approach to spreadsheets. I’ve also been working independently on a very similar idea [1], though it’s early days yet and I’m still busy figuring out the how to build it
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by bradrn 4y ago
I think it’s a continuum. Sure, I freely admit that I’m still rather ignorant when it comes to the low-level details of my computer. But compared to the understanding I get from Windows or Ubuntu? From that point of view, I’ve learnt a lot.
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by bradrn 4y ago
> Honest question: why days? Because I was a total novice. I barely even knew what a partition was, let alone anything else. Now, of course, I find it much simpler.
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by bradrn 4y ago
This summarises my feelings so far precisely. Alas, I’m not quite sure it’s possible to have this: the easier and more full-featured something is to use out of the box, the more components it needs — or at least, its components become more
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by bradrn 4y ago
I’ve heard of Manjaro, but on the occasions when I’ve brought it up in conversation, people have almost unanimously warned me off from it in fairly strong terms… not entirely sure why, but that alone makes me reluctant to use it.
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by bradrn 4y ago
> The installation process, and the documentation behind it, lead to the third virtue: a complete installation tends to be very small and simple, because you only install the bits you need. If you don't know what bits you need, the
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by bradrn 4y ago
> Windows in the late 90s was an entire environment based on composable components, linked together via discoverable interfaces. It had a software composition story far superior to Unix pipes. I’ve never heard anything about this (probab
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by bradrn 4y ago
Hmm, this is interesting. Rereading that post, it looks to me like McCarthy and Hewitt are mentioned as influences rather than a manifestation of ‘OOP’ as such, and I can’t quite think of any OOP system in Lisp he could be referring to oth
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by bradrn 4y ago
Alan Kay’s immortal quote about OOP: > OOP to me means only messaging, local retention and protection and hiding of state-process, and extreme late-binding of all things. It can be done in Smalltalk and in LISP. There are possibly other
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by bradrn 4y ago
Well, firstly, I’d note that Haskell on Arch (including Pandoc) is broken, mostly due to the fact that Arch likes to dynamically link everything and Haskell doesn’t (see also https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/commen
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by bradrn 4y ago
Relatedly, it’s worth noting that there are really good bindings between Lua and Haskell [ https://hslua.org/ ], used in e.g. Pandoc for plugins.
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by bradrn 4y ago
Thanks for such a prompt reply! It would be great if you get some time to fix this — I’m really interested in seeing what my local busses look like. Also, while I’m thinking about it: have you considered graphing trains too? I know they hav
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by bradrn 4y ago
I like this, as a Sydneysider who’s always been fond of Marey’s chart! However, I suspect there are some bugs: e.g. when I try 197, only two non-overlapping busses are shown despite the presence of several on the map, and 674 gives only a s
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by bradrn 4y ago
A minor comment, but I’d reformat this a bit to make its structure clearer: fizzbuzz n = go id (show n) where go = test 3 "fizz" . test 5 "buzz" test d s x = if n `mod` d == 0
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by bradrn 4y ago
> I'll know we've arrived when super hero films begin with a disclaimer. That kind of thing has already been happening for quite a while, though. Books have long had disclaimers along the lines of ‘the following events and char
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by bradrn 4y ago
Thanks so much for explaining! I was wondering what kind of bug could possibly cause this… in any case, it’s nice to know it’s not Typst’s fault. Pity I can’t edit my post any more.
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by bradrn 4y ago
Weird… I tried it in Firefox, SumatraPDF and Acrobat Reader, and it worked in none of them for me. (In case you didn’t notice, it’s only specific pages which have the bug, namely those with raster images.)
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by bradrn 4y ago
I think the diagram on Page 5 is created within Typst itself, rather than being included from elsewhere — note that it’s a vector rather than raster image.
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by bradrn 4y ago
I find it interesting that, for every page in this PDF which includes an image, that page is rendered as a raster image itself, including the text, which then becomes unselectable (e.g. pages 12, 14, 15). This seems like a pretty severe bug
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by bradrn 4y ago
I quite like the recording included on the Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vaka_vanha_Vainamoinen.og...

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