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by bradrn 5y ago
Upvoting for the same reason, although it does feel a bit counterintuitive to upvote such a horrible story.
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by bradrn 5y ago
Pullum is in fact a well-known linguist.
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by bradrn 5y ago
Huh, I had no idea! As I said, I’m not an expert.
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by bradrn 5y ago
Wow, glicol looks amazing! One of the few music languages I’ve seen which actually tries to balance low-level synthesis with higher-level sequencing. (The only other one I know of is extempore: https://extemporelang.github.io&#x2
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by bradrn 5y ago
I don’t know Serbo–Croatian at all, but Wiktionary suggests colloquial English interjections like ‘man’, ‘the hell’ as adequate translations: ‘don’t eat that, man!’.
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by bradrn 5y ago
Generally speaking, translation of dead languages is done via means of bilingual texts. The Rosetta Stone is the most famous of these; for cuneiform, the key was apparently a trilingual Old Persian/Elamite/Akkadian inscription (th
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by bradrn 5y ago
Skimming the article, this appears very much like TidalCycles: http://tidalcycles.org/
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by bradrn 5y ago
Note that this is the same person from https://www.deepsouthventures.com/i-sell-onions-on-the-inter... . (HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19728132 )
549.
by bradrn 5y ago
Mine seems to be a green… trident of some kind, maybe? I don’t even know what that is.
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by bradrn 5y ago
See also reanimate, a very similar Haskell library: https://reanimate.github.io/
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by bradrn 5y ago
Also in Australia. (This was actually my first thought while reading grandparent.)
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by bradrn 5y ago
The usual term for that is ‘ravioli code’: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti_code#Ravioli_code
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by bradrn 5y ago
Yes! This is exactly how I prefer to explain monads to non-Haskellers. A monad is just a unified abstraction for a certain type of callback which pops up in a bunch of different places (promises, optionals, randomness etc.). In some ways, i
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by bradrn 5y ago
Amazing, it even warned me after I spent half an hour on the game! I wish more programs would do that.
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by bradrn 5y ago
I’ve long thought that Smalltalk is as much a functional programming language as an object-oriented one, if not more so. From what I’ve seen, idiomatic Smalltalk code is constructed largely using anonymous functions, higher-order functions,
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by bradrn 5y ago
I also bought one based on a HN post! I fully concur that it is amazing for such a cheap product. Alas, I haven’t yet had an opportunity to use it in practice — but I fully intend to use it if I ever pick up electronics again! (It’s also pr
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by bradrn 5y ago
> … they might not understand that a human has to turn its head to see something. I’m pretty sure they understand this well — it’s common knowledge that a swooping magpie will stop attacking if you stare straight at it. (Of course, ‘comm
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by bradrn 5y ago
Australian magpies truly are amazing birds. I recall once seeing two young magpies lying on their side and play-wrestling. [Image: https://imgur.com/CxRsLE3 ] When one got tired, the other kept following it around — it obvio
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by bradrn 5y ago
> It would be a big help to show the elevation wherever I'm pointing — either with a miniature scale or a number or both It’s not obvious, but I just discovered that there’s a scale on the very right of the screen. Not quite as good
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by bradrn 5y ago
Thanks for highlighting this — I’ve been waiting for something else by QNTM! I’ll note he has done this sort of thing before, in the form of HATETRIS [ https://qntm.org/hatetris ].
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by bradrn 5y ago
I concur. This post was excellent, but is now highly outdated. The Haskell Foundation is doing some amazing work in coordinating the development of Haskell, its ecosystem and its tooling. We don’t have Haskell202* yet, but only because ther
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by bradrn 5y ago
I think you overestimate the amount of redundancy required for a usable writing system. For instance, Thai has a large number of confusable characters: consider pairs such as คด, ชซ and ขฃ. [0] is an interesting exploration of letter shape
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by bradrn 5y ago
I’m no botanist, but I believe cycads have spermatozoids too. All seed plants (including angiosperms) have ovules.
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by bradrn 5y ago
I’ve been using water from a hosepipe, so yes, tap water. However we have also been getting an unusual amount of rain recently, so that’s been watering the plants also.
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by bradrn 5y ago
Amazing video! I recently found some ginkgo seeds and have also been trying to make them grow. Some had naturally germinated, so I tried to replicate the conditions where I found those ones (covered with ~1cm of soil, in a shady spot, recei
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by bradrn 5y ago
> Does anyone know why the leaves are initially so dark and then become lighter? Is that common in plants? I’ve noticed the same thing in frangipani. I assume it has something to do with the same amount of chlorophyll being distributed o
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by bradrn 5y ago
I know of at least one language which actually uses this approach in its module system; namely, Io [ http://iolanguage.com/ ]. In Io, if you refer to an undefined name, all Io files in the current directory are searched for t
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by bradrn 5y ago
This reminds me very strongly of the WireWorld cellular automaton: https://quinapalus.com/wires0.html (Also, how did you get a post with both text and a link? I didn’t know it was possible.)
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by bradrn 5y ago
> I believe that every language does have something that you can describe as a noun, but that's more or less the only "universal" part of speech (there are some languages that essentially don't have verbs--you "d
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by bradrn 5y ago
Not a historian, but the obvious explanation is that Crete was the centre of the Minoan civilisation, ‘the first advanced civilisation in Europe’ [0]. The only other scripts in use at the time were various forms of cuneiform in Mesopotamia

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