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by bradrn 5y ago
> It is pretty crazy though that these languages have chosen LtR for their horizontal text, but RtL for vertical text It’s not actually that crazy: if you rotate RTL vertical text counterclockwise to get text starting from the top of the
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by bradrn 5y ago
Alas, RTL is not the only direction a truly multilingual application must support… traditional Mongolian script (‘Bichig’) is written in vertical columns, and is now considered an official script of Mongolia alongside Cyrillic. This means t
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by bradrn 5y ago
> Most dialects, Cantonese included, use the same Chinese character system. I don’t think GP is arguing about this. The question is about whether they use the same sounds, whether they have the same grammar, and whether people from diffe
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by bradrn 5y ago
I find this comment odd. It looks fine to me: https://imgur.com/5fW1OON
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by bradrn 5y ago
> The very first versions of Lisp were less functional than Common Lisp: imperative, mutable data, mostly only dynamic scoping for variables, no lexical scope, first class data type of functions unclear, ... Hmm, perhaps I’m misrememberi
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by bradrn 5y ago
My understanding is that Scheme is quite functional. So were the very first versions of Lisp. Common Lisp, on the other hand, strikes me as not very functional at all (from what limited experience I have of the language). It does have fir
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by bradrn 5y ago
Could you elaborate please?
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by bradrn 5y ago
And the sad thing is, they don’t even know what the passive voice is! See G. K. Pullum, Fear and Loathing of the English Passive [ http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/~gpullum/passive_loathing.html ]. Their unintentional hypocrisy
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by bradrn 5y ago
On mine also.
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by bradrn 5y ago
> you can speak fairly good English with no knowledge of any of these complications Well, this is very dependent on exactly what you mean by ‘fairly good English’. I’d say that getting to this level is hardly trivial — I’ve seen many non
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by bradrn 5y ago
I — a native English speaker — conlang as a hobby. I do it simply because I find exploring linguistics fun. I also want to learn another language one day. The two are not mutually exclusive. In fact, the best conlangers I know are all inten
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by bradrn 5y ago
> Tenses in English are quite nicely organised into a Cartesian product of {past, present, future} x {simple, perfect, continuous} Alas, they are not. You can have a perfect continuous, for instance: ‘I had been waiting’. Furthermore, th
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Writing about Haskell is Hard(anthony.noided.media)
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by bradrn 5y ago
> What I like about Haskell is that it is unashamedly a language for programming language research, by programming language researchers Wait, what? This runs completely counter to my experience of Haskell. I use it whenever I can, and I’
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by bradrn 5y ago
There isn’t one in particular I can recommend (or remember). Just look up how to install packages, look at other people’s configs, explore what packages are available, and so on. That’s basically what I did.
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by bradrn 5y ago
> Even with EVIL mode it didn't feel just as smooth. I’m surprised to hear this. I’d personally assess Evil highly — in some areas, it’s even better than Vim. What problem(s) did you have with it?
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by bradrn 5y ago
I should note that these are direct quotes from the article. (I didn’t notice at first.)
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by bradrn 5y ago
As a devoted Emacs user I think the following is really the most important part of the article: > Emacs is not really an editor either! I believe that Emacs is the ultimate editor building material. The out-of-the-box experience is kind
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by bradrn 5y ago
… how ‽ What is the explanation for this?
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by bradrn 5y ago
Yes, but Table Mountain has ridiculous floral diversity. There are widely considered to be six floral kingdoms [0]: the northern hemisphere, the tropics, Africa and southern Asia, South America, Australia, the Antarctic, and the tip of Sout
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by bradrn 5y ago
> It’s really not that complex and I don’t get where this sentiment comes from. You’ve already listed four separate applications: poetry, pipenv, virtualenv and pip. And if you look online you’ll also find Anaconda and probably several o
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by bradrn 5y ago
Oh, so that ’s where LYAH came from! I read it when I was first learning Haskell, and I recall being somewhat puzzled by the style. More recently, I know someone who stopped reading it in large part because of the style — it seems to hav
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Australian regulator demands face-scanning firm Clearview AI delete photos(smh.com.au)
3 points by bradrn 5y ago|0 comments
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by bradrn 5y ago
As an Aussie I get to see a lot of spiders, and they are absolutely amazing creatures. I can spend ages watching an orb weaver spider carefully constructing its web by ziplining down single threads at a time to get every part of the web to
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by bradrn 5y ago
For anyone who hasn’t run into Ithkuil before, it’s basically an attempt at creating a language which is as precise and concise as possible: > an idealized language whose aim is the highest possible degree of logic, efficiency, detail,
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by bradrn 5y ago
Words with this range of meaning are simply called ‘noun classifiers’ in linguistics [0]. They’re pretty common both in the region and outside it: they’re also in Lao, Hmong and Minangkabau, as well as various Australian, Mayan and South Am
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by bradrn 5y ago
> I'd expect some kind of expection in that case. Sorry, what exactly do you mean by ‘expectation’ here? > This sounds like a dangerous example of monads (since you don't know if you had a Nothing value up in the chain or a
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by bradrn 5y ago
No: it goes Just 20 → Just 10 → Just 5 → Nothing, because 5/2 can’t be represented as an integer.
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by bradrn 5y ago
Too true. I used Maybe as an example only because it had already been mentioned in the parent comment, but I agree that it doesn’t get across how incredibly useful monads are.
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by bradrn 5y ago
Huh, interesting how we came up with nearly identical comments at the same time! (Though I somehow managed to get the function name wrong…)

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