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by bradrn 1y ago
In the code in this article, the key is the mapping stored in ‘CIPHER’.
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by bradrn 1y ago
IIRC Navajo has a pretty robust noun-verb distinction. However there definitely are other languages where nouns and verbs behave very similarly, e.g. most famously Salishan languages. That said, there don’t seem to be any natural languages
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by bradrn 1y ago
> Just use optparse-applicative in PureScript. Or in Haskell!
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by bradrn 1y ago
But isn’t it sort of the whole point of Smalltalk that the IDE and the code run at the same time in the same place?
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by bradrn 1y ago
See also: https://www.amber-lang.net/
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by bradrn 1y ago
> Thankfully, in GHC 7.4.1 was introduced the record syntax, which allows naming fields, like this […] What on Earth? Record syntax has been around since the very first versions of Haskell. This is a surprisingly blatant error to see so
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by bradrn 1y ago
Apparently, yes: https://muratkasimov.art/Ya/Operators
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by bradrn 1y ago
Er… this may be a stupid question, but how is this actually different to ordinary floating-point arithmetic? Ordinary IEEE-754 floating-point numbers already store the mantissa and exponent in separate fields, don’t they?
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by bradrn 1y ago
No, see previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44632819
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by bradrn 1y ago
> It actually peaks between magenta and blue No, it actually peaks wherever you want it to peak, depending on how you plot it: https://www.oceanopticsbook.info/view/light-and-radiometry/l...
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by bradrn 1y ago
Technically those aren’t macros; they’re what the Lisp world calls ‘fexprs’.
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by bradrn 1y ago
Along similar lines, the calligraphy here is quite impressive: https://www.reddit.com/r/language/comments/1gmzro8/what_scri...
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by bradrn 1y ago
Both eruvim have their own dedicated physical wires, yes. > accusations of anti-semitism (whether warranted or not is a matter of opinion) I live within the St Ives eruv. At least some of the opposition was unquestionably antisemitic — I
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by bradrn 1y ago
Not at all. The Jewish perspective is essentially that Jewish law stems from the creation of an all-knowing God, and therefore any seeming ‘loopholes’ must not only be known to Him but explicitly intended to exist. On this basis, it must
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by bradrn 1y ago
> Sign language […] does have something map-like that the author writes about. Not really, no. Sign languages have basically the same structure as spoken languages. (Exceptions are fairly minor, e.g. the use of space for anaphora in ASL.
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by bradrn 1y ago
If I understand correctly, this is the same as the default behaviour for Emacs (on top of which Undo Tree is implemented).
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by bradrn 2y ago
Also Io, to some extent: https://iolanguage.org/guide/guide.html#Importing
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by bradrn 2y ago
The point being made in that file is really that, if you take the SI definitions literally, 'cycles' and 'radians' end up both being dimensionless and equal to 1, which is stupid.
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by bradrn 2y ago
> as a native speaker, I can't even decide if that should be "first vowel in these is" or "first vowels in these are" or what I actually wrote above which is what seems more natural to me, although immediately st
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by bradrn 2y ago
As someone doing research in physics, I’ve noticed this usage before. It seems fairly frequent outside CS [EDIT: and as the sibling comment says, specifically in numerical computing]. From what I’ve gathered, for them ‘code’ has become a co
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by bradrn 2y ago
I see an image on that page…?
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by bradrn 2y ago
Hackage has a categories system which can be used to browse through all Haskell packages [0]. Unfortunately the categories are unstandardised, so it’s less useful than it could be — though the Flora project exists, which has improved the UI
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by bradrn 2y ago
> I believe that it is still practiced in Iraq and Syria And Iran, but especially in India: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoroastrianism_in_India
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by bradrn 2y ago
A bit of searching turned up this, on a discussion between the author of that paper and a critic: https://www.reddit.com/r/IndianHistory/comments/1iekde1/fina...
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by bradrn 2y ago
I think for ‘Scottish Garlic’ you meant ‘Scottish Gaelic’…
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by bradrn 2y ago
Well, ‘is’ isn’t quite the right word… but they’re all closely related languages, yes, which is why I mentioned it.
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by bradrn 2y ago
I say this as a native English speaker… but I speak South African English (or something similar), and I’ve heard that this expression is due to Afrikaans influence!
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by bradrn 2y ago
Yes, fixes.
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by bradrn 2y ago
Meanwhile I always liked this one, even though it’s not specifically focussed on mathematics: https://foundalis.com/lan/hw/grkhandw.htm
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by bradrn 2y ago
Actually, this reminds me very strongly of Rebol [0] and related languages (e.g. Red [1]). They work as you describe at the end: whenever a function is encountered, the interpreter inspects the following arguments, without any need for pare

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