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by cronjobber 10y ago
> sometimes I feel that it is not a true lisp. That feeling may be the result of some questionable syntactic design decisions in Clojure. Hickey went over Lisp syntax and tried to remove parentheses wherever possible. (It was the hip thi
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by cronjobber 10y ago
I don't think most are as confused as you'd like them to be over whether H-1B workers are cheaters or willing pawns of cheaters.
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by cronjobber 10y ago
For tasks where Perl and Ruby shine , I don't think generic Scheme is a great replacement. Maybe scsh ( https://scsh.net/ ) or (not Scheme, but Lisp) kazinator's TXR ( http://www.nongnu.org/txr/
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by cronjobber 10y ago
Bostrom himself isn't committed to simulation. His actual argument is that either we're almost certainly living in a simulation or the stated assumptions are wrong. Moreover, there's a difference between "the universe
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Value engineering(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by cronjobber 10y ago|0 comments
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by cronjobber 10y ago
> So don't do that Sure boss, I'll fix it. Would have fixed it already, if only nontermination wasn't the most unhelpful kind of compiler error message, ever...
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by cronjobber 10y ago
That would be an almost benign problem to have. The real real big problem is that AI will learn to exploit all our flaws and biases. AI will evolve to be supernaturally intelligent and supernaturally psychopathic at the same time.
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by cronjobber 10y ago
It is likely that they didn't catch the linked problem, and I didn't intend to suggest so. What the linked article shows is that the Red Cross isn't beyond the suspicion that something they did wasn't that clealy a
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by cronjobber 10y ago
Personally, I tend to slot Inferno closer to Java than to Plan9, even though I'm clear about the lineage. In that sense, the line of "real" operating systems ended at Plan9.
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by cronjobber 10y ago
On the other hand, it isn't entirely impossible that Paypal algorithms saw something about the Red Cross that looked like fraud. http://www.npr.org/2014/10/29/359365276/on-superstorm-sandy-...
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by cronjobber 10y ago
Sounds right. Additionally, they didn't even reimplement what they had, the article gives the impression that they basically gave up on trying to reinvent relational query optimization ("We heavily modified pyDatalog to query Redi
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by cronjobber 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gateway_drug_theory
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Google’s plan to make talk less toxic(bbc.com)
2 points by cronjobber 10y ago|1 comments
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by cronjobber 10y ago
You also wrote > They can do whatever they want to do, including organize, work to rule, walk out, or go on strike. Observationally, they don't organize or go on strike. Maybe some "work to rule", get PIP'd and walked
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by cronjobber 10y ago
The Left is not monolithic, it is better understood as a coalition of separate forces with different interests united against a common, feared enemy. What you perceive as "manical stupidity" is fear. Fear of a common enemy is one
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by cronjobber 10y ago
Hacker News is implemented in a dialect of Lisp designed by a guy who wrote multiple books on Lisp. Seems even lispers don't learn: > The assignment operator is =. I was dubious about this, but decided to try it and see if I got use
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by cronjobber 10y ago
Now eagerly awaiting: "Humans Once Actually Thought They Stopped Evolving (2216)"
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by cronjobber 10y ago
Nope, "undefined" leaves the compiler perfectly free to just Do The Right Thing.
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by cronjobber 10y ago
> the bureaucratic mindset holds that the rules are always, by definition, correct It has long been known that you can get better optimization if you disregard correctness ;) C compiler writers know that the assumption "pointer is
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The Psychology of Waiting Lines [pdf](jnd.org)
2 points by cronjobber 10y ago|0 comments
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by cronjobber 10y ago
Something like Baker's Cheney on the MTA without actually collecting garbage. The "cheat" is that unbounded stack size implies unbounded pointer sizes, which means no finite alphabet, but "C without pointers" isn&#x
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by cronjobber 10y ago
Outside of heroic whole program compilation efforts like Stalin (telling hero worship there), Lisp can't optimize programs written in the functional style subset to the degree actual functional languages do. Maybe we can call Lisp a sl
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by cronjobber 10y ago
> C only has one stack Sure > so it's a PDA. Wrong
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Houyhnhnms vs. Martians [Fare on Urbit](ngnghm.github.io)
2 points by cronjobber 10y ago|0 comments
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by cronjobber 10y ago
Let's assume that after years of drastically reduced immigration, America's tech dominance remains unchallenged. Would that make you happy or sad?
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by cronjobber 10y ago
The context was: "FOO can be generic and applied to different types of objects." That only works if everybody uses the same symbol FOO. Library:FOO is a different symbol and won't be combined automatically, so you must pack
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Please Stop Protesting on Behalf of Billionaires and Globalist Corporations(medium.com)
2 points by cronjobber 10y ago|1 comments
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by cronjobber 10y ago
That could work within a single, well coordinated project. Beyond that, the Common Lisp package system doesn't cooperate the way you'd like it to, so you're back at (libraryA:bar (libraryB:foo object)) Since the pack
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by cronjobber 10y ago
Simple member access like object.foo.bar is apt to read more like this: (class2-bar-of (class1-foo-of object))
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by cronjobber 10y ago
Yes, it's funny how the wage slaves cheer along with their billionaire idols. Mixture of the lottery player's hope of also winning the jackpot, and fear of losing the job they realistically must expect to be chained to instead (at

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