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by cygx 6y ago
Raku is actually a specification driven language That hasn't been true for a while. The test suite is supposed to be canonical, whereas the 'specification' hasn't been kept up to date with language evolution.
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by cygx 6y ago
For the record, the language is called Raku, whereas Rakudo is the compiler. Larry stepped back from Perl 5 a while ago, but used to actively contribute to Rakudo until 2017 or so. I haven't seen him around as much over the last couple
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by cygx 6y ago
If backwards compatibility was kept, there would be nothing special about v8 - it would just be the next major relase after v7.
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by cygx 6y ago
Raku regex performance sucks, for one. Let's parse some data into a hash in Perl: %words = ($input =~ /([^\n\t]+)\t(\N+)/g); In Raku, equivalent code will be slower by an order of magnitude or more. The only way I&#x
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by cygx 6y ago
Didn't think of that, but it could work. If you only provided the perl8 alias, you'd still need to add a use declaration to modules, whereas that could be absorbed into the file extension...
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by cygx 6y ago
v8 will actually change defaults Bad idea, imo. Keep the perl binary backwards-compatible (unless 'use v8' is specified), and add a separate perl8 alias that does so implicitly.
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by cygx 6y ago
Yes. See e.g. https://gcc.gnu.org/projects/tree-ssa/vectorization.html#exa... https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-fortran
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by cygx 6y ago
Just note that the message might change depending on your take on the story. For example, there's a difference between being led astray by some malevolent cosmic power, or a mundane trickster...
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by cygx 6y ago
If you just consider the internal logic of the story, it looks like a fable: The protagonists of the story, First Man and First Woman ('earthling' and 'life-giver') get tempted by a talking animal to eat magical fruit. T
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by cygx 6y ago
> presumably the serpent in the garden That association never made sense to me. In Genesis, it's pretty clear that we're talking about an actual serpent (which gets punished to crawl in the dirt for its part in the whole affa
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by cygx 6y ago
That's what restrict is for: void foobar(struct foo *restrict f) { ... }
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by cygx 6y ago
That's the wrong paragraph to cite. The parts relevant to Cooperstock's (and similar) work is this: > Although filled with controversy, the studies of the galactic rotation via general relativity [16,17,18] reach the same basic
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by cygx 6y ago
The exponential version was also broken, just in a different way (cf https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/pull/1191#issuecomment-... ).
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by cygx 6y ago
Disagreed: As far as I can tell, to get a value out of an async function, you use block_on() if called from a regular function, but .await if called from another async one. That's an example of function coloring, and it does not have t
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by cygx 6y ago
AFAIK, it was Lisp that pioneered multiple dispatch Cf. CommonLoops, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CommonLoops
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by cygx 6y ago
A tool with slow startup time that forces me to structure the workflow around its idiosyncrasies is less convenient than a tool with fast startup time that can be seamlessly integrated into pre-existing workflows (eg driving pipelines via M
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by cygx 6y ago
E is generated by all charges: div(E) = ρ = ρ_f + ρ_b D is generated by the free charges only: div(D) = ρ_f The quantity that makes an appearance in the Lorentz force law (hence acts on test charges) is E. Admittedly,
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by cygx 6y ago
what's a "column of charge" It's an analogy, providing a correspondence between a column of fluid and a column of charge (the 'electric fluid').
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by cygx 6y ago
Note: In the following, I'll be using Lorentz-Heaviside units. For other unit systems, throw in factors of ε_0 or 4π as needed... The reason for the introduction of D is that even though a medium may have no net charge, it's still
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by cygx 6y ago
That's because inertial-confinement fusion experiments are applicable to nuclear weapons and get their funds via the Nuclear Weapons Stockpile Stewardship program.
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by cygx 6y ago
From personal experience, "nuclear = bad" is a thing. That said, I agree that as things stand today, fusion research is no panacea to climate change. However, note that the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change w
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by cygx 6y ago
Who knows. If I had to make a guess, here are some ideas: You cannot yet make money with it, so there's no capitalist lobby. Success is not certain, and timeframes are too long for politicians to score points in the election game. It&#
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by cygx 6y ago
If you try to coordinate design and manufacturing among 35 participating states, delays tend to happen. Perhaps also noteworthy from a historical perspective is that the whole thing was proposed by the Soviet Union, which doesn't even
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by cygx 6y ago
Depends on the funding. The standard response to the 20 years away for 50 years quip is https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:U.S._historical_fusi...
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by cygx 6y ago
In Germany, libraries pay 3-4 Cent per lending to VG Wort , the relevant copyright collecting society, which in turn pays royalties to the authors.
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by cygx 6y ago
See also https://lhcb-public.web.cern.ch/Welcome.html#ccus https://cerncourier.com/a/lhcb-observes-four-new-tetraquarks... https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.01803
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by cygx 6y ago
Germany here, we banned Mein Kampf from being sold Not as such. Rather, the owner of the copyright - the state of Bavaria, where Hitler had his formal residence - decided not to allow reprints. The copyright expired in 2016, and a new, co
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by cygx 6y ago
Recall that during the rise of C, people were writing machine code on punch cards. Or Fortran, Algol, Lisp, Cobol, Basic, Pascal, ...
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by cygx 6y ago
Their source seems to be this website And NewsGuard, https://www.newsguardtech.com/
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by cygx 6y ago
I very much doubt this. Why? This may be my ignorance speaking, but I can't think of anything equivalent to QAnon and 'stop the steal' from the left side of the American political spectrum. Russiagate, maybe? That had at le

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