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by daly 4y ago
Literate programming is excellent for both explanation and documentation. Not only are the various code blocks explained and documented, they contain the actual sources used to build the program. Think of source code like equations in a phy
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by daly 4y ago
Latex and Tex, my goto language for beautiful documents. Try rewriting Knuth's books with markdown.
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by daly 4y ago
Considering Tesla as "just another car company" misses the various lines of business it involves. Consider that it gets a lot of money from the energy business (e.g. joining Tesla powerwalls to substitute for peeker plants). It al
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Self-Modifying FPGAs?
6 points by daly 4y ago|9 comments
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Why did Google kill the Coral TPU?
5 points by daly 4y ago|7 comments
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by daly 4y ago
NIL punning should remain. Otherwise there needs to be some NIL-equivalent value or some exception nonsense.
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by daly 4y ago
The key distinction between Eli's approach and mine has to do with the primary approach. Eli is enhancing a spreadsheet. I'm approaching the problem as a new programming approach. I'm suggesting that you could change the line
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Linear types, distributed compute, spreadsheets, and Lisp
3 points by daly 4y ago|4 comments
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by daly 4y ago
Can it entangle all 1k qubits into a single superposition?
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by daly 4y ago
I don't see a need to change lisp. It does everything I've ever tried to do. The biggest breakthrough was Common Lisp. I don't quite understand your Emacs question. The biggest limiting factor of any lisp programming is me. L
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by daly 4y ago
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William Shirer Many lessons for modern times. A recent history lesson. Game of Thrones in real life.
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by daly 4y ago
One of the best books I've ever read.
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by daly 4y ago
Your question seems to be about how others feel about Lisp. It's not clear to me why that's even an interesting question. That's like choosing a hammer based on how popular its color is. The language you use decides what you
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by daly 4y ago
Emacs
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by daly 4y ago
The meme around school is "Real mathematicians use a chalk blackboard". I find whiteboards annoying because the markers always die at the worst time.
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by daly 4y ago
https://www.amazon.com/Lying-Moral-Choice-Public-Private/dp/... Lying by Bok
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by daly 4y ago
Check out this analysis: The Electric Viking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDw7OQriHok&ab_channel=TheEl...
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by daly 4y ago
The chart in the article didn't even mention the 2nd largest EV maker in the world, BYD.
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by daly 4y ago
Well if you're sitting on a hundred billion dollars of factories to produce gas cars and it will cost you a hundred billion dollars to convert to electric cars then I guess you'd be "less confident" in EV adoption. Admit
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by daly 4y ago
John Cleese Meetings, Bloody Meetings https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JpC67gw7B8&ab_channel=MetaM...
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Fusion but What about the Neutrons
2 points by daly 4y ago|0 comments
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by daly 4y ago
To quote: Time estimates matter not only to the business but they’re a reflection of your level of expertise as a software developer. An experienced software developer can keep tasks on schedule and communicate delays in advance. I have 51
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by daly 4y ago
I was an IBM mainframe systems programmer (VM/370) for years. All of the information you need is in the manuals. IBM is exceptionally good at documentation. Also, the hardware instruction set is set in stone.
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by daly 4y ago
Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life by Sissela Bok Lying involves not just what you say. It includes what you don't say.
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by daly 4y ago
!Brilliant. +2 points!
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Pulitzer Prize for Programming Literature
10 points by daly 4y ago|1 comments
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by daly 4y ago
Sorry. You're wrong. I got rid of my smart phone 2 years ago. Now all I use is a landline. I got rid of all social media except email. My world continued.
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by daly 4y ago
emacs ... (drops mic)
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by daly 4y ago
I should have mentioned that emacs is also a fundamental tool for all of my work. But since everyone, everywhere uses emacs that would be stating the obvious :-) I tried orgmode. I even attended a course at CMU that used it for the "li
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by daly 4y ago
The literate macro is just standard latex. The command line extraction functions are: Lisp program to extract latex chunks: https://github.com/daly/axiom/blob/master/books/tangle.lisp C program to e

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