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by epgui 3y ago
Clojure and Janet are great options. To these recommendations I would probably add Racket (it's used a lot as a teaching language and has tons of cool experimental features) and Hy (for when you need to write python in lisp form).
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by epgui 3y ago
> It really was a very simple, well put together language This is the very premise that I question. Simple in comparison to what? Javascript? I'd actually put python and javascript more or less in the same ballpark of complexity (ne
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by epgui 3y ago
In the context of programming language design, a lisp like Clojure would be simple if you ignored all the java things. Haskell is a simple-ish language (despite popular misconceptions). For me, “simple” needs to be distinguished from “famil
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by epgui 3y ago
I hate when people say "python is a simple language" when having this opinion requires ignoring everything about how python is designed (more like patched together), and requires using some non-standard definition of "simple&
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by epgui 3y ago
Whatever issues these may have, they are completely irrelevant to the topic or to this thread.
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by epgui 3y ago
No, when people owe money to the bank, that's an asset on the bank's balance sheet. That's the opposite of a liability. Companies will purchase the bank's assets, because the bank's assets (which are your liability)
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by epgui 3y ago
I am not aware of this happening for such overtly conflicted reasons in Canada/UK/Australia/US/Europe/etc countries... That would be messed up, considering all the risks and consequences (although weighing all the r
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by epgui 3y ago
I don't think these products are directly comparable. I think Final Cut Pro probably maps better to Adobe Premiere Pro... But even then, it's not a complete overlap. There are things you can easily do in Premiere that you can&#x27
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by epgui 3y ago
Agreed 100%, and I hear Final Cut Pro has much better performance. But realistically, a lot of work happens on Adobe or other (Autodesk, Houdini, etc...) products that also have their own issues.
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by epgui 3y ago
And of course all of the above may be "peanuts" for professional studios, but I am not aware of any hardware/workflow/money/things you can throw at the problem to make the editing and production experience smooth. T
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by epgui 3y ago
You'd be surprised at how much buffering and loading is needed to just playback 1080p content (even directly from your local machine's built-in SSD) in the video editor before it's rendered. It's incredibly frustrating
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by epgui 3y ago
No, 4k === 3840x2160 resolution.
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by epgui 3y ago
As someone who used to run a photography company: total costs of producing 4k content (camera system, computer setup to handle file management and editing, time required to process and manage content, storage, headaches, etc) is absolutely
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by epgui 3y ago
In inflation-adjusted terms, it’s not that exciting: so do other fixed assets that aren’t you lending a random bank cash, such as US/Canada treasurys / government bonds. The point is that these other instruments don’t have the s
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by epgui 3y ago
I haven’t provided any references because this area of research has actually been booming over the last two decades, and there are dozens of recent high-quality review articles to be found on the subject. Which is really what my point was:
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by epgui 3y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36398764
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by epgui 3y ago
No, understated. If this study had never been done, we’d still have tons of evidence in support of the practice of vaginal fluid inoculation. The effect size for auto-immune diseases, gut microbiome, and immune system development, is surpri
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by epgui 3y ago
It’s not necessarily the perceived brightness that I am worried about. Illuminated surroundings outdoors on a sunny day are obviously perceived to be brighter than any screen… But here we have a flickering light source that is microscopical
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by epgui 3y ago
Ah… yes, well I don’t know anything about corporate banking. I was thinking about personal banking practices.
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by epgui 3y ago
IMO (biochemist) the clinical relevance of these findings, when considered along with the rest of the medical literature, are vastly understated.
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by epgui 3y ago
They probably could, but who would “buy” a liability? If someone wanted to sell you their problems, how much money would you pay for the privilege of the burden?
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by epgui 3y ago
I don’t know if it’s just me that’s heartless, but I think if you’re financially sophisticated enough to bank in other countries or to have more than the insurable limit held in cash (!!! why???) then you ought to have known better or to ha
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by epgui 3y ago
Am I the only person wondering whether at some point screen brightness becomes a health concern? Looking at this for more than a second almost hurts, and now it's as if I've stared into a flashlight and it takes minutes for my eye
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by epgui 3y ago
It's completely unclear how that is "no coincidence" or how that is at all relevant.
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by epgui 3y ago
It's still a very-horrible system UI typeface.
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by epgui 3y ago
Set theory has traditionally been used as the foundation of maths from which you can model everything else. See the Bourbaki project. (Nowadays it seems there are a lot of people interested in type theory taking that place.)
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by epgui 3y ago
Perhaps not, but for people in most other countries, the idea that some public schools will just ban whatever they want in an ad hoc fashion amounts to the same thing as saying that it’s the government doing it. From an international-vs-US
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by epgui 3y ago
It may not be the case, but it could be the case-- AFAIK this is a solved problem for other use cases.
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by epgui 3y ago
I just don't understand people who call von neumann style programming languages "lisp-like" or "almost a lisp". I've heard people say this of python and haskell as well, and I just don't see it, at all.
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by epgui 3y ago
I'm a biochemist with a medical background, and FWIW, I think this is a garbage article. Hardly even worth commenting on. =/

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