eritain

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by eritain 5y ago
Hakka's most obvious archaic feature is the syllable-final stops, as in Yue/Cantonese and Min. I know Yue dissimilated some of them (details fuzzy in my memory, possibly -t went to -k with a dental initial). I don't know of a
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by eritain 8y ago
Parrot did burn through quite a few pumpkings. I wouldn't call them clowns either, but I do think they led Parrot astray. Obviously Parrot is not Perl 6, but they are closely linked in many people's minds for obvious reasons. (I
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by eritain 9y ago
How nice! Usually their malfeasance goes the other way round.
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by eritain 9y ago
This badly understates the Chernobyl response. They did remove the heavily contaminated surface soil from the immediate vicinity and clean up the rest of the site so they could continue to operate the remaining reactors. They built the Shel
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by eritain 9y ago
There is so much visual processing machinery in the retina that some neuroscientists describe it as an outpost of the visual cortex. In that sense, scarring your retina might indeed have altered your brain. But not in a way that's rela
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by eritain 9y ago
Related to this: Brent Kerby and Billy Tanksley devise flat, two-combinator bases for Turing-complete concatenative languages. Kerby's is at https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/concatenative/conversati...
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by eritain 9y ago
The ball of the foot is doing the pushing at that point, and the ball of the foot finishes the liftoff. Try and take a few steps where the ball leaves the ground before the heel, you'll see.
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by eritain 10y ago
The story you're telling is accurate for cocaine and amphetamines. Caffeine is different. It blocks the adenosine receptors, which are supposed to slow you down before you wear out.
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by eritain 10y ago
Cute snake oil, but you might want to peddle it somewhere other than Hacker News. People here place too much importance on facts and knowledge to really go for this stuff. > The human body has an immune system that is built to fight fore
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by eritain 10y ago
I'm with you on the books. I tried to learn Perl 5 from online resources, couldn't. Once I had books in hand, no problem. The good news for Perl 6 is that books are incoming. O'Reilly has taken on both Learning Perl 6 (by the
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by eritain 10y ago
I already spent the hours, so here's a short summary: * Perl 6 is a specification in the form of a test suite. By metonymy, the language it specifies and any implementation that passes the test suite are also called Perl 6. * Perl 6.c
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by eritain 11y ago
I studied what people said, at the time they decided, about what they decided and why, and I studied the environment in which they decided it. I'm not sure how that adds up to buying into someone's post-hoc justification. But you&
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by eritain 11y ago
I didn't say Larry wasn't keen on a multi-language VM in 2003.[1] I said that Parrot's pursuit of that goal contributed to (an intricately braided series of) technical and political conflicts with Rakudo, culminating in a bre
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by eritain 11y ago
A little of each, and technically neither. Parrot isn't wholly abandoned, but Reini Urban is the only person still hacking on it. On the other hand, he is the person most likely to bring Parrot back around to being a good backend for P