fusiongyro

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by fusiongyro 8y ago
Guile being faster at running Elisp doesn't necessarily mean that Emacs + Guile is faster than Emacs. Is that why the project stalled out?
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by fusiongyro 8y ago
What are these recommended optimizations?
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by fusiongyro 8y ago
I hate to be "that guy," but what happened to the Guile-Emacs project? Guile performs way better than Elisp too, but (perhaps more importantly) raises the possibility of writing configuration and extensions in Lua and Scheme.
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by fusiongyro 8y ago
Can you point me to something about these inaccuracies?
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by fusiongyro 8y ago
I enjoy Peter Woit's writing and especially loved his book "Not Even Wrong." I also enjoy shitting on string theory from the comfort of my armchair. Maybe this is "productive," in the sense that getting people to st
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by fusiongyro 8y ago
Very beautiful code! Thanks for sharing it, I really like the simplicity of your parser combinators.
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by fusiongyro 8y ago
The three or so times I've needed to build a metainterpreter, I have always referred back to your page for help, so thanks for taking the time to make it! It's greatly appreciated!
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by fusiongyro 8y ago
The idea at work here is Alan Kay's, to bring the spec into the language as code somehow. Prolog is better suited to this than many other languages, simply because it is so easy to reuse existing operators and structures but overlay th
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by fusiongyro 8y ago
If you'd like to see a much smaller worked example of an assembler and machine, I built a Prolog implementation of the reddit dailyprogrammer challenge "Halt Machine" a few years ago. My code is here: https://githu
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by fusiongyro 8y ago
What a beautiful story of devotion! Imagine someone going to this much trouble over your work, it's quite impressive. I used to worry about this kind of thing, using cdparanoia and so forth on Linux to manage my music. When I went Appl
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by fusiongyro 8y ago
I found this feature perplexing even when I did use RSS.
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by fusiongyro 8y ago
Upon rereading what you are saying, I realize I am not disagreeing with you. I am, however, easily triggered by this as an armchair student of math, because I think infinity forms a kind of a trap for amateurs like me. "Actual" in
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by fusiongyro 8y ago
I disagree, only because infinity is not an element of the real or the complex numbers. You can make extended number systems (the hyperreals, for instance) but it isn't commonly done. Infinity as a notation in the limit is not the same
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by fusiongyro 8y ago
There are a lot of public sector jobs that require any degree. My mother had a long and fulfilling career in the food stamp program, starting out helping people sign up and moving into training, supervision, and eventually became a county d
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by fusiongyro 8y ago
How big of a problem is that, really?
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by fusiongyro 8y ago
Lojban is so big, you could create different cultures simply by omitting or making mandatory different bits. This group doesn't use rafsi but evidentials are mandatory; that group doesn't use any of the time-space marking but the
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by fusiongyro 8y ago
These are all Indo-European languages; English once had forms of "you" like this: thou/thee.
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by fusiongyro 8y ago
Kolmogorov's Foundations of the Theory of Probability is pretty good, IMO. I haven't made it very far, but he has great examples, plenty of rigor, and the book is like $10.
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by fusiongyro 8y ago
Does this explain why every vendor seems to have exactly the same stuff? I feel like when I was a kid, there was a lot more variety, and going to different stands you'd see different stuff. In my town of ~8000, there are going to be fo
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by fusiongyro 8y ago
They're moving to another provider. Do we have different definitions of monopoly? All this is evidence of is that YouTube are assholes.
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by fusiongyro 8y ago
I fail to see how this behavior helps artificially preserve their status as a monopoly or constitutes a nefarious dealing to create a monopoly, and the fact that Blender is using this opportunity to switch to another provider is not going t
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by fusiongyro 8y ago
And who and what is that?
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by fusiongyro 8y ago
I remember trying very hard to play Descent on a 33 MHz 486 DX. It did not go well for me!
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by fusiongyro 8y ago
I used Linux for everything in college, only switching to Mac when it became clear to me that it was a nicer laptop that had enough Unix for me to get by. Going back the other way, there are a few things Mac OS has that I like, but my day-t
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by fusiongyro 8y ago
This was my experience as well, on the Precision 5520.
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by fusiongyro 8y ago
The Precision 5520 is exactly what a Developer Edition XPS 15 would be, and you can get it with Linux preloaded. I did, and I'm very satisfied with it.
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by fusiongyro 8y ago
The multitouch technology in their phones was developed by a company that made a completely flat keyboard with no haptic feedback of any kind. (The Fingerworks Touchstream). http://www.ergocanada.com/products/keyboards&
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by fusiongyro 8y ago
Same, and I'm paying $50/month for 5 Mbit.
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by fusiongyro 8y ago
Do we have any experimental evidence of shortcomings of the standard model? It seems to me as a lay person that it keeps getting confirmed at higher and higher energies, and hints of science beyond it remain elusive. Is that true?
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by fusiongyro 8y ago
I got a Dell Precision 5520 back in February or March. This is basically an XPS 15" Developer edition, if such a thing existed; it came with Ubuntu and so far I have not faced any insurmountable technical difficulties. I find I spend l

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