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by jnxx 6y ago
> The essence of the issue you quote is that Python needs block-level scope for variables In this case, would it not better to fix block scoping first, and introduce the pattern matching feature later? Also, this is by far not a easily a
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According to the specification pointed to by choeger in this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26086589 , failed matches like that can also assign a value to existing variables, which seems even more problematic
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This gives the impression that Python, similar to C++. might have entered a competition between popular languages which one can accumulate the most popular features. Obviously, pattern matching comes from the ML family and functional Lisps
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> This part of the behavior is left intentionally unspecified so different implementations can add optimizations, and to prevent introducing semantic restrictions that could limit the extensibility of this feature. Isn't this more o
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by jnxx 6y ago
maybe you just need a Linux laptop, like some old Thinkpad with Ubuntu. Install time is 15 Minutes or so. Emacs is included by default.
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In that case, Clojure, ClojureScript, and Babashka ( https://github.com/babashka/ ) is perhaps the best set of options for you. This are three implementations of the same language. Otherwise, and especially if you want
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I second that.
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> As soon as you deal with concurrency, things either get hard to learn or get super messy. I'd argue that Clojure, while perhaps not the easiest language for beginners in all aspects, is both minimalistic and really fantastic for d
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by jnxx 6y ago
There are three observations which are really interesting to me. One is that traditionally, there was a clear split between "system languages" which were usually fast, compiled languages that were relatively verbose, not very comf
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> The hygiene hypothesis link to the microbiome and "training" of the immune system link is plausible and more and more research is backing it up. There is also the hypothesis that the plague epidemics caused a shift to autoimm
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Antivirus software can have random positives, and for niche software they might not correct that. But it is a good reason to only run stuff that has a pgp-signed checksum.
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You should take that to the Racket community, I do not feel it is appropriate to discuss that here where the people you talk about do probably not know what is said about them.
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Clojure with its focus on immutability and its purely functional data structures makes it much easier to write correct concurrent programs. It is clearly geared to servers, for example sequences are always lazy. This is not always the best
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> I think languages either tend towards mutability or immutability. In Clojure for example there is much emphasis on parallelism, which reflects itself in its choices of immutable data structures and atomic updates. Clojure with its focu
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by jnxx 6y ago
I would love to learn more why you think this - I am sure you have good reasons! Isn't Clojure in some significant aspects similar to Schemes?
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I generally agree. One difference is that Quicklisp + ASDF often needs to be set up manually which can be a little bit more complicated (it is, however, contained in Debian as a package, for example). Leiningen and Maven relay on version nu
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While almost all can call easily into C, one thing where Guile really shines is that it can easily be embedded and be used for scripting and configuration in a program with C building blocks.
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It is a very multi-dimensional issue. While all these languages belong to the same family, they also take some time to learn, and each has its specific strengths. It is probably very helpful to think about what matters most to you, and pick
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You can run emacs on sailfish.
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Is it realistic that vaccines can out-run the new variant? An Rt which is 50%-70% higher means it can duplicate every week. Which it seems to do in the UK (which does not have a very effective containment strategy).
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The Nuclear Industry’s Bad Safety Analysis(cleantechnica.com)
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Elimination Is the Only Strategy for Covid-19(indica.medium.com)
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Coronavirus Variant Is Indeed More Transmissible, New Study Suggests(nytimes.com)
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Has anybody tried Guix on top of Raspbian / Debian? What are the experiences?
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The author of the study described here is Nicholas G. Davies London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. I think the BBC article plays the findings about increased transmission a bit down - the authors say that the mutated variant seems
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Schools 'may need to close to control new coronavirus variant' B.1.1.7(bbc.com)
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There is also this comment by Eric Feigl-Ding: https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1340913688992165888 > "14) “In the lab, Gupta’s group found that virus carrying the two mutations was less susceptible t
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by jnxx 6y ago
> Correlation does not equal causation. Yeah but if somebody is shot and you are found with a smoking gun right around the corner, you need to have a pretty good, and also testable explanation.
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And Taiwan?
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> Am I right in saying that the goal of any lockdown is not to completely stop the spread of the virus, but to instead merely keep hospitals from filling up? The lockdown in New Zealand had that goal to stop it completely, and achieved i

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