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by jrapdx3 4y ago
I live in Oregon and AFAIK the idea of shipping (diverting?) water from the Columbia to California has been a recurring theme that is, so to speak, "dead in the water" before the ink dries on the planning documents. (Yeah I know,
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by jrapdx3 4y ago
Ironically Tcl is very Lisp-like in certain respects, though also quite different. Rabbitholes notwithstanding Tcl can be enormously useful and productive. In particular I think the built-in Tcl object-oriented features are a real asset and
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by jrapdx3 4y ago
I think it's worth pointing out that in the years since this article was written (2006) quite a few new features have been added to Tcl. A few of the more significant include coroutines, robust object-oriented system, tailcalls, apply
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by jrapdx3 4y ago
True, lexical scoping is dominant in current programming languages and it is easier to reason about. Alas Tcl is more complicated. It's sort of dynamic but not quite depending on how variables are accessed. For one thing a proc defin
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by jrapdx3 4y ago
Thanks, didn't know about the Rebol3 version in the link. I'll have to look into it. AFAIK the Red developers goal is to extend the Rebol philosophy to a modern, open source tool that can serve a number of high and low level purpo
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by jrapdx3 4y ago
Expect has had remarkable longevity, though I'd say the greatest impact of Tcl has been though *sqlite* which started as a Tcl extension and still uses Tcl in its development. Sqlite is used so very widely, hard to find any major softw
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by jrapdx3 4y ago
Having used Tcl extensively I think scoping rules aren't really too complicated, but there are some apparent inconsistencies. A main one is global variables aren't visible inside procedures unless declared as "global", w
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by jrapdx3 4y ago
You probably already are aware of it but there's an effort to create an open source successor to Rebol. See the Red Programming Language site [0]. I've played around with Red and it's pretty interesting. Though rather differe
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by jrapdx3 4y ago
I've used Tcl extensively over many years. It's a tremendously flexible tool that can be shaped to accomplish many tasks. Tcl was never the most widely used scripting language but it's alive and well, and its development cont
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by jrapdx3 4y ago
You are correct re: evidence for connections between inflammation and depression. There's a robust literature on the subject. Here are just 2 articles. [0][1] ([1] specifically addresses gut flora and inflammation.) [0] https:/&#
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by jrapdx3 4y ago
There is a lot wrong with diets in developed countries, but it's not chicken, or at least chicken is way down the list of offenders. AIUI the biggest dietary culprit is the insidious infiltration of sugars into the foods that many pe
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by jrapdx3 5y ago
Don't know if disulfiram will pan out, the study is at a very early stage. But of course people who are motivated to take the drug and understand the need to avoid alcohol will be ideal candidates for this approach. Let's hope the
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by jrapdx3 5y ago
Yes, it's true that a significant fraction of certain populations have an intrinsic disulfiram-like reaction to alcohol. (Affected individuals don't produce the enzyme that disulfiram interferes with.) For sure these people have a
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by jrapdx3 5y ago
Disulfiram is a very familiar and very old line drug. It doesn't (directly) stop people from drinking alcohol, but just makes it very unpleasant. Disulfiram interferes with the breakdown of the normal metabolic products of alcohol, whi
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by jrapdx3 5y ago
I used Chicken for several years in the past and looking at it again recently. Worked great under FreeBSD, Linux, has a large set of well-maintained extensions and has (mostly) excellent documentation. And IME Chicken developers were always
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by jrapdx3 5y ago
> ...they underestimate their opponents. And at the same time overestimate their own capabilities. Both history and life experience teach us that more often than not failure is an outcome of inadequate self-observation. Imagined prowess
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by jrapdx3 5y ago
Pretty sure Ukraine would love to make that happen. If they did that Ukraine probably wouldn't care if people thought sinking other Russian ships didn't constitute proof Ukrainians sank this one.
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by jrapdx3 5y ago
Thank you, good points. Though IIRC the drone was reported to have been shot down but it could have transmitted footage before that happened. If Ukraine has audio recordings that would be very interesting, but as you say they might be reluc
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by jrapdx3 5y ago
According to the article it definitely will be a very significant event if it turns out to be the result of a Ukrainian missile attack which has not been confirmed. I'm not sure how it could be confirmed that Ukrainian actions caus
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by jrapdx3 5y ago
Appreciate the thoughtful comment. > I don't know how one can reasonably weigh between a medicine with known risks (and plausibly unknown risks!) and the unknown risks of something like psychedelics, which are not yet understood at
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by jrapdx3 5y ago
Yup, you're an adult, you make up your own mind. If you're in my office and I recommend a medication that you decide not to accept I'm not going to twist your arm to take it. I might take calculated risks and do things myself
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by jrapdx3 5y ago
As a physician with a practice in the realm of behavioral health it's been fascinating to witness the development of approaches to treatment-resistant depression using hallucinogenic agents. First out of the gate was ketamine (now on t
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by jrapdx3 5y ago
Many different alloys are classified as "stainless steel", and some are magnetic. [0] The ss sink in my kitchen is not magnetic, but the our ss range IS magnetic. Just as you report, new ss refrigerators are likely to be made amen
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by jrapdx3 5y ago
I get what you're saying. For a bunch of reasons my wife and I also spend a lot of time preparing meals. Real-estate folks describe ours as a "galley kitchen", not well-endowed with counter/work space. Having dinner gues
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by jrapdx3 5y ago
Very interesting article that makes a valid point about the outcome of studies presumably covering the same ground but that fail to line up. This is trivially easy to notice in medical journal articles, for example, reports of drug trials a
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by jrapdx3 5y ago
Your observation about practicing medicine being a "dark art" has a lot of merit. As such the idea applies to most if not all medical specialties and I strongly suspect is no less true among science-based disciplines in general. I
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by jrapdx3 5y ago
As said in other comments the artifact is indeed gorgeous, the intricacy of carving stunning. I also agree with the idea that it shows our predecessors were as intelligent as we are today. Certainly no less "artistic" or creative.
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by jrapdx3 5y ago
I spent quite a bit of time optimizing my main website. Lighthouse was the primary tool because it's easily available in most browsers. webpagetest.org is another test option that partially overlaps with Lighthouse. Eventually performa
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by jrapdx3 5y ago
It was film in the old days, but all digital since early 2000's. I've always preferred open source software which has really come a long way since GIMP and friends were in their infancy. My workflow has evolved over the years t
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by jrapdx3 5y ago
Some Scheme/Lisp implementations are capable enough to accomplish daily work. Common Lisp is one option, and I've used Chicken Scheme effectively for some projects. You're right though, there's a significant learning cur

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