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by klibertp 6y ago
Ok, but I don't understand what does any of that have to do with a case where the society failed to provide care for an (effectively) orphan, failed to provide security, failed to provide healthcare, and insisted on cruel and unusal pu
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by klibertp 6y ago
...and you still didn't explain why the "freedom" should be the only thing guaranteed to the people by the society.
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by klibertp 6y ago
> Not american, so not my country even if I live in the US. That pretty much explains everything, thank you for your time. > but not ok anymore I never said it's not ok, I said it isn't the only thing that a society owes to
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by klibertp 6y ago
> Society doesn't owe people anything besides freedom That's one opinion, and it's far from universal even in your country, though it seems to be popular. From the outside perspective, the fact that it seems to be shared b
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by klibertp 6y ago
A bit more background in the article referenced on the Wiki: https://www.npr.org/2016/03/16/470567568/once-seduced-by-dru... Nothing specific about the murder yet, though.
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by klibertp 6y ago
The guy ran from an abusive home when he was 14. He couldn't find shelter and landed on the streets. He turned to drug trade as a way to feed himself. Then, at some point, he was shot 4 times. Someone called 911, but the ambulance neve
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by klibertp 6y ago
> put one man above the voices of countless people In other words, they chose to resist the cancel culture, stick to what they believe is right instead of appeasing an angry mob, and ignore the obviously ill-intended mischaracterizations
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by klibertp 6y ago
NOTE: This is advice for programmers: if you're not a coder, it won't make any sense for you. If you are a programmer, though, and you're going to learn Emacs, learn it along with Emacs Lisp and Elisp development tools. One d
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by klibertp 6y ago
> and specific pieces of writing that lived on his site for decades that were in favour of child abuse. He wrote that 14+ teens should be able to engage in sexual acts for fun, if they want. It's incredibly damning, right? And it&#x
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by klibertp 6y ago
Nope, that's - as far as I can see - just a sequence of increasing integers. Both K and J examples give an array of random integers in 0-1000000 range. For reference, in J such sequence of integers can be generated with: 1+i.
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by klibertp 6y ago
> I want my program to remain working without having to change. it Can't you bundle the interpreter, possibly stripped down and compiled as a static binary, along with your program? But yes, strict backward compatibility, while havi
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by klibertp 6y ago
Nothing to do with the article, SQL, or a DB, but I can't help wanting to add even just a bit when I see array languaes mentioned. So, in J it's just: ?~1000000 or, if you don't need elements to be unique: ?$~1
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by klibertp 6y ago
I think this is just flamebait. Uses emotionally charged words without any other substance. Both the comment and responses to it (including this one) add nothing to the discussion.
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by klibertp 6y ago
Yes, I was wrong, my bad :)
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by klibertp 6y ago
I stand corrected. I used Clojure briefly a few years ago, so I don't remember much. I even ran a REPL and checked if it's a valid syntax, but it didn't occur to me to check its type. Sorry!
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by klibertp 6y ago
> At least 40 people were killed during martial law, and over 10000 interned. Dozens of people were murdered by security forces in the previous years too. Reducing that to "some deaths" just feels tone-deaf. Look, the state kil
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by klibertp 6y ago
> Some languages that have CONS cells: Erlang and Prolog also use cons cells... Prolog is also homoiconic. I don't think I ever heard anyone calling Prolog a Lisp though. Also, Clojure has cons cells. '(3 . 4) is a valid expr
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by klibertp 6y ago
What a waste of time... It's like the "smug lisp weenies" of ages past somehow slipped into the modern era. Janet is a nice embeddable Lisp (that is: it belongs to the Lisp family of languages). I've been meaning to play
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by klibertp 6y ago
> Some people argue Janet is not really a lisp. Out of curiosity: on what basis? Janet is definitely a Lisp, although it's not the (Common) Lisp.
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by klibertp 6y ago
Yes. But writing a letter to friend (or automating your accounting in Excel) differs from writing "War and Peace" (or writing an OS kernel). I think everybody is capable of learning to do the former, but have a really hard time be
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by klibertp 6y ago
> Poland, Please, don't. Putting PRL anywhere near Cambodia, North Korea, Cuba, or even Hungary is very, very wrong. We had no mass murders here. There were some deaths during workers' protests. There was censorship, and politi
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by klibertp 6y ago
> It's just that customizing your OS often doesn't justify the time spent. That really depends on a) what you choose to customize, and b) how adept you are at customizing. In other words, it depends on your skill and foresight.
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by klibertp 6y ago
> There's nothing special about software development. There's also "nothing special" about writing. Somehow, though, we don't see millions of Hemingways pop up each year. Writing code is a form of art. There is a
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by klibertp 6y ago
Ok, I'm not going to defend that, you might be right that the great leap forward or the great famine should be mentioned. The only defense I can think of is that neither is central to the ideology of communism, while holocaust arguably
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by klibertp 6y ago
There's a link to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_killings_under_communist_... in the See also section of Communism article... EDIT: I see it's probably the same link you saw in Related topics, so it'
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by klibertp 6y ago
I was recently learning Ecto - Elixir's DB integration library - and its design, to my untrained eyes, looked very similar to SQLAlchemy. Especially the way of writing queries looked almost identical. I never actually used either, just
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by klibertp 6y ago
Authoritarian regimes tend to commit atrocities. Unchecked power tends to lead to abuse of power. This is true regardless of what ideology helped the regime take root. Recognizing this fact is not whitewashing anything. To give you a less p
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by klibertp 6y ago
Read the Joseph Stalin or Chairman Mao page, see that they do mention millions of deaths because of them. And before you ask, no, the connection between Stalin and communism is highlighted in the article, it's not like anyone tries t
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Because they bring absolutely nothing new to the comparison. These languages are uninteresting in their feature set, and plain boring compared to Forth. Python and C++ already represent the "most used" languages category. Also, no
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Yes, generic functions and multimethods are one solution to the expression problem, and they're pretty different from Smalltalk-like OOP. It's a shame they aren't more widely adopted - I think only Julia, Nim, and Clojure hav

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