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by kqr 1y ago
I'm not sure that'll happen, because Emacs itself is not so much end-user software as it is a platform/VM for developing and running Elisp code. There are many great applications and compatibility layers written to run on Ema
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by kqr 1y ago
Hypothetically, strong modularisation, ease of deployment and maintenance, testability, compatibility with virtually any programming language. In practise I'm not convinced -- but I would love to be. Reverse proxying a library-specific
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by kqr 1y ago
We can definitly do better than Perl. The easy proof is that modern Perl projects are supposed to start with a bunch of config to make Perl more sane, and many of them also include the same third-party libraries that e.g. improve exception
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by kqr 1y ago
Ha, fun bit of history! Many of the listed problems with Perl can be configured away these days. I don't have time for a full list, but as two early examples: - `perl -de 0` provides a REPL. With a readline wrapper, it gives you histor
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by kqr 1y ago
I'd argue it's bad even if you get more than 1000 Bq of requests. You never want to approach 100 % utilisation, and I'd aim to stay clear of 50 %.
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by kqr 1y ago
It's not great, but it is enough for many use cases. Should even handle a HN hug of death.
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by kqr 1y ago
Consider Perl. It's not quite as batteries-included as Python, but it is preinstalled almost everywhere and certainly more stable than JS and Lua. (And Python.)
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by kqr 1y ago
My personal experience with n-back mainly revolves around discovering the large variation in my ability to focus. Practisibg does get me better at the n-back task (not anything else as far as I can tell) but daily form determines results to
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by kqr 1y ago
From https://gwern.net/dnb-faq : > Performance on dual n-back has complicated correlations with performance on other tests of working memory or IQ, so it’s not clear what it is tapping into. (And the link between WM and p
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by kqr 1y ago
Indeed: https://entropicthoughts.com/haskell-procedural-programming
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by kqr 1y ago
On the other hand, it does have support for things like side-effectful traversals, folds, side effects conditional on value existing, etc. In most other languages you have to write lower-level code to accomplish the same thing.
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by kqr 1y ago
> And Haskell ends up being mostly a liability here, because most work is just going to be imperatively modifying your virtual machine’s state. That sounds odd to me. Haskell is great for managing state, since it makes it possible to do
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by kqr 1y ago
I agree strongly with this and take it one step further: I avoid the infix backticks that turn functions `into` operators. But I'm not a hardliner. I do use backticks sometimes when building joins with Esqueleto and I do use a limited
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Lessons from creating my first text adventure(entropicthoughts.com)
82 points by kqr 1y ago|14 comments
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The Economic Effect of a Condo Arrangement(entropicthoughts.com)
1 points by kqr 1y ago|0 comments
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by kqr 1y ago
I've never noticed some editors do this because I always type both opening and closing symbols at the same time, and then back up into them if I want to fill them out. I think I learned it from my father and just anecdotally I make mis
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by kqr 1y ago
Wait, do people generally use GPS routes to go places? I find GPS to be great to locate myself when I can't figure it out from landmarks, but I very rarely use it to select a route – I can just look at the map in the same app and figur
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by kqr 1y ago
Thank you for saying this so clearly. I find React to be one of the few systems that actually allow separation of concerns when used idiomatically, rather than drawing boundaries based on technologies. (And I dislike frontend programming, t
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by kqr 1y ago
> one separate lesson for every common monad instance. Right on. This is the "What Are Monads" fallacy : https://entropicthoughts.com/the-what-are-monads-fallacy
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by kqr 1y ago
I strongly dislike "click here" links because when I'm looking for a link, I want to read only the link-formatted words on a page to find the link I'm interested in. "Download Amaya" would be a great link. Just
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by kqr 1y ago
I took an hour or so out of my day to finish this game and review it on ifdb.org. It was a very pleasant experience, barring the large amount of unimplemented scenery. I would have hoped for a slightly more vivid world and not just a backdr
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by kqr 1y ago
Huh, coming from an IRC and email background I have the opposite reaction. Rather than having to wait until someone is online it is much nicer to just type to them and they'll respond once they can. Everyone is open all the time!
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by kqr 1y ago
LLMs are not so good at less popular languages. They know the basics but they also quickly get confused.
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A Beauty Cold and Austere (2017)(iplayif.com)
1 points by kqr 1y ago|0 comments
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by kqr 1y ago
Reinsurance does not only spread risk by pooling multiple insurers, but also smears out the impact of catastrophes geographically and temporally: big events in one year, in one part of the world result in more expensive reinsurance all over
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by kqr 1y ago
Sure. Getting reliable data all parties can agree on is one of the biggest challenges to parametric insurance. The data sources I hear about most often are US governmental agencies – and this is a problem, since the US political system is n
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Log-Survival to Death Rate(entropicthoughts.com)
2 points by kqr 1y ago|0 comments
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Do Stonks Go Up?(entropicthoughts.com)
2 points by kqr 1y ago|0 comments
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by kqr 1y ago
Emacs has a great text editor, and has had for a few years. If you have not given Evil mode a fair chance, you definitely should.
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by kqr 1y ago
> It's somewhere between a curl script and Postman Sounds a lot like Emacs' restclient-mode, and I can absolutely see the appeal for those which don't already have an Emacs session open.

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