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601.
by lisper 2y ago
Sure, but nothing stops you from looking at the raw code. Consider looking at compiled code. You can always hexdump the object file, but have a disassembly helps a lot.
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by lisper 2y ago
> But choosing Haskell or a lisp (maybe I can exclude Clojure somewhat) at work? No, no and no. I've been using CL at work for pretty much my entire career and have always gotten a huge amount of leverage from it.
603.
by lisper 2y ago
% cat test.c main () { int x x=1 } % gcc test.c test.c:1:1: warning: type specifier missing, defaults to 'int' [-Wimplicit-int] main () { ^ test.c:2:8: error: expected ';'
604.
by lisper 2y ago
Sure, changing the syntax is not something to be done lightly. It has to be done judiciously and with great care. But it can be a huge win in some cases. For example, take a look at: https://flownet.com/gat/lisp&#x2F
605.
by lisper 2y ago
Semicolons are just an example, and a fairly minor one. A bigger pet peeve of mine is C-style type declarations. If I create a binding for X and initialize it to 1, the compiler should be able to figure out that X is an integer without my
606.
by lisper 2y ago
I guess I didn't make this clear. I'm not advocating for semicolons to be made optional . I'm saying that they should not be included in the language syntax at all unless they are necessary for some semantic purpose.
607.
by lisper 2y ago
> Doesn't mean it's easy for another human to clearly see it. Why do you think that matters? If it's not needed, then it should never have been there in the first place. If it helps to make the program readable by human
608.
by lisper 2y ago
OMG, so much this. One of the biggest sources of cognitive load is poor language design. There are so many examples that I can't even begin to list them all here, but in general, any time a compiler gives you an error and tells you h
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Propositions as Types(cacm.acm.org)
2 points by lisper 2y ago|0 comments
610.
Santa's instrument approach charts (2015)(fearoflanding.com)
2 points by lisper 2y ago|0 comments
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Official Jeppeson North Pole instrument approach plate [pdf](aerosavvy.com)
2 points by lisper 2y ago|0 comments
612.
by lisper 2y ago
> Add a meteor impact or a nuclear war If either of those happens, radioactive waste will be the least of anyone's worries.
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by lisper 2y ago
"Marcovici says that they were outperforming human traders after a few months of training—a claim, though, that’d require testing more thorough than what was done here." Yeah, that's an important hedge there at the end. Also,
614.
by lisper 2y ago
Sure. But not all extinction events are created equal. Compare the holocene with: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permian%E2%80%93Triassic_extin... or even: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cretaceous
615.
by lisper 2y ago
> the permanent extinction of species a much worse thing Fair enough, but then I'll point you to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_extinction_events No matter how you slice it, these are far from the worst
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by lisper 2y ago
What difference does that make? Why does the mode of the catastrophe matter? The examples I cited actually killed half the population at the time. Nothing since has even come close.
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Coffee Badging(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by lisper 2y ago|0 comments
618.
by lisper 2y ago
> I guess that's just bias too, then, right? Yep. Compare to, say, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crisis_of_the_late_Middle_Ages . > here we are, at the worst point Not even close. (But things are likely t
619.
by lisper 2y ago
The standard joke among pilots is: if you can walk away, it was a good landing. If you can re-use the plane, it was a great landing.
620.
by lisper 2y ago
Yeah, it was not the screw-making per se that impressed me. I know that making screws is a Thing People Do. What impressed me was 1) how freakin' tiny they are and 2) the fact that he made all the screws, including the internal
621.
by lisper 2y ago
> I should be able to sit down at any computer in the world with the knowledge in my head and get access to any online service to which I subscribe. The problem with that is you have no way to be sure that the knowledge in your head won
622.
by lisper 2y ago
Photo log: https://imgur.com/a/making-mechanical-watch-VmYL7qF This part blew my mind: "All the screws were hand made." This really is a watch made from scratch.
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by lisper 2y ago
> BoN Jailbreaking works by repeatedly sampling variations of a prompt with a combination of augmentations - such as random shuffling or capitalization for textual prompts - until a harmful response is elicited. Sounds like fuzzing to me
624.
by lisper 2y ago
In 1978 it was even nerdier than that. CPU speed was measured in kilohertz. Often programs were entered using toggle switches and output was on seven-segment red LEDs. Color displays were all but unheard of. Non-volatile storage was on
625.
by lisper 2y ago
Queens look different. But your point is well taken. I guess I should stick to ants and termites as examples.
626.
by lisper 2y ago
Sorry, I saw "clone" and thought you were talking about genetics. But you're wrong about anatomy too. There is a lot of variation in morphology between different insect types in a colony. https://www.antwiki.org&
627.
by lisper 2y ago
> is there even a strict definition for what an organism is? I don't know how "strict" it is but the dictionary definition of "organism" is "an individual form of life, such as a bacterium, protist, fungus,
628.
by lisper 2y ago
> That isn't the case with the man o'war. Yes, it is: "How this happens: when a Physalia egg is fertilized, it starts dividing, like every other fertilized egg. But pretty quickly it breaks apart into two and then more di
629.
by lisper 2y ago
> a single Portuguese man-o’-war is composed of four or five separate animals. Sorry, no. Just because they are not physically connected to each other doesn't make them separate animals. They are a single animal made of parts that
630.
by lisper 2y ago
Brown is actually dark orange: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wh4aWZRtTwU

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