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by lispm 3y ago
> A mandatory formatter might haver helped a bit Lisp code was data and could be formatted a "pretty printer". That exists since the early 1960s. > LISP is interpreted, not strongly typed, so definitely another class anyway.
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by lispm 3y ago
He is a true legend.
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by lispm 3y ago
> CO2e per GWh over the last 12 months as the USA Well, Germany uses half the electricity per capita.
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by lispm 3y ago
Imagine, we want to write a function which returns a list of numbers from 0 below N. This is just an illustration of the iteration principles. One could use a numeric loop, push each number to the front and return the reversed result list:
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by lispm 3y ago
Common Lisp is not a Lisp which 'relies on' recursion. It has various loop statements (DO, DOTIMES, DOLIST, ...), various mapping functions (map, mapcar, mapc, maphash, ...) and a complex LOOP. To prevent stack overflows those can
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by lispm 3y ago
Another common pattern is to keep track of the last cons and add there. This saves the reverse operation. (loop for i in some-list when (evenp i) collect i) will do something like that behind the scenes.
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by lispm 3y ago
Another small Lisp-1 variant of Common Lisp: http://www.ulisp.com for microcontrollers.
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by lispm 3y ago
In full TCO, any tail call is a jump in constant stack space. What Clojure provides is a "loop" construct, which kind of looks like a limited form of self recursion.
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by lispm 3y ago
Modern AI trends are mostly not about logic symbolic reasoning. The machines needed are very different -> see what Nvidia is offering.
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by lispm 3y ago
> Downtime almost always planned and scheduled Not in 2022 in France. Not 2011 in Japan. > All that wind energy and nowhere to go. Currently it drives much of the electricity in Northern Europe. > Wind/Solar are not reliable.
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by lispm 3y ago
> And of course Japan is just one country of the 22 (+China+India+...). So again, how is nuclear on the way out? Japan has only working 12 reactors. Tripling those will create 36. It had 54. It's just TRYING to catch up. Other count
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by lispm 3y ago
> particularly in Germany where plants often consist of a single reactor We were arguing about nuclear power in Japan. In 2011 Fukushima had one of the largest plants in the world, with six reactors. Many powerplants in Japan had more th
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by lispm 3y ago
It's in part the development environment, which started earlier, before it had a graphical display. For example: http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/xerox/interlisp/Inter...
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by lispm 3y ago
> In common use "reactor" and "power plant" sometimes get equated. Whoop de doo. My apologies for being slightly sloppy. It makes no sense here and has nothing to do with being "sloppy". It's a huge dif
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by lispm 3y ago
> What exactly was your point here? I'm helping you with your own question: I gave you an example where a reactor was not shutdown for 'political reasons'. It was shutdown because it was a crap safety design, which almost
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by lispm 3y ago
I love how you go on, having exposed that you even don't know the difference between a powerplant and a reactor. All the while you claim others to be 'comically incorrect'. You should really tone down and don't say that
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by lispm 3y ago
Sure you could, if you wanted. There were a bunch of software developed on the Lisp Machines, which were available over a range of different machines. In 1984 Common Lisp was presented as defined language, available from PCs up to supercomp
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by lispm 3y ago
Which costs a lot of money. Which is also needed to build new ones. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_renaissance "Since about 2001 the term nuclear renaissance has been used to refer to a possible nuclear pow
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by lispm 3y ago
> which they delayed during COVID so they could not stick to their typical schedule > the average time to construct a nuclear power plant is around 7.5 years That's dumb. "The average time taken to build 441 reactors operati
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by lispm 3y ago
> They withstood the earthquake. They were not shut down by the earthquake. You know nothing about safety of nuclear power plants in Japan? There is a nuclear power plant. Then there is a strong earthquake. Technical systems will automat
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by lispm 3y ago
> depend on software packages like Dynamic Windows That was the reason for specification&development of the "Common Lisp Interface Manager" (CLIM), which was a portable reimplementation of Dynamic Windows to Common Lisp and
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by lispm 3y ago
You can see the Symbolics documentation interface in action: https://vimeo.com/83886950 It comes with built-in hypertext documentation, which was available online and printed.
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by lispm 3y ago
> They are amazing but they cannot easily move to different machines and sharing parts of them is hard to separate from the rest of the living organism. The code of a Symbolics Lisp Machine is written in so-called "systems". A
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by lispm 3y ago
> because renewables do produce some electricity. like >50% this year... > CANDU "Diese wurde jedoch von Indien gebrochen; das Land baute mit CANDU-Know-how und -Technologie sein Kernwaffen-Arsenal auf." Wonderful. > n
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by lispm 3y ago
> Pardon me: a single power plant. Well, not even a whole power plant. Parts of a single power plant. Doesn't change anything. A large power plant with six reactors. Zero of them are operating anymore. None will. Nothing of that was
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by lispm 3y ago
Q: How long does a typical surgery take to add a third leg to the human body? Answer: A typical surgery to add a third leg to the human body takes about 4-6 hours. The surgery is typically performed in two stages. The first stage involves c
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by lispm 3y ago
EINE was the second Emacs (the first was TECO EMACS, an Emacs written in TECO macros) and EINE was the first one to be (completely) written in Lisp, on a GUI-based system.
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by lispm 3y ago
Slightly more complex than the UI of something like GNU Emacs, but with a better user interface. Keep in mind that not that many machines ever existed, I would think around 10000 -> thus the UI was less polished, but more capable. It&#x2
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by lispm 3y ago
If one wants to read a description of the hard- and software of a Lisp Machine from the 1980s, here are two good and lengthy overviews of second and third generation systems. The first generation were the research prototypes developed at MI
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Q: A human has two legs, how many legs does it have if three legs are missing? Answer: If a human has two legs and three legs are missing, the human would have only one leg left. Here's the calculation: Initial number of legs = 2

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