lukego

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by lukego 3y ago
GToolkit uses a completely parallel graphics stack to standard Pharo. The VM and library ecosystem are still there but the UI is rebuilt from scratch on a modern vector based toolkit. The productivity of the GToolkit developers is impressiv
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by lukego 3y ago
The best I can say is that's analogous to asking if you can only use Emacs for Emacs Lisp code.
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by lukego 3y ago
It's well worth taking for a spin.
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by lukego 3y ago
We did the same. And then did the math again and moved to Scandinavia...
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by lukego 3y ago
Thinking Forth.
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by lukego 3y ago
One word: dog.
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by lukego 3y ago
I believe you would apply the correction for every comparison you make regardless of the conditions. It's a conservative default to avoid accidentally p-hacking. There might be other more specific corrections that give you power in a s
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by lukego 3y ago
... and one such correction is the (simple, conservative, underused) Bonferroni Correction.
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by lukego 3y ago
My third-grader here in digital Sweden started "Sloyd" woodworking class this month. Thanks for sharing these links. The kids all have their own iPads in the classroom but they seem to be used very sparingly, mostly for extra dril
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by lukego 3y ago
Fungi of Temperate Europe. Gorgeous book and immensely satisfying for self-studying mushroom foraging because of its comprehensiveness (thousands of species) and novel accessible organization.
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by lukego 3y ago
Run for your life. It's too late to save me from Nix but you can still save yourself.
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by lukego 3y ago
We divide screen time into three categories: Creative: Blender, Scratch, Blockbench, Krita. Thinking Games: Minecraft, Kerbal, Stormworks. Relaxing Games: most other stuff. Then we have fixed times of day when each thing is allowed e.g. cre
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by lukego 3y ago
I'm using Lisp for simulation. It's really wonderful being able to poke and prod long-running computations while they run. I missed this too much when I tried using Julia.
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by lukego 3y ago
Nix has a really convenient new CL libraries packaging upstream now. That verifies everything with sha256. It's quite complete because it's seeded from Quicklisp and had more packages added on (aswell as their native library depen
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by lukego 3y ago
Worked fine for me in my bicycle-friendly city.
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by lukego 3y ago
In Switzerland it's forbidden to make noise on a Sunday. Mowing lawns and such has to be done some other day. True also of conspicuous work that isn't noisy like hanging washing to dry outdoors.
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by lukego 3y ago
Tip: If you want these capabilities and your favorite language doesn't have them natively then you can consider embedding DuckDB for something comparable.
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by lukego 3y ago
Probably pretty up-to-date, then :)
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by lukego 3y ago
This is a really impressively put together piece of software and a great showcase for the MGL-PAX self-documentation framework. I'm getting a lot of inspiration from this stack lately.
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by lukego 3y ago
I often mix up the shininess of leaded solder with the shininess of tacly flux under a ring-lit microscope. Can be hard for me to know if the joint is complete or partly made of goo. The cloudy diffuse look of lead-free SAC305 is more disti
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by lukego 3y ago
I really love my Hakko FR-830 hot air preheater for lead-free rework. Took some effort with rollers to be able to pan/rotate the board while it's on the heater but does make lead-free feel like leaded for me (on dense but relative
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by lukego 3y ago
Fair point on general. My limited experience with probabilistic sorts of programming though is that the risk of misunderstanding/misuse is very high relative to the implementation complexity. Cars and. X-ray machines don't have si
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by lukego 3y ago
Hard to please some people :)
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by lukego 3y ago
I can meet you in the middle on "considerably less attractive" :-) For what it's worth, if I wanted zero-cost then the way I'd probably write that in Common Lisp would be with a more spartan abstraction like: (deftyp
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by lukego 3y ago
I don't really see the problem. If you want to define the bit layout of your objects then you define them using FFI. Support for FFI objects is comprehensive. It is exactly the tool for the job in Common Lisp. Same for LuaJIT. I'v
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by lukego 3y ago
> if I’m writing a machine learning application or a web application, then I’ll most likely reach for Python or JavaScript, respectively, due to the library ecosystems. This sounds eminently sensible but it never pans out that way in pra
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by lukego 3y ago
Yeah. Common Lisp has quirks and you need to adapt your abstractions to those. Sometimes it's easy, sometimes it's rewarding, sometimes it's just annoying. This week I'm scaling back some abstractions, writing more Fortr
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by lukego 3y ago
In fairness they are almost certainly in Norvig's other book...
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by lukego 3y ago
This might be my favorite programming book of all time. It's the book that got me hooked on Common Lisp (from Scheme) too. Focusing less on the elegance of the language definition and more on writing elegant programs. (English isn&#x27
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by lukego 3y ago
Yes. The best conferences are the ones where most people are paying out of pocket.

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