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by luuuzeta 4y ago
>nobody at all below the age of 40 wants to read The Handsmaid's Tale. Off the premise it's not something I'm interested in but I'll put it in my reading list, just to see what it's all about haha
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by luuuzeta 4y ago
>There’s a difference from banning a book in public libraries (or even Amazon) vs a school board saying it’s not appropriate in school libraries. Exactly this. Whenever I read any of these articles with "book banning" on their
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IBM's SSEC, the first computer that could modify a stored program(historyofinformation.com)
36 points by luuuzeta 4y ago|23 comments
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by luuuzeta 4y ago
What caught me off guard was the "(uwu)".
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by luuuzeta 4y ago
I'm currently reading Graham Hutton's "Programming in Haskell" (2nd), which is also another great resource. He also has YouTube videos [1] for chapters in the book. Philipp's videos are great too, which I also watch
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Send ebooks to a Kobo or Kindle ereader through the built-in browser(github.com)
1 points by luuuzeta 4y ago|0 comments
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by luuuzeta 4y ago
I took a course in college with the first half in Haskell and the second half in Prolog. Programming in Prolog felt like learning to program all over again.
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by luuuzeta 4y ago
Peter Seibel is also the author of "Coders at Work", which is a series of interviews to prominent figures in the world of computer science and programming.
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by luuuzeta 4y ago
>It also forced me to use a lot of recursion which is nice as I understood it much better than in that single "Fibonacci number" example. Back in college I took a programming class that used Haskell and not having any other do
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Qtile – Hackable tiling window manager written and configured in Python(qtile.org)
1 points by luuuzeta 4y ago|0 comments
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by luuuzeta 4y ago
Found it! [1] https://write.sonnet.io/ [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34183244
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by luuuzeta 4y ago
I think that's a great approach. If possible, you can add another step: Teaching it to someone else. >There's pretty much no better way to ensure you'll produce students that dislike and suck at math for the rest of their
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by luuuzeta 4y ago
>One should downvote to disagree. One should flag comments that are against community guidelines (trolling, unnecessary rudeness...) Interesting! I didn't know there was both flagging and downvoting. I'd assume flagging works l
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Podlite – Pod6 markup language editor(github.com)
20 points by luuuzeta 4y ago|2 comments
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by luuuzeta 4y ago
Pod6: https://docs.raku.org/language/pod
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The Super Tiny Compiler – Possibly the smallest compiler ever(github.com)
2 points by luuuzeta 4y ago|1 comments
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by luuuzeta 4y ago
Such a sweet library! It's nice to see examples so well laid out.
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by luuuzeta 4y ago
I'm honestly confused what's the use of flagging in Hackernews. You're being flagged, even though you're making some interesting observations that aren't derailing the thread. Is it because the flaggers disagree wit
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by luuuzeta 4y ago
Sadly many professors fall victim to the Curse of Knowledge. It doesn't help they need to follow a tight schedule and intuition isn't something you can develop in a single lecture. I suppose self-study and repetition is the most l
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by luuuzeta 4y ago
Tangentially related but that's something I've come to realize too as of recent. Asynchronous programming in JavaScript is new to me so as an exercise, I'm writing a document where I explain the concepts to myself and once I
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by luuuzeta 4y ago
Zinsser's "On Writing Well" is one of my favorite books, I like how clear and concise its prose is. I got Joseph M. William's "Style: Toward Clarity and Grace" recommended [1] so you might be interested in it.
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by luuuzeta 4y ago
Related: https://craftinginterpreters.com/
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Ask HN: Concepts that clicked only years after you first encountered them?
579 points by luuuzeta 4y ago|913 comments
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by luuuzeta 4y ago
>Except that instruments don't come with a backspace. If you want a closer approximation simply refuse to edit your texts at all: write it out in one go and refuse to fix any mistake that you make. The other day someone posted a web
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A Physicist Experiments with Cultural Studies (1996)(physics.nyu.edu)
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by luuuzeta 4y ago
>... if you believe in the former, these very "virtues of aggregation" may become a threat of twisting and perverting the very truths that lie in all of us (as we may have seen it exploited in fascism). This is a great point, a
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by luuuzeta 4y ago
>sophomoricism I don't know what this means and I don't care to look it up. >the equating of people being wrong with malfeasance, What else can you do when honesty and hubris is out and part of the equation respectively?
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by luuuzeta 4y ago
You might've assumed the commenter's chemistry -- it/they might not even be carbon-based.
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by luuuzeta 4y ago
>Once you are arguing in terms of whether you are not ablist or anti-bad enough, you have already taken the bait, and you are arguing at a disadvantage within the inconsistent framework of rules in the critical theory, The best way to es
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by luuuzeta 4y ago
>It’s one thing when magazines like Scientific American go all catawampus on science, but another entirely when a good scientific journal itself succumbs to wokeness. >The article below, from July’s American Naturalist [...] shows tw

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