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by nikofeyn 7y ago
as far as i can tell clojure clr is just a side project for a couple of people and in no way gets the same full support as clojure on jvm, not to mention that it lags behind clojure on jvm. and again as far as i can tell, no one really uses
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
> I think people need to get over their fear of the parens and start paying more attention to it. i have no problem with parentheses. it’s the JVM that gives me pause. i feel .NET and BEAM are the better choices these days with c#/f
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
> it adds up to a big CO2 problem that nobody talks about if you haven’t seen it already, you’d probably be interested in the below talk by chuck moore, inventor of forth. https://www.infoq.com/presentations/power-14
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
> "be better" at breaking down a problem into easily solvable steps i highly recommend the courses how to code: simple data and how to code: complex data to supplement your learning to address the quoted goal. don’t be put
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
that may seem like the obvious lesson, but there is a more hidden lesson, at least in the case of anki. i don't their failure had as much to do with the interactions of vector than it did with the complex mechanical design. https:&#x2
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
that’s a bad assumption that primates are the second most intelligent animal. i am personally convinced that dolphins, in particular orcas, a much smarter than any primate species. orcas are almost always left out of intelligence of animals
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
yea, these days both are equally bad. i mean, apple has the UX on the ipad such that when you say no to updates or to remind you later, it presents you with a login page as if to confirm that’s what you’d like to do but instead installs the
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
i highly recommend looking at the used market for the out of print but plentiful scientific american library series. https://www.thriftbooks.com/series/scientific-american-libra... the books are heavily illustrated, do
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
i think it's more than just an academic research product. all of these efforts and more are the core racket team looking into replacing racket's syntax, in particular its parenthetical syntax. they have explicitly stated that they
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
i've heard of it before. i'll be honest: i don't much like haskell. for example, this makes me crazy (haha): mmult mA mB = result where mBT = transpose mB dot a b = sum $ zipWith (*) a b result
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
i wouldn't really call this programming FPGAs with .NET languages. it's more just converting .NET code to run on FPGAs. those are two different things. also, i don't really understand how moving something that is compute boun
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
mostly for video chatting. it felt like a fad a few years ago. with the ubiquity or phones, tablets, and laptops, it seems like a pointless feature anyway.
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
it isn’t just connected TVs. it’s those with a camera as well. not all smart TVs have a camera. i have a relatively high-end smart TV that doesn’t have a camera.
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
this comment makes no sense. even assuming these things are equal, no one is just out there staring at the sky for hours on end for the small percentage of time the sky is actually blue.
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
> it has a relatively big academic community backing it up this is actually a problem in my eyes and will prevent it from gaining industrial traction. for example, this keeps the main developers as a revolving door of graduate students w
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
the racket people seem to disagree because they are moving away from lisp/scheme syntax supposedly to improve what they can do with macros.
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
nope. see my other comment. tesla is not the world’s largest electric vehicle seller.
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nope. although, i was wrong about not even close. it seems i was remembering an old stat. https://thedriven.io/2019/02/06/tesla-byd-fight-for-lead-in-... https://www.wired.co.uk/article/e
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
they don’t sell anywhere close to “more EVs than anyone else”.
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
yea, i believe it was for real too. they guy throwing the ball did so with much, much less force the second time.
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
i read predictable and boring as reliable and safe. and many companies are innovating in design.
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
i had to double back and check where i came from, as i said out loud to myself “wait, is this a joke?”.
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
sometimes yes, sometimes no. https://blog.racket-lang.org/2019/01/racket-on-chez-status.h... it seems it's a bit 50-50 in terms of performance gains, but the main gain, from what i understand, is the ability
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
> Imo internet access is going to have immediate positive impact for billions of global disconnected poor. do you really think that? is that why companies like facebook are so interested in third-world markets? or is it because they want
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
whenever i heard of stuff like this, i think of ligo, the gravitational wave detectors. from what i understand, their signals are just huge amounts of noise, other signals, and then finally the actual signals (gravitational waves) that thy
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
the headline remains me of the short film by adam curtis how we are all becoming richard nixon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxV3_bG1EHA
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the full length one is very good. it gives an understanding as to why simons has been so successful. https://youtu.be/QNznD9hMEh0
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
it's clear that that wasn't my point, and it's also clear that that wasn't my summary of their point. i answered their point directly, and in good faith, above that. i don't know why you're honing in on what am
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
that's a rather specific example that i personally don't think is relevant to the discussion. for one, fungi are not even animals. and it's a very specific disease tied to a certain class of species. humans have affected a gr
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
if it's extraordinary, can you provide evidence otherwise? can you provide examples of any other species that has wiped out entire species, multitudes of species, and at increasing rates? i didn't list any because i don't kno

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