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by ofalkaed 1y ago
tldr: next election cycle, Musk will be a Democrat. Again? I really hate the ways the DNC and GOP use celebrity.
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by ofalkaed 1y ago
To those that upvoted me, I appreciate the sentiment but I should have been downvoted into oblivion. Upvotes are not likes, they are curation and moderation; upvote comments which produce good discussion even if that comment is terrible and
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by ofalkaed 1y ago
Your general sentiment is nice and all but ultimately reinforces my point regarding communication being one way.
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by ofalkaed 1y ago
Every time I go there the only threads which have any discussion tend to be AI/LLM threads, so technically on topic but I think my previous post should make it clear I am a humanities sort and as a humanities sort I have certain expect
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by ofalkaed 1y ago
No, I meant figurative, it is no longer 2013 and we don't party like that any more.
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by ofalkaed 1y ago
Oddly enough I had been considering making a similar thread but asking for something akin to HN but with less non-tech news. Perhaps the question that both I and OP are asking is, does anyone know of a site that stays on topic? >Thoughts
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by ofalkaed 1y ago
Makes me nostalgic for figurative carousels.
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by ofalkaed 1y ago
Our prejudices tend to be hard earned, life beats them into us and that makes it difficult to acknowledge that the other side is somewhat correct even if they are wrong in most every way. Extremists have bits of truth in their views; their
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by ofalkaed 1y ago
A lost cause for the most part, communication. Seems like most of what passes for communication these days is one way; what can I get out of it? how can I use this? do I agree or disagree? do I like this? what does this say about me? etc? e
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by ofalkaed 1y ago
The logic of the system instead of the pieces of the system; how the language's core data structure applies/relates towards expressing that system. I could very well be overthinking things and seeing some sort of magic which is no
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by ofalkaed 1y ago
>IMHO, the biggest pain point of APL pedagogy at the moment It is the one that always trips me up. I just started in on my third attempt at learning APL/array languages, both previous times I got to the same point where I was mostly
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by ofalkaed 1y ago
>“Avoid adverbs” is a common advice in MFA programs Words fail me, even adverbs seem to be of no help.
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by ofalkaed 1y ago
Any pointers on how to get better at expressing high-level application logic in APL? Any good resources on programming in APL? So far I have only found tutorials and basic stuff for learning APL but not much on applying APL. I am slowly imp
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by ofalkaed 1y ago
I don't think he went through your profile, suspect he just remembered the discussion he had with you in the linked thread. But how about we end this? it is not productive or interesting.
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by ofalkaed 1y ago
Not that I have found, closest is an incomplete one done in python. https://mathspp.com/blog/tag:lsbasi-apl#body-wrapper
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by ofalkaed 1y ago
Regarding that link >GNU is free but pretty much abandoned. Support for Windows was (is?) nonexistent. GNU APL was never abandoned, dev just went a long time without doing a proper release. I believe the Windows issue is just with cygwin
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APL Interpreter – An implementation of APL, written in Haskell (2024)(scharenbroch.dev)
136 points by ofalkaed 1y ago|69 comments
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by ofalkaed 1y ago
Forths can have local variables, both ANS Forth and gforth have them and if your forth does not have it you can make your own or possibly just include gforth's if your forth is compatible. Keeping track of the stack becomes second natu
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by ofalkaed 1y ago
I think it can work but it takes a different way of looking at things. The main thing is that you need to take the time to design that DSL from the start and stick to it, if you come to a place where the DSL can not do what you want you nee
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by ofalkaed 1y ago
Sure, but all you really need is the Forth spec and some basic programming skills in any language, even Bash[0] will work. Get a working Forth up and running with the core words and then start improving it and expanding it, develop that bas
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by ofalkaed 1y ago
I think for most people they would be better off developing their Forth in a high level language and writing their own software stacks and the core words. Once you have that start implementing other features in that high level language inst
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by ofalkaed 1y ago
Large programs mean lots of word definitions and essentially writing a DSL, most are not going to document that DSL well enough to make the code readable to anyone else and how many people want to learn a weird adhoc language myopically des
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by ofalkaed 1y ago
Can't think of any real consequence to taking it at face value, so why assume the worst?
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by ofalkaed 1y ago
You are making assumptions about my intent and my feelings regarding superhero and action movies. I am not sure I would call most of Anderson's output particularly sophisticated and absolutely would not write off entire genres as unsop
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by ofalkaed 1y ago
Before The French Dispatch his use of meta was just a side effect of the style, it broke the fourth wall which you can call meta but it is sort of meaningless if all it does is break the forth wall. In the French Dispatch and Asteroid City
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by ofalkaed 1y ago
>The mood, character development, cinematography, quirkiness Other than character development those are all part of the aesthetic and in his last two he mostly extended that aesthetic directly to the characters, dropped the essentially r
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by ofalkaed 1y ago
>His films are the same thing repeated in different circumstances with different characters. I am not sure what you mean, Asteroid City with its complex structure utilizing metafiction to explore things mostly removed from the characters
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by ofalkaed 1y ago
The article is more an attempt at nudging those sorts of conversation into meaningful discussion. Title is meant to appeal to people who do things like pass judgement on languages they know little to nothing about, articles they did not rea
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Moving Forth (1993)(bradrodriguez.com)
2 points by ofalkaed 1y ago|1 comments
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Stackless Traversal (2018)(dyalog.com)
2 points by ofalkaed 1y ago|0 comments

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