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by patrec 4y ago
I tend to be a a bit wary of dynamic languages with sophisticated, performant implementations of complex abstractions, especially if they have somewhat niche appeal. In my experience this is a combination that makes for running into a lot
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by patrec 4y ago
> I don't believe I've ever come across mutually tail recursive functions, or the need for them Well, had you read the link I posted in my reply to your question, you would have ;) Anyway, there are a some useful things that ar
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by patrec 4y ago
> This is unethical negotiating. It's only unethical negotiating if the Twitter board hasn't put out inflated DAU numbers. Maybe the sudden firing of Kayvon Beykpour and Bruce Falck has raised some new suspicions about this que
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by patrec 4y ago
You are -- non-self tail-calls. If you have mutually tail-recursive functions, say f1, f2, ..., f_n you have two problems without TCO: 1. There is no way to rewrite this into loops by just modifying the insides of these functions. 2. The re
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by patrec 4y ago
I interpret this as "we will add a primitive that will allow you to implement TCO yourself (and more), but the behavior of existing java or byte code won't change, and the stack will continue to grow, even if a call occurs in tail
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by patrec 4y ago
Are there plausible links between this announcement and the recent Twitter firings?
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by patrec 4y ago
It's a sliding scale thing. Even if you never heard of Proust, you can probably still get a chuckle out the choral society trying to summarize his magnum opus in 15s and never getting past the "Proust in his first book, fa la la&q
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by patrec 4y ago
Whilst you can enjoy most of Monty Python without a high-brow education, as you'd somewhat expect from a troupe made out of graduates of the two top universities in Britain, there are several sketches that are only funny if you have re
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by patrec 5y ago
Here's a citation for a drug Shulgin is famous for: > MDMA provides an immediate enjoyable feeling by stimulating the release of neurotransmitters, such as dopamine and serotonin in the brain. Unfortunately, abnormal regulation of t
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by patrec 5y ago
> I don't see psychedelics, and their use, as being particularly risky to physical health Maybe if you don't count frying your brain as a risk to your physical health.
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by patrec 5y ago
If only we would leave more of these decisions to arm-chair bien-pensants, second guessing two seemingly highly competent medical professionals. I am sure the woman in question would also really have appreciated being settled with the likel
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by patrec 5y ago
Why further inconvenience everyone else for this moron, if they (clearly correctly) judged her no longer to be in danger?
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by patrec 5y ago
That looks to be a lot more than 40 years ago though.
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by patrec 5y ago
> I think it's the opposite actually. Do a web search for O'Rourke's "Foreigners around the world" and report back. > Humor that suggests that the people with different political views may have feelings and br
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by patrec 5y ago
> going as far to tear off limbs or kill others/commit suicide. Not to distract to much from your wider point, but I was under the impression that most species of octopi are solitary and it was not uncommon for them to kill and even
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by patrec 5y ago
> we are strong, we are confident about our army and I hope that everything will be fine I hope this correctness of this assessment has no impact on your safety and well-being. If it does, the people in this thread cheering you on who ar
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by patrec 5y ago
Exactly. Just like "Correlation does not imply causation" Hanlon's razor is one of those things people love to trot out to appear sophisticated when it has quite the opposite effect. Would it also be "We eventually figur
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by patrec 5y ago
I'm not too sad if my browser vendor decides they don't want to support someone foisting multi gig executables on me via their webpage. Doesn't even need to be my browser vendor, anyone with enough market share will do. I&#x2
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by patrec 5y ago
The Bolsheviks and (to a lesser extent) the Nazis had plenty of good art that also saved as propaganda for the most despicable causes. You can appreciate Eisenstein or Harlan as great directors without thinking them to be fine human beings.
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by patrec 5y ago
Have you heard of computers? Do you consider the development of computing power per Watt vs the total power consumed for computing over the last 70 years as an example of this rare market effect?
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by patrec 5y ago
I wish we had more people who under-deliver the way Elon Musk does.
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by patrec 5y ago
> No offence, but have you written any compilers or interpreters? I have, but nothing sophisticated. > The points that you discuss [...] may be performance concerns for application developers [...] but they have very little to do with
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by patrec 5y ago
> The Romans were very good at conquering people and levying brutal taxes, but that doesn't add value and we shouldn't pretend that it does. How do you think the nice things you seem to enjoy about Rome spread around?
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by patrec 5y ago
I don't buy that. If you squint a bit, Lua and Javascript are basically the same language. Lua shares many of javascript's peculiarities and warts (strings you can do arithmetic on, all numbers are doubles (originally), arrays are
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by patrec 5y ago
> NodeJS relies on V8, which is perhaps the world's most highly optimised interpreter (/JIT compiler/runner), and a spectacular piece of software. Uhm, has V8 come anywhere near LuaJIT's performance by now? And LuaJIT
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by patrec 5y ago
How about a bit of critical thinking before yelling "Conspiracy!"? Concerning "sources", if Apple and Google are engaged in joint anti-competitive behavior, they'd probably not write press releases about it. But of
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by patrec 5y ago
Right, like as without those 5B Apple would screw up its products by handing over all search to some guy with a Bing scraping Perl script cosplaying as a search engine.
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by patrec 5y ago
Indeed. An easy fix would be to compare, say, the year's biggest crossing action movies from 1980-1990 and 2010-2020 or similar.
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And it's probably the main reason MongoDB is a thing at all.
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by patrec 5y ago
Have a look at the classic "The AWK Programming Language" by the A, W, and K in awk. It's full of great examples. https://ia803404.us.archive.org/0/items/pdfy-MgN0H1joIoDVoIC...

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