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by peatmoss 7y ago
It’s hard to find a Scheme implementaron that isn’t significantly faster than Python... all while being at least as dynamic and more expressive. I think a lot of CS students had their brains melted by tough classes where Scheme was the ve
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by peatmoss 7y ago
I disliked the “Racket2” name because it strongly implied that Racket 1 (the one with parentheses on the outside and few commas) was the past, and that something with a vaguely Algol-ish syntax was the future. But Racket as a project was al
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by peatmoss 7y ago
Hmm, I didn’t mean to convey that the Python 2/3 transition was done well. I think lots of projects have tried to port their community success to substantially different projects, and that most have failed for a variety of different re
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by peatmoss 7y ago
I think my takeaway lesson is that it’s very hard to introduce large, breaking changes to a language and not alienate a large proportion of existing users. I don’t know that there’s a right way. I look at Perl, which was a juggernaut when I
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by peatmoss 7y ago
I didn’t have that context—thank you. Still, I guess it’s an endorsement when systematic review of prior art can be mutually confused with experience :-)
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by peatmoss 7y ago
I appreciate that the author here takes pains to review existing standards and implementations like ODBC/JDBC, and also reviews newer ideas like columnar stores and projects like Apache Arrow. It inspires confidence when I see engineer
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by peatmoss 7y ago
If the goal is purely to limit distraction on the device, a lack of maps is another deal-breaker for me on any phone.
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by peatmoss 7y ago
In my alternate universe, GNUStep or some other implementation of the NS APIs would have allowed Linux/BSD to rise in popularity along with a NeXT-ified Apple. Except that didn’t happen. I think in your alternate universe it’s likely w
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by peatmoss 7y ago
That’s a great point, however they also lock down the enduser experience to something diminished from a fully general purpose computer.
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by peatmoss 7y ago
Better support for large and binary artifacts
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by peatmoss 7y ago
In some sense this is true—I like to believe the benefits of exercise outweigh the increased exposure to air pollution. However, we shouldn’t lose sight of the fact that bicyclists are often breathing deeply next to traffic that can, in som
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by peatmoss 7y ago
Yeah, I assumed the Twitter part was a joke. I can’t imagine a better way to feel horrible than Twitter. It’s definitely a platform for generating heat and very little light. As for the news, I can understand the notion of a diet. I try and
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by peatmoss 7y ago
All that makes sense except the Montreal part... riding in icy conditions sounds like pure terror to me. And I say this as someone who used to commute by bicycle year around in Montana.
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by peatmoss 7y ago
I think cornering ABS is only available on the new 1050? I think that’s also the case with the Tiger (I’m part of the adventure-touring market segment). You can get cornering ABS on the huge 1200, but not the 800, IIRC. Like, I want a 500cc
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by peatmoss 7y ago
> while for motorcycles they have only improved substantially in 2010s with the EU mandating ABS as a requirement. I really wish it were possible to get advanced cornering ABS on something that isn’t a bajillion cc displacement. The smal
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by peatmoss 7y ago
I’m by no means an advanced rider, but I am a rider, and I don’t buy the “pipes save lives” argument in the slightest. The cone of sound goes out the back of your bike when accelerating: pretty much alerting the motorists I’m least worried
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by peatmoss 7y ago
I assume they mean with periodic stops for gasoline, which is a lot more common than a quick charge station. That said, it’s an interesting thought exercise to go unsupported and make your own (solar) fuel via motorcycle. Of course to maxim
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by peatmoss 7y ago
Licensing bikes is hugely contentious, but in the case of expensive electric bikes, I do wonder if those benefits would start to out weigh the downsides for some people. As an aside, in my opinion, electric bikes are probably the most pract
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by peatmoss 7y ago
I don’t like the headphones because of safety / perception of safety, but back when I commuted by bike, I joked about doing “bike therapy.” The experience of being alone with myself, my thoughts, my breath, and my pedal cadence was a v
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by peatmoss 7y ago
One of the great things about bjj and judo, is that they are symmetric arts. That is, both participants have the same objective. This leads to a lot of intensity / realism within the rules of engagement. This is also a downside, as s
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by peatmoss 7y ago
I think another major benefit of martial arts is the challenging practice of socializing . In addition to the support and camaraderie you get, you also learn a ton about others’ psychology. In my aikido (and in the past in judo and DZR juj
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by peatmoss 7y ago
I’ve often wondered why SBCL hasn’t been used as the basis for some of the newer lisps and lisp-alikes. It’s performance is pretty great, and is worlds closer to Clojure than the JVM.
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by peatmoss 7y ago
Clojure with a good c (stretch goal: c++) FFI on LLVM would be amazing. I somehow suspect the reason we don’t have it in a fully baked form is that it’s hard. That said, there is Ferret which is Clojure-like, and compiles to c++: https:&#x
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by peatmoss 7y ago
Any news on the status of “Racket 2” planning? That announcement demotivated me to want to invest in Racket. Is racket-without-sexprs still the plan for mainline mindshare?
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by peatmoss 7y ago
As Racket CS slowly improves towards matching the mainline implementation, those results can give the impression that Racket CS is slow. To put things in context, look where Racket was already at in comparison to another very dynamic langua
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by peatmoss 7y ago
I occasionally have mild dry eyes after my PRK a couple years ago (very infrequent discomfort in the morning when I wake up), but over all, I’m happy with the results. The staff and doctor all tried mightily to get me to do LASIK, and after
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by peatmoss 7y ago
Oh my yes. “XML all the things” was very much a hot trend in the early 00s. I’m even guilty of getting caught up in it. I hand-coded a handful of docbook docs for no good reason, and then even bemoaned not having XSLT tooling. In retrospect
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by peatmoss 7y ago
Vehemently agree. Monoculture is a huge risk to IT generally right now. I love Linux and must use it for some things, because nothing else is really supported, but I really worry about a world where all the servers run Linux. I think the th
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by peatmoss 7y ago
Martial arts are a great answer. And aikido can be a great martial art. They are both social and exercise. Plus, if you’ve been braining all day in a relatively self-directed way, it’s really sublimate your ego and front brain to instructio
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by peatmoss 7y ago
Yeah, I pretty much assume that targeted attacks will always succeed when a well-funded state actor is involved. For me, I look at encryption as a mitigation for surveillance. Anything that increases the marginal cost to monitor an individu

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