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by qart 6y ago
I have started pushing my friends towards Signal. Let's hope the Indian govt. does not create legal hindrances to Signal, as it is wont to do. Authoritarian tendencies are pretty damn strong out here.
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by qart 6y ago
Norvig is a teacher. His first choice was Lisp for a long time. He chooses Python because it is a good enough alternative for his teaching. You can find his motivation here: http://www.norvig.com/python-lisp.html
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by qart 6y ago
I meant "better" in the sense that one can do logic programming from whatever language one is familiar with already, instead of installing and learning a whole new ecosystem. We would still have to learn logic programming.
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by qart 6y ago
I wonder... is it still justified to learn Prolog now? Aren't there better alternatives for logic programming in many other common programming languages? I mean http://minikanren.org/
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by qart 6y ago
Jack Ma was a lecturer in English and international trade. In his discussion with Musk, Ma did not seem to be struggling with the language. Instead, he came across as glib and silly.
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by qart 6y ago
I have seen this happening so often: C/C++/Rust often end up using CPU-specific features, and the code starts looking more and more like assembly code, and less like idiomatic high-level language code. Basically, comparisons of pr
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by qart 6y ago
I got all the search results I expected: handling of strings in C, and a tiny bit of C++ thrown in. What do you get?
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by qart 6y ago
> The only people who do whaling in Canada are the First Nations That makes things worse. You're defending something like a couple of million people for killing 4510 whales, while vilifying a country of 125 million for killing 2080
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by qart 6y ago
Why single out Japan? Canada, Greenland, Faroe Islands, and Norway all exceed it. Canada and Norway are signatories of this new commitment. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whaling#Whaling_catches_by_loc...
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by qart 6y ago
Ah, the accursed eurocentricism. Some people have to indulge in it even when they are writing a fluff piece about another culture they are trying to extol.
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by qart 6y ago
Not a blackboard, but just a slate. Paper was too expensive for him, so he used it only to write down results. Source: https://www.quantamagazine.org/three-puzzles-inspired-by-ram...
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by qart 6y ago
> Please scroll to page 8. The data shows about 27% of Indian households Good, so these figures are not even close to the 50% figure for urban Rajasthan. Why do you think the figures differ so drastically? Also, clever of the "resea
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by qart 6y ago
Without linking to the actual questions and the data, this is yellow journalism. In one paragraph, it is “self or family member”, but in the next paragraph, it becomes "50 per cent of respondents in urban Rajasthan admitted to practisi
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by qart 6y ago
Please stop. I have attended Vaishya thread ceremonies myself. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upanayana
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by qart 6y ago
For the millions in villages, yes. It is not common in cities. Are you Indian? How often do people ask you for your caste? And please don't tell me my own lived experience is "blatantly untrue".
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It is extremely isolated even in India itself. I have interviewed with about a hundred people so far. No one asked me my caste, and I never asked anyone theirs. Some north Indian names give away the caste from the last name. That's les