samatman

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by samatman 3y ago
> Lifetimes on the other hand seem unnecessary in 99% cases where compiler forces you to use them - why can't it just assume that all the required parts have the 'a and complain if something violates that? Rust does that, thi
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by samatman 3y ago
I'm convinced a large part of the benefit people see from RPN calculators is that you have to figure out the order of operations before you start. It forces a way of thinking about the equation which is less error-prone, you're mo
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by samatman 3y ago
> is there a lisp dialect that makes common data structures available in a multitude of ways? Clojure. The language is built around immutable data structures with the expected interface for maps and vectors, and the idiomatic list-chur
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by samatman 3y ago
Lol. The final domino falls!
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by samatman 3y ago
If Ferrari and Toyota cost the same amount of money, you'd see more Ferrari. SBCL and Python are both free.
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by samatman 3y ago
On the strength of your first four paragraphs, I have to plug Julia. It doesn't have the benefit you point to in your fifth paragraph, of having a decades-old standard; stability of the core language is good so long as you aren't
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by samatman 3y ago
I clicked thinking I was going to see some gnarly Lisp code. It's out there! This, on the other hand, is perfectly legible if you know the language. I'd say it's even perfectly legible if you don't, but how would I know?
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by samatman 3y ago
> No version of Julia could even compile the example of the Julia book I bought, nor some of its own tutoials. This was either many years ago, or is a skill issue. Post-1.0 Julia backwards compatibility isn't perfect, but it'
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by samatman 3y ago
This sort of conduct isn't welcome here.
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by samatman 3y ago
Correct. There's no such thing as a python a-list, or p-list, and they can't share structure. There's overlap between programming in Python with lists, and programming in Lisp with lists, but not as much as it appears. In idi
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by samatman 3y ago
It's the lists. No, not the prefix notation, parenthesis, what have you, although that doesn't help. The lists themselves. In Lisp, code is data, and data is lists. Yes, of course, there are hashmaps, arrays, strings. But idiomati
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by samatman 3y ago
As long as we're linking to the Wikipedia article for parables, the one OP was referring to deserves a fair shake. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_Talents
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by samatman 3y ago
> if you can only sell shares to employees, you have to find other employees to buy your shares who have the money to do so, and you may have to accept a much lower price than some one on the open market might pay. If you can only sell
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by samatman 3y ago
The German word for man is der Mann. Der Mensch is a human/person. And yes, in Yiddish it has strong positive connotations, which have carried over into the (American, at least) loanword.
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by samatman 3y ago
3D TV hasn't caught on because it's an expensive gimmick that people don't generally want to pay for. Many sets also compromised on ordinary 2D quality to get 3D working, a particularly poor bargain. I've been to 3D film
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by samatman 3y ago
Is http the correct abbreviation for your language's translation of hypertext transport protocol?
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by samatman 3y ago
This is not correct. `.uk` is a ccTLD, and it isn't the ISO 3166 code for the UK, which is `gb`. These are two different systems with substantial overlap.
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by samatman 3y ago
Hierarchically organized is not a hard requirement. A domain could consist of nothing more than a unique Unicode string with no '/' or ' ' in it. It might do well to require a '.' be present, but even t
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by samatman 3y ago
Python generators do conform to the academic definition of coroutines. Specifically, they are stackless, asymmetric, coroutines. Which is somewhat nerfed and second rate, in my opinion, but that's Python for you. I agree with you, as
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by samatman 3y ago
Lumping autism and Asperger's into a single spectrum disorder was a mistake imho. I'll be using the old terminology here, for clarity. The two share some symptoms, but largely in the "all psychiatric disorders are comorbid&qu
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by samatman 3y ago
Hard agree. The test protocol is one step removed from a Scientology e-meter and the prose makes it crystal-clear that these 'researchers' are seeking to confirm their biases. No way this replicates.
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by samatman 3y ago
It's called CommonMark because Gruber insisted. Not because extensions to markdown aren't Markdown®, which no one cares about, and not because it isn't markdown in the ways that matter. Ironically, his objection was to the id
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by samatman 3y ago
The (only) issue is that Markdown isn't a format, it's a loose family of formats with many extensions. Implementing a parser Commonmark is not an especially difficult task in the grand scheme of things, it's quite well specif
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by samatman 3y ago
Correctly following the rules of construction results in a valid proof. That proof is in the steps taken, not the final diagram, because there's no way to tell by looking at a diagram if the rules were in fact followed. Part of the poi
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by samatman 3y ago
We do, in fact, know that.
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by samatman 3y ago
It's unfortunate that the weight of ecosystem and tooling (and the 800 point Microsoft-owned GitHub gorilla) has effectively locked the profession into using git. I don't hate it, I'm just keenly aware that a better approach
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by samatman 3y ago
Apple no longer lives in fear of Steve Jobs. This is just the latest brain-dead problem which would have obviously been fixed before it shipped in the face of Steve's cold fury.
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by samatman 3y ago
Avoiding excellent hardware because of a software bug is pretty short-term thinking. I want the notch. I also want the OS to behave correctly, given the notch. That's not too much to ask, and no, it's not worth ragequitting the en
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by samatman 3y ago
The notch is not the problem. It's free real estate, as the meme says. Older models, and most other laptops which ship a webcam (frankly essential in this day and age), just have dead space the size of the webcam. I'd much rather
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by samatman 3y ago
This is only of limited help. If I didn't want a program to have a menu icon, I wouldn't be running that program, or would have configured it to not have an icon. Hidden Bar's entire purpose is to hide the infrequently needed

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