sarehu

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by sarehu 18y ago
The sun's surface rotates with a period of 25 to 35 days, depending on latitude, so I would guess not.
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by sarehu 18y ago
It's my understanding that a theory of everything describes the rules by which the universe operates. It doesn't say anything about emergent properties of these rules. For example, if everything in the universe obeyed Newtonian mechanics,
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by sarehu 18y ago
What about it? All Godel's incompleteness theorem says is that there will be open questions about a universe describable by finitely many rules. The laws of physics don't need to provide answers to questions about whether computers in its
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by sarehu 18y ago
That's complete nonsense. There's nothing about Godel's theorem that says the physical rules of the universe can't be described. You're babbling religiously.
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by sarehu 18y ago
How is vi considered minimalist compared to Notepad?
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by sarehu 18y ago
Imagine... people doing what they want and making decisions that are best for themselves.
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by sarehu 18y ago
He should be downvoted; there's no need for him to grand stand about how hard he's trying.
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by sarehu 18y ago
But it does filter out people who don't have that tenacity. Those people who do have that kind of tenacity would already have learned about pointers and O notation.
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by sarehu 18y ago
I wasn't asking why macros were useful in general, but thanks anyway.
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by sarehu 18y ago
You can perfectly easily write with-foobar functions of any kind, so macros aren't a win there, except maybe in Lisp where it saves you a parenthesis or two. You can replice define-memoized-function with (define f (memoize (lambda arg