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by shiro 11y ago
"I imagine what an inverse 12 Angry Men would be like, starting with 11 jurors ready to acquit and Henry Fonda as the only one willing to convict. " There's a Japanese film, 12 Tender Japaneses, which is exactly that---at the
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by shiro 11y ago
Impressive. But I wonder if I want to see something like this in the code: ٦1٥٠3 + ٤६੬៩ - ৭۹੧
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by shiro 11y ago
Right!
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by shiro 11y ago
If I change the login setting, this usually works (yeah, I have extra layer of shell but I don't care): $ /bin/bash -l Environment variables in Unix isn't for changing global settings. Their effects are locali
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by shiro 11y ago
Isn't just starting a new shell suffice? (Usually I'm lazier and just say ". ~/.bashrc", knowing that it might not be idempotent but I don't care.)
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by shiro 11y ago
As other comments pointed, this caste system itself isn't really a "secret". We learn in school that it had existed, and there are quite a few stories dealing with it (A novel "The Broken Commandment" (破戒) by Touso
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by shiro 11y ago
Same. Are they still using it, or is it largely replaced by Python? It's been more than a decade since I wrote my last mel script (or used Maya, for that matter.)
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by shiro 11y ago
High-end electronic tuners actually have settings for stretched tuning.
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by shiro 11y ago
"X32:" etc. are labels, e.g. just names of functions or destinations of jump. Suppose you want to multiply A-reg by 4. Your code calls subroutine X4. That's immediately calls subroutine X2 (BSR X2), which doubles A (ADD A)
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by shiro 11y ago
No, it doesn't include subsidies (ED: I mean, we don't get subsidies). I signed up directly with the provider. Your number looks egregious. I wonder how that kind of plan works, though, with ACA's 80/20 rule.
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by shiro 11y ago
I became a freelance 13 years ago. On COBRA for a while. Looked for IEEE group insurance but HI wasn't covered then. The insurance company (HMSA) offered a switch to individual plan. It wasn't too bad initially ($350/mo f
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by shiro 11y ago
There are two factors - an individual difference and a general matter. In general, musical sight reading requires specific practice most people are not exposed to. Even if you play instruments fairly well, sight-reading practice is not s
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by shiro 11y ago
Yup, it doesn't mean much to teach alphabets to 4yr old, but I also observe that kids don't just become a competent reader spontaneously. Some kids do---just provide them access to books and they naturally pick them up---but some
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by shiro 11y ago
Interesting report. Thanks. Does MLTon recompile including standard lib? (Stalin does---it recompiles and inlines all std lib functions used from the program every time, which is why it takes so long to compile.)
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by shiro 11y ago
In theoretical extreme, you're correct. Even with a dynamically typed language like Scheme, if you do the whole program analysis you can eliminate most of run-time type checking, boxing/unboxing and some transient allocations (e.
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by shiro 11y ago
But that's a solved problem, decades ago. Many modern language implementations correctly implement it. http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.45.4... http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/
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by shiro 11y ago
If it's a personal project, it's largely a matter of taste, I think. I did tarball-upload style myself before. I just like to comment that having public repo doesn't necessarily mean you suddenly have to deal with issues pil
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by shiro 11y ago
It's deterministic. Basically it's a state machine and the state transition table itself is the key, iiuc. A few years ago I implemented it with software: http://blog.practical-scheme.net/gauche/20120715-nash
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by shiro 11y ago
Excerpt from Stephen King's "Hearts in Atlantis": [After talking on the books with good story but not good writing, and the ones with good writing but not good story] "Read sometimes for the story, Bobby. Don't be
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by shiro 11y ago
Being non-citizen is a different story. I think both US and Japan require non-citizens to carry their registration document (green card, visa, etc.) all the time, although it is rare that you actually asked to present it. Demanding ID for
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by shiro 11y ago
You're right about changing. Credit is very big deal for those who worked on it... But in this wide world there are fans who painstakingly go through the credit and put the text online. Sometimes even special thanks. So a fake name
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by shiro 12y ago
No, it's not the same. X a = new X("foo"); X b = new X("bar"); X c = a; swap(a, b); // after this, a points to X("bar") and b points to // X("foo"),
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by shiro 12y ago
We'll address this issue in a couple of releases. It'll be compliant to R7RS and mostly backward-compatible to existing code. The features is already in the dev HEAD. The trick is: - There'll be a "keyword" modu
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by shiro 12y ago
When you design something concrete, you have to make choices on lots of things that you don't really care at that time, but the choice may haunt you later. I think your point is that too much knowledge may hinder your view. That'
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by shiro 12y ago
An adult can still be in his/her parent's koseki until they marry. Most Japaneses do so. When you marry, if either you or your spouse already have his/her own koseki, the other will be registered to it. If both are under th
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by shiro 12y ago
Just curious---doesn't that pattern inhibit you to return nil as a meaningful, valid result? Or is nil treated as invalid value in Lua culture?
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by shiro 12y ago
30 miles one way doesn't sound uncommon in Tokyo as well, though the extensive public transportation system makes the need of cars much less than US. So I think it also depends on the policy of city design. I guess it's harder
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by shiro 12y ago
I mostly understand your position, but I have one perspective. > in essence then you are essentially arguing that it is impossible to test an education. Education can teach techniques, such as multiplication table or spellings, and that
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by shiro 12y ago
As a Japanese I understand your sentiment; now I live in US and I don't praise the huge disparity in the US society neither. However, your argument is misleading. In Japan, gap doesn't exist as much between occupations as in US,
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by shiro 12y ago
Got to be much older than that---I think Stalin predates R5RS (1998). I also vaguely remember that the name was chosen as a counter to Dylan (DYnamic LANguage), but can't find the reference now.

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