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by tangus 3y ago
Great utility. Almost the only thing I use Termux for nowadays.
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by tangus 3y ago
I disagree with some of their reasons. Modern: Object Pascal isn't a modern language. It was modern in 1998, maybe, but it hasn't evolved much since then. Latest big change was the addition of generics, behind almost any other lan
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by tangus 3y ago
>Fold is also simpler than REDUCE since it does not have any special case, making it easier to reason about its behaviour. If returning the initial value when the list is empty is considered a special case (or "surprising aspect&quo
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by tangus 3y ago
Sure, to solve a 5x5x5 puzzle we can test all 5!*5!*5! possibilities; it's faster than thinking it out. To solve a 7x7x7 one you'll need logic programming though.
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by tangus 3y ago
Try this: https://old.reddit.com/r/all/.i Unfortunately it doesn't keep across links.
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by tangus 3y ago
I suspect every time the article says "why's that so? nobody knows!", somebody actually knows and they would have found out if they had researched a little...
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by tangus 3y ago
This is the FOR macro he's talking about: http://ml.cddddr.org/cl-iteration/msg00008.html
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by tangus 4y ago
What's the problem?
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by tangus 4y ago
I don't think so. Wirth languages are generally not appreciated because they are short sighted. They guy designs a language with only one goal: to build a compiler that runs in the machine he's currently working on. * This system
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by tangus 4y ago
During the penalty shootout, where teams traditionally stay quietly on the center circle and keep to themselves, the Dutch team decided to intercept and harass the Argentine penalty takers going to the penalty stop. This kind of unsportmans
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by tangus 4y ago
The site forbids access from my IP. If you are in the same situation, follow this link: https://web.archive.org/web/20221128222820/https://www.lapha...
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by tangus 4y ago
Site returns 403 Forbidden
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by tangus 4y ago
Obviously not, and nobody should have to learn that. Let's fight against fraud and deception and don't normalize them.
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by tangus 4y ago
Did you read the article? That's just the first section.
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by tangus 4y ago
No. Take a look at ConTeXt < https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Main_Page >, another TeX superset. It integrates TeX typesetting with MetaPost graphics and Lua programming, and does a much better job than LaTeX, in my opini
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by tangus 4y ago
In the last 20 years people realized that the decision of of having nil eat or throw is better made by the caller. To that purpose, several languages already added a `.?` operator. That's something that can work also in Smalltalk: Add
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by tangus 4y ago
I understood them. Take a look at the constants table, indices 0, 2, 4, 6: the column "Value" is truncated. Now imagine you have trouble with an ana function and want to take a look at the generated bytecode. Would you rather have
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by tangus 4y ago
I just saw two screenshots and already don't like it. It seems its output sacrifices information for the sake of... tabulation? presentation? I don't know, but it's the wrong call. Maybe it wasn't intended, but having th
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by tangus 5y ago
I wonder if January 11 was a Thuesday or a Thuersday...
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by tangus 5y ago
The lecture had ended, so no.
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by tangus 5y ago
Cryptic crosswords sound like fun. Unfortunately, at least in the Guardian's and the Independent's[*], words cross only every second letter. That, in addition to the cryptic clues, makes them too difficult for me. [*] Those are th
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by tangus 5y ago
This was a fad in my local BBS around 1995. Not to these extremes, of course, but for a couple of months that year we'd justify our forum messages to the 72nd column without any extra space. It's not too difficult, lines have enou
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by tangus 5y ago
Who remembers boundary areas and the kind of fence they have? Access to them is restricted and people don't usually have a reason to go there anyway. After they were abandoned there's still no reason for them to enter cultural con
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by tangus 5y ago
This is great! It's a shame XCompose doesn't follow rfc1345 though, which is the input method I use on Emacs. I have to learn two different sets of composing sequences :( (Fortunately they seem to agree on the majority of the acce
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by tangus 5y ago
Nothing is wrong with it, but your suggestion comes 40 years too late. The popular idiom was the one I mentioned.
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by tangus 5y ago
I can't say for sure, but I suspect it was a reaction to ALGOL-68. Creators of later Algolish languages usually made a point of rejecting features of Algol-68 they saw as prone to abuse. And the block expressions in Algol-68 were certa
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by tangus 5y ago
Well, that was 40 years ago. And also, you don't launch Exocet missiles against commercial ships...
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by tangus 5y ago
It's because there is a slideshow with images of uneven height at the top of the page.
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by tangus 5y ago
It lacks word wrapping tho.
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by tangus 5y ago
TIL is opinionated, all right, but this >The number of spaces does count. Not counting indentation, it should always be one. is the silliest "opinion" I've ever seen.

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