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811.
by tmtvl 2y ago
> Foreigners who speak Chinese are way more rare than those who speak Japanese Obligatory 'Chinese ain't a language, you probably mean Mandarin' comment aside, part of the issue may be that Chinese languages are (mostly?
812.
by tmtvl 2y ago
The semicolon is Lisp syntax for comments. T is the way you write true in Lisp. Most-negative-fixnum is the most negative number Lisp can represent without promotion to bignum (so it can be int_min if int is roughly equivalent to size_t).
813.
by tmtvl 2y ago
> very very very slightly confusing for - and / It's fine if you DNF it: (- a b c) => (+ a (- b) (- c)) (/ a b c) => (* a (/ 1 b) (/ 1 c))
814.
by tmtvl 2y ago
Yet another way in which Lisp is vastly superior to any and all blub languages: (= 2 (+ 1 1) (sqrt 4)) ; => t (< most-negative-fixnum 0 most-positive-fixnum) ; => t
815.
by tmtvl 2y ago
But if doctors work fewer hours that means the supply of doctor hours will be vastly outstripped by the demand causing the price of a doctor hour to increase. So wouldn't it be a self-balancing mechanism?
816.
by tmtvl 2y ago
There were a few times I had my mind blown. Once with Scheme when I was watching the old SICP video lectures. But also (and this may be a rather unpopular thing to say) once with C when I had coded something up and compiled it and ran it an
817.
by tmtvl 2y ago
A bunch of content currently on YouTube: the Perl conference, European Lisp Symposium, Strange Loop, Peter Hadfield's (Potholer54) videos,... Most written content I am interested in I already have backed up (for example PDFs of various
818.
by tmtvl 2y ago
It'd be 'Siddhartha fucking Buddha' if we're talking about the Buddha. There are other Buddhas whose moniker you could use (e.g. Amithaba), and Siddhartha Gautama had other monikers (Shakyamuni Buddha), so variations w
819.
by tmtvl 2y ago
You may not be alone, but I have donated to Prot for the amazing Modus Operandi colour scheme. If it's something you really like, why not support the creator to try and encourage them to make more things you like?
820.
by tmtvl 2y ago
At some point you do need to write at least some code. Can't really go to a hospital and say 'oh, the code that drives the MRI scanner isn't really necessary, you can always try other methods to figure out what's wrong w
821.
by tmtvl 2y ago
I've got one of the Steven Black hosts files. Besides that I have Floorp set up with uBlock Origin and NoScript. On Brave, Edge, and Chrome I don't have anything special set up.
822.
by tmtvl 2y ago
Did anyone get the number of that donkey cart?
823.
by tmtvl 2y ago
Please don't conflate typing faster with typing sooner. If we have two hypothetical programmers: L, who can type at 300 billion characters per second, and S, who can type at 60 characters per hour; then saying that L will write worse c
824.
by tmtvl 2y ago
For screenshots you could just link to one of the implementations, those give at least some indication of what the themes look like. For example: https://github.com/catppuccin/emacs I suppose it looks decent, but I&#x2
825.
by tmtvl 2y ago
Same. Might've been hugged, though I doubt it considering how recently it's been added.
826.
by tmtvl 2y ago
There's Cyclone Scheme, though I don't know how good its GC is in practice: https://justinethier.github.io/cyclone/ Also I would expect a programming language used by enterprise to do fewer experiments with t
827.
by tmtvl 2y ago
'Doing a binary tree'? You mean visiting every node? define walk-tree (tree fn &optional remaining-branches) match tree (Leaf l) -> funcall fn l if remaining-branches walk-tree (first
828.
by tmtvl 2y ago
Having to go to docs.rs and look up the method rather than being able to do ` perldoc [package] ', or (even better) being able to just ask your language to ` (describe '[method]) ' is terrible.
829.
by tmtvl 2y ago
What's jwz's problem with HN anyway, did pg kill his dog or something?
830.
by tmtvl 2y ago
Oh, machine learning, I was hoping it was about ML (Meta Language) compilers with insights on stuff like Ocaml or SML.
831.
by tmtvl 2y ago
Will is on HN*, though I don't know whether he'll see this topic. * https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=will_byrd
832.
by tmtvl 2y ago
That's not an elephant, that's my wife.
833.
by tmtvl 2y ago
No need to tell me, whenever I'm working with Common Lisp I usually have the GNU Common Lisp documentation open to the side (it's in Info format, which Emacs has pretty good support for). I also really appreciate Perl for the ` pe
834.
by tmtvl 2y ago
Sounds like an amazing project. Hopefully some people will put their backs into improving documentation. All joking aside, it's good to have initiatives like Hacktoberfest to get people involved in FLOSS. Bountysource was also neat in
835.
by tmtvl 2y ago
> Some things are hard and just throwing more money at it doesn't work because it's about company culture and leadership. Indeed, though that sword cuts both ways, if a hard problem gets fixed with lots of money being thrown
836.
by tmtvl 2y ago
Isn't the Cybertruck that Mad Max looking thing that looks like it will shear you clean in two if it hits you? I'm surprised that's street legal.
837.
by tmtvl 2y ago
It seems interesting, but I hate asymmetric gamepad layouts. That's one thing I quite like about the Steam Deck: that they made the layout symmetric.
838.
by tmtvl 2y ago
I dunno, I seem to recall the original Gameboy being this huge brick and that was entirely fine. Dunno where I put it, though... might've tossed it when I got my Gameboy Colour, which seems like the stupid kind of thing I would've
839.
by tmtvl 2y ago
I preordered a Vita back in the day and when I got it I immediately fell in love with it. It fits in a pocket and it has way better analogue sticks than that garbage the PSP had. I still use it to this day because I can't fit my Steam
840.
by tmtvl 2y ago
This kinda reminds me of how Edo (nowadays known as Tokyo) was a little fishing village back in the Sengoku period.

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