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by tpoacher 2y ago
Interesting, thanks for the insight. Lua was also on my 'list', but admittedly further down. I would not have thought of this link between the two. If I ever do decide to byte the bullet, it might be interesting to learn these two
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Ask HN: How popular is Tcl in 2024?
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by tpoacher 2y ago
Water at high doses is poison. I'm reasonably sure that regular drinking of water at non-toxic doses is good though. So it really does depend.
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by tpoacher 2y ago
also why gemlogs have taken off massively, even if gemini itself hasn't
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by tpoacher 2y ago
Here's the reading list I created for the undergrad module I taught: Haskell Books: - Maybe Haskell by Pat Brisbin [ https://thoughtbot.gumroad.com/l/maybe-haskell ]: Very good book, available under a "pay what
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by tpoacher 2y ago
You may find this paper interesting: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/theory-and-practice-... title: Fifty Years of Prolog and Beyond (2022)
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by tpoacher 2y ago
Is this in the same sense that "one could write lisp in 99 lines of c"? In my opinion, this does not imply that proper lisp (and correspondingly prolog) implementations are useless, just because a simple implementation can be writ
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by tpoacher 2y ago
I'm stealing the term Checklist-driven development. Combined with Cha Bu Duo it explains so much of what I see on a daily basis...
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by tpoacher 2y ago
meanwhile the equivalent process in svn is simply "svn copy" followed by "set permissions". i feel like branch permissions in bare git repos should be a thing already. (rather than, say, having to rely on third-party pro
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by tpoacher 2y ago
And then there's me, still preferring make + @argfiles like a madman :p
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by tpoacher 2y ago
though, in theory java has jshell for java-based shell scripts specifically
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by tpoacher 2y ago
In matlab, where functions are "always" defined in their own file, there is a tool that checks if function documentations have all the right headers expected conventionally by matlab's documentation system (e.g. header, usage
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by tpoacher 2y ago
Of all the horrible punishments you could have envisioned, you went full-on "I have no mouth and I must scream" there...
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by tpoacher 2y ago
"Tech" is a very narrow interpretation, though even then I suppose it depends on the tech (e.g. surveillance, or combat readiness). But, in general, governments prioritising funding for research aimed at getting backing for planne
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by tpoacher 2y ago
shame, the original title alludes to a far juicier article!
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by tpoacher 2y ago
I remember scott adams (in his heyday) saying this (use of dense or superliterary words that require extra processing) often happens when you don't have an argument and you want to divert attention from the argument to the words themse
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by tpoacher 2y ago
I find it interesting how the same miasma doesn't apply to governments dictating specific funding council areas of focus, but yet we're so skeptical when a company provides funding, and with less restrictions. edit: ah, nevermind,
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by tpoacher 2y ago
studies don't tell you about being on a placebo because of blinding, not because it would stop the placebo from working.
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by tpoacher 2y ago
I mean, others can use it too if they want, obvs, ... but, yes. e.g. my misc-updater, I use daily, to check Manually-Installed / Source-Compiled (MISC) packages for updates! [0]. Works like a charm. I also do all my bugtracking /
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by tpoacher 2y ago
pc adventure game was good too (i.e., messed up)
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by tpoacher 2y ago
Great! Now do it in brainfuck!
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by tpoacher 2y ago
One thing many people miss about set based metrics like the jaccard similarity (aka Tanimoto coefficient) and F1 score (aka Dice coefficient), is that they can also be used identically with fuzzy sets. The only complication is that you then
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by tpoacher 2y ago
I had the same experience too, probably around the same time as you! (namely a decade ago) Things change.
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by tpoacher 2y ago
> If you have much experience with cows and chickens, I think the perceived difference in capacity for suffering is pretty clear. (word in bold added by me) This is the crux of the whole debate imo. We simply don't know. For all y
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by tpoacher 2y ago
I've often felt that one of the reasons such warnings are even necessary, is because the notation we use to denote probabilities in the first place is atrocious, and clearly an abuse of notation. A better convention would make clear th
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by tpoacher 2y ago
> Sadly all I could say was "yeah, that's why I use Linux" Let's hope this becomes more of a thing.
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by tpoacher 2y ago
They rely on Functors, which are transcribed at the ribosome!
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by tpoacher 2y ago
Along the same lines, I find this little utility in standard linux repos to be amazing. Try it on ed: `rlwrap ed`. Package: rlwrap [...] Homepage: https://github.com/hanslub42/rlwrap Description-en: readline fe
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by tpoacher 2y ago
That's fair enough, though OP was referring to command-line tools, not libraries. He was basically saying that seeing readline pulled as one of the dependencies gives him confidence that the tool won't suck. He said nothing about
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by tpoacher 2y ago
> It's a relief seeing readline pulled in as a dependency for some command line tool (emphasis mine)

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