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by troad 1y ago
> programming is closer to math, not linguistics It's worth pointing out that actual linguistics is not unlike maths, e.g.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_grammar , https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2F
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by troad 1y ago
Java, JavaScript, and R, according to a footnote in the article. Which - to be entirely honest - sharply coloured my view of the preceding article. "I went from being fully covered in mud to only being half covered in mud, and it'
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by troad 1y ago
Strong agree, and honestly I'm kind of shocked. If an adult English speaker cannot understand the opening of Bleak House - quotes given elsewhere in this thread - they are effectively unable to access the bulk of English literature. Th
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by troad 1y ago
> According to programmers from 20 years ago, they were like religions. Each had its own philosophy and a loyal group of followers crusading online, getting into heated debates, all trying to win over more adopters. It's very weird
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by troad 1y ago
I'm struggling to follow your logic a little. Java has virtually nothing in common with Smalltalk, other than in the most superficial way (things called objects exist, that work nothing alike). The closest thing to Smalltalk in serious
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by troad 1y ago
And Iran sponsors Jewish groups that are critical of the state of Israel. Both sides claim to be critical solely of the other's state, never the people. Sadly, neither side is credible in this, there's ample evidence of prejudice
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by troad 1y ago
Yes, the coverage of this has been a weird one to watch. How does this remark differ from what the Israeli government regularly says about the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, just as much an official body in Iran as the IDF is in Israel?
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by troad 1y ago
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by troad 1y ago
The ICC and the UNGA recognise Palestine as a state. A sizeable and ever increasing majority of UN members recognise Palestine as a state, and they make up the vast majority of the world by any measure - population, size, economy, what have
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by troad 1y ago
I intuitively agree with this perspective, even if I'm unsure about the consequences, and would probably need to think more deeply about them. Once, when criticising the toxic effects of advertising, I got a response to the effect of &
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by troad 1y ago
Wrong. Palestine is a state party to the ICC, effective 1 April 2015. The ICC has jurisdiction on the territory of its member states. It is the position of both the ICC itself and the United Nations General Assembly that Palestine is a stat
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by troad 1y ago
Look, yes, you did wildly miss the mark. But I respect you owning that. I think the MuseScore video is reasonably good reference for doing that sort of critique right. I'd gently point out two things. One, the MS video takes time to fi
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by troad 1y ago
I stopped reading when we got to sarcastic hate-compiling. That whole part could be a thoughtful and compassionate discussion of the state of Mac emulators, and would be much more persuasive if it were, and instead it reads like a blog-leng
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by troad 1y ago
Sorry for my late reply. Touretzky's Common Lisp: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation holds up well as a good introduction. Steve Losh's A Road to Common Lisp is a great roadmap for going further ( https://
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by troad 1y ago
This makes me very uneasy. Not in what it is per se, but in what it shows about the direction of Phoenix. I've been working with Phoenix a lot the last few months, and I like it a lot. But I do get the sense that the project suffers fr
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by troad 1y ago
> Why didn't people address God with "you"? Even today, this tends to be the case in European languages that distinguish familiar and polite pronouns (what linguists call the T-V distinction). God tends to be an exception
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by troad 1y ago
I learned Common Lisp during the life of this HN account, and there's an amusing trajectory in my comments, from "I hear Lisp is beautiful and I'd love to learn it", through "Wait, Common Lisp is kind of a horrendou
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by troad 1y ago
I think the evolution of C# beyond Microsoft is overplayed. The entire tooling around the language remains a Microsoft product, with all the attendant Microsoft nonsense. It has opt out telemetry, even on Linux, and like every other MS prod
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by troad 1y ago
> I think that people tend to forget what LLMs really are. [...] They do not have a plan, they do not have thoughts of their own. > A LLM is smart enough to [...] I thought this was an interesting juxtaposition. I think we humans just
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by troad 1y ago
I'm probably misunderstanding your post, but it sounds like you're implying that most people are alt right. Most people are not alt right. Not even close. Most of the things that alt right people talk about as though they're
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by troad 1y ago
It hasn't changed meaning, that's the only thing that it ever meant.* Religious practices are a hugely relevant distinction for the history of the Roman Empire, the same way it is relevant to distinguish pre-Islamic and Islamic Ar
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by troad 1y ago
I genuinely don't at all understand what the issue is with calling it a pagan library. It's a clear and substantive descriptor. The history of the Roman Empire can be divided into two overarching periods - the pagan era and the Ch
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by troad 1y ago
Good faith question: why is the server not the source of truth? With local interpolation for things like character movement, reconciled in heartbeat updates?
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by troad 1y ago
Of all the reasons to be upset with Gnome, that's the silliest. I could not care less about their political opinions. It's their opinions on how a computer should look and work that are the problem.
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by troad 1y ago
KDE is great. It gets slept on because of its bad rap circa 2004, but it has low-key become the best DE by far. Sane defaults, nothing tries to fight you, everything is configurable. If you don't have the time or inclination to tinker
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by troad 1y ago
The court decision itself is worth reading for a revealing look behind the curtain. [0] >> In Slack communications dated November 16, 2021, the Apple employees crafting the warning screen for Project Michigan discussed how best to fra
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by troad 2y ago
Interesting! I actually find the in-lined forms far more explicit. For me, the use of `<%=` blocks tends to muddle the structure of the underlying HTML, so I avoid them where possible (not always the case though, as you rightly note).
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by troad 2y ago
Capisce , pronounced with a distinct 'eh' at the end ('capeesh-eh'), would be standard Italian for 'he/she understands' or 'you (polite) understand'. But 'capeesh' tends to be used dif
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by troad 2y ago
Phoenix (Elixir) has a very elegant version of that, without the need for the extra indent: <p :for={para <- paras} class={para.class} {para.attrs}> {para.text} </p> With :for being a list comprehension.
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by troad 2y ago
I do remember reading somewhere that for all the vaunted safety features of the plugs, etc, more people do in fact die in Europe and the UK than in the US from contact with the mains, precisely because of the 240V potential. (Definitely ane

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