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by troad 2y ago
> You can actually map out the physical processor layout, including on a single die, based on the latency between these cores. It's quite subtle and requires low noise, but it's really cool to map out the grid of cores on the a
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by troad 2y ago
Respectfully, I wonder what my online experience would look like if I took to reading the thoughts of others with such a negative perceptual filter, and felt compelled to create a conflict in response to every point of difference that I aut
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by troad 2y ago
Many thanks for taking the time to show those features off, it's very kind of you and I genuinely appreciate it. I spent about two hours playing with SBCL and its documentation / inspection features, inspired by the examples you g
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by troad 2y ago
I think this seems like a fairly extreme and unlikely worst case scenario. I'd be sceptical about the EU's ability to actually implement something like this - there are limits to both what American companies are willing to do (e.g
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by troad 2y ago
Fair thoughts, all. I'm a big fan of Haskell, but I'm not without sympathy to Lisp, even if my own experience of the latter has been somewhat bumpy. I'm curious, what are some of the important features for readability and col
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by troad 2y ago
Ah, so the issue is that you misperceive my genuine reflections to be trolling, which you take for permission to be unkind. Whereas from my perspective, I'm just sharing my reflections about something of interest to me, and find myself
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by troad 2y ago
Relatively banal point re Turing complete languages. You could run a space program with bash scripts if you really wanted to, doesn't make the statement "Bash scripts are not generally well suited for running a space program"
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by troad 2y ago
That makes sense. Might be hard for an freely-editable wiki though.
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by troad 2y ago
To my knowledge, Signal makes a grand total of €0 in profit in Europe, or anywhere else for that matter, being a not-for-profit. It is not the purpose of a not-for-profit to grow exponentially. The Signal Foundation's mission is to ens
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by troad 2y ago
> Polish tax office (which is permitted to check legality of software in business) Ugh, what an egregious misuse of public funds. Maybe they should also check the labels on the employees' clothes, in case of illegal knock-offs.
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by troad 2y ago
> I've never shot myself in the foot writing Lisp, and have not heard any anecdotes about it. (Well, maybe the one about Cycorp's Cyc decades old code base being large and inscrutable.) > You're making shit up. An unnec
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by troad 2y ago
I stopped paying attention to web dev for a few years, and those were the years when everything went from hand-written HTML + JS (+ PHP/ASP on the server side) to the likes of Node and React etc. You can imagine my confusion when I che
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by troad 2y ago
Lyrics are copyrightable literary works, aren't they? I imagine such a service would be quite challenging to host, legally speaking.
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by troad 2y ago
(Georgian is not an Indo-European language, but I totally agree with the overall point.)
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by troad 2y ago
> I feel like I must be missing something here. What? If I were to hazard a guess at what the original poster was getting at, it might be the culture of those languages, combined with the power of Lisp to redefine its own syntax. Lispers
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by troad 2y ago
I'm basing my assumptions my own experience, both learning to code and teaching others to code, which isn't nothing to me, but may well be nothing to you. (No shade intended, that's totally valid.) I would certainly be intere
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by troad 2y ago
Certainly, but the original quote was "It is quite hard to even tell a noun from a verb" (emph. added), and this is correct, you can't tell whether an identifier refers to a function or variable in Scheme by sight alone.
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by troad 2y ago
The Occam's razor explanation for the worldwide distribution of mama / dada is very, very straightforward: (a) they are the easiest syllables, and therefore some of the first and most common syllables children babble, (b) parents
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by troad 2y ago
> No, you literally wrote "it’s generally a bad idea to legislate for over a third of a billion of humans on the basis of rare freak accidents". I genuinely have no idea what your point is. The most generous reading I can give
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by troad 2y ago
Hehe, it's easy if you ignore half the song, the singular for n=1 and the whole n=0 case! (Not that we're talking about rocket science if you don't, but c'mon, oranges to oranges!) I agree with you otherwise though.
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by troad 2y ago
> And in the first hour of their first class they were already doing symbolic differentiation in scheme. People heavily trained in maths can take quickly to languages designed to make programming look like maths, that's hardly a sur
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by troad 2y ago
Ultimately, programming languages are tools, and different tools are appropriate for different jobs. There's nothing stopping you from writing a massively-scaling e-commerce site in Verilog and running it on an FPGA, but it - uh - prob
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by troad 2y ago
> This basic pattern (consonant + vowel + maybe limited option for final consonant) is very common; it's the most common arrangement among the worlds languages. Far more common than languages like English which allow monstrosities l
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by troad 2y ago
I would argue that imperative programming is most natural - it's what everyone gravitates to in the beginning. Then, at a sufficient level of complexity, a programmer gravitates to solutions like OOP or FP, but there's an obvious
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by troad 2y ago
Very much a personal anecdote, but I spent about a month earlier this year seriously learning various Lisps (CL, Racket Scheme, Clojure). I stopped when it clicked for me - Lisps are a mess. Everything I wanted from Lisp I found in Haskell.
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by troad 2y ago
There's nothing stopping any other item from being a verb, no? (Not the verb, but a verb.) Anything involving higher order functions?
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by troad 2y ago
The use of light grey text on a darker grey background strains my eyes and makes this unnecessarily unpleasant to read. I'd respectfully suggest increasing the contrast dramatically. I keep a quick little scriptlet in my bookmark bar f
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by troad 2y ago
You're (wilfully?) misunderstanding. No one is saying that laws somehow magically cease to apply to unusual events (wut?). The argument is that good legislative lawmaking is based on data and evidence. Rushing to make legislation to re
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by troad 2y ago
They were based on mountains of data, collected methodically over a number of years to make an ironclad case for reform. That’s good law making! I support this! However, data from 1910 is accurate for 1910, not for 2024. If children are dyi
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by troad 2y ago
I’m not saying sending kids to work will increase their safety, and - again - I’m honestly not sure how you’re getting that from what I’ve said. I would respectfully suggest reading the posts of others in good faith. I’m saying there exists

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