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by wk_end 2y ago
You should check out scenery.video (disclaimer: I have a relationship with the company)
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by wk_end 2y ago
But my intuition is that it needs to (well, should) introduce a new variable in order to store the evaluation of dir, otherwise it gets evaluated twice. If (foo bar) has no side-effects, that’s just a performance loss, but if it does it’s p
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by wk_end 2y ago
My Lisp is rusty and was never that great to begin with, but: Why is mcd a macro? And isn’t it missing a gensym?
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by wk_end 2y ago
That interpretation seems to contradict Microsoft's general attitude towards her: > I’d worked for Microsoft for nine years by then. My career was in high gear. A year earlier I’d been honored with the Market Maker award as the mark
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by wk_end 2y ago
At that moment, the student became enlightened.
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by wk_end 2y ago
If paradigm A is defined, in part, by a particular concept that was created wholly independently of paradigm B, even if that concept has some analogs in paradigm B, it's a real stretch to say that it's merely "injecting a bit
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by wk_end 2y ago
One of the foundational building blocks of FP is the closure, the purpose of which is to couple together data and the function operating on it. ML, one of the standard-bearing functional programming languages, is at least partially defined
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by wk_end 2y ago
> ...can only be concordant if one assumes they're idiots. It's unlikely they are... Why would you say that it's unlikely? That's a very strange assumption to make - Hanlon has a whole razor about that. They're a
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by wk_end 2y ago
This article's kind of a mess. I agree with the premise (the only success I've ever had consuming THC has been through legal edibles, where I can reliably control the dosage), and I agree - at least in part - with doing what it cl
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by wk_end 2y ago
I don’t think either of these things are true. By the mid-90s, C compilers were good enough - and CPUs were amenable enough to C - that assembly was only really beneficial in the most extreme of cases. Sony designed the Playstation from the
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by wk_end 2y ago
It stands for “Graphics Synthesizer” - Sony’s name for the “GPU” in the PS2.
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by wk_end 2y ago
My (very limited) understanding is that Jai is deliberately pretty general-purpose and C-like, just with additional features and conveniences optimized for building games/game engines. What's mind-expanding about it?
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by wk_end 2y ago
In that case I think the "Pythonic" thing to do would be to have some named intermediate steps: foos = (make_foo(bar) for bar in bars) acceptable_foos = (foo for foo in foos if acceptable(foo)) ... Depending on your cir
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by wk_end 2y ago
It’d be interesting to know what constitutes an “algorithm”. Does a message board sorting by “most recent” count as one?
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by wk_end 2y ago
Not that I especially want to defend Python, but can you elaborate a bit on why you find that chain easier to read? The Python version is straightforward enough - if it's just the absence of newlines you can write hundred_or_less_e
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by wk_end 2y ago
I mean, California and Alabama feel very different! In a lot of ways I'd agree, or even go further - they're more different than, say, BC and WA. And there's factors like the urban/rural divide to bear in mind. The C
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by wk_end 2y ago
This is both true and not true. From a geopolitical perspective this is correct. Canada is forced to operate in lockstep with the US and is completely dependent and ultimately subservient to it. Globalization has done a great deal to homoge
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by wk_end 2y ago
Absolutely nothing said here is "trying to suppress discussion" or "suppress legal speech". He's sharing his personal opinion on Canadian media consumption habits, which - I suggest you read the Bill of Rights? - he
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by wk_end 2y ago
The success of this seems highly dependent on the nature of your social circle. I would probably be less inclined to be friends with someone who was randomly calling me for awkward chats about what I'm up to.
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by wk_end 2y ago
How is that relevant to what’s happening here? No one’s teaching three-cueing as a way to dumb anything down or enforce mediocrity - the people teaching it genuinely believe it’s the best approach to teaching reading; that it’s how good (no
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When a Department Self-Destructs(chronicle.com)
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by wk_end 2y ago
No one's perfect; it's OK to make mistakes, so long as you identify that it's a mistake to yourself, and apologize for your mistake to others. It's only when a reviewer does this (or the various other sins listed here, o
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by wk_end 2y ago
Yeah, we're technically talking about the same thing - just a different way of thinking about it. When I was learning retro game dev (mostly Game Boy), I found fixed point very intimidating. Reading stuff like "the player will mov
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by wk_end 2y ago
Not sure what you mean - sure you can. Trying to read between the lines here, if your objection is to half -pixels because they’re not precise enough for (good) physics, then I apologize for being unclear - I mean half-pixels, or quarter-p
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by wk_end 2y ago
I always felt when learning about this stuff that people - pedagogically - make fixed point seem more complicated than it is. Since this article is talking about more precisely positioning sprites in a 2D world, it could practically be a on
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by wk_end 2y ago
Types & Programming Languages https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/tapl/
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by wk_end 2y ago
It’s a nice and pat explanation, but like I said, it’s ahistorical. Gen Z didn’t invent provocation. Flag burning at Vietnam War protests was deliberately shocking. May 1968 was not “behaving nicely”. The Stonewall Riots weren’t “behaving n
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by wk_end 2y ago
If the article were trying to make a point about politicians instead of protestors that might be relevant. FWIW though, politicians have only really gotten appreciably stupider in the US. They’re not great here in Canada but they never have
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by wk_end 2y ago
The article asserts without evidence that this is a new phenomenon, as though there were no violent protests or riots ever, as though the civil rights movement consisted entirely of "negotiations" between, I guess, MLK Jr. and LBJ
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by wk_end 2y ago
TypeScript has "union types". This proposal refers to them as "ad hoc unions". I don't think "type union" is a term of the art - at least I haven't heard it before. It seems to be something the C# peo

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