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by xscott 5y ago
> Chicken opted to stick with RSR5 for a long time [...] implementing RSR7 [...] Is there something else I'm missing out on? As an outsider (I admire Scheme, but don't really use it day to day), I got the impression R6RS was ve
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by xscott 5y ago
Just as a point of interest: If you're willing to pay the cost for a really good resampling algorithm, you can use a Gall-Peters projection. It's equal area instead of equal angle, so each pixel holds the same amount of surface
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by xscott 5y ago
I'm not sure if you'll see this reply since it's been several days, but I appreciate the answer. I majored in math, but I never stumbled on the Lebesgue integral, and I don't know enough quantum to understand the subtle
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by xscott 5y ago
If we're being pedantic, I should've used the word "parameter" instead of "variable", but surely you know what I meant. If not, see the "What's in a shape?" section of https://nostarc
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by xscott 5y ago
I agree with everything you said, and I still think it's a clever/useful idea for new programmers.
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by xscott 5y ago
I think maybe you're missing some subtlety here. In Scratch, the type of a parameter or expression is denoted by it's shape. Strings are square, numbers are round, booleans are angled, and statements are shaped like puzzle piece
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by xscott 5y ago
There is however a bijection between the natural/countable numbers and every number that mathematicians, physicists, and any other scientist have every used in all of human history (or will ever use). Start with the computable numbers
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by xscott 5y ago
Not sure what's funny about it... The cop told me two or three times that he wasn't interested in "small amounts". (Although they're allowed to lie to you.) I told him I didn't have any amount. I guess midd
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by xscott 5y ago
> However that would require them to show cause They can always fabricate cause. I got pulled over last week (I wasn't speeding or anything, I just had out of state plates visiting a friend). When I didn't consent to have him
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by xscott 5y ago
I wonder how different the world would be if he'd been allowed to use Scheme instead.
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by xscott 5y ago
> [...] the scientific method teaching things that can be found to be objectively true [...] The scientific method never proves things are objectively true. Instead, you subjectively fail to show your hypothesis is false, so you gain mo
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by xscott 5y ago
I've seen this complaint a lot, but I don't get it. For C++, the system package manager (yum, apt, pacman) seems sufficient to install most anything I've ever needed. Are you programming under Windows? My biggest complaints
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by xscott 5y ago
Conservatively, there's enough heat down there for the current world's energy use for 17 billion years: https://www.wired.com/story/how-long-will-earths-geothermal-... Considering our sun will explode in 5.5
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by xscott 5y ago
I was even willing to create accounts and provide my credit card info for sites with good value, but not being able to cancel online (and being forced to wait on hold for 40 minutes to cancel over the phone) has me unwilling to subscribe to
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by xscott 5y ago
This video might be more approachable: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LyzBoHo5EI I'm sure it won't convince all of the Malthusian doom and gloom sorts, but it's worth a try.
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by xscott 5y ago
Jed's author (John E Davis) was also super friendly. Way back when, I was connecting to the university's terminal servers using a dumb terminal. My terminal was unusual in that it had 64 different colors, and this was the kind o
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by xscott 5y ago
There's a lot of non-billionaire retirement money in that $35 trillion... Assuming market growth minus inflation is about 7% (yeah, the last 10 years have been crazy, but this is an accepted long term number [0]), you're killing
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by xscott 5y ago
The hypot() function avoids many overflow and underflow cases: return hypot(hypot(q.w, q.x), hypot(q.y, q.z));
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by xscott 5y ago
I once asked a question about an obscure corner of C++. I was only trying to learn more about the language[0]... The answer with the most useful information also contained a long and patronizing rant about why I should never do that. I&#
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by xscott 5y ago
It's odd - I've messed around with this kind of thing too, and while I can recognize the perfect intervals sound cleaner, I generally prefer some dissonance and waiver in the chords. Depending on the style of music, it just sound
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by xscott 6y ago
So, is it a 1 in 10,000 chance from touching a contaminated surface and then rubbing your eyes (or picking your nose)?
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by xscott 6y ago
Fourier coefficients need a zeroth element too.
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by xscott 6y ago
> What I find amusing is that the same center-right and right-wing mouthpieces [...] have themselves been deeply involved in attempting to 'cancel' [...] rap music and any music with "vulgar" lyrics (PARENTAL WARNING
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by xscott 6y ago
I'm tempted to do a pull request to add "remove" to "lookup", "insert" and "update". Of course that could be "delete" as well in many languages... I also think there should be a place
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by xscott 6y ago
> [...] the R5RS/R7RS standard system is only pattern matching/rewriting based. Maybe I'll do a separate piece on the macro system if people are really interested. I'd like to throw in a "me too" too. I&#x2
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by xscott 6y ago
I'd like to know more about this. Do you have any links?
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by xscott 6y ago
You should give PyPy a look. It's really amazing if you're writing actual Python code (and not just gluing together libraries). PyPy is to V8 and modern JavaScript engines as Python is to Eich's original JavaScript. It&#x27
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by xscott 6y ago
I think you want a "gap buffer".
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by xscott 6y ago
Voting shorted shares is interesting, and I'm curious: Alice borrowed Bob's shares (through the broker, Bob doesn't really know), and Alice sold them to Charlie. I assume Bob doesn't get a vote, even though he thinks h
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by xscott 6y ago
> You can lose way more than the principal no? Not if you're buying options (calls or puts to open). Maybe you're thinking about short selling, or selling naked options.

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