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by yiyus 6y ago
I think you are misunderstanding the intention of the book. When you see a book titled "Japanese for English speakers", what it means is that it builds on your knowledge of English to teach you Japanese, not that its goal is that
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by yiyus 6y ago
The $5 billion figure in the article is the cost of spraying the atmosphere, creating a new virus every year would be way cheaper (I am not saying it would be a good idea). But, as it has happened with this virus, reducing sunlight would ha
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by yiyus 6y ago
> I will explain why. But you didn't. I do not think that the fact that there are many people who can make a wonderful job without having gone to any university implies that there should be an anti-university sentiment. I think acad
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by yiyus 6y ago
It's no surprising that visual artists feel at home with visual programming. There are more examples. Some people have mentioned Matlab/Simulink. In fact, many procedures are defined using some kind of visual programming. For
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by yiyus 6y ago
The problem is that when you have a number like 123451234512345, it may get rewritten as 1.234512E+14, and then you are loosing information.
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by yiyus 6y ago
> I thought markdown tables used the pipe character as the delimiter between table columns. Markdown (the original one by John Gruber) does not include any syntax for tables. Other implementations have included it, but there is no standa
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by yiyus 6y ago
I find easier to do awk /GET/{blah-blah}
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by yiyus 6y ago
That depends on what you are doing. Which test did you run? Around 10 years ago I rewrote markdown.pl in awk and it was almost 20 times faster. The speedup came from both a much faster startup time and a much faster (albeit simpler) regexp
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by yiyus 6y ago
In my opinion, the perfect programming language would have RTL evaluation like APLs but RPN is a superior input method. If I had some kind of IDE that allowed me to "build" APL expressions (and dfns) using RPN as I built algebraic
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by yiyus 6y ago
> Why not just FORTH? Joy comes from a totally different background, and has a very unique set of features. The fact that a purely functional point-free programming language finished looked quite similar to Forth in some aspects was just
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by yiyus 6y ago
If having worked in UNIX, Plan 9 and Inferno (and saying "having worked" is quite an understatement), having designed and implemented several programming languages (Alef, Squeak, Limbo, Sawzall, Go, ...), and having been an import
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by yiyus 6y ago
Practice. Reading will always help you (with any language), and watching movies and tv will train your ear. If a totally immersive experience is not an option, I do not think there is much more you can do. It is normal that a foreign langua
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by yiyus 6y ago
In the first example (the one with the girl), you can see that there are small camera movements. You can also see the effect this have when applying straightforward background subtraction in the second video.
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by yiyus 6y ago
That's some good advice. Unfortunately, most of the people I work with do not have a computer science background (they are materials scientists and mechanical engineers), so they are not familiarized with fixed-point arithmetic neither
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by yiyus 6y ago
The point is to not think of the bits as the representation of a decimal number. For example, if I need to know in which quadrant an angle is, I just need to look at the first two bits, independently of the precision (which we change just s
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by yiyus 6y ago
I had a slightly similar experience at work. We deal a lot with angles and binary angles are often the most efficient representation. Many colleagues find it annoying because they insist on converting every binary angle to radian or degrees
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by yiyus 6y ago
I don't think there is a general answer. I have to quit coffee when I try to quit smoking (it reduces the craving and helps me to sleep at night), but I know people who have quit substituting the tobacco with huge amounts of coffee. Yo
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by yiyus 6y ago
> UNIX could be simple, because it was targeted for a very small group of people, mostly always using ASCII. This was the very same group of people that developed UTF-8 and implemented it in the simpler Plan 9 system. If you want CJK sup
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by yiyus 7y ago
Depending on how philosophical you want to get, it is not so clear what exists and what does not. Neither it is absolutely clear what means to be discovered. I think that ideas can be discovered. In my opinion, theorems, or more precisely t
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by yiyus 7y ago
What is not human is measuring the "rate of return" of what you learn exclusively in economic terms. Culture is a thing, although not always a very profitable one. There are people (particulars, governments, and even the UN) spend
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by yiyus 7y ago
You are reading things I did not write. I said that what it is important is that the system they are changing to is better for Mongolian people, not that the system the government is proposing is better. In the next paragraph, you can see t
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by yiyus 7y ago
An economic compensation is not the only reason to learn something. Your comment is the less human thing I have read in a while, and I spend a huge amount of time reading generated code!
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by yiyus 7y ago
While I agree with you, that is a very occidental point of view. I think it is important that the system they are changing to is better for Mongolian people, not tourists. If people there is more familiarized with this vertical system than
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by yiyus 7y ago
Maybe you already knew about it, but the microtype package improves the aspect of your documents even more: https://ctan.org/pkg/microtype
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by yiyus 7y ago
That's as far of a minor change as it can be.
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by yiyus 7y ago
Yes, that's the original inspiration. But Rob Pike has been implementing CSP ideas in different languages for a few decades now, and all that work has highly influenced the implementation in Go.
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by yiyus 7y ago
This is something I would be very interested in. I think that the combination of an array language (like APL or J, but smaller like K) which intrinsically incorporated geometric algebra so that concepts like complex and imaginary numbers or
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by yiyus 7y ago
I think Toki Pona is great, don't get me wrong. It's good to explore how small a language can get, and it looks to me like TP did a good work in that regard. The comparison with programming languages is interesting. I see Toki Pon
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by yiyus 7y ago
That does not sound too bad. I stand corrected. I find surprising that numbers are not represented concatenating decimal digits (just after a quick look at the dictionary, I would imagine you could say 63 as luka wan en wan tu and you cou
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by yiyus 7y ago
> not practical for big numbers Correct me if I'm wrong, but as far as I remember "big" was something like 20 or 30. So it's not possible to tell ages (at least not mine!), prices, or even the current year. That'

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