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by lhjn 5y ago
Not a snake but still surprising http://erikaishikoro.blog.fc2.com/blog-entry-2598.html Freaked me out a bit first time I saw it
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by lhjn 5y ago
This was meant as a reply to one of the comments, sorry.
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by lhjn 5y ago
If you use Ride (Dyalog multiplatform APL ide) it's actually very easy to input the special characters: press the character on the toolbar or use the shortcuts (backtick ` followed by another char, shortcuts displayed hovering with the
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by lhjn 5y ago
It's the exponential notation for complex numbers, see for example https://tutorial.math.lamar.edu/Extras/ComplexPrimer/Forms.a...
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by lhjn 5y ago
Eye trackers are used as well for those who unfortunately cannot move anything but their eyes. That's the case in very bad/late ALS cases. This technology might really be life changing for the very advanced cases of ALS - they of
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by lhjn 5y ago
If interested, https://github.com/laynor/mal/tree/dyalog
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by lhjn 5y ago
I have a Dyalog APL implementation since 1 year or more on my fork, but still haven't released it because for reasons related to the input/output handling it cannot pass the self hosting tests :( To make the other tests pass, i w
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by lhjn 5y ago
I had the exact same reaction. It's a very striking resemblance. Don't mean to detract from the project though, not my piece of cake but could be handy
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by lhjn 5y ago
Still common in Italy, one if my favorites! I believe they're quite common in Japan as well.
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by lhjn 6y ago
> Reading Go means that I keep having to read idioms (as posted in the article) and parse them back into the actual intent, rather than just reading the intent directly. But I can't even trust that, since the nth rewrite of the idio
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by lhjn 6y ago
Bad example, booleans in python are integer subclasses since forever... 2 + True = 3. Also, False in [1, 2, 0] evaluated to True. But you're still right saying python is strongly typed.
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by lhjn 6y ago
In scheme, or most other Lisps for that matter, you extend the language by writing a library, as the language extension tools are built-in and quite easy to use (macros). Very few other languages give you that kind of power, and certainly
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by lhjn 6y ago
I remember studying CTSS, ITS, Multics and some other historical OSs and being amazed at how much of the current OS features/design come from the 60s. Then I learned about Lisps and their history, and remember being amazed at how much
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by lhjn 6y ago
Living in Japan, anecdotal data point, i mostly get served cabbage salads wherever I go
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by lhjn 6y ago
I wouldn't say predominant, but certainly present! But we each represent a different set of connections, as I said, this kind of data is anecdotal ^^ I'd say i eat way more fish here in Japan than back in Sardinia.
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by lhjn 6y ago
Oh, there was some people following the Friday thing, but I've only heard about it during lent and not everyone is following it - it's quite going out of fashion esp with younger generations.
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by lhjn 6y ago
Anecdotal data - as a Sardinia native, we do eat seafood, but to be honest around me at least that's at most a once a week practice. My grandpas, which lived to 96, 98 and 101, didn't eat much fish either. Lots of veggies though.
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by lhjn 6y ago
Lists are mutable in CL
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by lhjn 6y ago
There's at least some speed up when prototyping - think having n functions, and wanting to do some sort of refactoring. You might want to iterate on some refactoring idea, and test it out on the most problematic of those n functions. D
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by lhjn 6y ago
Not an English speaker, but the very fact you find it pedantic is making his point, IMO. It means their normalizing the word "war" worked on you - or it may be seen as such. Not judging you though, just my perceptions.
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by lhjn 6y ago
Nobody seems to mention Signal, which does offer sms fallback, at least on Android (don't really know on iOS).
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by lhjn 6y ago
Indeed, I was playing with Dyalog some months ago, and the most painful point was I/O. I have implemented the MAL (make a lisp) interpreter in APL but I cannot seem to make the tests for the self hosting interpreter run correctly bec
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by lhjn 7y ago
Zswap was announced before Mavericks was a thing.