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by sctb 8d ago
I'm getting major DFW vibes.
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by sctb 2mo ago
SQL is in a sweet spot of declarative, formal, and high level. It's basically a description of what the resulting dataset means, not just how to produce it. For ad-hoc queries maybe LLMs take over in the short term, and that's how
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by sctb 2mo ago
It's a kind of pitch instability: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow_(recording)
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by sctb 5mo ago
Interesting! Looks like the IDE itself is written in Coalton ( https://github.com/coalton-lang/coalton/tree/main/mine ) and you can either bring your own terminal or use the standalone version which uses T
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by sctb 10mo ago
(2015) More information here: https://okmij.org/ftp/Haskell/extensible .
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by sctb 10mo ago
> I am still struggling to understand the way in which many people naturally form casual connections with others. [...] I perceive a lot of confusion here - and in my own life - about personal wants and needs being met, meeting someone e
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by sctb 1y ago
You're right that sensory issues make up a small (optional) part of the diagnostic criteria for ASD under the DSM-5. And I agree that "autism" in popular discourse seems to be very flexible and inclusive, but the medical diag
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by sctb 1y ago
I think the word "spectrum" is reasonable, as it implies a broad range. Or it's analogous to the rainbow with a variety of colours. But what people consistently misunderstand is that there is a fundamental dichotomy at the di
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by sctb 1y ago
A Sanskrit transliteration (IAST) editing mode for Emacs, including a dictionary and Devanāgarī rendering: https://github.com/sctb/sanskrit .
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by sctb 1y ago
There is no one without a uniquely narrow perspective who could possibly see a full picture.
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by sctb 1y ago
I love to miss people. I think missing is a complete and beautiful expression of love, just as much as having.
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by sctb 1y ago
In clinical contexts, cognitive tests are used for diagnostic purposes. They are important to determine exactly what sort of ongoing care and support the person needs in order to thrive. In these sorts of contexts, it's not hard to ima
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by sctb 1y ago
Strictly speaking, any intervention other than exercise is going to give you a subset of the total stimulation. A drug acting on the tissues directly would bypass the neurological component, for example. If the idea is to avoid the effort o
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by sctb 1y ago
Of course, they certainly do. But this article is really something else! I don't care if it's written by AI or not, but it has a rhetorical style that relies much more on rhythm than on connecting the conceptual dots. Like a TED t
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by sctb 1y ago
I would suggest that, like many things, that line is dependent on all of the details of the situation. Because all of those subtle details (e.g. the mood, receptiveness, familiarity, interest, etc. of the other person and yourself) matter,
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by sctb 1y ago
You added the "just". Becoming a better person is probably the best thing you can shoot for, though obviously it's not a trivial process and requires significant effort and intention. I mean, what else can you do? You're
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by sctb 1y ago
Obviously there are many flavours of Buddhism and many flavours of Christianity, but the author is simply relating his own experience. I really don't see how cherry picking or cultural appropriation could possibly apply here.
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by sctb 1y ago
It's hard to convey precisely what I mean, of course, but to try to clarify further I would say the emotion is experienced on behalf of the object itself in a direct way that does not involve my personal sense of self. I do not mind a
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by sctb 1y ago
I'm not fooled whatsoever into thinking LLMs are human, but I am polite in how I interact with them because the language that I use impacts my experience. Same goes with how I interact with anything, linguistically or not.
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by sctb 1y ago
I don't have access to the full text, but based on the abstract I think it's likely that I relate to this phenomenon (I am autistic). My experience is not so much the attribution of human characteristics to non-human objects, but
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by sctb 1y ago
From Wang's note to employees ( https://x.com/alexandr_wang/status/1933328165306577316 ): > Today's investment also allows us to give back in recognition of your hard work and dedication to Scale over t
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by sctb 1y ago
> The way to do it would be to port the original Arc release ( http://arclanguage.org/ ) to Clarc. If you're looking for volunteers... :)
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by sctb 1y ago
I think MzScheme is just the core (non-GUI) part of PLT Scheme, which was renamed to Racket. Also, I believe pg started implementing Arc on Scheme48 based on mailing list activity at the time. I've always been curious about the switch
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by sctb 1y ago
FTA: > This is only true of writing that's used to develop ideas, though. Descriptive writing, especially for fiction, seems out of scope.
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by sctb 1y ago
Even this proposed feature is very similar to Common Lisp packages.
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Partitioning ambiguous edges in Guile(wingolog.org)
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by sctb 1y ago
If you're still interested: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Le... . Basically modern Emacs Lisp works like Common Lisp.
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by sctb 1y ago
Welcome, Tom! Sometimes I can't believe how good we have it here. Thank you both very much.
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by sctb 1y ago
Yanis Varoufakis has been writing about this with a mostly neutral, inquisitive tone. Recently: https://unherd.com/2025/02/why-trumps-tariffs-are-a-masterpl... https://unherd.com/2025/04/
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by sctb 1y ago
To add to this: I think pg does drill down, but what he does more than most is make the effort to bring those insights back up.

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