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by simen 7y ago
I'd say it's more similar to Javascript. In fact all of the examples are valid JS if you replace `fn` with `function`. (Although JS doesn't have implicit returns.) At a guess, the author chose the syntax because it's fam
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by simen 7y ago
I mean, it's clearly a very abstract representation based on archaeological data. There's no people or animals in the streets, which wouldn't have been the case even at night let alone midday, and all the houses except the fa
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by simen 7y ago
They're comparing to an in-order CPU. Given that most CPUs are out-of-order (at least of the non-embedded variety, and GC is less used in such applications anyway), it would be better and more intellectually honest to actually compare
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by simen 7y ago
I'm pretty sure that is the first implementation of Lisp. Earlier "versions" of Lisp were hand-compiled, because it was considered too difficult to produce a compiler. Then Steve Russell realized that McCarthy's "ev
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by simen 7y ago
What Labour actually decided against was not oil exploration, but rather a konsekvensutredning , or an investigation into the possible environmental and social effects of oil extraction in the area. Which is in many ways a more radical pos
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by simen 7y ago
Dude, he wrote a detailed postmortem of his own mistakes. That is taking responsibility. You're projecting, for whatever reason. The sentence about the quiet man is clearly referencing the original hero of his story, who might not ha
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by simen 8y ago
Praggnanandhaa is actually the fourth youngest GM of all time and the third youngest right now, but still, it's impressive. There's no guarantees that this kid will progress at the same rate, but don't let that take away from
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by simen 8y ago
Fischer won the US championship for adults at the age of 14. He then went on to become the youngest candidate for the world championship in history at the age of 15 - a distinction he still holds.
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by simen 8y ago
The serious statement he makes is that humans have complex motivations, and he thinks any superintelligence would as well--in fact it might be a defining feature of intelligence. The Rick and Morty reference was just a humorous example of w
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by simen 8y ago
The title makes no sense if you interpret it that way, also, it seems to be a very niche term (most of the top google results are not computer related at all). I think 99% of people who saw the headline understood it the correct way.
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by simen 8y ago
Maybe switch banks? My experience is I've had my account blocked exactly once - and that turned out to be actual identity theft. In the end, I didn't permanently lose any money thanks to the system working as intended. On one othe
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by simen 8y ago
Are you for real? It's hardly a bold claim that education helps spread and retain knowledge. This is well known and supported by numerous studies. We know that parents' economic and educational status correlates well with children
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by simen 8y ago
This is called the black hole information paradox. Today most physicists believe that hawking radiation preserves quantum information. Hawking himself made a bet that it doesn’t, but by 2004 he had become convinced and conceded the bet. But
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by simen 8y ago
I did say passing familiarity, which is not a very high bar to clear. It's been my experience, and I don't travel much in rarefied intellectual circles.
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by simen 8y ago
I don't know, but if the standard of comparison is Napoleon he doesn't need to be particularly good. There's even a bad opening named after him because he was known to be a mediocre player.
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by simen 8y ago
Sounds like typical anti-politician bullshit. Most adults have at least a passing familiarity with the rules of chess, I don't see any reason why world leaders would be any different. Bill Clinton was on his university's chess tea
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by simen 8y ago
> "Increase GABA" - I thought oral GABA supplements do not cross the blood-brain barrier? Oral GABA doesn't cross the BBB in appreciable concentrations, but I assume they mean increase GABA neurotransmission, which can be
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by simen 8y ago
I don't think Nim has one in the standard library, but people have built variations on it. Here's a couple: * https://github.com/bluenote10/nim-stringinterpolation/blob/m... This one does string int
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by simen 8y ago
It doesn't translate to wasm text format, but to wasm binary format. The walt-compiler ( https://github.com/ballercat/walt/tree/master/packages/walt-... ) readme shows how to use it to compile te
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by simen 8y ago
As far as I'm aware therapy and antidepressants are equally effective, in the studies that have actually compared them such as this one: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3683266/ However that
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by simen 8y ago
I sympathize with you, I really do. I've had some similar experiences. But you're overstating the case. Numerous meta-analyses have found that antidepressants do work for people with severe depression, much better than placebo. Un
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by simen 8y ago
You could be standing on top of an archeological site and never know it. Many of the features discovered by lidar are very very hard to spot from the ground. The kinds of people who have the expertise to spot them tend not to be tomb raider
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by simen 8y ago
You're going to use a mythological figure to prove that cannabis makes you think more clearly? I think you've smoked a bit much there, buddy. If we look at the scientific research, certain studies have claimed that aspects of crea
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by simen 8y ago
They still haven’t built the Analytical Engine, which was the general-purpose computer and significantly more complex. Also, building something with the benefit of 150 years of technological progress gives you quite a leg up on the past eve
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by simen 8y ago
It's a terrible name. Many of these projects have nothing to do with the web (the three concrete examples cited were two filesharing protocols and one cryptocurrency, none of which are about serving websites). And it's awkward to
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by simen 8y ago
> For me using an exception to indicate the lack of a value corresponding to a key in a map (is it really exceptional for this to happen?) Sometimes it is, sometimes it isn't. Most languages allow you to choose whether you want a h
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by simen 8y ago
Ruby uses the same convention. (excluding macros, and adding question_mark_predicates?) I've seen C++ projects that adopt the same style. I don't see what's so objectionable about it.
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by simen 8y ago
Naturally for a language based off Ruby, the original compiler was written in Ruby. It became self-hosting in late 2013: https://crystal-lang.org/2013/11/14/good-bye-ruby-thursday.h...
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by simen 8y ago
You could begin with 500 lines or less: http://www.aosabook.org/en/500L/a-python-interpreter-written... It implements a naive, simplified Python VM in Python. Of course, that is only a very high-level overview. By
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by simen 8y ago
It all depends on how safe the OS software sandbox is. Which is something that recent HW vulnerabilities really has emphasized even if you're not running in ring0. And it's not like this is a new idea: as mentioned, Microsoft alre

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