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by spindle 2y ago
They estimate 14 million. (I would have said "over 10 million" to avoid spurious precision.) This makes me happy!
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by spindle 2y ago
INTERCAL
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by spindle 2y ago
This is an issue that should concern us all, since Finnish has a bright future: https://www.hagen-schmidt.de/suomi/worldlanguage.html
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by spindle 2y ago
Can someone please advise me on how to donate money to help Ola? There's a relevant web site but it hasn't been updated for a long time - http://freeolabini.org/en/ Thank you!
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by spindle 2y ago
https://archive.md/q6Cfs
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by spindle 2y ago
This is lovely. I'm having trouble working out how this differs from Factor, in which left bracket and quote are also not primitive.
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by spindle 2y ago
https://toehider.bandcamp.com/track/died-of-dancing
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by spindle 2y ago
Many congratulations on being formally proved right, Randall!
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by spindle 2y ago
stderr
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by spindle 2y ago
https://archive.md/nG3ct
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by spindle 2y ago
Fred Hoyle, "The Black Cloud" and I wish someone cleverer than me would read Nick Harkaway's "Gnomon" and then explain it to me.
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by spindle 2y ago
Not enough of them do, I agree, but some of the Modern Monetary Theory people do. E.g. Mark Blyth (some very entertaining talks on youtube), Stephanie Kelton. Also political economists do and always have, I believe. (IANAE, and in fact I
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by spindle 2y ago
TCL is kinda similar to Rebol in some ways but in other ways it's the opposite of Rebol, because in TCL everything is a string (although it can ALSO have another type, thanks to clever shenanigans). (You probably knew this!)
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by spindle 3y ago
https://archive.md/iGI5A
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by spindle 3y ago
Rockbox, which is replacement firmware that can run on many hardware players, can do this (and basically anything else). https://www.rockbox.org/
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by spindle 3y ago
I'm the same. Fortunately for me, I don't understand Japanese, and there's some great Japanese power metal - e.g. Marge Litch and Alhambra.
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by spindle 3y ago
https://archive.md/0rvnY
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by spindle 3y ago
https://archive.is/20240213030908/https://www.bloomberg.com/...
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by spindle 3y ago
I've tried it with fish and found that, for me, it didn't add much and wasn't worth the switch, but it is arguably slightly better than fish's built-in history; so I'd say only bother if you particularly love lear
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by spindle 3y ago
FWIW, nixpkgs packages angie
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by spindle 3y ago
Whoa! Steel Bank CL actually is named after the metal (slightly indirectly - it's a reference to the fact that Carnegie Mellon University was founded partly on steel money).
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by spindle 3y ago
Yes, but it costs something like $5,000, and you have to think of it in time.
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by spindle 3y ago
> places won't hire you as a professor unless you have at least a Master's -- relevant work experience be damned I believe this is largely to make sure that professors have plenty of experience of what it's like to be prof
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by spindle 3y ago
Does picolisp scratch that itch for you?
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by spindle 3y ago
> you always inevitably need some kind of control flow that isn't stack based (for instance the pair "[" and "]") FWIW (I don't think this answers your main complaint, but I do think it's fascinating),
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by spindle 3y ago
Some other stack languages (not all of these concatenative languages use a single stack but most of them do): https://concatenative.org/wiki/view/Concatenative%20language
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by spindle 3y ago
https://archive.md/xSvV2
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by spindle 3y ago
Ah yes - thank you!
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by spindle 3y ago
Can you say more about what's wrong about it? It seems plain right to me, in Newtonian physics, assuming only that light has a speed (which was not at all a crazy thing to think at that point), and historians of cosmology usually agre
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by spindle 3y ago
And he was important in the history of programming language theory, as an influence on Alan Kay (so Kay has said in talks - see YouTube passim).

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