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by wk_end 5d ago
You don’t need to visually split the consonant apart as a separate character to recognize the relationship between か/き/く/け/こ - after all, the Japanese manage to do it without Latin letters. It adds very little to do so e
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by wk_end 18d ago
“Both-sides”ing this is ridiculous. Certain leftists might sometimes disproportionally blame corporations for the issue rhetorically but they aren’t broadly opposed to the kinds of taxes and regulations - on corporations or individuals - th
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by wk_end 1mo ago
The RISC-V specs insist that this is important for simplifying high performance designs, because a flag register is a single piece of shared state that instructions are constantly (and often inadvertently!) touching. This necessarily introd
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by wk_end 1mo ago
Well, he wasn't just an academic, but also a media icon/minor celebrity (he has/had a memoir coming out). His academic fraud and plagiarism was just one thing - aside from the race angle, his story probably got lots of media
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by wk_end 1mo ago
Wait, I'm confused - I thought a prune was just a dried plum, the same way a raisin is just a dried grape. Wikipedia seems to back me up on this, stating that most prunes are made from plums "from the European plum (Prunus domesti
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by wk_end 1mo ago
Well, not elisp, but https://coalton-lang.github.io or maybe https://shen-language.github.io
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by wk_end 1mo ago
Indeed: https://hackage-content.haskell.org/package/base-4.22.0.0/do...
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by wk_end 1mo ago
> I’ll never understand how GEB was using math, art, and music to explain consciousness As Flannery O'Connor wrote, "The result of the proper study of a novel should be contemplation of the mystery embodied in it, but this is a
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by wk_end 1mo ago
It says something about what a thoughtful development environment these early BASICs were, that you could make a full simple little game like this in only 131 lines even though they're ostensibly far less powerful than modern languages
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by wk_end 1mo ago
I think the comment that you're replying to is saying exactly the opposite - a language that anyone including non-programmers can use, if you consider the strict definition of the word, isn't "elite".
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by wk_end 1mo ago
I don't know what the definitions of "basic" is, but even PPL students are trained to recognize the effects of a frozen pitot tube.
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by wk_end 2mo ago
I see an M and a V in this description, but no C. Is the UI updating itself automatic or manual? Because if it’s manual, that’s precisely the error-prone part that you’re saying this approach somehow solves - you’ve done the “How to Draw an
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by wk_end 2mo ago
According to [0], "Rocq’s kernel spans approximately 41K lines of OCaml code, while Lean’s kernel consists of approximately 8K lines of C++ code." [0] https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3747511
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by wk_end 2mo ago
> It feels exactly like if all the emacs users in the world tried to force all vim users to use emacs. I don't know about forcing , but there's certainly a long history of emacs users trying to convince vim users that they&#x2
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by wk_end 2mo ago
The most interesting thing about this link, for me, is seeing that there's an open-source recreation of GoldSrc [0]? That's apparently been around since 2011 [1]? I'm stunned I haven't heard about this before. Very cool.
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by wk_end 2mo ago
* the SB-SIMD contrib now supports ARM64. (Thanks to Sylvia Harrington) * AVX512 instructions are now supported on X86-64. (Thanks to Robert Smith and Arthur Miller) * additional support for SIMD instructions on ARM64 and X86
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by wk_end 2mo ago
My impression is that, rightly or wrongly, it developed a bit of a negative reputation in various ways - too esoteric, slow builds, toxic community, etc. - so people stayed away from it. And meanwhile, Java the language improved and Kotlin
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by wk_end 2mo ago
Nah, Kant's considered a notoriously poor writer among philosophers. Obviously opinions may differ, but Derek Parfit [0], for instance, wrote: “It is Kant who made really bad writing philosophically acceptable. We can no longer point t
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by wk_end 2mo ago
A few years ago I tried to make it through The Critique of Pure Reason, but had to stop because - as many people famously do - I found Kant's writing too abstruse. In saying that, I'm not dismissing the Transcendental Deduction, I
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by wk_end 2mo ago
But at no point did they say that the argument was invalid; just that they couldn't stand reading it.
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by wk_end 2mo ago
British, American, and French deaths made up only a small fraction of the 60M-75M killed in WWII, which speaks to the global ("World") nature of a World War. I believe it's also the case that more Vietnamese died during the V
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by wk_end 2mo ago
A "World War" probably isn't characterized by its "size" (whatever that means) but rather by the fact that the combat theatre extends over much of "the world", or that much of "the world" are act
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by wk_end 2mo ago
I really enjoyed the Ad Museum when I went a few years ago. https://www.admt.jp/en/ These all look fascinating too. God, Tokyo's really an incredible city, huh.
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by wk_end 2mo ago
Grass-fed beef isn't necessarily better. It tends to be comparatively leaner than grain-fed, and a richly marbled rib eye is for a lot of people (myself included) just about as good as it gets. Australian wagyu is, for my money, the be
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by wk_end 2mo ago
Disagree - engineers documenting fun and quirky DIY projects is very much in the hacker spirit. Before reading this I didn't even know aquaponics was a thing, much less a thing with a "thriving online community". ...also, may
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by wk_end 2mo ago
Having a fish tank for fish is a normal enough thing and carries similar risks of water damage, doesn't it? Does this strike you as significantly higher-risk, less insurable, or more irresponsible than that?
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by wk_end 2mo ago
The problem is that the counterfactual isn't obvious. The company spends more time - and money - than they needed to fixing those issues, but how do they know? And how do they know that it would've amounted to less if they'd
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by wk_end 2mo ago
The link to Perfect6502 is interesting. It says that it supposedly gets speeds of 1/30th of 1MHz - i.e. ~30KHz - on high-end 2025 CPUs. Which is very slow of course, but still ~1000x faster than what people are reporting in this thread
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by wk_end 2mo ago
Are you saying that you expect the Trump regime, which has been otherwise clearly and resolutely pro-Israel, to be implementing BDS policies and refusing to buy anything from Israeli companies? To try to appease 20%-40% of Americans mostly
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by wk_end 2mo ago
The argument is: if you don’t have hygienic macros, a Lisp-2 is going to be less brittle than a Lisp-1. The classic example is, imagine you have a function with a local variable called “list”, common enough. Now imagine you invoke a macro i

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