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fasquoika

3년 전discuss

Personally nearly every nice thing in my life either is a human or was made by one

fasquoika

3년 전discuss

Reinventing polari is certainly one way to make yourself less understood...

fasquoika

3년 전discuss

Well you're on a website called ycombinator.com so maybe the fixed point combinator

    Y = λf.(λx.f(xx))(λx.f(xx))

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed-point_combinator

fasquoika

3년 전discuss

>There’s a well-established effect, common enough at this point to where some academic has probably given it a name like “The Twitter Dilemma” or something, that describes how a lie can be much more potent and contagious with exponentially fewer words than are necessary to effectively refute it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini%27s_law

fasquoika

3년 전discuss

In New Jersey the Midtown Direct line famously paid for itself multiple times over by increasing nearby property values so much the state collected millions more in property taxes

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kearny_Connection

fasquoika

4년 전discuss

>A safe alternative is to use indexes instead of references.

    struct ParsedFile {
        contents: Vec<u8>,
        words: Vec<(usize, usize)>
    }

>This works well, and you can make it ergonomic by wrapping the index pair in a new type

You should probably just use the std::ops::Range type for this. It's what's created by the `..` syntax

fasquoika

4년 전discuss

https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.34...

fasquoika

4년 전discuss

GHC is nearly impossible to bootstrap if you don't consider the vendored transpiled C code to be source. Versions of GHC not dependent on GHC were never public AFAIK.

https://elephly.net/posts/2017-01-09-bootstrapping-haskell-p...

fasquoika

4년 전discuss

https://tildeverse.org/

fasquoika

4년 전discuss

Writefreely?

https://writefreely.org/

fasquoika

4년 전discuss

Closer to pi zero than pi 4 but you can order it right now

https://aliexpress.com/item/1005003741287162.html

fasquoika

5년 전discuss

Well, you didn't just find a cave, it was made for you by other people. Interdependence is a hallmark of social species such as Homo Sapiens. Even your caveman ancestors were probably reliant on one another in many ways.

>It seems that someone asked the great anthropologist, Margaret Mead, “What is the first sign you look for to tell of an ancient civilization?” The interviewer had in mind a tool or article of clothing. Ms. Mead surprised him by answering, “a healed femur (thigh bone)”. When someone breaks a femur, they can’t survive to hunt, fish or escape enemies unless they have help from someone else. Thus, a healed femur indicates that someone else helped that person, rather than abandoning them and saving only themselves.

fasquoika

5년 전discuss

http://www.coboloncogs.org/

fasquoika

5년 전discuss

>It really clued me into how the language got such a following in HR/Finance applications. You got an array of everyones hours per day. Weekly total hours, pay, tax, medicare, etc, were all broken out in little calculative statements based on the array of hours.

Yeah I guess APL is kind of 'spreadsheets as a Real Programming Language', isn't it?

fasquoika

5년 전discuss

>I was at a talk that had something to do with Unix. Fortunately, I’ve succeeded in repressing all but the speaker’s opening remark:

>I’m rather surprised that the author of sendmail is still walking around alive.

>The thing that gets me is that one of the arguments that landed Robert Morris, author of “the Internet Worm” in jail was all the sysadmins’ time his prank cost. Yet the author of sendmail is still walking around free without even a U (for Unixery) branded on his forehead.

- The Unix Haters Handbook

fasquoika

5년 전discuss

I'm guessing this is referring to the fact that early versions of Fortran stored return addresses in specific memory locations (at the end of the function definition IIRC) instead of on a call stack. This is why those versions of Fortran couldn't do recursion, because the new return address would overwrite the old one.

fasquoika

5년 전discuss

> Perhaps it relates to using 36-bit words?

Yep, before ASCII was standardized it was common for machines to be built with word-addressable memory and words that were multiples of six bits. Two octal digits easily represent a six-bit byte, just as two hexadecimal digits easily represent an eight-bit byte

fasquoika

5년 전discuss

This is how both TeX and m4 do quoting by default so presumably common when they were created (mid-eighties and early seventies respectively IIRC)

fasquoika

5년 전discuss

>My guess is that Microsoft has a secret new OS (written from scratch) that's super modern and efficient and they're just waiting for the market opportunity to finally ditch Windows and bring out that new thing. I doubt it'll ever happen though because for "new" stuff (where you have to write all your stuff from scratch all over again) everyone expects the OS to be free.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midori_%28operating_system%29

fasquoika

6년 전discuss

https://github.com/munificent/vigil

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