Jenz

Lisp is exotic?

Laughs in renaissance tuning methods, cheers from a lutenist.

A lighthearted but very true remark: OCaml is a wonderful language.

Haha this is the most amazing feature matrix I've ever seen.

On a more serious note, modular music is an extremely interesting and growing area and just about every module is surprisingly expensive; I'm curious to how well this translates to virtual racks.

And if people’s expectations of what links look like (blue, underlined) are so distracting it massively impacts the readers ease to read the actual content?

> No, it's an en space, which is something quite different.

Yeah, haha, at that point I lost the last hope I had of the author having much expertise in what he was doing.

That said I very much respect the obviously well-intended attempt, and hope the author’ll try again.

Practical Typography by Matthew Butterick [1] is a very nice introduction to typography for laymen.

[1]: https://practicaltypography.com/

This is the most comforting thing I ever have read (and right now, I needed that).

Was hoping to see some discussion on this too.

And what then couldn’t be called "hardcore computer science?"

There are large and finite structures in mathematics that would be very odd to call computer science. Take group theory and, say, the monster group [1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monster_group

> sounds that otherwise don’t exist.

hmmm

More out of curiosity than judgement; why is this on HN?

> You may find subtle and huge differences!

Quotation marks especially vary, see wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark#Summary_table

The quality of Julias ecosystem continues to surprise me.

See also:

- https://diffeq.sciml.ai/stable/

- https://juliadynamics.github.io/DynamicalSystems.jl/latest/

- https://clima.github.io/OceananigansDocumentation/stable/

etc

This is true, Crystal does compile pretty slowly, but this is the cost of its great static type system. The balance between Crystals expressiveness and performance is truly wonderful and a joy to program with

As if Markdown wasn’t dumb enough already?

Haskell is fantastic for programming systems where types are not just a tool, but central to the goals of the program. E.g. a program for converting one type of markup files to another (from one type to another type), like pandoc [1], which indeed is written in Haskell.

[1]: https://github.com/jgm/pandoc

Read the whole thing in anticipation of

> fac n = product [1..n]

This must have piqued a number of readers interedts, mine included. Are you reffering to something like Matlab? Julia?

> > Git is a dependency, which means perl is a dependency, which means a shell is a dependency, [...]

Indeed, this is a silly matter. In both sides.

The controversy around V is not without reason.

For some context here’s the last of a series of posts examining some of Vs claims https://christine.website/blog/vlang-update-2020-06-17

> Since it seems researchers are migrating away from MATLAB itself to python (numpy/scipy).

... and from python (numpy/scipy) to Julia

Although the author is unwilling to state his answer, it's rather heavily implied she pointed him to the tiger.

> How often, in her waking hours and in her dreams, had she started in wild horror, and covered her face with her hands as she thought of her lover opening the door on the other side of which waited the cruel fangs of the tiger!

contra

> But how much oftener had she seen him at the other door! How in her grievous reveries had she gnashed her teeth, and torn her hair, when she saw his start of rapturous delight as he opened the door of the lady! How her soul had burned in agony when she had seen him rush to meet that woman, with her flushing cheek and sparkling eye of triumph; [...].

It is also interesting to see the sprinkles of social Darwinism throughout out the story.

> Had it not been for the moiety of barbarism in her nature, it is probable that lady would not have been there; but her intense and fervid soul would not allow her to be absent on an occasion in which she was so terribly interested.

> by definition most books are mediocre

What? Oh, well, in that regard most elements in any category is mediocre. Doesn’t really mean much...

> this breaks the identity `arr[idx] == * (arr + idx)`.

Well, then, make the identity `arr[idx] == * (arr + idx-1)`.

> You don't need the ones with a different base.

To add on that, we need only one logarithm in the sense that all other then follows. For any base b, we have

log(x; b) = log(x)/log(b)

They claim the inverse function of f(a,b) = a + b, is f(a,b) = a - b. Surely this is wrong. By my limited understaning of the basic structures of functions; when f: R^2 -> R, then f inverse ought to be R -> R^2 right? And when f is just addition there can’t be an inverse solving for both a and b.

(If one of a and b were fixed, it’d be way easier, that is, if f(a) = a + b, then g(a) = a - b is an inverse of f)

I gave NixOS a serious try... the reason I gave it up was that pretty much all build systems for my own projects were broken and it was a pain to "nixify" them.

> Do all languages have ...

Of course not

And simply regex mistakes.