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Do you have a source for the non-uniqueness of ISBN? Google didn't provide anything tangible and I'd be very interested in a reputable place confirming your claim.

Actually, as far as I see [0] ISBN have to be unique. It seems like this "South End Press" is more of a case of a publisher going rogue than anything els.

[0] https://www.isbn-international.org/content/isbn-assignment (see the '“Out of print” editions' bullet)

About reliable email adresses: I'm using my university alumni "email forwarding for life", but this loses me some emails due to DMARC and friends. What are the alternatives?

Would having (optional) type annotation, or even a relatively coercitive type system help much in the way of performance? Admittedly, this wouldn't be scheme anymore, but are there example of this done in the wild with profitable impact? E.g. even as an extension to RXRS.

I'd guess if you're sure your `fib` function handles only integers, you should get a lot of easy inlining/specialization at your disposition.

I'm wondering: are there any RXRS compliant scheme implementations that are competitively fast? say comparable to js or lua, or even C/rust? If not, is the reason coming from scheme itself, or is it more a lack of effort in this direction?

Thanks!

Why is that? and what are the two approaches?

Note that Urban Terror is not open source.

I think you're not replying to the main (or at least, most important imo) point of the parent: it's that this man-made landscape has now plastic embedded in it, with all the potential risks it entails

Or seek! https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/seek_app

Look at the «Whitworth three plate method». As far as I understand, it should allow a «gain» in precision.

Very interesting, thank you! So, I guess both the hydraulic press and slow curing time ensured that the tiles were very hard/abbrasion resistant. More so than plain mortar, somewhat closer to ceramic.

I don't understand the hydraulic press part. First, I'd expect the press to somehow mess with the patterns, and second, I would have thought he'd just let the cement take. Anyone knows what the point of this part?

> But baling, that needs a machine, right?

Probably. Guess I'm not old enough to have ever witnessed manual baling then! That's a TIL for me :)

I've never seen anything like it in Switzerland (and neighboring countries). From what I saw, the process here seems to be: first, let the hay dry on the ground by itself for a bit, then group it along "rows" that make essentially a stripe pattern on the field, and then make hay "balls" or "bricks" out of that. But maybe that's only because I've never seen anyone do it the old way?

Indeed, it seems to tick quite a lot of boxes. I'm a bit confused on how to make it work with my old vimrc and plugins, and it doesn't seem to support julia's lsp yet, but I'll wait a few months, and hopefully this will be the solution I was looking for. Thanks!

I'm using neovim with Coc (often does not work as I want it to) and ALE and friends, and it's getting sort of frustrating. It's lots of fiddling with the vimrc, each year a new better extension that I can never make work, etc. What I'd like is some editor that integrates LSP, treesitter, FZF and friends so I don't have to configure everything, while still having the modal+command model of vim. Recently there was an editor that seemed to fit the bill (I think called Hex), but it seems those "keyboard oriented" editors are more usually "american keyboard oriented", in that the bindings don't make sense for non qwerty keyboards, and remapping everything is frustrating. Essentially, I think I want an full-featured IDE with vim's extensibility and modal approach.

What's the solution?

In my "software development" course at university (so, not programming, but every "management" thing around it: unit testing, git, waterfall/scrum, etc), I remember the instructor telling us that the first approach to making your program faster was upgrading the hardware. The more time passes, the more shocked I am at an instructor telling this to his students, to the point that I'm now thinking I might recall a cruder version of what was originally said. In any case, that may be the cause!

I think the main criticism in GP was that the friend's group also cut ties, not just the person being put "at risk" by such a friendship. Also, "toxic influence" makes it seem like the friend was, by themself, toxic, while it looks rather than this was a "dangerous relation" (big difference imo).

I was (without any better argument than my intuition) arguing that the sentence “But it's more accurate to model these systems as semilattices.” sounds weak to me. I was not making a point on the article, but only on this specific idea.

My feeling is that it's not really fruitful to describe "real life" phenomena in terms of abstract algebraic mathematical structures. It's more of a gut feeling than anything else, but I think there are two points that one can make here:

* Generally, it's better to first observe a phenomenon, understand it, and try to find a good vocabulary for it, mathematical or otherwise, rather than take an out-of-the-box fancy sounding math concept and try to make it fit your phenomenon.

* It seems as soon as you try to describe a phenomenon with an algebraic object, you'll soon get stuck trying to make sense of your functions/axioms: what's the meet? what's the join, is there a bottom element, etc. If you rather work with a more “geometric” notion (graphs, metric spaces,…) you don't have as many things to match, and you can focus on studying your objects.

To be clear, I don't have any strong point here, it's mostly gut feeling/rumblings.

It feels to me this analogy is rather weak. Presumably, the point of semilattice (compared to tree) is that the hierarchy is not top-down but can have branches up and down. I'd say the algebraic structure of joins and meets is not really natural here… it's just some form of graph.

Open to counter-arguments though!

Among friends and family, it's mainly 2× yes. You see a lot of banners in the cities for the initiative, but I don't know how good an indicator that is (political banners seem to have boomed in the last 3 years: each campaign now has its own that people rush to hang on their balconies, etc). As you said, in the countryside, you almost only ever see the 2× no ads.

I don't really know how to probe for the general sentiment: you can look at what the different political parties recommend on their websites (that's my usual lazy voting strategy: if the green, socialists and far left agree on a choice, I'll usually go with it), look for polls and/or read the press (probably swissinfo.ch is a good starting point?). Typically in this case, the socialists and green agree on the 2×yes, and since the socialists are pretty tame, I guess it's a good indicator that I can safely vote that.

EDIT: Correction, the tendency among my entourage might be tilting to a "no" to the drinking water initiative!

I'm honestly happy with this part: I'm all for reducing livestock use as much as possible, and the fodder restriction is a nice way to push for this by giving a natural constraint: can't have more livestock than you can feed "by yourself".

To clarify, I believe the goals are laudable, and the "drastic" adjective was the best approximation I had. My first guess would be to vote 2× yes, but I have some reservations:

* I heard that even among organic farmers, it was not a clear 2× yes.

* There is the question of efficiency of organic/no pesticide farming: are we going to have a really bad output and something less ecological in the end due to more work for the same amount of food produced?

* Am I just a bourgeois voting for my trendy ideals, not seeing that poorer people won't have the money to pay for heightened prices?

* Am I just a city-dweller that thinks farming is easy peasy, putting even more strain on the farmers, whose lifes as hard enough as it is?

* Are we going to rely more on importation, thus simply externalizing the problem (seemingly the initiative take care of this question)?

All this to say: I'm not confident enough in my knowledge of farming and ecology to yet say I'm going to vote 2× yes.

In Switzerland, we're soon going to vote on two initiatives ¹² aiming at reducing pesticide use. The first is essentially about forbidding the use of all artificial pesticides by 2031 (also importation of food that was produced abroad using pesticides). The second is about removing subsidies to farmers that use any kind of pesticide, or regularly use antibiotics on their livestock, etc.

I feel like they are quite drastic initiatives, but it's good to at least have a desire for change. I'm interested in any opinion from knowledgeable people on the subject!

¹ https://www.admin.ch/gov/en/start/documentation/votes/202106... ²https://www.admin.ch/gov/en/start/documentation/votes/202106...

Looks neat! But I'm not sure I follow: what's LSP support like (say compared to coc.nvim)?

I recall reading that Huawei's microkernel was actually more interesting/better than fuchsia, on a technical sense (don't know the metric).

Anyone has a (founded) opinion on the subject?

> oldest sports/events in history.

which one?