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zoren··on Improving programming language performance
In other lisps a let form has a body that the binding(s) range over and they are not available outside. As in `(let n 12 (+ n n))` here n wouldn't be accessible after. You have `(def name 5)` for making definitions that are readable outsude.
zoren··on Demystifying Web Push Notifications
> npx web-push generate-vapid-keys --json > vapid.json

Does the trick

zoren··on Demystifying Web Push Notifications
vapidkeys.com signs you up for their newsletter I later found
zoren··on Demystifying Web Push Notifications
Great article, thank you for sharing! The web-push package has a generateVAPIDKeys have you tried that? Was it not good since you use vapidkeys.com?
zoren··on Estimated IQ distribution of children given IQ of parents
Amazing how intelligent people think intelligence can be quantified in a single number.
zoren··on My House
Also helps if you want to hang something on the wall.
zoren··on Why I prefer making useless stuff
I’ll tell you one thing about useless stuff. Sometimes it turns out to be useful, only in a way you hadn’t imagined.
zoren··on Static Executables with SBCL v2
> The name "Steel Bank Common Lisp" is a reference to Carnegie Mellon University Common Lisp from which SBCL forked: Andrew Carnegie made his fortune in the steel industry and Andrew Mellon was a successful banker.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steel_Bank_Common_Lisp

zoren··on Used EV Batteries Could Power Tomorrow's Solar Farms
I thought solar farms produced power.
zoren··on We Need to Dream Bigger Than Bike Lanes
Not very often and not for very long. Source: lived here 38 years.
zoren··on Polanyi’s Paradox
Joseph Luft and Harrington Ingham apparently.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johari_window

zoren··on Coroner letters changed habits of doctors whose patients died of overdoses
I guess you’re right. It’s also blocked here in Denmark.
zoren··on Game Theory: Open Access textbook
In The Black Swan, Nassim Nicholas Taleb argues that applying game theory to real life situations is one instance of the ludic fallacy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludic_fallacy
zoren··on New implementation of Git in OCaml
Why would you hold 10,000 elements in a linked list?
zoren··on Jeff Bezos Surpasses Bill Gates as World's Richest Person
Oh I understood you as if you where claiming we are currently in a tech bubble that will burst soon. That's why I asked when this would happen.
zoren··on Jeff Bezos Surpasses Bill Gates as World's Richest Person
When will this crash come? And how do you know?
zoren··on Writing Parsers Like it is 2017 [pdf]
I would claim ANTLR is such a tool.
zoren··on Writing Parsers Like it is 2017 [pdf]
Are they? I thought parser combinators made parsing context sensitive grammars easier than when using parser generators.
zoren··on U.S. life expectancy varies by more than 20 years from county to county
True, irrational shared a first hand experience and then proceeded to speculate as if that experience was evidence that smoking is more prevalent in Canada than in the US.
zoren··on U.S. life expectancy varies by more than 20 years from county to county
Do you have numbers to back up your claim?
zoren··on Why does Google prepend while(1); to their JSON responses?
That is one weird array in Google's reply. Looks like it could have been an object instead, whereby JSON hijacking wouldn't be a problem.
zoren··on T3X – a minimal procedural language
I don't think it was intended in the formal sense either. But "minimalistic" or "small" would probably be more suitable.
zoren··on The beginning of Git supporting other hash algorithms
Someone please remind me why the hash is not a type definition so the representation would only have to be changed in one place.
zoren··on New satellite network watches everything, and everyone on Earth in real time
I shall have to commit my crime in cloudy weather then.
zoren··on Why Don't We Have a General-Purpose Tree Editor? (2014)
Isn't it only the types of the AST-nodes rather than semantics you need a common representation for?
zoren··on Seagate will bring a 16TB hard drive to market within 18 months
Will they?
zoren··on Ask HN: If you could live and work somewhere, where would it be?
Living in Copenhagen, Denmark I'm not sure that moving here necessarily will make you more happy. Maybe the results would be different if one looked at what makes expats happy when moving to a new country.
zoren··on Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People
As to the first claim. It seems Mississippi has the highest poverty rate at 21.9%. California is at 16.4%.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_poverty...

zoren··on EmDrive study officially published
Agreed. Yet even more incredible would be not even bringing energy for the propulsion. http://www.space.com/32546-interstellar-spaceflight-stephen-...
zoren··on A.I. Experiments
Thanks for the offer. I've seen this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJVL80Gg3lA and I think I understand how it works but still think the results are amazing.
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