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Tldraw – A Collaborative Digital Whiteboard

tldraw.com
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New breed of video sites thrive on misinformation and hate

reuters.com
3 points·by xisukar·4 года назад·0 comments

The 100 or so Books that Shaped a Century of Science

web.mnstate.edu
1 points·by xisukar·4 года назад·1 comments

E. W. Dijkstra Archive

cs.utexas.edu
5 points·by xisukar·4 года назад·0 comments

Trie Based Classifiers Evaluation

rakuforprediction.wordpress.com
2 points·by xisukar·4 года назад·0 comments

The collapsing quality of dev.to (2021)

wagslane.dev
116 points·by xisukar·4 года назад·106 comments

Brutalist Websites

brutalistwebsites.com
2 points·by xisukar·4 года назад·0 comments

The Fibonacci Quarterly

fq.math.ca
16 points·by xisukar·4 года назад·0 comments

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xisukar
·4 года назад·discuss
>Not working with fascists (yes, really) makes me much happier about cloudflare.

This is beyond comical.
xisukar
·4 года назад·discuss
>The people who pushed for this have a list of the next sites they are going to get taken down. In particular any place TERFs have discussions.

At this point, expect everything that doesn't agree with their ideology to be taken down or thwarted through their theatrical pressure campaigns on the blue bird app.
xisukar
·4 года назад·discuss
Some stack traces / error messages are less than awesome though
xisukar
·4 года назад·discuss
>Well I personally prepend @everyone to all my messages.

^ Arrest this man or woman!
xisukar
·4 года назад·discuss
You're being downvoted but it's wild how frontend frameworks pop up, take hold, and then quietly disappear with the next iteration of the same thing with different syntactic sugar.
xisukar
·4 года назад·discuss
xisukar
·4 года назад·discuss
>But in Florida there is a law now saying teachers can’t talk about gay people in school.

If only you weren't misrepresenting the Parental Rights in Education bill[1] you'd have a point. There's no reason why a teacher needs to discuss sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, etc. with kindergartens, be that heterosexual or homosexual. That's a private matter that has no place in a classroom, less so in primary grade levels.

[1]: https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/1834
xisukar
·4 года назад·discuss
>When your fashionable beliefs fall out of fashion, it will be your problem soon enough. Just don't cry about oppression then.

The righteousness of these individuals make them blind to the fact the pendulum swings back and forth.
xisukar
·4 года назад·discuss
>If it's my app, I'll use my logo.

You might own the app's code but if the user paid for the app, they're entitled to not wanting their screen to become some billboard to The Current Thing™. Buy a few billboards and airtime if you feel you should shove your political beliefs and opinions down everyone's throat. With this behavior, you're the representation of everything wrong with corporate political activism and the tech industry at large: You're the app's developer, and for some reason you think you know more than the user.
xisukar
·4 года назад·discuss
>nowadays everyone does programming language

By design/specification, Raku[0] is over 20 years old. The Rakudo[1] compiler is a lot younger, with its first stable release back in 2015.

[0]: https://raku.org/

[1]: https://rakudo.org/
xisukar
·4 года назад·discuss
>I don't know that I'd call Raku battle-hardened yet

You're right here, the Rakudo[1] compiler had its first stable release back in 2015 and comparatively speaking, there's a lot of space for growth.

[1]: https://rakudo.org/
xisukar
·4 года назад·discuss
Was Twitter able to prove that at least 95% of its users aren't bots?
xisukar
·4 года назад·discuss
It's simply degradation (if we're talking about early adopters) and growth (if we're talking about the demographics Reddit is now targeting).
xisukar
·4 года назад·discuss
>Forum literacy is the key, and it’s not built into everyone by default.

I think I have a vague idea but what does forum literacy entail? :)
xisukar
·4 года назад·discuss
>Too tired of the "include us -> we demand change -> we demand you be kicked out -> build your own place" cycle.

It reminds me of a modified version [1] of one of the Webcomic Name comics [2]:

grey blubs: you do not fit here

pink blubs: okay we will make our own place

grey blubs: why are you excluding us?

pink blubs: oh no

grey blubs (inside the space pink blubs just built): you do not fit here

[1]: https://twitter.com/reactjpg/status/1272042422340669440

[2]: https://webcomicname.com/post/185588404109
xisukar
·4 года назад·discuss
From Dijkstra:

>The tools we use have a profound and devious influence on our thinking habits, and therefore on our thinking abilities.

Obviously you should use the right tool for the job, however in the realm of programming languages someone might find a language's model of code structure better than other languages and more in tune with his/her way of thinking.
xisukar
·4 года назад·discuss
What a nice turn of events! You literally killed the Lead Architect with kindness haha
xisukar
·4 года назад·discuss
I am still trying to wrap my head around the problem. Here's my attempt at your implementation in Raku:

    sub solutions-filter(@sols, &agg, Bool:D :$flip = False) {
        my @aggregates = @sols.map({ agg($_) });
    
        my %d;
        %d{$_} += %d{$_} ?? %d{$_} !! 1 for @aggregates;
    
        return @sols.grep({ %d{ agg($_) } == 1 }) if $flip;
        return @sols.grep({ %d{ agg($_) } != 1 });
    }
    
    my @candidates = ((1..99) X (1..99)).grep({ $_[0] ≤ $_[1] });
    my @ns = @candidates;
    
    for 1..7 {
        @ns = solutions-filter @ns, { $_[0] * $_[1] };
        @ns = solutions-filter @ns, { $_[0] + $_[1] };
    }
    
    say solutions-filter(@ns, { $_[0] * $_[1] }, :flip);
xisukar
·7 лет назад·discuss
It's unfortunate but that's the bread-and-butter of comment sections mentioning Perl (Perl 5 and Perl 6). And what's with "the most obsessive"? What's this supposed to imply?
xisukar
·7 лет назад·discuss
> Call me a pessimist, but its too little too late...Python has trounced Perl for almost any task.

Moving forward I'm assuming you're talking about Raku and not about Perl (or Perl 5).

Do you mean little too late to be endorsed by a multi-million company? Or little too late for everything (personal projects, academia, etc.)? I'm trying to clarify this because I've never understood this sailed ship mentality regarding programming languages. And I know you're not saying this but it almost sounds like Raku is supposed to be a replacement for Python. It isn't. They're different languages, both good in some areas and bad in other areas. These areas need not be necessarily overlapping.

Whenever I read this kind of comments, they always remind of the following phrase I came across:

    There are two things that a programming language needs to be acceptable:
        - Be Python
        - Be a language I have used recently
It's almost as if Python marks the pinnacle of programming language research which isn't the case at all. In fact, I daresay no language can since programming languages are a matter of compromises and trade-offs. A language's compromises and trade-offs you're willing to put off with might not be the same for another person. There's an interesting phenomenon I've observed in the Perl community (or at least the Raku for the most part) which seems to be rare in other places: Whenever a situation arises where Raku might not be the best candidate for, community members aren't afraid to consider/suggest/recommend other programming languages as viable options.