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2025-01-29 20:55 #

RHO: A Common Lisp library implementing R ideas. #lisp

2025-01-29 20:53 #

To put it briefly, human experience is characterized by Dasein (a technical term for Heidegger that can be translated literally as “being-there” or “being-here”), which tends to overcome spatial distance through meaningful action or symbolic understanding, to bring even the world close to itself, a tendency that Heidegger calls de-severance. With various modern technologies, however, this tendency of Dasein is made more complicated. — A Phenomenology of Spotify and Vinyl

2025-01-29 20:51 #

Less is more. Avoid grand designs. Keep the codebase as small as possible. — The ten project management commandments

2025-01-25 20:55 #

img Listening to old music that changed my musical world back then…

2025-01-24 21:12 #

What are the worst (commonly adopted) ideas/principles in statistics?. So long CV, but I’m glad to see that the site can still generate very interesting discussions.

2025-01-24 21:11 #

The lie-to-children here is that we pretend the do block is magical and that when it executes, it also executes side effects of functions called in it. This mental model will take the beginner a long way, but at some point, one will want to break free of it. That is when Haskell starts to really shine as a procedural language. — Haskell: A Great Procedural Language

2025-01-24 21:09 #

So be it, everything is an expression. #wolfram

2025-01-24 21:08 #

I was surprised to find R in this list of Common Unix Programs. #unix

2025-01-24 20:34 #

/me is listening to “Beware of Darkness” by Concrete Blonde

2025-01-22 09:07 #

I don’t understand the desire to shove everything into a web browser. Other than the fact that it is how tech startups extract money from venture capitalists, spy on your user base, and lock out interoperability I don’t see why a web browser is a better place to implement most things and yet, here we are. — Discord in my IRC client