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I am not good enough with APL to be certain but I think you can generally avoid most of these sorts of ambiguities and the terseness of APL helps a great deal because the required context is never far…

>it’s like APL is actually the most human programming language As an incompetent programmer who is far more comfortable with even the most experimental and abstract literature than any of the "…

ChatGPT is pretty good at correcting my mistakes. Give it a snippet of not quite working code with no explanation and it almost always correctly identifies what I am trying to do and explains where I …

https://xpqz.github.io/learnapl/intro.html is a good place to start learning.

I think the challenge was actually to do something like Whitney style C in Python, doing it in under 100 lines was more a part of the metric than the goal. I am not sure I would call it a success but …

>It's not a choice you'd make today obviously, but it was entirely reasonable then. More recently, BQN made this same choice and I think it is perfectly reasonable to do as long as you ha…

The Making of Americans and Three Lives are amazing works. Just ordered a copy of The Making of Americans the other day so I can finally reread it, really looking forward to it.

It is currently under reconstruction, it sounds like much of it was beyond salvage and has to be remade but it is difficult to find much info on this, bits and pieces strewn about the web. The project…

It is a convention of The Long Now Foundation to get people to think of time in terms of 10k years instead of a lifetime at best. It goes hand in hand with their 10k year clock. https://en.…

It is more about identifying the problem and forming the question, trying to understand the problem instead of looking for the answer. It does not matter if you are asking a person or AI or digging th…

Probably a mix of both and some other stuff. I think the real problem is that most people don't identify their actual problem so they can form a good question which will help them beyond the imme…

My aluminum X13 has taken that sort of fall, all that happened was it got a small abrasion on the corner it landed on. I know of a T14 which took a similar fall and did not survive. I think with eithe…

>Lenovo Yogabook 9i I am just waiting for linux to get sorted out on it and then I will buy. It might not be perfect but it looks pretty great. I mainly wish it had a headphone jack, bluetooth is n…

They have some metal cased models, I am currently on an aluminum cased X13. There are a few others (or atleast were) but don't recall which.

>Surely "howdy" derives from "how do you do?" and not "hello." It seems most likely but the OED (at least in the second edition) says: >[Note. The conjectured deriv…

Your zoom issue is probably browser based behavior, with Vivaldi, keyboard zoom does the entire webpage including images. But you can always setup your own bindings for this stuff to get the behavior …

>middle finger Really? I have always used one of my index fingers, the other fingers stay on their keys in the home row. Do you find an advantage to using your middle finger or just one of those th…

Middle click is held when you scroll, only pastes if normal quick click. Never have had an issue with accidental pastes, unlike the trackpad which I do palm on occasion and cause various accidental ev…

Middle click + trackpoint gives you very smooth and precise xy scrolling.

Besides what the other poster said, trackpoint scrolling is amazingly good and life is just better in any programs which require a great deal of back and forth between keyboard and mouse; PureData is …

Having three physical trackpad buttons and the trackpoint are enough to keep me on thinkpads.

Probably some wood working tool, guess if I had to pick it would be my ECE Wedge set smooth plane since it is my most used tool by a long shot and it taught me a great deal about using planes.

>I wonder why the thread got flagged. It is off-topic. >On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a se…

https://archive.ph/BRxdH

The missing step seems to be identifying what is worth learning and your goals. Will learning X actually benefit you? We already do this with libraries, they save us a great deal of time partially by …

That is news in general, nothing special about AI.

That is an exceptionally well written answer and a great intro to vi/vim.

What is the sense of analyzing sentences removed from semantics and pragmatics? I am sure there is some utility to it in linguistics but we see this outside of linguistics a great deal. Short sentence…