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The person who wrote that did something useful with his life. You are not doing anything useful with yours.

It still doesn't say what the purpose of it is. I don't really expect it to either. I expected that asking the question here would be OK, though.

Well it doesn't say that. I just said it sounds like a reinvention of Lisp because that's what it sounded like to me from what it says on the homepage.

Trolling by asking a question to which I wasn't able to find answer after a good few minutes on the website?

That's because Google knows where you live.

If you're not already a lisper I would recommend learning Common Lisp from one of the many excellent books. Learning the differences for Emacs Lisp afterwards is a breeze, and you get a much a more general purpose view of Lisp.

Now you're beginning to sound psychopathic.

Tbh you just sound like someone who knows what the right thing to do is but is too damn weak to do it for yourself. Your posts are screaming out "if it's the right thing, why won't someone make it easy for me to stop?"

Sadly you are just like most people throughout human history. We're ashamed of some of the things people have done in the past, and in the future people will be ashamed of this.

Have you actually watched a film like Earthlings, though? Why don't you watch it before you go to "Texas Roadhouse"?

Wilful ignorance and indulging in the illusion presented by supermarkets and their suppliers. Such people dislike vegetarians and vegans because they are worried that they might remind them about the illusion.

This is all covered in The Matrix.

Phones started to get too small in the 2000s. I can't remember which phones in particular but some definitely had buttons too small for most people's hands.

That's the risk you run when you choose convenience over sustainability. If you spent some time and used syncthing you'd get something that won't just disappear some day.

The parents and girlfriends of technical people (like mine).

Fedora is a community distro.

Tab completion makes it significantly better. It's a bit like syntax highlighting. If it doesn't tab complete properly then something is probably wrong.

Training yourself to be tolerant of mistakes on the command line seems like a very bad idea. Carpenters have a rule: measure twice, cut once. Train yourself to do the same.

It is abundantly clear that the pipenv developers use MacOS so I wonder if it's an OS dependent thing.

What OS?

Pipenv is hopelessly slow. It's a shame. Remember when git first came out and it changed the way we worked because it was so quick to commit now? (I fully expect that most git users here don't remember that, actually). There is no going back. I will not use slow tools. My tools need to be at the very least as fast as me.

Nah. Most of them don't understand the difference. If you did you wouldn't can it pedantry.

I personally don't find heuristics beautiful. That's why I commented.

Negative 2 points on a post saying that a computational method that possibly never terminates is not an algorithm... Oh dear...

Indeed.

No it absolutely is not.

The lack of fundamental computer science knowledge in this thread is alarming.

And how do you "demand that the score strictly improves"? It's an NP-hard problem.

It's one of the most fundamental concepts in computer science and underpins decades of research. You can decide if it's useful.

Minority? This is directly from Knuth.

No. You can't prove that k-means does anything useful.

Nope. An algorithm has to be effective. You can find pathological cases for k-means such that it will never converge on anything useful. So if you set your termination case to be convergence it will never terminate and if you don't then it will never be effective.

B-trees are really beautiful. I also like the Aho-Corasick algorithm as used by fgrep. I actually started to reinvent this algorithm myself before finding out it was already done. It's essentially a way to add links to a trie such that you can find all occurrences of multiple substrings within a larger string with one pass through the larger string.

K-means is not an algorithm, it's a heuristic for an Np-hard problem.