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The thing I hate the most about Fennel is when you go back to Clojure and type `print` rather than `println`.

Optics. That's the true name of the evil overlord.

Government cares about "looking" like they are doing the right thing. Because they want to get public support.

Then there is corruption. But I will say that's a secondary issue. Anyways, I am pretty sure once govt changes were I am from, former politicians will find a job easily in pharma. Again this is secondary and will always happen.

There is something I am missing here.

How does your mental model change that much from where the operator goes?

Can't you put node to right of a column of children? Like you would do on a piecewise function.

I am dislexic, maybe that's why I do not see your point.

I never said PRN is simpler. It is just as hard as infix.

I do not like PNR any better or worse. It takes me about 5 minutes to switch from lisps to others and back. I just put the parens in the wrong place a couple of times and I am done.

Paredit + PNR makes editing slightly more comfy, but that's it. They are the same thing.

Familiarity is a characteristic of the agent.

Intuitiveness/duficult is of the object.

Some humans dislike RPN.

I am yet to find whether they really dislike or just find it unfamiliar.

I am convinced that unfamiliar gets conflated with unintuitive and hard all the time.

I ate two bananas before my motorcycle test for their placebo effects to calm nerves. Cool as a cucumber I passed without a jitter on the throttle. It's anect-data-l. I know.

A) I would say lisps are rather boring. Clojure, one of the most recent ones hasn't changed in 15 years. B) most systems are built in C, Java, Python. So no wonder most complex systems are written in those.

I think PG considered competitors hiring Python programers as "dangerous" or something like that.

Efficiency is rewarded by consumer buying (voting with money) efficiently produced products.

It's not some abstract evil ideal that drives the market. It's people doing purchases.

Now, good markets need good (perfect to be precise) information. If people knew this is where we would end up (say most production moved to Asia), would they have made different choices (say to preserve manufacturing in US EU with better worker conditions)?

I would argue our economic system is just fine. But we fail in political, educational and ethical issues. Especially ethical, people know about horrible conditions in sweatshops, still there are massive queues to shop at low cost brands. I feel clothing as the most egregious, because there are decent alternative choices.

There is very little spec logic. It looks a lot like type declarations in typed languages.

It's usually outside the scope of functions, since you are likely going to want to reuse those declarations. For example, you can use spec to generate test cases for something like quick-check.

You can add pre and post conditions to clojure function's metadata that test wether the spec complies with the function's input/output.

Have you tried playing with tilesets? I feel they make the experience easier on the eyes.

As far as I understand, and I don't understand much. Also I am not endorsing vanden Bossche because I don't understand much. Furthermore, just as everyone else, he is just trying to sell his vaccine over others'.

The issue is selective pressure. Yes, the virus will mutate. But under an mRNA vaccine, only the spike protein needs to mutate for the vaccine to be render useless. In other words: mutating the spike protein will give the virus access to very broad unimmunized population.

Up to that it makes perfect sense to me and my limited evolutionary knowledge. I can't tell wether is right or wrong. But it makes sense.

He goes further saying that antibodies from vaccines are more affine to the virus, even with mutated spike protein, this compromises the natural immune system, given it will try to fight off infection with useless vaccine-learnt antibodies rather than with natural antibodies. This will make the virus more deadly.

This seems off to me. I can't see the logic, but I will be happy to be corrected. How can something be ignored by the virus and be more affine to it?

Again, he says that all these issues are solved with his vaccine, once he finishes it.

That's easy, not simple. I am not saying PHP is not simple.

I worked through this book and I think is a fine way to get your feet wet with C.

When I learn a new language, I like learning something else in the way, because language learning tends to be samey once you have gone through a couple. This book was right up my alley, cause you get a sense of language design and the very basics of C.

After reading the book I managed to write some cli programs in C, modifying someone else's code.

The main caveat about the book: It Is an introduction in both it's topics. I know the bare minimum of C and I could not design a language. Yes, the lisp you build... Well I would not use for anything.

But is well written and it has exercises, and I believe exercises is how you learn.

Maybe in your corner of the EU that's true. In mine GDPR is well regarded as joke.

You meant to say: "at least two infants," right?

Working on a financial institution as a forecaster, I once inherited an excel spreadsheet that took 3 hours to open. It was full of bugs. At one point it mixed the Swiss franc and the Argentinian peso and that was sold to clients. That would be blatantly obvious if done in Python or R. It took me 2 years after inheriting to figure it out.

I use spreadsheets but oftentimes they are not the right tool for the job.

Oh, I was just riffing on the parent comment.

I've had a look at your tool and I think is great. It greatly complements Lingua Latina and it is an essential tool for someone going through the traditional path of learning latin.

I wish I had something like this when I was learning latin in highschool. Furthermore, anything that helps disseminate classics is great in my view.

Thanks for your contribution!

I do not own latine disco. I did work through exercitia latina I, and it is great! And yes, Roma Aeterna is the second book.

But you only need familia romana. Everything else is cherry on top, extremely useful if you want to write latin and it will help your learning a lot. However if you are strapped for cash, are not interested in writing, don't have lots of time, want to jump quickly into reading the Bible... Just go with familia romana.

Furthermore op is giving lots of exercises, so that makes exercitia less relevant.

But at the end of the day is your money and your choice. I am happy I have Roma Aeterna, but I did not finish it, and I read medieval works quite fluently. I just wanted to put that info out so everyone can make their best buying choice.

I think Lingua Latina is an amazing book!

PSA: you only need the first book. The second is pretty much a reader. It is still great, specially if you are interested in Classics. If you are interested in reading the Vulgate Bible or medieval works, you can go ahead with those after the first book.

Medieval latin is significantly easier than classics, so it may even be worth you while going through those even before going further with classics.

Correct pronunciation is rather relevant for your first point, if you are trying to read poetry.

Both latin and classical greek poetry has a "rhythm" based on the pronunciation of each syllable. In latin you won't get the rhythm unless you are very knowledgeable of the poetic forms or the correct pronunciation of words, since vowel spelling is overloaded: there are 10 latin vowels (excluding diphthongs) and 5 ways to write them traditionally.

Same goes if you are interested in following a christian mass in latin. Songs make little sense without medieval/vatican pronunciation. I can read an ecclesiastic text, but I get nothing of what they are singing, since I was educated in classical latin.

I am not sure, and happy to be corrected, but I think this article is so vague, that it must be gpt-3 writing.

But hey! I said I wasn't sure.

how is a waiter going to produce the same in four days of work than in five?

By not being tired on the fifth, not taking wrong orders and not dropping glasses. Same as a software engineer would.

I see your point tho, and it is very valid. I am just playing angels advocate here.

But, iirc, earliest research on the topic was conducted in a hospital, which is a services business, same as a restaurant. Increases in production (I said production and not productivity) were found. Research is not solid.

Can I steal the feudalism idea?

I would be honored.

Other thing most people don't understand is that unpaid overtime is actually tax fraud. I have never seen paid overtime in Spain. I read someone in HN saying she got paid overtime tho.

While I wholeheartedly agree with you, I think we should be careful with this discourse. Rather than increases in productivity, increases in production should be emphasized. And yes, you cannot increase labor production without an increase in productivity, everything else equal.

Iirc, increase in production is about 40%. So working Monday to Thursday, you produce the same as someone, working 5 days produces Monday to next week's Tuesday morning.

Research is not solid, but promising.

My feeling is: spanish business is a somewhat feudal system.

I do not believe that business owners are trying to maximize the efficacy of their resources. If it were so, this kind of proposals would be accepted by the business community, given research on the topic. I believe this proposal is a tremendous opportunity.

I believe business want to control people. As such, one less day is less control. In exchange for Business controlling your life you get different degrees of financial security. Feudalism.

This attitude is reinforced by tradition and misconception. And both employees and employers are at fault. Gee, I am at fault! I haven't worked a 40 hour week in my entire working life. On my defense I would say that I have sent juniors and interns home... But still.

I have also said that research on the topic is not solid, but of this proposal were to be properly implemented could help solve that issue.

Politicians doing a proper policy implementation is a different can of worms. I was hoping that some progressive business would actually start doing 4 hour weeks, rather than a top down approach.

You should check current research on work week reduction. It actually indicates workers increase weekly production. Yes, production, not productivity.

There is this thing called stress, burnout... That decreases production. Less work usually means less stress.

Research is not as solid as I would like, but promising.

We had a minimum wage increase in my country recently. I met a bunch of people that went from having from full time to part time contracts cause their employer could not afford the increase. For about two months. After that what the employer could not afford was part time workers, and everybody got full time back.

While I wholeheartedly agree with your point, he said good quality data. I am currently working with real estate data. There is no way of knowing whether an entry in the database is a house or a house's floor. I had a project at a death insurance company (they pay your funeral). They had customers dying and coming back to life. You would say those are core business issues that should be dealt with.