lordwarnut (u/lordwarnut)

lordwarnut commented on I'm not mutable, I'm partially instantiated blog.dnmfarrell.com/post/... · Posted by u/tlack

lynx23 · a year ago

Do you have a suggestion on where to / how to start learning Prolog beyond towers-of-hanoi? Prolog is basically the last language on my list of things I want to look at, but whenever I tried, I failed to find anything practical to do/try.

lordwarnut · a year ago

I have been going through https://www.ic.unicamp.br/~meidanis/courses/mc336/2009s2/pro...

It starts out pretty easy but gets harder and requires more thought. It has different sections on things like list processing or graph problems.

lordwarnut commented on I learned Haskell in just 15 years duckrabbit.tech/articles/... · Posted by u/aranchelk

leononame · 2 years ago

Great read! Can anyone here recommend a good resource for learning Haskell that's in the style of "Text-Mode Games as First Haskell Projects"? Haskell has been on my radar since forever, and I've got some FP concepts internalized by making a side project in F#, but I have no idea what a monad really is and a fun prohect to code along might be perfect.

lordwarnut · 2 years ago

Kind of ironically I've enjoyed the 'Write Yourself a Scheme in 48 Hours'[1] which goes over how to write your own Scheme in Haskell. It introduces some of the more interesting monads although I'm not sure how idiomatic it is.

[1] https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Write_Yourself_a_Scheme_in_48_...

lordwarnut commented on New ways we're tackling spammy, low-quality content on Search blog.google/products/sear... · Posted by u/xnx

oven9342 · 2 years ago

I would really love Google to let me ban certain domains like photo banks which feel attacked by Google searches.

I’m not paying Google any money though. And $10 a month is over my budget

lordwarnut · 2 years ago

Might I suggest the plugin uBlacklist. I use it to block a whole bunch of domains from google search that I don't want to see anymore.

lordwarnut commented on How Not to Speak to Someone with ADHD verywellmind.com/what-is-... · Posted by u/spansoa

mortallywounded · 2 years ago

MMm, but it _is_ over diagnosed and medicated.

lordwarnut · 2 years ago

Evidence?

lordwarnut commented on Eventual Business Consistency tidyfirst.substack.com/p/... · Posted by u/cratermoon

cratermoon · 3 years ago

There's an old saying "two is an impossible number". In programming, we either deal with one of a thing, or a collection of things. The cases where there are exactly two things are uncommon (cue HN coming up with a bunch of exceptions). In the case of points in time, even bi-temporal leaves out a third, implicit point: now.

lordwarnut · 3 years ago

The irony being of course that there are two scenarios.

lordwarnut commented on The Tyranny of Structurelessness (1970) jofreeman.com/joreen/tyra... · Posted by u/mooreds

cortesoft · 3 years ago

The Slate Star Codex that really spoke to me is "The Categories were made for man, not man for the categories"

https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/21/the-categories-were-ma...

lordwarnut · 3 years ago

I really like this post. Thanks for sharing it.

lordwarnut commented on The mysterious dodecahedrons of the Roman Empire atlasobscura.com/articles... · Posted by u/diodorus

jhoechtl · 3 years ago

They were used to measure the amount of pasta noodles depending on the amount of expected guests. Way more elegant than what we have from ikea today.

Another theory of mine is a candle holder which adapts to stump size.

lordwarnut · 3 years ago

Interesting, I was thinking perhaps it was to hold soft boiled eggs such that it was convenient to dip strips of buttered toast into the yolk.

lordwarnut commented on Zoomable, animated scatterplots in the browser that scales over a billion points github.com/nomic-ai/deeps... · Posted by u/samwillis

larsrc · 3 years ago

Is the name a reference to the democracy game from Scientific American back in the 80ies (or so)?

Also, is there a good equivalent for node-edge graphs?

lordwarnut · 3 years ago

I don't suppose you have a link to that game? It sounds interesting and I'd love to learn more.

Posted by u/lordwarnut 3 years ago

The Cult of Self-Improvement webworm.co/p/selfimprovem...

lordwarnut commented on Ask HN: What Is the Lisp “Enlightment”? · Posted by u/armchairguy

dusted · 4 years ago

For me, it was the realization that with LISP, you don't really build much of anything because you're caught in the blinding light of beauty, and the perfect program is the one that never gets written.

lordwarnut · 4 years ago

The program that can be written is not the eternal program. The script which can be run is not the eternal script.

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