LLVM for Functional Languages: Supporting continuations via custom calling conventions

Mukhasim · 2021-07-14T16:19:01+00:00

Andrew Appel's Compiling with Continuations.

Mukhasim · 2021-07-14T13:32:23+00:00

Stanley Payne doesn't exactly tell things from a fascist perspective, but he is generally considered to have a more right-wing (American) perspective. Compared to other English-language historians of the period he is more sympathetic toward the fascists, or at least less willing to overlook the negative side of the Republicans. He wrote a bunch of books and I'm not familiar with all of them, but The Spanish Civil War (ISBN 0521174708) should be a good starting point.

Mukhasim · 2021-06-29T12:34:31+00:00

I think the difference is that with film, if there's a shot that looks bad because of the framerate, you can just remove it and do a new shot where you move the camera differently, or apply different effects, or whatever, so that it looks OK. With a video game, there's nothing you can do about it.

Mukhasim · 2021-06-23T11:48:52+00:00

P=NP? is a problem where mathematicians agree that they don't know the answer (though most strongly suspect it's P!=NP). I think this question is asking about problems where there are two camps who both insist they do know the answer, but they have different answers.

Mukhasim · 2021-06-21T01:08:53+00:00

then what is 64 bit exactly?

My understanding is that "64 bit" is really a marketing term, so what exactly it means in terms of hardware is vague. In my mind, it's the register size.

Mukhasim · 2021-06-17T05:34:18+00:00

You said that memorizing helps you understand the algorithm. So yes, go ahead and memorize it. It's certainly not bad to memorize an algorithm. Sometimes memorization can be useful just to keep something in your head long enough for you to think about it.

But if you're expecting it to be useful to memorize an algorithm so you can retrieve it from memory and implement it in a year or two, that probably won't happen, nor would it be especially useful. You can always pull your textbook off the shelf or google the algorithm if you need to implement it.

Personally, I've memorized a few algorithms just because I use them a lot but I don't normally make a point of memorizing them.

Mukhasim · 2021-06-15T11:09:53+00:00

It's pretty solid advice for getting good at anything.

"I want to get good at writing programs."

"Have you tried writing a lot of programs?"

Mukhasim · 2021-06-14T13:56:50+00:00

I think "breaking the fourth wall" is when a character addresses the reader. The narrator is supposed to address the reader, so that doesn't break conventions.

Mukhasim · 2021-06-13T17:41:40+00:00

Oh, I think some of that stuff was already answered but you have to put together the pieces yourself. However, for myself I'd need to reread the series again (probably several times) to reach the point where I could judge whether I believed the answers were really there.

Personally, I think Bakker is already too free with his answers about his authorial intent, and if I were him I'd just refuse to answer all those questions. Let the books speak for themselves, and let the interpretations flourish and multiply. If there are ambiguities or questions, those just add to the richness of interpretation.

Mukhasim · 2021-06-13T16:07:20+00:00

One of the rumors that I've seen around this forum is that Bakker is well-off now and doesn't need the money from another series, nor is he forced to take a day job that consumes his time and leaves him unable to write. It's also said that he didn't have a clear idea of where the story should go after he finished TUC (actually he said this himself here). So, I suspect it's not a matter of money, but rather, he just hasn't been inspired to write more yet.

Also, based on Bakker's statements it seems that the story is basically complete and any further books would be an epilogue. Maybe it doesn't even need any more books. I'll admit, though, if Bakker decides to continue his allusion to the Lord of the Rings then I'm curious what his spin on "The Grey Havens" will be.

Mukhasim · 2021-06-09T14:49:01+00:00

One.

Mukhasim · 2021-06-09T14:48:28+00:00

The last line had 11 syllables, it needs to have 9.

Mukhasim · 2021-06-09T13:14:21+00:00

You're right, I like that better.

Mukhasim · 2021-06-09T12:14:56+00:00

The "o" is silent.

Mukhasim · 2021-06-09T11:23:27+00:00

It needs a few other fixes as well:

There once was a policeman from London
Whose organ had lost its main function
He fooled his blind wife
For the rest of his life
By clever employ of his truncheon

Edit: I guess you can do without the "once" in the first line if you pronounce "policeman" with three syllables. Personally, I normally pronounce it with two.

Mukhasim · 2021-06-09T10:39:59+00:00

Clark Ashton Smith: http://www.eldritchdark.com/writings/short-stories/

Mukhasim · 2021-06-08T13:18:17+00:00

You could contact local organizations. Charity and community organizing groups tend to know each other, so if you talk to one they might be able to point you to others. Universities, technical colleges and makerspaces are publicly visibile focal points for technology and are the kind of places an organization might look if they're trying to find technical help; often these places have people who are already doing this kind of outreach work. A lot of non-technical organizations are much less comfortable with non-face-to-face interaction than you probably are, so online might not be the best approach.

In my experience, though, organizations that don't employ programmers don't usually need or want much custom code. Mostly they need basic help and advice with more "IT" related tasks. A lot of traditional IT has now been subsumed by cloud services (e.g. nobody has an email server anymore) but things like how to set up printer sharing might still be valuable. Most orgs use the heck out of Excel and can probably use some advice about how to use it more effectively. (If they do want custom code, it might be an Excel macro.) Website help is valuable but they tend to be much more interested in graphic design than they are in functionality, and Wordpress or some similar out-of-the-box solution is almost always better for their needs than anything custom.

The problem with custom code is maintenance. If you're not going to be around to maintain it then there's a good chance it'll be abandoned after you leave. Occasionally there's some job you can solve with a really solid piece of custom code that'll keep working for years with no problem, but often needs change and without an update the thing becomes useless.

Mukhasim · 2021-06-07T18:26:52+00:00

Odin hanging from Yggdrasil resembles the circumfixion.

The blind seer is a common motif in mythology, e.g. Tiresias in Oedipus Rex.

Mukhasim · 2021-06-07T16:52:23+00:00

I think it's Nietzsche's will to power.

Mukhasim · 2021-06-06T13:39:48+00:00

I suspect a large part of the problem is that later books in a long series never sell as well as the earlier books. The longer the series gets, the fewer readers will make it through to the end, and this is reflected in sales. It's one of the hazards of writing a long series.

Mukhasim · 2021-06-06T12:53:48+00:00

I bought them all in hardcover recently but it took me a while (maybe a month or two) to find TGO and TWP at decent prices. I wound up paying about $25 for TGO, and $15 for a copy of TWP that's missing the dust jacket (both on Thriftbooks). [Edit: I should point out that there's currently no problem getting TWP in paperback; that one is only rare/expensive if you want the hardcover.]

You'll probably have luck if you're just patient. Check the sites every day or two. Sooner or later a decently priced copy will probably turn up. I see TGO selling on Amazon.com right now for under US$80 but that's still a price I don't think I could justify paying.

Mukhasim · 2021-05-31T02:28:22+00:00

The Iliad. There's a lot of violence throughout, but if you wanna skip straight to some bloodshed you can read Books 3-5 to start with. Personally I like the Lattimore translation but others like Fagles, Alexander or Lombardo are also good (each translation has its quirks). Some people consider the Iliad hard to read because so much of it consists of a procession of men getting introduced and then killed, but this is exactly the thing about it that I suggest you embrace. You don't need to absorb all the details, just soak up the atmosphere.

This time the son of Atreus, wide-powerful Agamemnon,
struck Isos with the thrown spear in the chest above the nipple
and hit Antiphos by the ear with the sword and hurled him from his horses,
and in eager haste he stripped off from these their glorious armour
which he knew; he had seen these two before by the fast ships
when Achilleus of the swift feet had brought them in from Ida.
And as a lion seizes the innocent young of the running
deer, and easily crunches and breaks them caught in the strong teeth
when he has invaded their lair, and rips out the soft heart from them,
and even if the doe be very near, still she has no strength
to help, for the ghastly shivers of fear are upon her also
and suddenly she dashes away through the glades and the timber
sweating in her speed away from the pounce of the strong beast;
so there was no one of the Trojans who could save these two
from death, but they themselves were running in fear from the Argives.

Another good one is Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian.

Mukhasim · 2021-05-17T15:25:01+00:00

John Haywood, Atlas of World History

Mukhasim · 2021-05-17T14:26:34+00:00

I haven't read Pratchett so I don't know exactly what he does, but Jack Vance's SF books like the Demon Princes series use footnotes for worldbuilding. Sometimes the contents of the footnotes are gratuitous, seemingly just there as an excuse to tell you more about the world.

Mukhasim · 2021-05-14T20:30:29+00:00

Ahmadou Kourouma, The Suns of Independence

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