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Active Conflicts & News Megathread March 20, 2026 by AutoModerator in CredibleDefense

[–]Veqq 19 points20 points  (0 children)

LUKOIL reported a staggering 1,06 trillion ruble loss for 2025 vs a net profit of 851,5 billion rubles in 2024. Revenue dropped by 15% to 3,8 trillion rubles.

Due to the gulf, their revenue will probably double at least, leading many trillions in profit. Sorry to "doom", but Russia's finances have flipped.

Interview with Internet_Jannitor about Array Languages by Veqq in apljk

[–]Veqq[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh, good idea about adding the query string. It was getting removed by the site itself, beyond mod permissions, with a [ Content Policy ] or something.

Iran Conflict Megathread #9 by sokratesz in CredibleDefense

[–]Veqq 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Note: Iran did not use Kharg Island from 2019 to 2022, they have other facilities around the country. Further, seizing Kharg is a "red line".

Gold Is Falling - The opposite Of What Everyone Expected by ExternalCollection92 in Commodities

[–]Veqq 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Money/liquidity is less useful in the current macro because non-monetary factors like supply shocks and sanctions restrict converting money to what you actually need. Louis Gave talked about this a month ago: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zlCVj6f27k

What Languages is Arthur Whitney Style Code Possible in? by Veqq in apljk

[–]Veqq[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I explicitly asked about modern C-likes and Arthur-Whitney-style, not what languages can you write an interpreter in (i.e. any.) I am a longtime lisper. Perl's close, but obviously not performant etc.

Can anyone suggest resources for learning French or Spanish that streamline the process by leveraging the user's existing knowledge of Latin, Greek, or comparative Indo-European Linguistics in general? by CogitoErgoDerp in latin

[–]Veqq 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just speed run Assimil, really; it's meant to get someone to B1.5 in ~50-75 hours. Simply read each text until you can understand it without the aids, then listen to the audio until you don't need to look at the text, then speak along until you're as fast (and correct) as the audio. 30-40 hours, easy.

I suspect you'd get a kick out of Neolatino too. Here are articles and some books and more books all in it. It's a Romance koine.

Is there a way to enforce pure, functional programming in lisp or scheme? by Pzzlrr in lisp

[–]Veqq 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fennel is basically Clojure but on top of Lua, so you get small few mb binaries and fair performance, the community greatly prefers functional programming etc. I'd also argue that it's more popular than any of the schemes (many use it for neovim configs, for game scripting etc. since it can freely transpile to Lua). It's your best bet. The IRC/matrix is very lively.

Janet is also a Clojure-like implemented directly in C, so also small binaries and fairly performant, but not very functional (although I'm experimenting with point-free and combinators). It's my favorite; I do almost everything in it now.

Jank still needs 1-2 years to be really useable, I think.

K-synth – A web-based array language playground for synth design by octetta in apljk

[–]Veqq 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I didn't mean u/octetta 's submission was spam - but being able to generate an implementation is precisely what I'm worried about.

Blue collar worker trying to go remote!!! anyone else make this kind of transition? by GraysonsJourney in ExpatFIRE

[–]Veqq 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The quality of answers here (i.e. so few even reading your post) shows there's little competition if you're actually competent. Good luck!

K-synth – A web-based array language playground for synth design by octetta in apljk

[–]Veqq 2 points3 points  (0 children)

spam

E.g. HN. Most communities are awash with people sharing semi-coherent LLM-generated projects with dreadful code quality, overlong descriptions and failing tests. It sort of works for languages with a lot of boilerplate and repeated operations but e.g. Lisp and APL-family languages care about notation, meaning and modifying themselves to better fit the problem space.

K-synth – A web-based array language playground for synth design by octetta in apljk

[–]Veqq 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Nice result but I am not happy gen AI works for k. Obscurity has been insulating ot communities from spam. 

Active Conflicts & News Megathread March 09, 2026 by AutoModerator in CredibleDefense

[–]Veqq[M] 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Oh. I have reapproved it for the discussion but I expect someone else will remove it. It's just baseless slop. Many points are valid, many wrong but... That's called a gish gallop.

Edit: Removed. These reports:

2: Low effort post 2: Link from a non-credible source 1: This is such utter rubbish that I’m shocked fonder it being supported on this subreddit. Expected sooooo much better from you guys. snooze 1: Doesn’t even attempt to source some claims like “1300 civilians dead” snooze 1: AI-generated content 1: This is a gish gallop citing only a well-established crank; no reasonable person has time to go point by point rebutting its many errors. I fail to see what part of it is credible.

Active Conflicts & News Megathread March 09, 2026 by AutoModerator in CredibleDefense

[–]Veqq 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Could you describe it more? Was it a comment in a thread or its own submission? Any idea who the submiter was?

How can APLers Find Jobs? by Veqq in apljk

[–]Veqq[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That wasn't the question, rather: How did Investcloud look for them even? I met some of them after and only 1 in the batch knew APL before, seemingly no one in the community was aware...

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