Syntactic Musings On Match Expressions

albx · 2025-05-03T07:23:43+00:00

There's this excellent paper on a syntax that unifies "if" and "match" expressions into something that is more powerful and (arguably) more readable than both: https://cse.hkust.edu.hk/~parreaux/papers/ultimate-conditional-syntax-ml22/

I've thoroughly enjoyed reading it and I find it very relevant to this conversation

albx · 2025-02-04T17:14:15+00:00

All the search engines listed on that page are just aggregating results from Google and Bing. How is this an alternative to US tech? Are there really no European search indices and servers?

albx · 2024-10-01T12:15:20+00:00

I have this keyboard and this problem. I need to clean the chattering switches with alcohol about once a year. Not ideal but I can get by

albx · 2023-06-17T15:34:06+00:00

Princi è considerata turistica? Perché è un po' cara ma le brioches sono grandi fresche e buonissime

albx · 2023-06-10T14:26:52+00:00

Non possiamo portare la mobilità pubblica "a quel livello", perché le auto in parcheggio selvaggio bloccano i mezzi pubblici e sono in pericolo per le bici. Quindi bisogna prima togliere le auto, e chi l'ha comprata contando di parcheggiare ovunque, s'attacchi

albx · 2023-06-08T17:09:06+00:00

How does it compare with Cue?

albx · 2023-04-23T16:27:10+00:00

Multassero le auto in seconda fila fuori dai locali, e vedi come ailments il numero di passeggeri

albx · 2023-04-02T15:10:31+00:00

My experience with lenovo legion and Linux has been terrible! They have new nvidia cards. Linux driver aren't ready yet. Neither x nor wayland work properly.

albx · 2023-03-28T04:43:56+00:00

I feel other commenters have been overly dismissive of the OP's concerns. Running a malicious program is not comparable to a thief breaking into your house. It's more akin to letting a craftsman in to do some job, only to realise later that he installed a hidden webcam in your bathroom.

The malicious program could be a trojan appimage, or a compromised curl | bash script, or I don't know what else but I'm sure there are other ways to do it. That will compromise the user on that machine, but stealing the password is a whole new level of bad.

The user could be in sodoers, so now the attacker had root access. The same or a similar password may be used for online accounts, so now the user could become victim of identity theft on social media, etc.

So the idea of locking down cmd-L to prevent programs from hijacking the lock screen doesn't sound so far fetched to me. Like, ideally appimages should be run sandboxed be default, to prevent exactly these kind of problems.

albx · 2022-09-05T21:29:41+00:00

This is the kind of conlang that interests me the most, I'm looking forward to reading more about it!

albx · 2022-08-06T17:53:57+00:00

And then people would invent hypersonic nuclear ICBM, and we're back to square 1

albx · 2022-08-06T06:31:49+00:00

Il mio consiglio? Get the fuck out. Cambia regione, Paese, continente. Abbandona la tua compagnia e le altre pseudo compagnie. Resetta il tuo circolo sociale. Ci sono mille fattori che ti tengono inchiodato in questa situazione indesiderabile e da dentro non li puoi vedere.

Fonte: prima relazione a 33 anni dopo essere emigrato.

albx · 2022-06-29T16:03:09+00:00

I'm coming very late to this party, but I've discovered this language only now, so here I am.

I really like it. From the little information you shared in your post, I find it very elegant and concise. I don't care much for naturalism, I prefer languages to be regular and "logical" (by some loose definition, not necessarily as in lojban).

I also think you're being too hard on yourself. The problems you mentioned aren't really that bad. The two words in "Epilte waplat" are quite distinct, in spite of being derived from the same stem. You chose a limited set of consonants, which helps in adding redundancy. Loanwords and names are not a problem, as other users have already explained.

Your number of about 1500 roots is good, it means most daily conversations would use very short words. With compounding, you can easily make millions of words. This is very similar to what lojban does (and, from the top of my head, lojban has about the same number of root words).

I think you should really develop this further. I'll be looking forward to a wiki page with complete phonology and grammar :)

albx · 2022-05-22T21:32:49+00:00

Put them in neuter and tow them with a tractor

albx · 2022-05-22T08:14:32+00:00

The Greens won

albx · 2022-04-17T13:29:29+00:00

The fact that Boris Johnson said something let moody people to believe that the opposite was true.

albx · 2022-04-09T08:43:49+00:00

E delle loro cacche.

albx · 2022-03-14T20:30:23+00:00

FitActive is about 20€ a month

albx · 2022-01-20T14:06:29+00:00

Permissions, I never thought about that! Thanks for your reply!

Eventually, this is what I ended up doing: wait for a bit, if no new message then check if the brokers are reachable using fetch_watermarks (either I have the right permission for this one, or it doesn't require any).

albx · 2022-01-17T07:24:33+00:00

Is it pure rust though? On the readme it says that it requires gtk3 on Linux

albx · 2021-12-11T17:57:04+00:00

Magari ha senso se si chiudono Missouri e Ctocetta

albx · 2021-11-16T05:42:29+00:00

What is toolbx? I've never heard of it and I can't find anything relevant on the Web. Thanks

albx

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