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I started skimming through https://www.abebooks.com/9780201083194/Lisp-3rd-Edition-Wins...

at the library, I also find it very good in how it presents programming, it's both hands on, concise and abstract at the same time. A refreshing view on the use of electronic machines.
Quoting the xenophobic ranting feels suboptimal.
Not yet, no. It should be fairly easy to add support for more APIs, though. The more the merrier.
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> The fact that I'm here in 2016 having to defend the 1870s is mind blowing to me. And yet, through out contemporary American politics, it's basically a widespread effort to repeal the 20th Century.

It does get quite amazing, doesn't it. And, thank you. :-S
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I think we briefly thought the first post was pointing to that one, and then realized it wasn't. It happens!

Separate observation:

Customer rage anecdotes that inevitably tell only part of a story—or that at least cannot be reconstructed accurately from public info—are not a very high-quality genre on a site whose guiding value is intellectual curiosity. There's a standard downweight that we put on submissions like this.
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It's a good book in parts, but very dry and almost reference-like in others. All in all, pretty decent.

I much preferred Land of Lisp by Barsky for the basics and Edi Wietz' Common Lisp recipes for specific use cases.
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Well, I'm just under two-thirds of the way to 91 and I can safely say that more 91 year olds are dying this year than have died in previous years (on average). I think that this is a good thing because more people are living into that age range to do the dying.

Dementia is a concern, and there is an Erdos-like irony about the chap who invented a reliable reasonably fast memory system developing Alzheimer's.

The post above yours may have been commenting on the number of IT/Computer related deaths this year - I suppose that is inevitable given the explosive growth in computing technology that occurred in the 60s/70s.
Perhaps you should work on your comprehension of English, because you appear to be struggling to make a coherent point.

You're German. You have zero say or input into American politics. But if you believe civil war is preferable to a Trump presidency, please, go ahead and support one of the many groups attempting to incite war. If you succeed, we will meet on the battlefield.

The tolerance of the radical left is reaching record highs with this past election. The Holy War of Tolerance is nigh.
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That's terribly far off. On the other hand, 2^10 and 10^3 are reasonably close at 1024 and 1000. That's good enough for many things. But it's also the difference between a Kibibyte and a Kilobyte, and so forth.
Definitely this book. I would recommend keeping Graham's books for later.

Practical Common Lisp + Land of Lisp + Common Lisp recipes + the Lisp Hyperspec = Profit!

Additional readings: Successful Lisp (Lamkins - very underrated), Paul Graham's books, and Hoyte's Let Over Lambda (advanced).
Palestinian passports are recognized in lots of places. And assorted governments in exile with control over zero territory issued widely-recognized passports throughout WWII.

States recognize whatever passports they want to; usually this is based on there being people with those passports that the state would like to be able to identify and authorize to enter, and usually you have to control territory to do that.
I don't think getting into the minutiae of drought data, or the causes of wildfires, is going to get us anywhere.

The claim that evidence is scant or not would need to take into account all the evidence on the effects of climate change on current weather events. You could cherry-pick tons of evidence to support either position, if that's your thing.

If you wanted to shed some light on the topic of the article, it would be more interesting to see what the author's background is and follow up some of the claims about why he was fired by 538, whether he is being unfairly attacked in the media, etc.

Remember that this article isn't primarily about the science, it's about the journalism. The only reason we are talking about wildfires is because you brought it up, which was really quite a stretch.
The edit window on the parent comment has expired, but here's some direct data on droughts:

http://www.cgd.ucar.edu/cas/adai/papers/Dai-drought_WIRES201...

So I think it's fair to say that while the evidence may be debatable, it is not "scant".
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Yes, that's why I mention dishonesty in my original post. Most people who argue hard for not eating meat because of climate change actually have deeper motives (animal welfare/not causing animals suffering), and will use whichever argument, no matter how flawed, to push their agenda. I know this because I used to belong to these circles.

By methane production (a comon bogeyman for animal rights activists to push for banning meat use), all of agriculture together makes for only 1/4 of total methane production, the rest is transportation, manufacture and such. Of that 1/4, cows are responsible for cca 1/3-1/2 of it.

As an interesting side note, rice production also generates large amounts of methane (because of anaerobic conditions in rice paddies): cows generated 189 tons of it from 1996 to 2001, while rice production has generated 112 tons in the same period. So rice productions generates 2/3 as much methane as cows:

http://www.southasia.ox.ac.uk/sites/sias/files/documents/GHG...

I agree with you about the Malthusian argument, it's similar to how gloomy people were about our ability to feed ourselves before we invented artificial fertilizer - I believe that the best improvement for future of our planet will be some clean energy revolution - most likely working fusion. Once we'll have that, most of problematic emissions will be taken care of.

Also, considering the rapid progress in genetic science, I wouldn't be surprised if we will be able to create biological machines such as a standalone chicken's digestive and reproductive tract - you would have it in your kitchen, and feed it scraps; from them it would produce eggs. And you could optimize your nutrition by adding specific nutrients to scraps, such as omega3 fat acids.
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the "Modern C++" community

Could you describe what/who you think this is, because I don't really see a community as a whole for who the points you make are valid. Sure there's some crazy purists everywhere, but in general I don't think it's as bad as you mention. Then again might be biased because I write way more C++ than C.

I know cherry-picking isn't usually the most fair way to discuss, but some things really strike me as unfair so I can't help it.

obsessed with "best practices"

not sure if this is really bad? When pushed to the extreme it is, but that goes for anything extreme, but I don't really feel the C++ community is like that. At least I've read many times things in the spirit of 'best practices ar good, follwing them blindly is not'. Also anecdotally from all colleagues I ever worked with those with some healthy amount of (as in, still being able to think critically) obsession with trying to Do The Right Thing, always wrote better code than those who lacked that

OOP was oversold

it surely was, but imo one of the things modern C++ teaches us is exactly that: OOP overuse is bad and you don't have to use OOP at all in C++ if you don't want to

"some bloke named Herb says X, so you must follow him" sort of attitude

which is in turn countered by an attitude of questioning everything, no matter if the author is called Herb or Bjarne, and I don't think I'm dreaming that (at least I've seen many questions on SO starting with 'in xxx Herb says y, wtf is that all bout?'). On the other hand, those guys' advice is usually golden so following it won't hurt much, as long as you don't blindly follow it.

I just want to use the features of the language that make it easier and simpler to solve a problem more efficiently

in the end everybody wants this I guess, and I do have the feeling that when searching for questions to typical problems I usually do get an answer telling me exactly what to use. Also take https://github.com/isocpp/CppCoreGuidelines for example: sure theres a whole lot of info but it does give a ton of good/bad examples, plus reasoning behind it
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> when the service / product turns into a commodity (due to competition), so does the customer (due to budgetary constraints)

This. And then the Dell brand means the same as some OEM Chinese brand

And this is why Apple can charge what they charge per MB (even with all the shenanigans)
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13098773
The scrolling on that page is atrocious.
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> which was really quite a stretch

It is hard to mount one's best arguments when one is operating under tight resource constraints and time pressures. HN threads get stale very quickly.

> You could cherry-pick tons of evidence to support either position, if that's your thing.

Heh, this whole disagreement may actually be a mistake on my part about the meaning of the word "scant." I thought "scant" meant "rare or non-existent" but it doesn't, it means "barely sufficient or adequate." So I was about to say that if there's tons of evidence to be cherry-picked then it cannot be scant. But I suppose it could be.

In any case, I did finally manage to find some drought data:

http://www.cgd.ucar.edu/cas/adai/papers/Dai-drought_WIRES201...

That's a review with 137 references, so the evidence doesn't look "scant" to me. But I suppose a reasonable person might disagree.
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FWIW, please accept my bit of encouragement. I would really like a book like yours.
Is it just me, or does this seem like a solution looking for a problem? Especially the verbose way the ORM works... just seems overly complex without actually solving any real problem I had with ActiveRecord.
Should be right around Mongolia now . Getting closer tho.
Graham is very clear, concise and readable. Though I liked it, I think it expresses a rather personal view of CL, deliberately excluding parts of the language. Overall PCL is more idiomatic. It's probably better to read them both.
Like what?

Increased rainfall generally correlates to more thunderstorms and thereby more lightning-induced wildfires, for just one example.
The RAF is the same; they would much rather the nation not even have a capability at all, than allow the Army or Navy to operate it.
I read that Win10 will still force a scheduled reboot, even with unsaved documents: https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/3hb614/windows_10...
tldc; an Ruby ORM for PostgreSQL for those who don't want to click.
As I said: if I wanted to write Lisp I'd write Lisp. I've already chosen not to write Lisp. I have no incentive to make my language parse Lisp when something much closer to my preferred language's data structure syntax is available.

The mere fact that a solution exists for a problem does not mean it is the best possible solution for all possible people in all possible cases, nor that there can never be a reason to develop or prefer another solution.
I went to a US consulate in Bremen to renew my kid's passport. It was just two offices in a random office building. I was very surprised to see two US marines outside the office -- had I not seen them I would not have been surprised.

My own country (Australia) has some consulates in some remote locations which are basically no different from commercial offices. (on the other hand some are pretty fancy and of course offices are fancy). At times even the consulate in SF has been pretty bare bones.

My wife's country (Germany) seems to have the money for fancy consulates, at least all the ones we've needed to visit.

(I have to say going into a US consulate or embassy with issues relating to my US citizen child was quite different from visiting on my own or my wife's account -- non citizens are treated with great suspicion.)
They might not work to cross the US border control but they might help you get into a third country.
They might not get you into the US but they might be adequate to get you into a third country or be useful to validate a legal contract or something like that.
True. I pushed hard for one to be installed but I'm not far enough up the chain to have any real voice on budget expenditure.
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The ORM isn't he selling point of Hanami. This is just an announcement for an ORM.

IMHO, if popularity was a concern, Luca should have opted for a batteries included nosql ORM/DB with seemless integration. Couchdb and MongoDB would have made excellent candidates.
It's actually an entire web framework. RoR for the "modern web".
Conversion and user engagement features as well. It's good for the product to have a user spend more time on it
Fair enough.

Here is the original article[1] and a rebuttal[2], both on 538. Doesn't read like wild-eyed denialism to me.

[1]: http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/disasters-cost-more-than...

[2]: http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/mit-climate-scientist-re...
Not necessarily. At least in Arab countries people used to get married in their parents' home. The wife would move in to the house of the husband's parents.
This article reminded me of the RAF banter sketch from Monty Python.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myIB1TrPpTE
> If brains routinely cracked RSA

For brains numbers have a completely different meaning and internal representation than for computers. Brains don't "think in numbers". Doing the kind of math we invented is a major effort for the brain, it's not what it developed for, and it is very poorly equipped to do explicit numerical calculations (emphasis on "explicit"). So looking at brains to "crack RSA" seems like waiting for a hammer to be useful in driving screws.
right, but the article is specifically about the ORM part.
You are either trolling or unwilling or unable to follow simple arguments, choose whatever seems appropriate.
WebGL is notoriously hard to use and requires tons of code for even simple things like drawing lines and polygons. (Disclaimer: I'm also one of the core developers of Mapbox GL JS)

One of our core devs (Ivan) works on Leaflet WebGL renderer, but I'd like it to remain a plugin, so that Leaflet stays true to its goal — to be as small and simple as possible.
Does this effect happen on the Leaflet frontpage example?
You could be using an older version Leaflet CSS with a newer version JS.
Does anyone else think that the whole idea of different branches of the military is a stupid one? Why have different chains of command for different pieces of hardware used in the same mission?
The idea that research should be suppressed because it can be "used to justify denial" (even if it is true) is exactly the problem here.
Is there any material exploring the possibility of using LISP as a systems programming language?
Thanks, but to be even more explicit, I'm thinking of a lower level than thread safety and the nice atomic references Rust provides in "safe" code: Consider a systems-y program that handles signals, or even hardware interrupts, or mmaps a chunk of shared memory. Any Read of a 32-bit variable will produce a value that was Written previously, no matter what; the hardware guarantees it. But a Read of a 128-bit variable may result in a value that has the high 64 bits from one earlier Write, and the low 64 bits from a more recent Write that was interrupted (or vice-versa). That's different than what many folks have ever experienced, messes up some algorithms, and is sure confusing the first time you see it.

True, this won't come up in a run-of-the-mill program, but if Rust is going to supplant C for OS work, or DataBase implementations, this is an issue to be aware of.

Succinctly: If you're in unsafe code, using 128-bit integers, you may experience behavior you've never seen before.
Except for the Dopaminergic neurons, among other "subsystems".
I've also had a great experience with Dell customer support (also in the UK). Half my screen was flickering (think it must have got knocked in my bag), posted on their support forum, they sent a guy out to my house to replace the screen, no charge. Much better experience than I ever had with Apple.
Sounds like Bible principle as concerned marriage. Did she borrow her idea from there?
More interestingly, there's a big crossover with dry-rb, which is some of the stuff that makes me think that Ruby (my preferred glue/new-Perl language by a country mile) can actually sanely scale to large projects with large teams. (My experiences with dynamically-typed languages mostly are a shitshow past a certain point, but dry-types and dry-struct are, at least, the starting point of something that's a little less kooky.)

Right now I've been using hanami-validations, which incorporates a bunch of dry-rb, in completely non-web projects and it's great. Functional, typed conversions are really comfortable and easy with dry-rb; my main beef is a lack of a good way to dump data back out into an interchange format (like, I'd like my types to be able to JSONify themselves), but that's relatively minor.
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I've used this many times -- handy for order-of-magnitude sanity checks. Sure, log2(10) is 3.32 or so, but it's still a quick way to remember that 32-bits is good for a billion, and 64-bits is good for a quintillion (ok, 9 quintillion unsigned)
That's interesting! I also implemented that algorithm for cycle collection (https://github.com/bjourne/c-examples/blob/master/libraries/...) and I found that like the GP states that it wasn't worth it. The problem was that there so many objects that were potentially part of garbage cycles that it required scanning a too large part of the heap.

Cycle detection took about 70% as long a full mark and sweep collection so I didn't think it was worth it considering how complicated the algorithm was. Is your implementation open source? If so, I'd love to see it and compare results.
> how is that going to happen without all the political machinery?

You're really personally invest in this.

If you read the article, you would be able to begin to answer your own question. One way is a carbon tax: there's reasons why economists so vehemently recommend this. It is efficient, uses market forces instead of heavy handed regulation, and doesn't offer free subsidies to polluters (cap and trade systems have already done this).

I never said government should not get involved...

You should do some reading about environmental economics, and spend some time away from publications published by organizations who have a vested interest in the global warming problem.
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IP addresses are used like integers all the time. Ask your friendly neighborhood sysadmin how a network mask works.

(Maybe you want to foreach over an array every time you want to apply one. I'd rather not.)
I don't think forging fake documents is punished by death sentence even in the US, though.

"Just" killing people for fraud? I would only be okay with that if it was also applied to politicians who abuse public funds.
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A lot of what is considered modern C++ uses very advanced ideas. See this function from GOTW 94 [1], which Herb Sutter references approvingly, calling it "easy:"

template<class Container, class Value>
void append_unique( Container& c, const Value& v ) {
if( find(begin(c), end(c), v) == end(c) )
c.emplace_back(v);
assert( !c.empty() );
}

Sutter likes this because it's written against an (conceptual) interface "Container", not an implementation like std::vector. He brags that not a single specific type appears anywhere in the code, making it much more powerful.

This is modern C++, and it is totally inaccessible to a newcomer. It hits you with templates, iterators, and several generic STL functions. Call it slightly wrong, and you'll get an avalanche of impenetrable error messages. Dig a little ("what does emplace_back do?") and you're confronted with allocator traits, placement new, perfect forwarding, etc.

Modern C++ is just not accessible to newcomers. The same thing in C (non-generically) would use concrete types and a for loop.

1: https://herbsutter.com/2013/08/12/gotw-94-solution-aaa-style...
They paid for the warranty assigned to whatever cheap laptop Dell sold them. It's now up to Dell to honor that warranty in a reasonable manner. It's not the customer's fault if Dell miscalculated the cost of providing the unit. That's Dell's calculation to make.
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>>> The increase in wildfires can be largely attributed
>>> to the increase in droughts in some areas.
>
>> Among many other possible explanations.
>
> Like what?

Drought certainly plays a role, but I think a changing strategy of fire suppression will make it difficult to prove causation from the statistics. A gigantic confounding factor is that the approach to handling forest fires changed dramatically in the timeframe you refer to, with a shift from "put it out immediately" to "let it burn", then a backlash leading to somewhere in the middle:

Until around 1970, federal land managers remained obsessed with controlling large fires. But during the 1960s, scientific research increasingly demonstrated the positive role fire played in forest ecology. This led in the early 1970s to a radical change in Forest Service policy—to let fires burn when and where appropriate.

From this the "let-burn" policy evolved, though it suffered a setback in the wake of the 1988 Yellowstone fires. Since around 1990, fire suppression efforts and policy have had to take into account exurban sprawl in what is called the wildland-urban interface.

http://www.foresthistory.org/ASPNET/Policy/Fire/Suppression/...

Of course this doesn't mean that drought has not caused more fires, but it's going to make "total acres burned per year" very hard to use as evidence. Pielke has written about fire in other places:

"Influence of Location, Population, and Climate on Building Damage and Fatalities due to Australian Bushfire: 1925–2009"

http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/admin/publication_files/20...

I only skimmed it quickly, but it seems to claim that once you've normalize for development, the severity of bush fires in Australia has not changed significantly over the century. Given the difficulty of separating policy from climate, I'm not sure I'd ever take it as firm proof, but it probably gives more insight into Pielke's thought process.
Why not H.265? Other benchmarks suggest a comparable or even higher benefit moving from H.264 Main to H.265 Main, and hardware support for decoding is already present in many phones.
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That kind of non-safe memory sharing doesn't exist in Rust, unless you explicitly mark code as 'unsafe'. If you want to write a variable, nobody else is allowed to read it until you are finished, and this is enforced at compile time via the language design. The same is true for all data structures.