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Gielis' superformula.

Speaking from experience, me and my good friend often "weave" together by playing rounds of hipbone games [1] on a napkin. And the better you know each other, the more it feels lik…

"The less money they had, the more ambitious they got. At the end they stopped working at all and went on and on complaining about capitalism"

What an interesting case of self-describing sentence!

FYI, I heard that Georgia plans to introduce visas for Russians, because local population begins to worry of all the immigrants taking jobs. Meanwhile, in Russia's remote places (s…

Native speaker here: if you believe something has been lost in translation, feel free to ask me for clarification.

Thanks for giving me a perspective as a younger generation! I wasn't even born at the time, and obviously see our daily reality differently. OTOH, I think what you just described f…

Thank you for the offer, but, in all honesty, you should rather donate your money to Ukrainian support organizations. I'm already privileged enough to work remotely from home and e…

The common narrative I see on tech forums since 24th Feb is this: "if various sanctions and blockings will make average Russians' life miserable enough (i.e. even more miserable th…

Thanks you, but I'm way past this — mostly because I reevaluated my stance towards academia and have a family to support here. To clarify: I contacted one of the professors directl…

This is an interesting and valid point. Though, even if I could, why would I? Forming a bond (be it faked or real) with a person who might end up despising you for your blood (whic…

In 2022: zero, unless you have relatives/friends from abroad who are willing to help. I'm mid-20s below-average Russian born and raised in a city with population of 19k (and declin…

That escalated pretty quickly.

Have your read p.1 in the message you are replying to? Red does not support static linking, that's true, but you can link to a dynamic runtime library instead, without slow recompi…

On a related note: https://www.reddit.com/r/redlang/comments/aebxct/contrast_re...

For the record: Steven Penny (aka @svnpenn here and @89z on Github) is the author of the linked ticket, who is known for his repeated attempts at flamewar and bizzare spam campaign…

Instantly reminded me of "Body Electric" by Robert Becker. A fascinating account of how novelty in research is often ridiculed despite being revolutionary, interspersed with variou…

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I wonder if there are any similar philosophical discourses about graffiti scene and street art? Thanks for sharing BTW.

Topical reading: "Culture and explosion", Yuri Lotman; "A thousand years of non-linear history", Manuel De Landa.

Pain has a transformative character, and the one you have will never go away. Your duty is to live with it, the same way your loved one did. My grandmother was an avid gardener. No…

Rebol family of languages is not related to Snobol. They also have PEG parsing engines, not regex ones.

> REBOL/Red-lang goes more towards "a more pragmatic regular language for pattern recognition" Rebol and Red use embedded PEG parsers, which, by definition, support context-free, a…

> They are well funded. Rebol Technologies went bankrupt, and Rebol is de-facto dead since more than a decade; Red barely manages to get by thanks to a recent crypto spike. > I wou…

If you like Tsutomu Nihei's megastructures and video games (specifically Half-Life 2 modding scene and old-school, retro-to-the-bone shooters), you should check out G String [1]. M…