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> Do you thing religious followers, such as Matthew, see god/heaven/etc as being merely a metaphor? No, I'm not suggesting that. The alternatives to just reporting facts are more t…

I think the disconnect is that you seem to consider religious texts as a dry statements of fact. That doesn't make any sense, they're clearly not that. Would you say the same about…

It seems to me that your stand is analogous to anarchists' about law and government. Sure, there's a tyrannical aspect that can get out of hand, but it's far from the whole story.

It's interesting how people come and mock without having any framework of understanding the thing. It's almost like a lost language. Consider air - it is immaterial, the spirit/pri…

That would be fair if OO/FP posts had always mentioned that the ideas were borne out of academia and don't necessarily easily apply in other domains, but that ship has sailed..

Huh? Coffee shops optimize for people not bumping into each other and having related items close together, and don't pretend to not know what kind of gear they have.. that's not a …

Sure, many people do, and some don't. I suppose the point I'm trying to make is that decisions like that make one consider what are the assumptions and target audience of a project…

I'm wondering if the premise was that people compiling other people's code should be prioritized over "actual" users who develop their software using the compiler, who then would n…

And doesn't processing necessitate buffers? How does this approach reduce the number of buffers involved? If anything, it sounds like less sharing would mean more buffers.

Never did any audio programming, I still can't make heads or tails out of it. Is it expected that an application sets up some processing graph for an engine to play a sound? [1] In…

Maybe not the most formal of meanings, but my favorite is a probabilistic one: given a random element, how likely it is that it satisfies a predicate? If some elements don't, but i…

> When we make statements such as the size of the set of all natural numbers 1, 2, 3... is the same as the size of the set of all natural even numbers 2, 4, 6..., despite the forme…

Is it just me? This website is super laggy on my PC (which can run modern games just fine). Hardly hits 50 fps when scrolling. How slow can one get and still claim to be fast?

That's a program that you can run on your machine to interoperate with your peripherals. If we have concerns about this being legal, our standards for ownership are way too low.

Cool! Maybe it's because it contains phase information which is not that relevant to hearing. FWIW I remember long time ago using it for image processing and the trick was to look …

I'm guessing that triple correlation could also be rendered into pretty pictures, did you try that?

Not knowing what you consider a hard problem, I think most of them are not of the kind that a language can do much about. It can easily be a drag though, for example by being too h…

It feels like lisp - neat, maybe has pedagogical value, does not really solve any hard problems and usually not worth the overhead. Yet I still want to like it.