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For anyone interested in the "critical" aspect mentioned by h0l0cube, please consider also reading "Farmers or Hunter-Gatherers? The Dark Emu Debate" by Peter Sutton and Keryn Wals…

Maybe watch the video. Artists have to eat, and they relied on patronage and commissions. The church and the nobles were the only ones with the free cash and the motivation to fund…

Postponed to 1944, in 1943 it would have failed.

Reading your comment made me feel like someone had been spying on me in my car. I go through this same thing in my Lexus every time I drive it as well. It is such a relief to know …

I think SK's numbers are becoming more reliable by the day though. The new case rate has stabilised to a small number in the range of 50 to 150 per day and the active case count is…

s/Nullabor/Nullarbor/ (no trees). The Nullarbor is a vast, arid, unpopulated plain over 1000km wide. I think the comment was meant to suggest that infrastructure projects like this…

I don't disagree with the general realpolitik you describe, but it's not clear that damaging Huawei isn't damaging the USA as well. American companies supply Huawei, and their busi…

I agree. Something that might be worth noting: two minutes of googling didn't turn up the author's age, but I recall seeing this photo on his website when I bought it some time aft…

On your first point: I seem to remember plenty of companies that failed that were not telecom. In fact when I went looking just now I found a bunch of listicles about retail startu…

I was so hoping the guy's name would turn out to be Richard.

Most residential customers don't have static IP addresses -- how does that work when a customer's IPv4 address changes?

That's more a matter of experience and attitude -- even simple things like reference types are nice. Also, templates offer a lot of abstraction power that can be used to model the …

Nothing. I've worked on Cortex-M4 projects in C++. It's nice in many ways. The people working on the project had a much more diverse background than the typical EE who learned C as…

"Real engineering" also runs on a different (slower) cadence, in part due to the longer timescale between inception and realisation of ideas, and due to the costs involved in makin…

Sorry this comment is so late; ATS is also interesting because it has linear types that allow compile-time resource tracking similar to Rust's ownership and lifetime tracking. If y…

Well, SBCL does not ship with an interpreter, for example. Expressions entered at the REPL get compiled directly to machine code, so there's no difference in performance for a func…

Interpreted language? Common Lisp is typically compiled. Besides which, why is interpreted a particular advantage? e.g. Python was interpreted 10 years ago when I was using it, but…

A little cheesy, but whenever I hear about this sort of thing I always think of this scene from Saving Private Ryan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKbdE5LOGNQ

Yes, I've noticed that about myself too. Reading is a high investment / high reward activity, and you have to make an effort to do it. One approach is to set aside a time slot dail…

Ha! I should have been more precise in my language. I was avoiding learning how to write more substantial shell scripts and programs, not the command line per se. I also got my sta…

Thank you. Looks like you've packed a lot of good stuff in there already. I only skimmed so far, but this quote stuck out: "Programming is fundamentally a way to save human labor, …

Thanks for those links, I think I will enjoy them. I was actually thinking about Forth as well when I was writing those comments about functional programming. I'll be interested to…

Every language has its warts, but C is a pretty small language when it comes down to it. Compare that to just the number of different ways you can expand a parameter in bash: https…

Here are a couple of thoughts: - I used to spend a lot of time stuffing things into variables and then trying to operate on those, which is how you do things in imperative language…