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Forth + APL: Uiua

> Yeah I think Unity just doesn't have the technical skillset anymore It's not a technical skillset issue, it's a case of lacking resources, leadership changing priorities and chan…

Where you see the 'Q', it's a text-field, you can just enter a different letter and it'll switch.

I mean I'll be calling (pronouncing) it Tablespoon, that's a great name:)

To answer that there are two main factors: 1) For this kind of single instance gene transfer to have an evolutionary effect, it will need to happens to germ-line cell (so an egg or…

Or if you're working with a list of lists, the wonderful: ↓⍉↑ will do

The life/dinner principle doesn't work in absolutes, it just states that you would expect asymmetric evolutionary pressures from asymmetric stakes in interactions.

It's also worth taking the "Life/dinner principle"[0] into account. If the termites fail to detect the beetle, then they might loose a tiny bit of food or whatever. While if the be…

That's 1 million kroner per day, just fyi

Well, the question is in reality either unanswerable (we don't know - and may never know - how many and when the first proto-language(s) emerged) or meaningless (all live natural l…

Just as a little correction: Dutch is not an "evolved German dialect". German and Dutch are both West Germanic languages, but so is Scots, Frisian and English. So it would be like …

Because of palatalization [0], a very common sound change. 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palatalization_(sound_change)

Fair enough:) It's also okay to have opinions about language of course. I just often see people confidently stating, that they're speak the right way, and those others (from that o…

It's almost like it's an unimportant distinction for normal speech and that the spoken language is moving on, as it inevitably does.

Yes, if you dare to look into a GC implementation, you might see some truly unsafe code indeed

If you're curious about how their YJIT, with it's lazy basic block versioning, works then I can highly recommend watching their presentation on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=…

JIT compilation is done lazily on a per basic block level (so you only JIT blocks you're about to run). It keeps track of statically known information for specific basic-blocks and…

Most editors let you use an input prefix, so typing `y gets you ↑ for example. Makes it a lot easier

I mean I could list reasons, but in the end, it just comes down to taste really. Different people like different things.

Indeed, in Danish the verb 'misse' means to slow blink like a cat, and comes from the word 'mis' which can be translated as 'kitty' or 'pussy-cat'.

The "black-" in blacksmith, just means black [1], most likely in reference to the iron they worked. As far as I can tell, "Blech" doesn't have a cognate in English. If it did, it w…

I feel like this is basically a subset of the translation problem, which you probably need actual artificial general intelligence for (because you need to be able to model another …

For those wondering, it's a reference to this beauty: https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/facebook/000/838/967/e39...