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ChatGPT 4 > Use reservoir sampling to get 100 random lines from a dictionary that doesn’t fit into memory. Give me an implementation in Python. > Reservoir sampling is a great choi…

With Lisp-2 designs as discussed in the article this is not an issue, as variables and functions are in different namespaces: CL-USER> (defun foo (list) (list list)) FOO CL-USER> (…

Macro expansion is done in the host environment, not the target environment. You can compile the macro definition to a function taking a form and an environment. This would be some…

One correction to my post above - Corman Lisp is a Free implementation that does have the ability to produce DLLs, but it is limited to Windows: https://github.com/sharplispers/cor…

Common Lisp actually doesn't specify a mechanism for this. There are implementations that can compile to e.g. DLL: http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/lw71/DV/html/delivery... h…

A characteristic of intrusive data structures is generally good cache friendliness. In this context "intrusive" means that the data structure is embedded with the data that's being…

Note that it says less than one character . A character in UTF-8 can be composed of multiple bytes. The encoding scheme is laid out in the linked email. Based on the high bits it's…

The Itanium C++ ABI mentions something similar > A two-phase exception-handling model is not strictly necessary to implement C++ language semantics, but it does provide some benefi…

When I was at Qt I spent a decent amount of time porting the native rendering engine from Qt4 to Qt5. It should be available and work relatively well. I have retired from the Qt pr…

This is exactly how Arabic works today. It's a huge impediment, not a benefit.