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Also, defining a Common Lisp system (package in Python parlance) is so much easier than the

Also, defining a Common Lisp system (package in Python parlance) is so much easier than the

Nice story from 2018 on how Columbia, the second largest city in South Carolina, in 1999 introduced community policing, inspired by and modeled on the Japanese neighborhood Police Box, the Koban, system.

ever wanted a "jsonfmt" tool, don't know what jq is, but have #python3? read this:

Wrote a blog post about csv2html for posterity:

Wanted a script to quickly convert a CSV file into HTML file?

You are in luck! I wrote one -

#python #csv

@deech you will like this (A cross platform app written in FLTK).

another take on nix? glad to see this, it is an idea whose time is come

Beethoven meets sarasvatīvīṇā, A minor meets kīravāṇī.

I just donated to the Internet Archive, the world's largest digital library and home of the Wayback Machine. Join me and chip in what you can!

Yep.

The last paragraph especially. I have several “university-educated” friends who don’t know what Uber or AirBnb are. (Not saying they should)

Other friends, when I tell them that I work remotely, ask: “Ah, but what about telephone calls?”

This is pretty freaking cool, awk-style Nim. /cc @nim_lang

@tapanguchi The Lancet paper was based off totally bogus data, and Lancet authors have retracted the paper. See the sordid details here -

New wage estimates for northern India 1590s-1870s, with 7500 observations (up from a few dozen previously :-)

Northern India, at least, diverged quite early. Confirms previous work by Broadberry & Gupta.

New wage estimates for northern India 1590s-1870s, with 7500 observations (up from a few dozen previously :-)

Northern India, at least, diverged quite early. Confirms previous work by Broadberry & Gupta.

@_sh4 This is a master's program curriculum in epidemiology -

Taken by doctors and administrators. I wonder what is the rigour in the [Bio]stats classes are like.

On the D Blog: A Looat at Chapel, D, and Julia Using Kernel Matrix Calculations by Mike Parker: #dlang

The last person to receive a Civil War-era pension, Irene Triplett, has died. The benefit was for her father’s service in the Union Army.

@cigardubey Dubey Dubey rahte hain, ...

What did ancient Rome look like?

Note polytheistic/pagan rituals.

Amod Lele (@loveofallwisdom) discusses @evantthompson 's last book with a problem which sounds very relevant today, namely, how comes that bad things happen to good people? "As Thompson correctly says, “the proposition that an agent’s #IPhBlog 1/3

What Turkey did to its Christians: | It's an interesting book by Benny Morris...

@golchhaJ This series is in English. I only listened to it for a few minutes but it is an interesting series on the arts "kalaa-yoga" see if this appeals to you -

Free webinar this Saturday from the @HinduUniversity of America on Aryanism and Indology with Joydeep Bagchee. Learn about the bond between white supremacism and so-called "historical-critical" Indology:

Found the Italian Vahchef

Lego Introduces New Sharper Bricks That Instantly Kill You When You Step On Them

I just published the first episode of my new podcast! Listen to ಹಂಸನಾದ on @anchor

Domicile laws in Jammu and Kashmir end the tyranny of oppressed. My essay on new domicile laws that have been subject of much debate recently. Do read.

Si vous voulez en savoir plus sur comment on peut estimer un effet causal à partir de données observationnelles, vous pouvez aussi lire ce petit livre. Il y a pas de mal de coquilles, mais il est très clair et vous pouvez trouver un errata en ligne.

@sigwinch28 @btbytes @ShriramKMurthi Although "...creating a font actually needs a domain-specific language, like Knuth's METAFONT language...with PatEL's macro system I can easily turn PatEL into a DSL while remaining its full ability of programming. ... Its syntax is basically a Lisp..."

An aside, I wrote using Literate -- a "Literate Programming" compiler written in #dlang #yay

This LWN article talks about many of the same issues I find with Lua -

As an outsider, I gather that the traditional users of Lua still see it as an embedded language that needs a host, I want it to discover wings & fly free as a general purpose language

this is clear in the life of plotinus

"Plotinus was moved to study Persian and Indian philosophy. In order to do so, he attached himself to the military expedition of Emperor Gordian III to Persia in 243."

Foreign-born doctors are on the front lines in the fight against Covid-19—and if they get sick or die, their families could face deportation via @WSJ

philosophy has been deemphasized within sunni islam after al-ghazali. but such does not apply to shia Islam. in particular, it is not well known that ismaili shia Islam has within it a deep core of neoplatonic thinking

on @compay's recommendation I dug up my copy of "Programming in Lua" by Roberto Ierusalimschy (lua creator) & read a few chapters .. and wrote my notes here from Python programmer's perspective -

@divakarhebbar @_sh4 The reason I'm using Voodoopad instead of Trilium is because it allows me write private and public notes in the same interface (eg: ) in the same interface.

Enjoyed listening to this episode.

This is what the great Umberto Ecco said about rasa & AbhinavaGupta -

@btbytes @hisham_hm There are things like , by the way.

@btbytes @StevedInJoburg @compay Funnily enough, I am working on a new language on top of Lua:

For now I'm focusing on the core language though, but the thought pf a slightly extended standard library does cross my mind quite a lot

neoplatonism also influenced christianity (see: augustine),though in some ways it has competitors such as aristoterlianism.

neoplatonism in its turn has been argued by some to be a direct influence from hindian monism! Neoplatonism and Indian Philosophy

The best biography of Professor Mysore Hiriyanna was written by Professor Mysore Hiriyanna himself not by using a paper and pen but by living life as he did.

Use Swift to create serverless functions that run in the cloud. The new Swift AWS Lambda Runtime project is now live.

Read more about it here:

Steve Klabnik Gives a Friendly & Thorough Introduction to Async Await

@compay @StevedInJoburg Guess what.. the first function I looked for when dealing with strings in Lua is "split", which it doesn't have in its stdlib. And Steve's microlight library README has it... haha

Listen to Ustad Fayaz Khan sing this Kuvempu poem

ನೂರಾರು ಹೀನದಲಿ ನೀನೆನ್ನ ನೂಕುತಿಹೆ
ಮುಳುಗುತಿರೆ ಮತ್ತೆ ನೀನೆತ್ತುತಿರುವೆ

ನೂರಾರು ದೈನ್ಯದಲಿ ನೀನೆನ್ನನೆಸೆಯುತಿಹೆ
ಕನಿಕರಿಸಿ ಮರಳಿ ಮೇಲೆತ್ತುತಿರುವೆ

Another inspiration for this hypothetical Lua runtime:

babashka

ba"bash"ka packages Clojure with popular & routinely useful libraries into a fast binary using GraalVM; "bb" is intended as replacement for bash scripts written in Clojure instead.

If you haven't watched the talk, you should -