- pasquinelliiirc that value at key zero won't be included in any array handling functions. if that behavior were toggleable we'd have the kind of nonesense that early APLs allowed before they realized that's a bad thing to stuff in a global variable you can write to at any time in your program.
- i think i might prefer indexing starting at zero, but it really isn't important. with c it makes total sense for zero-based indexing. frankly though, for lua, how it works and what an array is, it makes more sense for one-based indexing, the only counter-argument being that 1-based indexing puts off people who learned a thing one way and are unable or unwilling to do it a different way. to even include it on a list of considerations for not choosing lua is a bit silly, but to highlight array indexing and only that as the only thing you'd need to know... well i don't know how to put it that wouldn't be impolite.
either way, at least you can't toggle between indexes starting at zero and one, (at least not that i can recall.)
- the thing about tacit programming is that it wouldn't use 'a' in the above. if you wrote average in j without it being tacit, it would probably be more readable to you. the question of how to thread data around without naming it is an interesting one to me.
- i'm curious who you think pays american tarrifs
- that's what people say when china's doing well.
- that is unfortunate. icons having a variety of silhouettes makes it easier to identify them and gives things a little personality.
- you just restated what you already said in response to the question, "do you know what you're talking about?"
i'm not judging either way, i'm not a climate scientist and i have no opinion on the importance of ocean acidification, i just find it obnoxious when someone's asked to defend their position and they just say it again, but _harder_.
- i meant the machines but the bigger the union the better.
- they should form a union
- space becomes time and the singularity becomes the future.
- > How does increasing wealth inequality drive price increases?
i'm not the person you asked, and i'm just spit-balling, but here's a way: wealth inequality means there's a group that has substantially more wealth than normal, let's call that group A, and the complimentary group of people who don't have substantially more wealth than normal, let's call them B. A's wealth ultimately comes from B-- you know, you got workers who make you more money than you pay them, you extract rent from them, they buy your stuff.
past a certain point of inequality, A controls so much wealth that they could exert power over the market to squeeze B even more-- wages lag further behind productivity, rents go up, goods cost more. this is inflation, yeah?
- sure they are, happens all the time
- why not? because it's easy to doesn't mean it'll be seen a certain way, and "because it's easy to do" isn't actually an argument that it'll likely be seen a certain way.
- haven't noticed compression culture to be honest, but if i may take a second to be stupid and uninteresting myself: i find nothing more stupid and uninteresting than the enormous volume of talking about talking that's done. this is a post about replies to a post about talking about a book, which is probably talking about talking, too. in and of itself that's fine, the problem is that feels like ninety percent of writing.
- > And what we see there is that most people, as soon as they are eligible for their pension, they stop working.
oh well that's cuz they're retired.
- i won't use the term p(doom), but i agree that the human race is "doomed" in the same way all things that exist are "doomed."
- i've always thought a jury should be used instead of a supreme court. if the law people had their chance and couldn't settle an issue, kick it to the people.
- running on a machine is a side effect.
- > "It's not an issue of funding cuts," says Mark Serreze, the director of the National Snow and Ice Data Center, a federally funded research center in Colorado that has relied on the soon-to-be-terminated Defense Department data **to track sea ice since 1979**. "There are cybersecurity concerns. That's what we're being told."
hmmmmmmmmmm
- a lot of actual conditions are actually treated with actual perscription drugs.