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9:50:21
adlai
ACTION even at one point had a teacher who used that notation for fractions; in this case, the mathematical objects are, e.g., roots of unity as equivalence classes, rather than members of the field of complex numbers
12:40:47
jackdaniel
I don't remember exact nick, but it is derived from his name (available on the github page)
13:11:20
minion
say "perhaps": An error was encountered in lookup: Parse error:URI "https://www.cliki.net/say%20\"perhaps\"?source" contains illegal character #\" at position 28..
13:23:11
adlai
why would anyone get angry at Nix? it is a strict improvement over the predecessor posix distros...
13:24:20
lucasb
Hello. I think something messed the layout of planet.lisp.org, everything is in italics, inside <i></i> tags, after the middle of first post.
13:25:04
adlai
jmercouris: there's a joke here somewhere, about how only Japanese Lisp programmers have faith
13:26:16
adlai
ACTION is not sufficiently versed in Japanese culture to describe the concept precisely, but essentially, the word "face" has a meaning there, beyond the literal one.
13:27:30
adlai
it is probably closer to the idiomatic usage of 'spine', in English, than to nebulous concepts such as prestige and reputation.
21:08:49
no-defun-allowed
Probably pretend I didn't hear the question. Or say, "most things you would do in everyday life, and then some more".
21:10:23
lotuseater
I told him beside other stuff CL is more general purpose as C/C++ and not just domain specific like those :D
21:25:38
lotuseater
no-defun-allowed: now he said "I have also done code generation in other languages. I don't really see why it is necessary to use a self-modifying language." *sigh*
21:27:05
Xach
it generally hasn't fouled up too bad in the past, and it's a 20-year-old python program doing the HTML bit.
21:32:56
lotuseater
haven't been on this site so much yet, but seems to contain a big bunch of infos
21:46:57
mfiano
"days ago" seems correct anyway. Somehow it is adding a day to hour calculation or something