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Alexis King
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computers can be understood • she/her, ⚢ • Chicago
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jesus christ
Threads of tweets by @Ngnghm. Lexi also complains about lack of female Haskellers. But Haskell recruits at the higher end of the IQ spectrum, and especially the math part of it. Between extra variance and skew towards shape rotators vs wordcels, males vastly dominate this population. Extra variance means that males dominate both ends of the Bell curve for a lot of traits, from intelligent vs stupid to heroes vs criminals. Unsurprisingly, a lot of the few women we find in these circles have obviously been exposed to a lot of testosterone during their development. The human sexual dimorphism in cognitive abilities, behavior and preferences is obvious and ubiquitous despite the egalitarian religion destroying the West currently making its mention taboo. Expecting equality or making it a goal is absurd, self-defeating, and, frankly, evil. Instead, outliers should enjoy their status as such. “One good Husband is worth two good Wives; for the scarcer things are, the more they're valued.” — Benjamin Franklin Moreover, as a programmer, you're already an outlier in abilities and interests. And if you read this post, you're an outlier among these outliers. If you're female, even more so.
June 2, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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got to write this extremely fun answer on langdev stack exchange this evening and man I love Daan Leijen so much langdev.stackexchange.com/a/4242/861
[excerpt from the linked answer that starts partway through] When this function is called, result_location will record the address of wherever result happens to be stored on the stack. Control then yields to the enclosing continuation prompt, and some time later, the continuation is restored. Unless the stack frame for foo happens to be restored to precisely the same location, the write to *result_location will fail to update the new location of result and will instead clobber whatever now happens to be at that address. Given this fundamental issue, most programming language implementors consider implementing delimited continuations that capture the C stack to be a complete non-starter. Doing it anyway Fortunately, Daan Leijen is not most programming language implementors. His audaciously-named 2017 publication Implementing Algebraic Effects in C describes an implementation strategy for delimited continuations that really do capture and restore C stack frames. How does he do it? By simply always restoring the continuation to exactly the place it was captured from, of course! In § 4.3 Resuming, Leijen describes his implementation strategy:
January 5, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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I guess I will try posting here: I’ve finally given in and published a small mountain of random bits of racket code I’ve had sitting on my hard drive for ages but haven’t had a good place to put it (and this is not even all of it, as I’m documenting it as I go) github.com/lexi-lambda/...
Toolbox: Miscellaneous Utilities This library provides a collection of miscellaneous Racket utilities that I use in my personal projects but I have not felt warrant being published as a separate package. Note that this library is intentionally not published on the Racket package server, as everything in this library should be considered unstable. In projects that use it, I include this repository as a Git submodule, pinning to a specific version. [table of contents]
November 2, 2024 at 6:41 PM