Zompist Bboard Again

These conspiracy theories about the student encampments are really getting bonkers. First, a relatively sane friend shared a headline about how 80% of the protesters arrested at ASU you were not university affiliates with the question "Wondering what percentage of the participants of these pro...

I again got a barista (I'm no sure if this was the same barista even though it was at the same coffee shop -- in both cases it was over an intercom) who did not understand my order for an Arnold Palmer. This time, after I repeated my order, my order was made... except I was made a cold brew coffee, ...

I fixed the major bug I had encountered in zeptoscript, which really had nothing to do with call/cc or multitasker and everything to do with the garbage collector running when execution tokens are created, which had a bug where the top of the stack would be duplicated. Now the multitasker works beau...

Thank you for clarifying. I should point out, though, that the term ‘intifada’ is generally associated with violent resistance to Israel. (I feel like I see this kind of ambiguity a lot… pro-Palestinian people using terms which are widely associated with violence, then claiming that no, actually , ...

[j.j] > [d͡ʒ] [vu̯ɛ] > [vwɛ] > [wɛ] ['wɛ.d͡ʒa] wéoje "( highly formal, now chiefly archaising ) mother; ( of a woman of higher ranking than the speaker ) Mrs.; ( with titles of office, as "secretary", "prime minister" ) madam; ( of judges, justices ) your honour" Just ...

One thing to remember is that one must make a distinction between State of Israel and Hamas, on one hand, and the Israeli and Palestinian peoples, on the other hand. The former are both perpetrators (it just happens that the State of Israel has far more capacity to kill people than does Hamas), wher...

This is a stupid, little thing to vent about, but there's an annoying bug in my call/cc (i.e. the infamous Scheme call-with-current-continuation ) implementation in zeptoscript. It works... except it doesn't on occasions, where for some unclear reason it saves the raw value of the execution token (t...

I don't really know enough about programming to follow this, but - wasn't the original point of zeptoforth to go back to the basics with a bare metal rather than higher level language? I will admit to having the same query. To me, the attraction of Forths generally is their low-level–ness — I don’t...

One thing that should be remembered in all this is that Jewish opposition to what the Israeli gov't is doing in Gaza is in particular being ruthlessly suppressed (e.g. IIRC one third of the protestors against the war who were arrested in Germany were Jewish). So Jews only matter when they support op...

I think we should be quite clear that this isn’t whataboutism. I fully respect people’s right to criticise Israel, as long as they in turn respect my right to argue back. But I could take protesters a lot more seriously, if they showed any sign of being as upset about the other problems in the worl...

I have noticed that at least here /l/-coloring manifests itself in part as blocking vowel fronting, as seen below: too : [ˈtʲʷʰy(ː)] tool : [ˈtʲʷʰu(ː)ʊ̯] toe : [ˈtʰɵ̞(ː)] toll : [ˈtʰo̞(ː)ʊ̯] I have this too (though obviously the precise phonetics are different). But I tend to interpret it as, not b...

[w] > [v]


['vɹɵ̃ː.lə]
wrǫ́le
“mother”

I have noticed that at least here /l/-coloring manifests itself in part as blocking vowel fronting, as seen below:

too: [ˈtʲʷʰy(ː)]
tool: [ˈtʲʷʰu(ː)ʊ̯]
toe: [ˈtʰɵ̞(ː)]
toll: [ˈtʰo̞(ː)ʊ̯]

One thing to consider, as I mentioned earlier, is that the Yishuv did not have to ethnically cleanse much of what became the State of Israel, and even if one regards that as having been unavoidable, the State of Israel did not have to occupy the remainder of Palestine, turn its inhabitants into stat...

Sorry to hear -- all that really sucks.

I have implemented continuations (think call/cc in Scheme, or in this case, in zeptoscript) and have implemented cooperative multitasking and inter-task channels with them. (Note that zeptoforth, which zeptoscript is on top of, has preemptive multitasking but zeptoscript itself cannot run on multipl...

Moose-tache, did you fail your high school civics class?

Cool stuff, travis. How does doing all this in a Forth-style environment differ from, say, a more tradtional C-style one, besides the obvious? Is it easier or harder? Etc. It is easier, because I have much closer control over the whole execution and compiling environments, and I can effectively rep...

Some zeptoscript updates: I have written a basic guide to programming in zeptoscript . Note that it assumes at least a basic level of knowledge of programming in Forth. I have added the capability to have "type" classes (not to be confused with Haskell type classes) to enable the creation ...

If you don't agree to getting punched with my left hand, it's your fault when I punch you with my right. Why is not getting punched off the table? Because fuck you, that's why! Ideas of false equivalence like this are why Trump will become God Emperor of America, because people like you won't vote ...