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Like I told the other moron, I was homeless, on my own early, and an alcoholic. You're making excuses for people that aren't proactive. I'm not disparaging the poor, I was poor for the majaority of my life, I'm disparaging the poor choices people make to stay there.

My mother to this day is an oxycodone addict. My dad is somewhere out there, maybe, I don't know. I didn't let those factors dictate my life. And once I learned how to make better choices, I stopped being homeless, went through a rehab, and got my career together. It was hard, but it was a hard choice I made, for myself.

You don't know who I am because of an opinion your reactionary, careless ass misread on the Internet.

Get a grip.

I'm speaking from three years of homelessness after being independent and nearly homeless at 17 and recovering from several years of alcohol abuse.

Don't assume, because it only confirms that you don't know what you're talking about.

Even through all of that, I found time to exercise. Even when I was a drunk, hell I still jogged now and then.

I'm not saying bad things don't happen, I'm saying having three jobs and eight kids isn't "a bad thing happened"

You're absolutely right, but in the scientific autismverse, this is a very hot topic, and there are often flame wars and arguments. This is the equivalent of a psychologist using tabs instead of spaces.

We all know what you and I meant, but the lingo in the academic side of all this has very distinct connotations, etc.

It's an unsolved issue, really.

I didn't diagnose anything.

Don't take my personal opinion and make it accountable to a professional one. I'm not a doctor. But before doing finance I used to do some basic tutoring and teachers assistant stuff for a place filled with kids with "autism" and there was a very wide array of personalities there.

As per dimensionality, yes that's what I was saying. Each symptom or descriptor exists on its own spectrum, not the entire disorder/illness/whatever it is medically classified.

Anyways, yeah. I don't know what's an illness, what's a disorder, I don't particularly care what the medical industry uses to distinguish those two words, but I've spent a chunk of time working with autistic students, and its close to my heart.

That's not practical, the high sea can be incredibly dangerous, even with modern nautical technology. Most tech out there is informational, there's very little you can actually do if the ocean decides to throw a tantrum.

Also, ships don't just go to waste when they reach EOL, if they do. They get scrapped, similar to a car I guess, but a lot of material can be reused or recycled or sold, and so on.

Anyways yeah, giant tugs, not a good idea. Not a good use of resources.

I have one of those """smart" "" keyboards on my phone

It even fucked that up

Guix uses it extensively. I'm away from a computer now but I'm sure there are some gifted minds working on it. Andy Wingo, others.

And anyways, isn't that the case with most software? HN loves APL, but there's only a few implementations around any more, Arc used to be the big topic of HN, it's all but dead, software comes and goes.

Scheme will die someday, or change enough that its something different, but the lessons of programming with linked lists and eval will stick around in those that bother to learn them. Ie, people like you and I.

Maybe you should check the Savannah repo. Maybe they need some work done that you could do!

It was time ten years ago.

Autism is one of the most complex moving-parts mental disorders that I know of.

I'm speaking about kids mainly, because that's what I'm familiar with, but some kids have mood swings and some don't, some have cognitive tempo irregularities, some have sensory disruptive effects, some have learning disability effects, some have communication difficulties, some have spatial permanence issues, some have memory issues, there are a million different components to the autism spectrum.

The autism spectrum is often thought of as a number line, but it actually exists in several dozen dimensions, it's a very deep spectrum, with documented cases all over it.

It gets worse now that there's so much medication flowing around, there are kids who don't have attention disorders getting put on attention meds, kids with normal social skills getting out on psychotic stabilizers.

Autism has been affected strongly by how aggressively mobile the psychopharmaceutical industry has become. It's disgusting. It's completely demonic that mental illnesses are graphed and measured and these MEDICINE companies are optimizing for how much orange plastic bottles are being assigned to children!

The article is right, DSM did call for it a few years ago, but it will take time and effort to reeducate doctors, the public, the children... It will take time before parents begin to realize the extent to which they are being manipulated and profiteered upon, and the effects of all these drugs in these kids will be profound.

I feel strongly about this, but I'm so disenchanted with how America handles big pharma. It's a complete joke. Orange plastic and green paper is worth enough to violate the minds of our youth.

Edits: it's my phone keyboard!

R7RS large is underway now! CL also has unhygienic macros, non-lispy loop grossness, lots of cruft, lots of poorly named functions that are named two different ways in two different places, and generally reeks of the 70s.

Scheme actually tried to compete with CL once, with a language called T. It had something sorta similar to CLOS and if I recall it was aiming for optimized performance per Sussman and Steele, but it eventually languished.

SBCL is the only thing keeping CL alive and they don't have the wherewithall to begin a modernized spec.

I don't hate CL, but I LOVE scheme. It is much more pleasant to actually work in, and feels cleaner. All the potholes of CL leave me checking under my fingernails for grime.

Gosh, I want to spend some time with rust and ggez, and then some guy shows me this awesome haxe engine!

I hadnt seen this!

That's a pretty high-powered kit though, it's got console support, it's got volumetric lighting, all sorts of cool optimizations, wow! Where have they been hiding it?!

Thanks for showing me this!

But you knew what I meant.

In hindsight I should've clarified that my opinion originates from a layman. I am not a doctor or psychiatrist or anything of the sort.

Thanks for the correction!

I don't understand what you're asking. Python is completely unlike scheme.

The type situation irks me because I do ocaml for a living, so I rely on the type system a lot. Scheme reminds me of a more seductive flavor of FP, though sometimes it's cumbersome to ensure that a data structure isn't being subtly changed somewhere.

I love that GNU loves Guile. There are few Scheme implementations as well polished as guile is, and what a breath of fresh air it can be to sit down to some '() stew after a few rough weeks of spreadsheet hell at work.

Might be just me, but it's kind of like having another universe to take a vacation in.

It does make me miss types, doing data structure programming in scheme can be irritating I guess, but still. I can compose, I can syntax-rules if I wanted, etc.

The sexpr universe isn't dead yet.

I hope rust community gets more interested in openfl. There's some good libraries already, opengl support, vulkan, there's ggez which mimics the LOVE api, but OpenFL is a fully equipped kitchen sink that a lot of multimedia developers are already familiar with, or used to be.

Congrats to OpenFL team! Fantastic work, inspiring dedication!

And go haxe! Haxe is cool too!