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New comment by quasigloam in "The Vatican's Website in Latin"

quasigloam — Thu, 07 May 2026 06:13:38 +0000

Now I’m curious; what book of grammar was it? What did the exercises look like? What other languages and strategies did you use?

Symbolic derivatives and the rust rewrite of RE

quasigloam — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 08:21:01 +0000

Article URL: https://iev.ee/blog/symbolic-derivatives-and-the-rust-rewrite-of-resharp/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47306169

Points: 7

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New comment by quasigloam in "Many people have no mental imagery. What's going on in their brains?"

quasigloam — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 21:22:22 +0000

What would you say some of these pros and cons would be? I don’t think anyone really speaks about the possible negatives of having strong mental imagery would be

New comment by quasigloam in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"

quasigloam — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 23:46:17 +0000

I really enjoy tiled words, thanks for making this new addition to my daily routine!

New comment by quasigloam in "Fixing the mechanics of my bullet chess"

quasigloam — Sun, 15 Jun 2025 11:34:55 +0000

At some point there was "the keyboard extension" which was somewhat vim like (kinda). It was too overpowered and you literally could not flag someone who was using it in ultra or hyperbullet, so lichess finally banned it: https://lichess.org/page/play-extensions. Vim bindings were too overpowered for chess :D

New comment by quasigloam in "Fixing the mechanics of my bullet chess"

quasigloam — Sun, 15 Jun 2025 11:27:00 +0000

I usually play chess with just my mousepad, so I've basically always just dragged and dropped. Playing click and click feels about the same speed, but I'm less used to it; maybe I'll try use it more in the future. I think Andrew Tang does drag and drop, and he's the fastest I've ever seen; I don't know if people like Danya or Hikaru do drag and drop, might be interesting to get some kind of statistical analysis of that.

>I’ve always been a good deal better (maybe a couple hundred ELO points) at blitz (3+0 or 5+0) than bullet (1+0).

I've basically always found that my bullet rating is at least 100 rating points higher than my blitz on lichess; possibly because I've wasted too much of my youth on bullet

New comment by quasigloam in "Lisp implemented in Rust macros"

quasigloam — Sat, 14 Sep 2024 06:53:13 +0000

Although in a Lisp such as Scheme, you could pass around the negation operator in something like (map - '(1 2 3)), so it would be a valid concern that it might clash.

New comment by quasigloam in "Lisp implemented in Rust macros"

quasigloam — Sat, 14 Sep 2024 06:49:50 +0000

No problem! I had fun making it, for such a silly little project it's given me a surprising amount of joy. If you want to look at another cool project that's tangentially related, have a look at Sectorlisp.

New comment by quasigloam in "Lisp implemented in Rust macros"

quasigloam — Sat, 14 Sep 2024 06:00:15 +0000

Implementing a lisp in the type system would be fun, that's originally what this project was about until I got distracted with macros. Awesome projects like fortraith (https://github.com/Ashymad/fortraith) already exist, and even far more useful projects like dimensioned (compile time dimensional analysis using type level numbers) are inspiring. These examples, although cool, are probably a worse sign for krick for Rust compared with macro_rules being Turing complete.

New comment by quasigloam in "Lisp implemented in Rust macros"

quasigloam — Sat, 14 Sep 2024 03:33:05 +0000

Yes it would match both, this would require us to assume that "foo - bar" can only be an atom. It's not a great solution.

New comment by quasigloam in "Lisp implemented in Rust macros"

quasigloam — Sat, 14 Sep 2024 01:35:08 +0000

Yes, at the moment I just assume that all atoms are rust idents because that makes it easier to implement (I can just match against $x:ident), so it doesn't support dashes in atoms. I guess you could match against `$x:ident $(- $y:ident)*` instead? That should work I think, I'd have to change some details in some of the arms but it seems like that would be possible.

New comment by quasigloam in "Lisp implemented in Rust macros"

quasigloam — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 22:32:14 +0000

Thanks! It was fun to make. It was also instructive, as I learned that rust analyser doesn't handle macros generating millions of tokens :D

Lisp implemented in Rust macros

quasigloam — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 21:31:13 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/RyanWelly/lisp-in-rs-macros

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41535354

Points: 293

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