In other lisps a let form has a body that the binding(s) range over and they are not available outside. As in `(let n 12 (+ n n))` here n wouldn't be accessible after. You have `(def name 5)` for making definitions that are readable outsude.
It would be amazing to me if it couldn't be summarized in a broadly useful way by a single number. That's not to say a single number captures every nuance of intelligence, but it seems weird to think that's it's not possible to make any blurring of that detail into a single number that has utility.
> The name "Steel Bank Common Lisp" is a reference to Carnegie Mellon University Common Lisp from which SBCL forked: Andrew Carnegie made his fortune in the steel industry and Andrew Mellon was a successful banker.
I've been in this field for 15 years now. At some point the puns are a bit overbearing. We have enough cognitive overhead anyway, it's inherent in our field.
They could have named it Carnegie Mellon Common Lisp, but hey, someone wanted to feel clever.
Though this is super minor compared to Ruby (gems & co.) and especially to Chef (where you work with cookbooks, recipes, etc.) And of course, the granddaddy of them all, Unix. Because of course, less is more (all of my non-techie friends roll their eyes when I tell them about that one).
Do names based on wordplay really cause you cognitive overhead? How are they any worse than totally arbitrary names? How is a pun a more distracting etymology than any other kind? Does it bother you that New York is named for King James II, as he was the Duke of York at the time?
Solar farms still require traditional gas, coal or nuclear plants to provide idle power. Except for certain regions, you can't have consistent solar, and you need to have backup power for brownouts.
The idea with better batteries is that solar stations could provide their own excess capacity storage.
But battery tech is still not good enough for large scale storage. The break down chemically and are not easy to refurbish. The only real "battery" that sorta works is the Racoon Mountain hydro station, which uses extra electricity to pump water into a resistor and then drains it for power during high peaks.
We should be building these all over the country, but they don't really provide that much capacity; plus you kinda destroy the environment around an entire hill and have to build it back up afterwards (Racoon Mtn does have really good mountain biking trails now).
But this is just more fluff to green wash technology that really cannot ever truly replace hydrocarbons. We really need to minimize and reduce energy consumption. That's probably never going to happen.
They do. But as some people keep complaining, not at night. This can shift the output of a solar farm to when it’s dark.
It might not be literal truth, but it’s close enough to be understood — like saying “this food comes from a supermarket” even though the food actually comes from five different farms in different countries.
