Banana699

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by Banana699 6y ago
>low-effort troll comments This is the crux of the matter, how do you know a comment is a troll, rather than an honestly held and expressed contraversial view? parent's point is that you can't in general. So it's up to def
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One of the most realistic and "real" worlds from a socio-historical pov I've ever read.. Palmer's world building does for history and sociology what peter watts does for biology and neuroscience.
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The only reason Egypt was not bombed into oblivion is that the colonial powers tried a weak ass illegal move in 1956 that spectacularly and humiliatingly failed, after triumphantly killing a bunch of civilians off course. I'm not a fan
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by Banana699 6y ago
(Imperative) Programs cannot be pure trees, looping constructs necessarily introduce cycles. What structured programming is all about is to make those cycles as well-behaved as possible. You are largely right nonetheless, Dijkstra's ar
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by Banana699 6y ago
username checks out
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by Banana699 6y ago
Good strawman, I never meant that the claim is bullshit because it is old, I'm just describing it as such. And even conceding your faulty interpretation, Palestinians right to their land is documented by 80 years of audio-visual eviden
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by Banana699 6y ago
Just an honest question: do you think Manifest Destiny and killing native Americans was justified or in any way legitimate ? If you answer with a no, how can you support a country that arose and expanded exactly the same way ? is it the &q
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by Banana699 6y ago
Not the person asked, but OOP is a great fit for embedded devices IMO. Even the most superficial aspect, a mandatory init function called at creation time and a free function at destruction time, is such a powerful and general method of res
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by Banana699 6y ago
>The smarts in mathematics is based in the rewrite rules Can't it be argued that types are simply a way to associate a considerable amount of rewrite rules and constraints with expressions and therefore spare you the trouble of repe
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by Banana699 6y ago
> And new competitors have such an uphill battle it will be almost impossible to catch up. That's almost all of the science, engineering, industry and bureaucracy of modern civilization in general, not just the chip industry. Expert
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Your definition appeals to tools and technological limitations, smalltalk had this notion that anything is editable, including the IDE itself and the (running!) programs. Your definition + a smalltalk IDE would imply that a running program
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by Banana699 6y ago
Text is free of dominance gestures and emotions ? Have you ever paid attention to the words a politician might say? or the lyrics of a rap song? there are words in text that convey more emotions and gestures than if the speaker was face-to-
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by Banana699 6y ago
The thing is, "text" and "pictures" are somewhat vague super-categories that aren't very well defined in a lot of comments on this thread. It's ironic that a discussion about the precision of text is noisy bec
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by Banana699 6y ago
The book "Understanding Computation: From Simple Machines to Impossible Programs" by Tom Stuart was/is my Theory Of Computation Nirvana experience. Its motives is the same as NandToTetris: to make any programming-literate per
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That doesn't mean anything though: vastly more millionaires are from usa than from Dubai, it doesn't say anything about any place, you can replace "millionaires" with any category and likely end up with a true statment,
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by Banana699 6y ago
When we look back on past injustices, there is almost a feeling of ridicule. As if we can't imagine how can those people fall for someone who says he (almost always a he) is appointed by god and bear so much of his bullshit for that. I
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The Ruby Object Model (2009) [Dave Thomas](youtube.com)
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A bit out of the loop here, apparently: what's wrong with the browser market agreeing on an open source core ?
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This is the adjective version of "بني أدم", what you mean when you say "human civilization". The actual "noun" is "Banii Adam".
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Arabic speaker here, just want to point out that there are multiple words for human in Arabic: "بن/بنت أدم" (son/daughter of Adam), "بشري" and also "إنسان". You probably searched for the one related t
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by Banana699 6y ago
As opposed to C's syntactic conventions, the absolutely gorgeous mush of *s, &s, __MACRO_LIKE_FUNCTIONS___() and #preprocessor directives The default is not the best, the default has just beaten the world so many times on the head
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by Banana699 6y ago
Not a faliure, but a predictable weakness of the model that was well known and was brought up several times. Psychohistory cannot model individual eccentricities, the mule was a huge divide-by-zero trap for the equations. Seldon had the for
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by Banana699 6y ago
Hey, I'm also not a fan of "Rich Bad!" simplistic narratives, but billionaire "philanthropy" is about the most dubious and laughable concept on the table here. It's pennies-on-the-dollar nature is carefully des
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It's called the freedom to curtail other people's freedoms, it's a well known right recognized in the universal declaration of fundamental(ist) rights /s
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The thought experiment (based on that ender reference) assumes nobody knows their actions are being mirrored in reality.
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The interesting thing is that rows and columns wasn't the groundbreaking concept that energized Bricklin to implement it, the fundamental novelty is the automatic recalculation feature. The origin story of how visicalc first formed in