Rerarom

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   by Rerarom 7y ago

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllis_Fox
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   by Rerarom 7y ago

   I don't manage money - I just try to live with as little as possible. I have a nice salary at the moment, but it's gonna go down significantly next year as I am relocating, so I want to have loads of savings.
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   by Rerarom 7y ago

   In what country is a movie ticket $20? That seems unusually expensive to me.
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   by Rerarom 7y ago

   Hopefully this will clear at least some of the Gödelian misconceptions that pop up from time to time here
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   by Rerarom 7y ago

   I know, I was being silly.
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   by Rerarom 7y ago

   Primes is in p
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   by Rerarom 7y ago

   Thanks, I did not know the word bringup
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   by Rerarom 7y ago

   What kind of projects are generally done by individuals even inside companies? I'm thinking maybe some simple device drivers but could be others.
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   by Rerarom 7y ago

   Seconded
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    by Rerarom 7y ago

    What a nice blog! I love reading about geeky families.
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    by Rerarom 7y ago

    That's the kind of misleading text I was talking about in my first comment.
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    by Rerarom 7y ago

    Every reference on Lisp macros says that they are executed at compile-time.
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    by Rerarom 7y ago

    Yes, of course, I get that it has the same syntax, which is not the case with C macros and which makes macros way better. Thing is, there is one Lisp that executed at compile time which expands the macros, and then there is the resulting co
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    by Rerarom 7y ago

    What curious newbies might miss from discussions of macros is that they are a separate language operating at compile time. They are usually advertised as code operating on itself or something like that. They're not. Powerful, yes, but
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    by Rerarom 7y ago

    I like how the domain immediately suggests that the site is not bloated.
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    by Rerarom 7y ago

    "I remember learning the definition of a stack in college and being a little surprised at “LIFO” behavior. [...] Practically speaking, this seems like a “frenetic” or “unfair” way to do work [...] That’s when you tend to learn that sta
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    by Rerarom 7y ago

    Ok, this is a premier example of Poe's Law
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    by Rerarom 7y ago

    Well it was a strongly irrational feeling so it's hard to properly justify but let's say I sensed a kind of arbitrariness in both types of reasons and I was looking for stuff that was more objective. (An example of how our minds l
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    by Rerarom 7y ago

    I spent three months at the beginning of this year learning Esperanto. This is the first time I speak about it in a detailed way. My motivation was manifold: I somehow couldn't manage to learn the language of the country I was currentl
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    by Rerarom 7y ago

    There's something I don't get about endogenous money vs. fractional reserve. Namely, the factual claims. So fractional reserve says that money is created by loans between banks as restricted by the money multiplier and endogenous
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    by Rerarom 7y ago

    In my language 'month' and 'moon' are the same word and some people still don't make the connection. I once had someone ask me, when I was talking about some period of x months in antiquity, if they had months (moon
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    by Rerarom 7y ago

    All rants on Esperanto fall into these two categories: - see, the language is not that simple as you think, it has this complexity you haven't thought of, so it fails - the language is as simple as you think, but no one would ever spea
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    by Rerarom 7y ago

    I remember in 2004 being fascinated with the tons of alternative proposals to the current calendar. Read about them on the kind of sites one can now find using wiby ;)
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    by Rerarom 7y ago

    I'd like to read the Realm of the Elderlings series and the Skolian Saga, which I've neglected so far. Also, I think I'll start a thorough reading of all Spider-Man comics. Regarding non-fiction, I think I will read some book
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    by Rerarom 7y ago

    I read like 70 books per year, of which about 60 in pirated form on my Kindle. I never had any qualms with it.
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    by Rerarom 7y ago

    first read this as "uncomputable translucent mind" and I loved the imagery
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    by Rerarom 7y ago

    Yeah, but Dropbox is okay since you have a copy of the folder on your computer(s). Also, it's guaranteed to be small (2 GB) so it's easy to backup.
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    by Rerarom 7y ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIXI
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    by Rerarom 7y ago

    I was completely unfamiliar with the subject matter but even before I saw the comments I was convinced that people are going to say that what he did is not assembly.
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    by Rerarom 7y ago

    Thanks for the answer! > Interestingly, some of Doug Lenat's early work was maybe more relevant to that problem than Cyc is. Yeah, Eurisko was really impressive, I often wondered why people don't work on that kind of stuff anym