TheLarch

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by TheLarch 10y ago
When I hear neologisms from the radical left or right this is the first thing that comes to mind. I don't take it as a writing style guide, rather as a guide to spotting tyranny. The neologisms from FOX and social justice warriors are
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by TheLarch 10y ago
I saw: "and further milquetoast simulacra" in paragraph three, and quit reading. Am I too severe?
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by TheLarch 10y ago
There seems to be something about solar in particular that engenders overly optimistic claims. I've read several breathless stories over a span of decades about next-generation solar panels for instance, and yet we still have the same
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Tundra ablaze as reindeer carcasses infected with deadly anthrax are incinerated(siberiantimes.com)
2 points by TheLarch 10y ago|0 comments
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Oh yes! Thanks.
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by TheLarch 10y ago
They'd have a lot more clout if they were customers.
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by TheLarch 10y ago
The common distinction between machine and life seems arbitrary. Suppose for instance you had essentially infinite resources to design a machine that self-replicates by stealing blood from mammals, etc etc. You would end up with something v
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by TheLarch 10y ago
"But having one main syntactic and data structure- the list- is what makes LISP annoying too. You have to translate other syntax and data structures into lists. Its always possible, but sometimes kludgey and unreadable." I like ev
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by TheLarch 10y ago
I've made several great investments, including one that is currently paying out over $6,000/mo. However, these payments are made to someone else, because I always, always sell early. The markets are a painful place to come to know
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by TheLarch 10y ago
In the case of Java you can use Clojure or Armed Bear Common Lisp anyway.
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by TheLarch 10y ago
How is string processing worse or uglier in lisp than other languages?
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by TheLarch 10y ago
I wrote a client/server crypto system on Windows. The client was in C, the server code in Python. The Python code took maybe 5% of the time for a similar amount of functionality as in the client. No discernible performance impact from
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by TheLarch 10y ago
Bah! IDE's seem always to be stifling, and they create complicated projects that are not readily usable outside of the IDE. For instance I often need to build software on a server, and naturally do not wish to install some enormous pro
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by TheLarch 10y ago
The book is a wild, wild ride. He regularly sold "investments" that would ostensibly benefit the Nazis, and never did a mark make moral objections to the investment. Another striking aspect is the value that con men put on their p
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by TheLarch 10y ago
Totally support you pointing this out. However I hope you will indulge a random person, and let me suggest that your angry, aggrieved tone diminishes your contribution.
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by TheLarch 10y ago
Sadly it appears we will reach the point where media must be dishonest to generate enough clicks to keep the doors open.
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by TheLarch 10y ago
Why is the federal government more inclined to corruption than a corporation? On the subject of corruption I can't recommend reading this highly enough: https://www.amazon.com/Conman-Master-Swindler%C2%92s-Library...
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California in World War II: The Shelling of Ellwood(militarymuseum.org)
46 points by TheLarch 10y ago|23 comments
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by TheLarch 10y ago
Lisp Weenie assertion that "OO" is a feature list not a solution in of itself, and that CLOS is embarrassingly better than the OO in C++/C#/Java.
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by TheLarch 10y ago
I read Erica's infamous email without any knowledge of the situation, and only a vague impression that she was the wrong end of some campus non-event. The letter was so well-written and thoughtful! The key line, that she does not trust
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by TheLarch 10y ago
[TheLarch proffers curmudgeon fist bump]
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by TheLarch 10y ago
I don't remember where I picked up the bit about synthetic C. Thanks for pointing this out.
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by TheLarch 10y ago
Not sure if you are speculating that I am a supporter or detractor of his. My only impression of the man up until now was that I thought he and his wife conducted themselves with grace and forebearance during the Halloween fiasco. I find th
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by TheLarch 10y ago
The lead author, Nicholas Christakis, is the man who was reviled by some students at Yale during the Halloween costume debacle: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/11/the-new-... .
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by TheLarch 10y ago
Oh yes. After Linus Pauling advocated high vitamin C doses, lots of people started taking synthetic vitamin C, which turns out to be carcinogenic. A product called Geritol was marketed to the elderly for many years on the premise that they
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Georgia Shenanigans(imgur.com)
2 points by TheLarch 10y ago|0 comments
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by TheLarch 10y ago
Um, you do realize that a fair summary of your argument is, "nuts too require much water, therefore beef is a sustainable food source?"
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by TheLarch 10y ago
One pound of beef requires 1,847 gallons of water. Cattle produce a huge amount of methane. Ranchers use antibiotics profligately. Cows require a terrific amount of energy to grow, relative to plants, meaning lots of the corn we grow in the
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by TheLarch 10y ago
Unsure why Diet Coke is always specified. My son and his friends tried grape soda. Inside. It worked just fine.
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by TheLarch 10y ago
"Bjarne Stroustrup bolts everything he's ever heard of onto C to create C++" was validating. A friend who has worked on desktop software in C for 30 years has it figured out IMO: he uses the C++ compiler, but always defines n

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