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by User23 1y ago
Scientists commit to politics. Election happens. Election has consequences. Shocker. To be fair conservatives warned about this for decades but nobody listened. The only possible response to this propaganda piece are nodding along religious
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by User23 1y ago
For most of history even a single book of the Bible would cost a princely sum. Even today a single manuscript vellum scroll is a significant expense.
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by User23 1y ago
The OP AKA Dominicans date back to 1216. Haha obviously I’m kidding you but that’s truly tangentially relevant
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by User23 1y ago
There’s a really interesting question here. Will the USA claim the right to tax the new pontiff? Likely answer is no, but legally the statute suggests yes. But who knows? There’s never before been a US citizen who is also a foreign sovereig
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by User23 1y ago
Fusion race vs space race is rather interesting.
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by User23 1y ago
The shortage is already rather artificial. A snakebite treatment that costs $150k in the USA is just a few hundred dollars in Mexico.
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by User23 1y ago
Meanwhile here I am wondering why everyone isn’t using SQLite.
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by User23 1y ago
Remember that the FSF happened because printers suck. Shockingly printers still suck.
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by User23 1y ago
We already have UBI. You’re just not in the club.
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by User23 1y ago
That reminds me of this: https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/email.html .
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by User23 1y ago
Very interesting comment! To clarify, as you know CLOS isn’t the CL type system. I was particularly thinking about things like fixnum arithmetic. The CMUCL and SBCL manual sections on code generation discuss this and it can be verified with
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by User23 1y ago
Same for peer reviews. Giving anything less than a four is saying fire this person. And even too many fours is PIP territory.
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by User23 1y ago
You want a Speed Queen. It’s the closest you can get to an older washer.
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by User23 1y ago
You can do that, I think, with EVAL-WHEN.
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by User23 1y ago
And a modern compiler will jmp past the type checks if the inferencer OKs it!
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by User23 1y ago
Learning XS (maybe with Swig?) was a great way to actually understand Perl.
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by User23 1y ago
Has anyone grafted Zig style macros into Common Lisp?
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by User23 1y ago
No, it doesn’t imply that. There are plenty of more popular languages that don’t though.
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by User23 1y ago
I believe current evidence is that the Berber peoples have been in North Africa at least 12,000 years.
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by User23 1y ago
The word “properly” is not only working hard here, but perhaps pointing to deeper concepts. In particular, it implies a coherent design around scope and extent. And, much more indirectly, it points to time. EVAL-WHEN has finally made a bit
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by User23 2y ago
There are a lot of “ors” and commas in that law, but it’s not hard to parse unless you’re being willfully obtuse. ((Declared war OR (invasion OR predatory incursion)) IS (perpetrated OR attempted OR threatened)) BY (foreign nation OR foreig
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by User23 2y ago
> Congress is going to try to mass-disenfranchise women before the 2026 midterms. They've stated this on the record. What on Earth are you talking about?
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by User23 2y ago
You can’t just pull out the corporate Amex and buy a world class datacenter. There is considerable value add there.
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by User23 2y ago
The code that AI is good at currently is exactly common tasks. Good luck getting it to write a competitive video card driver for Nvidia hardware or anything else that requires actual creative problem solving that isn’t github boilerplate.
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by User23 2y ago
Mathematicians have recognized the importance of elegance for millennia.
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by User23 2y ago
I'm thinking GP is saying that maybe human sacrifice rituals aren't the best look for a medical tech startup?
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by User23 2y ago
I think “how did non-living matter become alive” and “how do populations of organisms change over time” are two very different questions.
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by User23 2y ago
I believe that there are barn designs that capture urine.
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by User23 2y ago
The White House is trying to require at least 85% of grant money go to research and not administration. It’s such an obviously common sense improvement and the first serious proposal to roll back this administrative bloat that I’ve ever see
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by User23 2y ago
Conway takes this next level with On Numbers and Games. Very openly acknowledges the debt to Dedekind. Also Knuth did something similar with his Surreal Numbers book. I think he even wrote it as a kind of chaste romance novel, but I haven&#

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