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by aredox 2y ago
Exactly. Archeologist from the future working from fragmentary sources won't be easily able to determine if the mitznefet is battle gear or ceremonial parure. In fact, they could reach the wrong conclusion by noting the bearskin is mor
722.
by aredox 2y ago
Ceremonial armors aren't made for fun. Should our descendents of the year 3000 look at the British bearskin (the tall furry hat of the Royal Guard) and think "of course, this was standard combat attire".
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by aredox 2y ago
This isn't something new right now. Tokenism is there - and has been decried non-stop - since the 60's. The problem is not inserting minorities, it's a whole entertainment industry that is still hardly able to make them whole
724.
by aredox 2y ago
> The influence of the Dana Scully character on my generation of girls is known as the Scully Effect. We women who frequently watched The X-Files as teenagers were more than 50% more likely to study a STEM field in college than women wh
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Mill Computing Progress Report(millcomputing.com)
3 points by aredox 2y ago|0 comments
726.
by aredox 2y ago
So, to avoid having a blurry vision and having to wear glasses, their solution is to wear glasses that blur your vision? That's not a dig at them; more like life having a laugh at us.
727.
by aredox 2y ago
Like the Mill CPU arch, looking for someone to buy the IP.
728.
by aredox 2y ago
The study you linked to doesn't find heredity to be the driver of decline of IQ (which they pointedly reminded is not a measure of intelligence): Regardless, we believe education, test-taking, and media exposure emerge as potential mod
729.
by aredox 2y ago
We need to retire the idea that evolution has a goal, or that evolutionary pressure explains everything. There are tons of things in the human body that are very suboptimal or are purely accidental, from the tons of "junk" DNA, ou
730.
by aredox 2y ago
6 billion dollars less for really innovative ventures. 6 billion dollars less for us hackers. And certainly 6 billion dollars down the drain, funneled to stave the collapse of X/Twitter and Musk paying his dues.
731.
by aredox 2y ago
And then what happens when you competitors do that sh*t and bankrupt you before they are killed by ransomware? Stop moralizing what is fundamentally a systematic problem.
732.
by aredox 2y ago
... Did he really crack water in that box, letting gaseous oxygen and hydrogen mix exactly in the ratio of 1:2 in a closed container? I mean, it's good he choose a less caustic electrolyte, but the potential explosion in itself is not
733.
by aredox 2y ago
lol This industry pumps out new model languages every week, but is unable to generate new names with simple Markov chains? Anyone giving a project a name that is already taken is a clown
734.
by aredox 2y ago
Git is not a good tool for this, as history can be rewritten. Conceptually, Fossil would be the right tool. See chapter 2.7: https://www.fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/fossil-v-git.w...
735.
by aredox 2y ago
1. YC is not a neutral party, it has clear, deep ties with Sam Altman. 2. The behavior of Annie Altman at childhood is very abnormal and very consistent with trauma. 3. The bahavior of Sam & co locking Annie out of her heritage and with
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by aredox 2y ago
It is already the case. I've seen several French Wikipedia articles with a banner warning the content was merely lifted from the English article.
737.
by aredox 2y ago
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/QDczBduZorG4dxZiW/sam-altman...
738.
by aredox 2y ago
Thank you for telling us that! The story has been repeatedly flagged on HN, even this extremely detailed and reasonable post on lesswrong: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/QDczBduZorG4dxZiW/sam-altman...
739.
by aredox 2y ago
What a neat idea! Next: a strategy game where you give orders in plain text, instead of hundreds of clicks per minutes
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by aredox 2y ago
From the article: "paleographers today identify the extinction of scriptio continua as a critical factor in augmenting the widespread absorption of knowledge in the pre-Modern Era. By saving the reader the taxing process of interpretin
741.
by aredox 2y ago
Another thought-terminating cliché. https://bookriot.com/do-great-artists-steal/
742.
by aredox 2y ago
The maritime industry, more than "the West", is a prime culprit there. Let's also mention how they skirt taxation, the use of flags of convenience, the lack of protection for crews, the matrioshka shell companies...
743.
by aredox 2y ago
The trajectory of the last French air carriers - the Foch and the Clémenceau - is a good illustration of the mess it can be, even for former military flagships. Those military ships are of course full of asbestos - more than usual - and hea
744.
by aredox 2y ago
On the other hand, this here is just a program to design a box...
745.
by aredox 2y ago
I do agree GC is not a deal breaker: it can be chosen (Nim has three different GC engines, java has several VMs), it can be tuned... But there is still a clear categorical difference between GCed Langs and non-GCed, even if the border has b
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by aredox 2y ago
Has someone tried to evaluate all the solutions in terms of memory/CPU usage? Or do all the differences end up optimised away?
747.
by aredox 2y ago
Using an actual rainbow seems a bad idea. I will try to set up a Viridis (or similar perceptually continuous) color scheme next time I dabble in lisps.
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by aredox 2y ago
This post didn't dwelve on the fact your water needs to be pure - if you've got hard water, it's not going to work. Try again but with demineralized water - often sold in supermarkets to avoid scaling in clothing irons.
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by aredox 2y ago
Any news on the front of non-GC LISPs? Carp [0] seems to be dormant... [0] https://www.eriksvedang.com/carp Edit: It is indeed dormant[1]. [1] https://github.com/carp-lang/Carp/issues/1460#issue
750.
by aredox 2y ago
AZERTY is very bad and France is still stuck with it, despite Québec having a variant of QWERTY for decades, ditto for Switzerland having a custom QWERTZ, and BÉPO being heads above.

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