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by armitron 7y ago
That’s not what I got from it at all. The precautionary principle and fat-tailed processes that come with extinction-level risks are real. He makes valid and salient points.
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by armitron 7y ago
You can join one of the successor trackers. Though, I expect them to be taken down in turn when they become more well-known. The centralized private tracker model has a fatal flaw in that it's too easy to take down and all the work&#x2
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by armitron 7y ago
There are at least 3 sites that are continuations of oink/what.cd. Two of them are good, one is improving..
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by armitron 7y ago
This has happened before with other IOS games (Monkey Island comes to mind) and is the main reason I never buy anything from the App Store. A number of titles never got updates for 64bit either (lost treasures of infocom) or when they did a
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by armitron 7y ago
I agree if by "make an attempt to guide it in the right direction" you imply "suspend disbelief and critical thinking, excuse/actively-imagine-away dumb and nonsensical output and try to convince yourself that there is s
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by armitron 7y ago
It's not N:M with arbitrary M, but N:1 (mentioned in the link you posted). There is no parallelism whatsoever in GNU Pth. You only get a single kernel thread and "green" userland threads cooperatively scheduled on top of that
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by armitron 7y ago
The complexity that emerges out of C++ with most/all of its features is immense to the point where it's clearly not worth the investment when there are so many alternatives out there. Nobody should be expected to deal with a langu
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by armitron 7y ago
You know your brain adapts so you can read something easier/faster the more you are exposed to it. For me, Lisp code couldn't be easier/faster to read and comprehend. I'm convinced most of the people making jokes about p
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by armitron 7y ago
On Lisp is an advanced text about Lisp macros, not recommended as an introduction (but highly recommended if you've written Common Lisp). SICP is great but not really about Lisp. I recommend Norvig's PAIP [1] or Graham's ANSI
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by armitron 7y ago
Same here.. I've been working with IP networks for over 3 decades. If I can't see why ouroboros is better, what hope is there for the future of the project.
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by armitron 7y ago
I never understood the hype about emulation on Raspberry Pi. Fidelity goes out the window and the experience is very subpar. End result being the emulated games don't even come close to the real thing, even for 16bit systems. It's
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by armitron 7y ago
Blazingly fast? Not the words I would use..
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by armitron 7y ago
You might be interested in https://github.com/vygr/ChrysaLisp by one of the inventors of Taos. It's brilliant.
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by armitron 7y ago
Not at all really. Danese Cooper says that Cantrill is not a reliable witness and one can say he also has an agenda to distort the facts in this way [1]. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22008921
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by armitron 7y ago
If not, they should have.
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by armitron 7y ago
Sensationalist article that is completely out of touch with reality on both social and technical levels. Oculus quest is a game changer - obvious to anyone that puts it on - and the fact that it’s not even mentioned says a lot. I doubt she
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by armitron 7y ago
There is no protection against adversaries that have the resources it takes to stockpile exploits like these. Feel good in that you are probably not important enough for them to target you..
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by armitron 7y ago
I agree with you. I've watched a lot of anime but the first Mamoru Oshii GITS movie is definitely a singularity. It doesn't even "feel" like anime. The only other (comparable) anime that jumps to mind and something I can
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by armitron 7y ago
Akira is not as iconoclastic in its philosophy as it was in its technical and artistic attributes at the time. It was also heavily influenced by and can be seen as a modern-day retelling/rewarning of the hiroshima/nagasaki inciden
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by armitron 7y ago
I wouldn't say it runs contrary, but that it's evolved second-order thinking. While the media raves about echo chambers, incels and religious terrorism few focus on emergent hive minds. GITS is an absolutely brilliant ode to emerg
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by armitron 7y ago
Exposes an API and lets you use it dynamically but (huge but) doesn't let you modify the entirety of Unreal Engine itself dynamically at runtime.
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by armitron 7y ago
McCLIM is and has always been a total mess (stability, look and feel, speed, platform support, feeling of robustness) and I would definitely not recommend it, at its current state, to non-hardcore Common Lispers (since it's likely to d
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by armitron 7y ago
To me this illustrates that your CS undergrad school wasn't very good [1]. In my experience (CS at CMU), it's the undergrad years that are the most brutal and require the most (assuming you strive for excellence and not just pass
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by armitron 7y ago
I never understood the fascination of many Americans (I'm British) with Steinbeck. For me, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Hemingway and even McCarthy and Melville are completely outclassing him. One American friend of mine once mentioned that S
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by armitron 7y ago
Eric Chahi (and Jordan Mechner) undoubtedly have genius-level IQs which is to say that they stood apart even in that time period. The more important thing to note is that the brutal constraints of the day and the extremely high bar to entry
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by armitron 7y ago
Xach has a habit of implementing complicated solutions that solve half the problem. Quicklisp has been around for years, is still vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks and the code is so convoluted and complicated that it defies simple ex
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by armitron 7y ago
It's also nowhere near as fast as other language JITs. I'm talking orders of magnitude slower than JVM, .NET and LuaJIT. End result being a - relatively - dead project, since the incentives for people to use it over stock Python a
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by armitron 7y ago
How do you know that the realities the majority of people perceive are highly highly similar? Language alone cannot be used to deduce this since perceiving and constructing realities is rooted in the domain of qualia and the psyche. How do
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by armitron 7y ago
How many other bail violations have you seen the UK spend millions of pounds for? As a UK citizen, the government stance in the Assange case disgusts me. It's obvious what's going on here, nevermind the "see nothing hear noth
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by armitron 7y ago
None of the great trappist beers contain glucose syrup. Maybe you're mixing it up with candi sugar.

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