armitron

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by armitron 8y ago
The Internet was ruined when the masses moved in. Let them have social media as their own little sandbox to play in and leave the rest of us alone. I don't use twitter, facebook, instagram, slack, discord, whatever-else-kids-use-these-
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The 'basic' version of this costs 400 euro a year. alphavm_free which was removed by the creator - probably because he wanted to increase sales of his basic offering - can still be found on the Internet however.
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The emulator you have in mind (Brad Parker's) has a lot of bugs and is not exactly stable.
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Which Alpha/Tru64 UNIX emulator do you have in mind?
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by armitron 8y ago
Going full pickup artist does not generally work if you are physically unattractive (mainly based on face and height if you go by what various studies have shown). Dating apps have utterly decimated dating for a big percentage of the young
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In my personal tests, it's not at all orders of magnitude faster than GNU grep. In fact, for single file, non-unicode greps (most of my usage) the difference is so small as to be imperceptible when interactively using it. Even for mult
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I'll never fly 737 Max. No matter what changes they do, barring a complete redesign of the plane. Boeing deserves to go out of business for this.
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Chicago had 561 murders in 2018. That's 1.5 murders a day. Chicago had 2948 shooting victims in 2018. That's 8 shooting victims a day. https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/chicago-murder-total-2018-... To someon
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“capitalism incarnates hyperstitional dynamics at an unprecedented and unsurpassable level of intensity, turning mundane economic ‘speculation’ into an effective world-historical force” "Hyperstition is a positive feedback circuit incl
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One reason "white supremacists" end up congregating in the various chans is because they've been banished from everywhere else. In the US, the overton window has shrank dramatically in the last decade and it keeps on shrinki
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Radicalization happens a lot quicker when groups are forced into ideological bubbles that have no pressure release valves. I feel as if we have two real choices here: + We fundamentally change how the Internet works and introduce an omnipot
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Can you elaborate? Putting aside rowhammer-like vulnerabilities [that don't fall under "overflows" anyway], how is shared physical memory under a modern protected virtual memory scheme leading to overflows? Additionally, the
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Alan Kay has talked about what he calls "extreme late binding of all things" [1], where he feels that Lisp and Smalltalk do it particularly well. I'm in full agreement with his point of view but to answer your question I had
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We have to agree to disagree. It's also how you word certain things that make me wonder about the level of exposure you have had to proper Common Lisp development methodologies. For instance, you write: "The most trivial errors th
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I don't know how you programmed CL, since there is no "Run" button like in DrRacket (which simply evaluates everything and discards previous state) but if you did the equivalent of that, you were doing it wrong. The way one s
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Minor addition, Guile Emacs is a dead project since not a single person from the core Emacs development group cares enough about it to work on it. Emacs Lisp is getting better all the time feature-wise, is portable to all main operating sys
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by armitron 8y ago
SBCL (which Rigetti has chosen for qvm and quilc) is better than OCaml in pretty much every aspect of importance for these projects. Performance (compiler macros, intrinsics, runtime assembler, ease of code generation, parallelism), interac
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There is this concept of emergent control called a "metasystem transition" [1] which is what Dyson is really talking about. Conventional history and culture has never before been shaped by the - ever shortening, ever accelerating
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This a very simplified way to look at the original post, glossing over most of the details and missing nearly all the points. Nobody is arguing against spending (lots of) money for scientific experiments. The problems that arise are qualita
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1. CJD is only one specific instance of Prion disease. Others (e.g. vCJD) have incubation periods of - multiple decades -. From the article: "In the original Alzheimer’s transmissibility study, scientists examined the brains of eight p
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If I had to guess I would say the overlap is not as sizeable as you think, at least in the Common Lisp and Scheme camps. Python really has very few things in common with Lisp and its philosophy is in many ways orthogonal to the philosophy o
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Great demo. Not as good as the best ever though :-) "Kefrens: The meaning of life is to become a legend" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jziQBWQxvok
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It's dumb users that provide all the value that turned Google into a behemoth. Pretty powerful feedback loop there. The Internet wasn't ruined in a day but it sure happened quick and superorganism-like parasitic corps like Google
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This has been a point of contention for lots of people, including myself. From what I remember, it was supposed to happen for Pharo 7 but now I see that it didn't. Squeak and Pharo are great but the font rendering is terrible, I can&#x
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LSD primarily teaches you to see things from multiple perspectives. It blows away the consensus and is most effective when trying to see through conditioning of any sort. I think anyone with a modicum of self-awareness and self-insight can
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1. Roomba. 2. Computers in an average modern car control steering, braking and acceleration to degrees not possible in the past. It's clear that Kurzweil is more right than wrong if you read his predictions as trends and account for so
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Some more macOS window managers, all free and opensource: Spectacle, Slate, Phoenix (similar to Slate) And by far my personal favorite: Mjolnir which is extensible in Lua! Also, Hammerspoon its continuation. [1] https://github.co
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It is his OOPSLA 97 keynote. I am sure you can find it online.
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Software Engineering must be the only engineering discipline where mastery of tools and barrier to entry in terms of skills are in many ways inversely correlated with market demands. Every clown can write software these days and in fact a l
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This is cute, albeit a terrible idea in practice. It's also misleading to compare it favorably to CLOS and come up with statements like "a framework that brings C to the level of other high level programming languages and beyond&q

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