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by avindroth 4y ago
Is there a reason why some well-known Lisp hackers are Japanese? I noticed the devs of Kandria (radiance, etc.) as well as Fukamachi (woo, clack, mito, etc.), and am wondering what led to that kind of geographical distribution.
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by avindroth 4y ago
This basically happens in my mind when looking at Lisp code. Parens are just handles that allow me to manipulate the expressions for structural editing.
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by avindroth 4y ago
Same here. It obscures the notion of code is data, data is code.
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by avindroth 4y ago
I have come to appreciate the mathematical approach of definition first then examples after. I used to prefer examples first, but examples can cloud the concept and conflate their importance. Definitions (what you call abstractions) get at
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by avindroth 4y ago
To facilitate writing, 'pages' have to be ubiquitous. There is always something to write about, and ubiquity of pages facilitates the ink on paper, the pixels on screen. Writing is a medium, and an excellent one at that. I'd
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by avindroth 4y ago
There's also one at attic of Casa Milà, with a mirror to boot.
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by avindroth 4y ago
It seems like the author assumes that the page is accessed from his youtube channel, but as someone who just landed on the webpage with no awareness of his channel, some synopsis of the book would be nice.
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by avindroth 4y ago
Same here. Thought the puzzle was obscure on purpose.
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by avindroth 4y ago
Any source? Curious as to what is meant by "used directly"
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by avindroth 4y ago
In true Krishnamurti fashion, you should seek your own methods. Ironically, that may be relying on other people’s methods, but willingly surrendering is different from will-less surrendering.
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by avindroth 4y ago
Is it so hard to imagine that some people get genuinely inspired by stories of other people's successes? Yes, some success stories are propaganda. But many others are genuinely inspiring (and have something to teach us). For what it&#x
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by avindroth 4y ago
True, but some of your best insights come from steelmanning arguments you initially thought were completely bogus.
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by avindroth 4y ago
> The Lindy effect proposes, simplified, that the longer something has been around, the longer it will probably stay around still. I think there is a linguistic ambiguity here. What is meant by "the longer something has been around&
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by avindroth 4y ago
The point being made is not that the Greek system is being pushed out and that worsens the social atmosphere. It's that Stanford is losing its atypical social community (which includes not only the Greek system but also co-ops), and th
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by avindroth 4y ago
I think the implication is that multiculturalism is very hard to get right, and that one solution to it is to be very careful all the time. This leads to a sort of vague blandness that has become more prominent in the Bay area over the past
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by avindroth 4y ago
I agree with everything up until “A serious crime suddenly becomes a hip experience.” I think that’s taking it a bit too far (and demonizing Apple a bit).
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by avindroth 4y ago
Got it. I perceived the title as a good midpoint between clickbait and boring. What would you recommend as an alternative title? Also, if I may, you may be associating this article too heavily with the field of self-help. I personally am no
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by avindroth 4y ago
You are replying to the title of the post, rather than the content. Most things on this list are valid and useful. Also the attack on the strawman is very elementary as well.
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by avindroth 4y ago
>>> I can't think of a single institution that hasn't self-corrupted. This is a very cheap take, and undermines the unbelievable amount of function that institutions play, despite corruption. The self-corrupting institu
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by avindroth 5y ago
+1 to Orca, a similar impressive project https://100r.co/site/orca.html
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by avindroth 5y ago
This is something people have thought about because it's an obvious inconvenience to anyone trying out, say, Dvorak. On a Mac, you can use ⌘ keys as QWERTY, but have Dvorak for everything else. Like the other comment, this sounds like
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by avindroth 5y ago
They might not have the legal authority, but is their firm stance against emulators morally questionable? I may agree their methods are questionable, but I don't know if their stance is. Nintendo's stance against emulation seems c
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by avindroth 5y ago
How are they morally obligated (or suggested) to provide access to older games?
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by avindroth 5y ago
Thank you for the detailed reply
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by avindroth 5y ago
Why is Nintendo obliged to provide older content, or otherwise allow emulation? If a company ceases to provide something, does that give you rights to acquire that something illegally?
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by avindroth 5y ago
People like to complain, especially to big rich companies.
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by avindroth 5y ago
Don’t platform locks lead to better games?
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by avindroth 5y ago
Why is it not acceptable if a machine is not being used for its intended purposes and most people using it are for pirating games? Why is there any notion of acceptability for a company’s rulings on how their copyrights should be protected?
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by avindroth 5y ago
Isn’t this how the market works? You don’t own the game - you own the game on the platform, for as long as it lasts. This is the base rule for console games. You kinda know the deal when you buy it.
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by avindroth 5y ago
People think theft is liberation, which is… a problematic notion. “Everybody should have rights to enjoy / read…”

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