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by baruchthescribe 7y ago
Sure. In the meantime, I believe the relevant xkcd - because there's always a relevant xckd - is 137.
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by baruchthescribe 7y ago
Columbia's Last Flight is his masterpiece IMO: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2003/11/columbi...
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by baruchthescribe 7y ago
This thread was deleted from 8chan less than ten minutes after it was created - too fast for even any archives to be created - and the poster was instantly condemned as a criminal for carrying out this criminal act. That is an extremely imp
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by baruchthescribe 7y ago
It's not implicitly better than using straight Lua, no. It just seems to hit the sweet spot of Lisp, game library and interactive development for me.
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by baruchthescribe 7y ago
It's been a game changer for me observing the elegance and productivity of the Fennel language ( https://fennel-lang.org/ ) combined with Love2d (love2d.org) and LuaJIT. Thanks to Phil Hagelberg for his documenting of hi
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by baruchthescribe 7y ago
If you're living in the US, you could of course just look outside and notice that you've just had the coldest October-April period on record. But yeah, the Arctic is clearly melting.
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by baruchthescribe 7y ago
NOAA data goes back to the early 1970s. The IPCC paper can be found after a fairly trivial Google search here: https://web.archive.org/web/20120428072521/https://www.ipcc.... Good. So let's summari
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by baruchthescribe 7y ago
Here: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/236534420_Projectin... Arctic sea ice is normal and cyclical and follows both short and long term cycles.
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by baruchthescribe 7y ago
Run along little gamma. He said it in front of Congress. It's in the Congressional record. There is boatloads of coverage of what he said at the time and his prediction, like all of his others before it, is complete bollocks.
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by baruchthescribe 7y ago
The International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has a 1990 report that uses NOAA data from 1974. It shows that Arctic sea ice is cyclical, as it's always been, and had a peak in 1979. SO NOAA was measuring sea ice extent at least as f
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by baruchthescribe 7y ago
Not trolling. I genuinely believe that the evidence shows that a) carbon dioxide has nothing to do with warming and b) the world's climate is just fine. Your linked piece starts with the misleading graph from NOAA which conveniently st
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by baruchthescribe 7y ago
I remember when it was accepted scientific consensus that plate tectonics was a crock of shit. Didn't make it any less true. If the data shows that the Arctic is doing fine, then I don't care how many climate alarmists say it&#x27
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by baruchthescribe 7y ago
OK, ask them for their research going back to 1970 because strangely enough, they leave out everything before 1981 to give the impression that Arctic ice is on a downward trend.
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by baruchthescribe 7y ago
No, we tend to take what people say at face value. Even if they're fraudulent hacks like James Hansen: https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1988&dat=20080624&id=...
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by baruchthescribe 7y ago
Ask NOAA for their temperature records going back a century and see if it's normal and cyclical instead of their cherry picked data from 1979 onwards.
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by baruchthescribe 7y ago
The intro to The Road Warrior postulates that two great warrior tribes went to war and that the world's reliance on oil was fatally crippled as a result. Not a word about climate change anywhere. When you were growing up, did you watch
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by baruchthescribe 7y ago
You would have go back and look at the whole century to see that it's just part of the normal cycle.
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by baruchthescribe 7y ago
Really? The Danish Meteorological Institute is recording the surface mass budget at record levels. https://www.iceagenow.info/greenland-ice-sheet-surface-mass-...
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by baruchthescribe 8y ago
No it isn't. It's called a debate. Show me the increasing temperatures since the 1930s and I'll concede I was wrong.
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by baruchthescribe 8y ago
For an entertaining examination of the question of consciousness and its implication for philosophers, I recommend Rupert Sheldrake's lecture here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFhsObpja8A
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by baruchthescribe 8y ago
Thanks for all your hard work so far. Really looking forward to its release!
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by baruchthescribe 8y ago
"In the last year, believers in the conspiracy have also been in armed standoffs with the police in Arizona, and one blocked the Hoover Dam demanding the “Release of the OIG Report,” a Qanon-based conspiracy theory loosely derived from
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by baruchthescribe 8y ago
Fahrenheit 451 managed a few disturbing ones: - The Hound, an automated drone for assassinations - Seashells, in-ear music playing - Large flat-screen TVs playing reality soaps that the viewer interacts with
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by baruchthescribe 8y ago
Fairly normal setup. I have something similar on my own server i.e. not AWS.
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by baruchthescribe 8y ago
Very cool. Works like a charm in DOSBox.
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by baruchthescribe 8y ago
Haha - I did an mmx version of this in assembler about twenty years ago for Konstantin Boldyshev's asmutils package. Doing things 8 bytes at a time made it ridiculously fast.
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by baruchthescribe 8y ago
It's always important to know when someone is out of their specialty. The researcher I practically worship on a particular subject once wrote a defence of something I personally know to be complete nonsense because I was there and know
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by baruchthescribe 8y ago
Not from Parys but used to be a regular visitor: one example is streaks of obsidian in the rocks from the explosion which I believe is unique.
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by baruchthescribe 8y ago
I was in this exact position a month ago and I landed a great job because of doing very well in two technical interviews. I also am a strong Python programmer who was rusty on the classic CS stuff. Go to Codility's programming lessons
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by baruchthescribe 8y ago
Coincidentally enough, I had Future Sound of London on when I checked this out. Very appropriate!

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