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by bglusman 1y ago
Wow, wild this is being taken seriously now perhaps, I first encountered the idea in The Life of The Cosmos ~26 years ago[0] and my impression was the author, Lee Smolin, didn't REALLY beleive it, but he came up with it mostly to have
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by bglusman 1y ago
The versioning and git branching sounds really neat, I think! Can you say more about that? Curious if you've looked at/are considering using Jujutsu/JJ[0] in addition or instead of git for this, I've played with it some,
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by bglusman 1y ago
Protobuf does support JSON encoding[0], which I like as the .proto definition is quite readable, and then you can encode/decode either human readably or efficiently. It's even quite easy to have your consumer support both since t
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New fusion rocket design could cut Mars trip to under 4 months(newatlas.com)
7 points by bglusman 1y ago|0 comments
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by bglusman 2y ago
very impressive... also interested in your trip planner, it looks like invite only at the moment, but... would it be rude to ask for an invite?
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by bglusman 2y ago
This is actually apocryphal, I think from Adam Smith & before him Aristotle, pull quote from 1985 anthropology professor “No example of a barter economy, pure and simple, has ever been described, let alone the emergence from it of money
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by bglusman 2y ago
I posted this because it's the most official source, but I learned of it from José's tweet here[0] and there's also a video about it[1] in the elixirforum discussion[2] I haven't read the paper very far yet, but it sound
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Hok: Higher-Order GPU Kernels in Elixir(sol.sbc.org.br)
4 points by bglusman 2y ago|1 comments
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How a Law That Shields Big Tech Is Now Being Used Against It(nytimes.com)
3 points by bglusman 2y ago|0 comments
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by bglusman 2y ago
See announcement here https://www.rabbitmq.com/blog/2024/05/23/erlang27-support
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Be Careful with 'Nutrition Facts' as a Model for Tech Transparency(time.com)
2 points by bglusman 2y ago|0 comments
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by bglusman 3y ago
I didn’t read that part as saying “they’re not doing these things at all”, just that they’re not staying home them specifically to do them… they’re not “employed” as a “homemaker”, they are working from home. Unclear if you read it this wa
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Fifty Injured on Boeing 787 as "strong shake" reportedly sent heads into ceiling(arstechnica.com)
1 points by bglusman 3y ago|0 comments
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by bglusman 3y ago
As sibling comment by wsgeorge hinted, it is regional, but really it’s the reverse, terminology of “non profit” is regional to the US, basically everywhere else in the world I’ve heard of refers to non profit entities as “NGO”s… admittedly
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A Scientist Says Humans Were Meant to Live So Much Longer; Dinosaurs Ruined It(popularmechanics.com)
3 points by bglusman 3y ago|0 comments
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by bglusman 3y ago
I hadn't heart about this but, to summarize, two people received capital punishment over this, one suspended death sentence, 3 life imprisonments, 2 15 year jail terms, and 13 others with lesser jail terms. http://www.chinad
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by bglusman 3y ago
Came here to mention/contrast Vinge's metric time with with my (quick, approximate) understanding of this approach... The problem with this approach is it attempts to "redefine" hours and minutes... part of what I liked
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The Strange Life of Glass(nautil.us)
2 points by bglusman 3y ago|0 comments
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by bglusman 3y ago
oh, whoops, somewhat duplicated your point, sorry!
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by bglusman 3y ago
The book Critical Mass by Daniel Suarez is my only source, but, the efficiency of rectenna is discussed there, and particularly, though the efficiency of the transmission is somewhat low, the efficiency of solar panels in space is MUCH high
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by bglusman 3y ago
Came here to say the same! Though it's a bit fun that when they upgrade the moon to use a nuclear reactor to power several mass drivers, they mention how the satellite can be repurposed to provide power to earth now... which makes se
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by bglusman 3y ago
I admit for a long time this was my primary motivation to learn Rust, but, sadly, I haven't come across problems in years that were CPU bound/where I needed something like Rust... Rustler still looks like a great fit if needed, b
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by bglusman 4y ago
Translated: https://github-com.translate.goog/meiyulee/MathGPT?_x_tr_sl=...
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by bglusman 4y ago
I’m not expert here but I think most of that risk is mitigated these days since BEAM introduced Dirty Schedulers/Dirty NIFs for any NIFs that take over 1ms to execute… I think this isolates (or can isolate) their issues to only effecti
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by bglusman 4y ago
Came here to give this answer.. it’s not an entire way to learn anything but it’s a good start and flexible enough it can actually apply to pretty much any new tool or tech component you want to learn… can do database or vitalization or mos
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by bglusman 4y ago
Didn’t read 100% of article yet but the premise somewhat brings to mind the book “The Alphabet vs the Goddess”[0] which… definitely criticisms can be made/definitely isn’t the whole story for the events and narrative of history it focu
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by bglusman 4y ago
I think you meant a 50% chance for $100 is the same as a 5% chance for $1000 right? Just... funny math error as I was like, wait, no... I'll take the 10% chance at $1000 every time! (unless I'm desperate for my next meal, then,
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by bglusman 5y ago
This was the original vision of the founders behind recurse.com (formerly Hacker School) when they applied to YC back in 2010... https://www.recurse.com/manual (citation using this exact term)
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by bglusman 5y ago
PepsiCo E-commerce | Elixir/Phoenix/LiveView Engineer | NYC/SF/Remote | Remote We have some newly available budget for contractors, and often our contractors can transition to FTE if interested and eligible after some ti
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by bglusman 5y ago
Yup. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP5-iIeKXE8

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