blacksqr

32 ms·

361.
by blacksqr 4y ago
tl;dr Nothing wrong with capitalism that a little socialism can't cure.
362.
by blacksqr 4y ago
It was a box office failure.
363.
by blacksqr 4y ago
The Constitution sets a minimum district size, but not a maximum. The minimum is 30,000 ppl, the average now is over 700,000 ppl. Congress could easily double the size of the House, and should. That and a law requiring that districts have m
364.
by blacksqr 4y ago
> I'm not exactly sure what are you trying to communicate. When I read your response to my post, my Spidey Sense warned me that you might be trying to use the excuse for not helping the disadvantaged that is always trotted out... th
365.
by blacksqr 4y ago
Meanwhile here in the actual actual world, we've seen that inflation is caused by wars and botched pandemic responses, not taking care of disadvantaged people.
366.
by blacksqr 4y ago
In the actual actual economy, the magic castle buys almost half of the Treasury bonds issued by the government; and when you give free money to people who can't meet all their basic needs, they spend all of it, which causes a cascade t
367.
by blacksqr 4y ago
From a magical castle called the Federal Reserve, which creates it out of nothing.
368.
Seed-firing drones are planting 40k trees every day to fight deforestation(euronews.com)
5 points by blacksqr 4y ago|1 comments
369.
by blacksqr 4y ago
1. Sit in a dark room. 2. Stare at a screen. 3. ??? 4. Reconnect with nature!
370.
by blacksqr 4y ago
For example, sargassum seaweed, which floats freely in the ocean, is rich in both phosphorus and ammonium. There are already efforts in the Caribbean to turn sargassum into compost, because there's so much of it washing ashore that it&
371.
by blacksqr 5y ago
You might love autosetup, a Tcl-based autoconf tool chain replacement. Not just Tcl-based, but designed to work with a simple Tcl subset shell called Jim, which compiles from one source code file. So you can bootstrap your project in a most
372.
by blacksqr 5y ago
Talk about going on your permanent record...
373.
by blacksqr 5y ago
There was a commercially available Tcl compiler available at that time. Did you ever take a look at it? https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/GE+ICE+Tcl+compiler
374.
by blacksqr 5y ago
I just guess there are two kinds of people in the world. I think scope leakage across logical boundaries is dangerous and really hurts maintainability and code readability, and I think Tcl's tight restriction of variable scope by defau
375.
Wasmdec: Converts WebAssembly binaries to C (2018)(github.com)
18 points by blacksqr 5y ago|1 comments
376.
by blacksqr 5y ago
Output 0.1 nW
377.
A not entirely trivial experiment with Tcl's CFFI package(wiki.tcl-lang.org)
2 points by blacksqr 5y ago|0 comments
378.
by blacksqr 5y ago
Hello, World!
379.
Lunasvg: Standalone SVG rendering library in C++(github.com)
4 points by blacksqr 5y ago|0 comments
380.
Tcl Cffi Package v1.0b5(github.com)
2 points by blacksqr 5y ago|0 comments
381.
by blacksqr 5y ago
I was in a community college production of Measure for Measure. During one rehearsal, some of us were backstage conversing about theater superstition and the Scottish play in particular, taking care to use the proper euphemisms. One older c
382.
by blacksqr 5y ago
My understanding is that SQLite tries to maintain compatibility with Postgres in the subset of SQL that it supports. So if this program reaches a reasonable level of maturity I would love to be able to use it with pre-existing products tha
383.
Trees Are a Faster Solution to Climate Change Than Technology(terraformation.com)
15 points by blacksqr 5y ago|7 comments
384.
by blacksqr 5y ago
"Ferengi workers don't want to stop the exploitation, we want to find a way to become the exploiters." --Rom, DS9
385.
by blacksqr 5y ago
Just no change.
386.
Everything pandoc Markdown can do(benjaminwuethrich.dev)
2 points by blacksqr 5y ago|0 comments
387.
by blacksqr 5y ago
Perhaps so, but not in the design being discussed here.
388.
by blacksqr 5y ago
Did you look at the presentation deck in the linked repository? It clearly says "$150 target price point" It also clearly shows an electric circulating fan in the diagrams.
389.
by blacksqr 5y ago
Estimated $150 price point. Requires an electric motor to circulate air. What is the intersection of people who a) can afford an expenditure of $150, b) have reliable access to electricity and can pay for it, and c) can't get their han
390.
by blacksqr 5y ago
That's not what the paper linked to concludes. The study compared 5-year-olds who didn't wear masks to 6-year-olds who did. The conclusion was that age-dependent susceptibility statistically overwhelmed the impact of masks, so a c

More ›