carapace

27 ms·

271.
by carapace 3y ago
Holy shit. That's legitimately terrifying.
272.
by carapace 3y ago
That scene has been elided from recent reruns!
273.
by carapace 3y ago
Math. (As in, math is it's own motivation to some minds.) These read to me like very abstract problems cast into everyday (for that time) language to make the concepts more approachable. Like "word problems" today the situat
274.
by carapace 3y ago
One should know the SOS distress signal, at least: ...---... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOS
275.
by carapace 3y ago
That is interesting, cheers!
276.
Ashby's book "Introduction to Cybernetics" (2003)(pespmc1.vub.ac.be)
57 points by carapace 3y ago|6 comments
277.
by carapace 3y ago
Selenology and selenography are both already in use.
278.
by carapace 3y ago
Yeah, AFAIK Becker's "The Body Electric: Electromagnetism and the Foundation of Life" is pretty much all there was until Michael Levin came along and picked up the torch. IMO it's one of those weird "holes": wh
279.
by carapace 3y ago
> Beyond the tech, how would support services really work? We can have a technician from any of the large vendors on-site in less than 2 hours. In some of our DC clusters we actually have vendor support personnel 24x7 on-site with vendor
280.
by carapace 3y ago
I see the whole thing as a huge advertisement for Forth, Lisp, and Prolog.
281.
by carapace 3y ago
I mean, we will eventually live in harmony with Nature one way or another. Shall we cooperate consciously in the process of life and evolution, or let everything crash and burn and hope the survivors do better next time?
282.
by carapace 3y ago
Why not both? In some cases micro-gassifier rocket heater/stoves (just because you can make one out of mud doesn't mean it's not high technology!) & coppicing and pollarding will make more sense. In other cases clean ato
283.
by carapace 3y ago
The solution there is the same thing: living in harmony with nature. It's carbon-neutral or -negative and very fun and fulfilling.
284.
by carapace 3y ago
Good! I've been saying for years now that we are going to need LTA mass transport to deal with climate change. My only suggestion is to build them out of cellular swarm robots.
285.
by carapace 3y ago
The two things are orthogonal. Item: humans driving huge machines on every street is and always has been totally insane. The reason we do it is because of a deliberate domestic propaganda campaign. No really. See: "The Real Reason Ja
286.
by carapace 3y ago
FFS thank you! Just because you make your large industrial robots look like cars does not mean you should be able to test them in the street where the kids and old people (and everybody else) exist and do their thing. It's fucking
287.
by carapace 3y ago
I figure we want a kind of split-level economy: The primary layer would be basically what this article calls the "Nature layer" and it involves using our science and technology to meet a minimum Standard of Living for everybody in
288.
by carapace 3y ago
I think the major reason is that software is largely invisible. If the normals could SEE the fractal Rube Goldberg machines made out of Rube Goldberg machines they would have the expected reactions. So many people shut off their critical t
289.
by carapace 3y ago
The implication is that self-editing of genes is much more common than we suspected?
290.
by carapace 3y ago
JITTLOV'S 3-D DOBBS BOBoBoBoBoBoBOBoBoBoBoBoBOBoBoBoBoBoBOBoBfNoRdBoBOBoBoBoBoBoBOBoBoBoBoBoBOB !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !::::'___`:::::::'___`:::::::'___`
291.
by carapace 3y ago
The LayLa layout language is pretty neat. Converts a simple formal language to Gadgets (widgets). Demo: https://github.com/rochus-keller/OberonSystem3/blob/b2d16e32...
292.
by carapace 3y ago
I want to point out that computers in particular are just not that hard to understand. E.g. "Getting started in electronics" by Forrest M. Mims III ( https://archive.org/details/gettingstartedin00mims ) cove
293.
by carapace 3y ago
'Course it's a good idea! (One of my favorite bits.)
294.
by carapace 3y ago
> A notable incident of controversial photo manipulation occurred over a photograph that was altered to fit the vertical orientation of a 1982 National Geographic magazine cover. The altered image made two Egyptian pyramids appear closer
295.
by carapace 3y ago
Wow, I'm three paragraphs in and I'm breaking up, bawling.
296.
by carapace 3y ago
Yes, thank you, it was making me twitchy. A tennis court sized wall made of bricks is just a large meta-brick. Whew! Cheers! That was gonna bug me all day (but I don't like to quip on HN, y'know?)
297.
by carapace 3y ago
> You're wrong on the basics No, friend, you are. Money and force are both powered by love. Do you know of the "Five Whys" technique? It turns out there's a psychological version. Without going into a long thing abo
298.
by carapace 3y ago
As an aside, all this second-guessing and backseat driving of Linus Torvalds is getting a little ridiculous. "Hey nice kernel but could you also behave in a way that I approve as well? Otherwise I'm going to go around the Internet
299.
by carapace 3y ago
> I’m not really sure what the purpose of publishing something like this is. It doesn’t really seem intended to convince anyone of anything? Is the controversy the point? Galvanizing some “base?” The only thing that makes sense to me (ot
300.
by carapace 3y ago
I want to change my comment (but the edit window is long gone.) This "manifesto" is batshit insane.

More ›