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by carapace 3y ago
JS is a ridiculous language. Ruby is another ridiculous language. Python has some very frosty deep roots in PL theory and practice, and it's a billion times better than C and a trillion times better than C++. (Java was and still is u
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Many of the places at the forefront of this threat also have water scarcity issues. There's also the problem of what to do with the water once it's heated up. You could pump it back into the ground to cool off, but eventually yo
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by carapace 3y ago
I recently spent some time camping in a place that hit daytime temperatures of over 100°F. When it's that hot all you can do is wet your clothing and spray mist and fan yourself to get evaporative cooling. Thinking about wet-bulb tem
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by carapace 3y ago
Death and birth are evolved. Micro-organisms don't do it. A few multicellular organisms don't either (e.g. there's a kind of immortal jellyfish, but what it does is periodically revert to an amorphous mass and then grow bac
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Tail Recursion in REBOL(funcall.blogspot.com)
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General Semantics(en.wikipedia.org)
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I used to think we didn't need unions and then it came out that dozens of the big tech companies were colluding with each other to limit wages and job mobility. https://web.archive.org/web/20200304045453/https
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by carapace 3y ago
> Avoid Harbor Freight. Why? I'm just starting out with solar power and I got a 100W panel set (4 x 25W with a charge controller) and 35Ah battery from HF just to try it out and so far it seems fine.
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Nanoclay: The liquid turning desert to farmland(bbc.com)
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Solar Greenhouses Generate Electricity and Grow Crops at the Same Time(ecosnippets.com)
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A cosmic ray in a cloud chamber. R.I.P.
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by carapace 3y ago
I recently learned of a spectacular example of this: The Forestiere Underground Gardens in Fresno: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forestiere_Underground_Gardens > The Forestiere Underground Gardens in Fresno, Califor
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Review of Soft Core Forth Processors [pdf](pythonlinks.info)
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I like to point out that computers are war machines . First use of computer: help win WWII. Second use of computer: simulate atomic bombs. And so it goes...
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Come now, dressing your point in logical symbols doesn't make it less churlish. We're talking about people operating motor vehicles on a public taxpayer-funded way. Clearly the public has a right to see them do it? In Californi
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What privacy? It's a public road?
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You can't avoid the ubiquitous surveillance, it's here and it's only going to increase. (Your phone and your car both already know if you're driving and using them at the same time, and they both tell other people every
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by carapace 3y ago
See also PermaPeople.org The thing to look for in this sort of thing is open DB schema and protocols.
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You beat me to it. > The most popular programming language in computer science has no compiler, interpreter, or complete specification. It is remarkably concise. It grew over decades; today, dozens of variations are in use. Its complex
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Wow, cool!
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2nd International Forest Garden / Food Forest Symposium(agroforestry.co.uk)
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Ah that sweet syntatic sugar... Really, the situation reminds me of the Cambrian explosion. Maybe we really do have to try out all these variations to eventually settle on bilateral symmetry and four legs...
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by carapace 3y ago
I dunno man, I just started using Scheme (finally!) and now I'm mad all over again at all of us programmers for just not using Lisp. Like, WTF? It's older than I am! It's like, how much time and energy should we waste on s
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by carapace 3y ago
Hmm... The "Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways"? Started around 1956. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_highway
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Walter Pitts was working on something like that, but he burned his work. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Pitts
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From Naïve to Norvig, on Deriving a Prolog Compiler(dl.acm.org)
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"Rainbows End" And for HN see especially "True Names": > a 1981 science fiction novella by American writer Vernor Vinge, a seminal work of the cyberpunk genre. It is one of the earliest stories to present a fully fles
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by carapace 3y ago
> I was really just betting on you using at least one of the following - proprietary BIOS, non-free network switch/router, wifi, a run of the mill keyboard or mouse, a switching AC adapter, any modern appliance, or a webpage that ru
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by carapace 3y ago
Location: Igo, California Remote: Only remote please. Willing to relocate: No. Technologies: Pretty much anything. Résumé/CV: see below Email: sleepy.dog8187@fastmail.com ("Masked" email to elude s
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When I was a kid this thing was legendary, most people had never heard of it and most of those who had thought it was a hoax. An engine with one moving part... The only place that had actual information on it was an obscure service that ad

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