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by carapace 4y ago
Except that's not true, there was no poverty in all of North America, for example, up until a couple of hundred years ago. In case this sounds snarky, let me be clear: this is a really important thing to consider (IMO): there are soc
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by carapace 4y ago
I worked briefly for a company that wanted (and got, and then later abandoned) a '.sy' domain. Syria. They had to get the State Dept. involved!
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by carapace 4y ago
Hey hey, FWIW I wrote this up too (also in Python but in a different style, and without as many cool glyphs): https://joypy.osdn.io/notebooks/Derivatives_of_Regular_Expre... One neat thing is that the "compaction&
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by carapace 4y ago
Molten Salt Oxidation. "Burn" plastic (and everything else) in a bath of red-hot liquid salt. Exothermic reaction. Produces "synthesis gas". It's used to dispose of munitions and DDT and shi-- stuff like that.
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by carapace 4y ago
You know, chaotic neutral or lawful good , etc...
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by carapace 4y ago
So we have talking computers. The normals are losing their minds, and that's pretty concerning. I figure that the problem of the computers hallucinating can be cleared up by connecting them to empirical feedback devices: make them sc
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by carapace 4y ago
I think what you're talking about is "solitude", which is a kind of inverse of loneliness in that gives you a kind of inner strength rather than taking health away.
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by carapace 4y ago
I'm designing a such a system now, based on the pure functional Joy language with two additional data stores: a relational db system (Prolog (or maybe Datalog), not SQL) and what is effectively a git repo although I think of it as a &q
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by carapace 4y ago
This is fantastic! Just what the doctor ordered!
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by carapace 4y ago
See also Turing Drawings http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/ (One of my favorite things on the Internet!)
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by carapace 4y ago
You might be joking, but you can actually make plastic out of milk/cheese: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casein
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by carapace 4y ago
You can use it live in the browser from here: http://schierlm.github.io/OberonEmulator/ Book and code are available from Wirth's site: https://people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth/ProjectOberon/index
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by carapace 4y ago
(The interesting thing about something like this is that metaphysically it's perfectly cromulent. The efficacy of the guru comes form the faith of the disciple.)
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by carapace 4y ago
This! I was listening to a radio interview with a famous NN researcher and everything was going great until the interviewer asked him a question that only a neurologist could answer, and he kept talking in exactly the same way, answering
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Are you an ecologist?
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by carapace 4y ago
Well, that's as may be, but it says on the tin "malware and porno" and weed is neither, eh?
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These folks are building a 250 metric tonnes capacity wooden sailing cargo vessel by hand: https://www.sailcargo.inc/en/ceiba
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by carapace 4y ago
> Cloudflare is not making the Internet safer, its just making it less open. They're doing both, eh? I switched my family's home DNS to Cloudflare's family-safe DNS ( https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing
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by carapace 4y ago
In a word, extrapolation. I hope I don't sound too ridiculous, here on Hacker News, but I've kinda devoted my life to computer programming (it's deeper than that, and there's a lot of other stuff going on, but to a firs
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by carapace 4y ago
"If <FOO> is so amazing, why doesn't everyone use it?" has got to be one of my least favorite questions. Never mind that it's lazy (in a bad way), it presupposes that people automatically adopt the best available
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by carapace 4y ago
> If you believe this is going to happen I believe this is going to happen (and is happening right now, in front of us) not just for programmers but for any role that can be automated. > How should you prepare for it? Get equity.
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Swift [Language] Error Handling Rationale and Proposal (2017)(apple-swift.readthedocs.io)
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by carapace 4y ago
I was just rereading an old but still interesting article about something similar yet totally different, the "Green Wave" ocean farming project. https://medium.com/invironment/an-army-of-ocean-farmers-on-t...
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by carapace 4y ago
I've been gardening a lot this last couple of years now and, yeah, plants have intelligence. Indeed, as science is starting to understand, the soil itself functions as a kind of organism with intelligence. The work of Michael Levin an
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Large cities are probably economically unsustainable anyway. I wouldn't be surprised if mega-cities turn out to be wholly transient, with places like London and Tokyo effectively becoming museums of themselves.
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> Can you support your claims as for these ratios? I think the article we're commenting on is just that, no? > Half of Americans in a recent survey indicated they believe national news organizations intend to mislead, misinform o
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Phil Bagwell's VList in Python(paste.sr.ht)
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They don't make educated choices, they don't make choices at all. Human societies can be broadly categorized into three groups: 1) The largest group (typically more than half) don't know what's going on. 2) The second gr
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by carapace 4y ago
> Why are you interested in having a discussion on any of this... I'm interested in systems which permit bug-free programming. Elm seems like a step in the right direction, bringing semi-obscure ideas closer to the mainstream. Lot
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by carapace 4y ago
Are you? You're making drive-by psychological diagnosis on the Internet. Maybe rethink your rhetorical style? It's uncool to troll like that. This is a two-day old thread. Were you just hanging around waiting for me to respond

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