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by carapace 4y ago
I recently bought a couple of cheap "college kid" laptops from the mall to use as dumb terminals. Before installing Linux on them I figured I'd play a round of my favorite old video game "Rome: Total War" (i got a
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by carapace 4y ago
You "finally" made an account to be counter-reactionary for MS? This improves the conversation how? - - - - MS has a long long history, any animosity they receive is well-earned. E.g.: > "Embrace, extend, and extingu
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by carapace 4y ago
Bless you noble stranger!
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by carapace 4y ago
Hmm, if that's the case then I'm not sure there's a good solution. The situation reminds me of the old web frameworks situation ("Python, the language with more web frameworks than keywords." har har) which was res
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by carapace 4y ago
> [H]is name is Allah. "Allah" is not a name, it's the Arabic word for "God". > These three monotheistic religions each have separate conceptions of God. Right, separate human conceptions of the same God.
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by carapace 4y ago
Forrest M. Mims III is a treasure! http://www.forrestmims.com/
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by carapace 4y ago
(With apologies to those who've heard it before) the solution is to model the domain (of packaging/distribution) using Python itself and provide a simple Pythonic API for it, like what pathlib does for filesystems.
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by carapace 4y ago
Nearly till the end I thought it was a metaphor for having kids... - - - - Ultimately this is a metaphysical question: What does it mean to be human as opposed to merely a digital model of a human? Martin Buber wrote "I and Thou"
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by carapace 4y ago
This was linked from "The State of the Awk (2020)" on the front page earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34438560 See also "AWK As A Major Systems Programming Language — Revisited" also
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by carapace 4y ago
Yeah the bit at the end was kinda silly, eh? Sure, we don't have magic AI yet, but what do we do about what we do have?
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by carapace 4y ago
> Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them. - - - - This is good and well for existing minds, but I think a lot of people w
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by carapace 4y ago
oh goddammit (sorry) Is there a way to change it back?
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by carapace 4y ago
FWIW you're one of the people I pay attention to outside of HN, your Mu project is very interesting and impressive IMO.
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by carapace 4y ago
First, if you think this is a good idea, please go watch James Mickens' USENIX Security '18-Q keynote speech: "Why Do Keynote Speakers Keep Suggesting That Improving Security Is Possible?" https://www.youtube.
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by carapace 4y ago
Sometimes when I'm bored. The comments are so new that they haven't been filtered yet, so there's a lot of noise compared to "main line" discussion, but you get a sort of cutting edge view of the collective instant
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by carapace 4y ago
Oh my, the nostalgia... I remember pecking out Wu anti-aliased line drawing routines in asm in DOS Debug from out of the Black Book on a PCjr. Those were the days. (Just kidding. These are the days.) https://en.wikipedia.org
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by carapace 4y ago
> The interesting question is, will future technologies push us back to an animist perspective? A future full of unexplainable and incomprehensible AIs seems almost naturally animist to me. I call it "the Daemon-Haunted World"
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by carapace 4y ago
> Don't get me started.
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by carapace 4y ago
I think you're right. At risk of making a "lowbrow dismissal" the very length of TFA is a clear symptom of the problem: Design-by-committee (The PyPA (Python Package Authority) reminds me of the movie Brazil . Don't
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by carapace 4y ago
See also "selfie": http://selfie.cs.uni-salzburg.at/ > An educational software system of a tiny self-compiling C compiler, a tiny self-executing RISC-V emulator, and a tiny self-hosting RISC-V hypervisor. >
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by carapace 4y ago
If you want to build a Forth check out R. G. Loeliger's "Threaded Interpretive Languages Their Design And Implementation" https://archive.org/details/R.G.LoeligerThreadedInterpretive... (Jonesforth has a
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by carapace 4y ago
The market is only about as intelligent as a dog?
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by carapace 4y ago
(I just tried to delete my comment and couldn't because of your reply. Such is life.) ogogmad made a much more constructive comment than mine: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34370745 It really depends on your us
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by carapace 4y ago
Floating point is a goofy hacky kludge. > There's a reason why it's implemented in hardware in all modern computers Yah, legacy. The reason we used it originally is that computers were small and slow. Now that they're big
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by carapace 4y ago
> You don't remember the decades when SoMa and the mission were gang hotspots, with frequent shootings? During that same time, it was dangerous to wear a hoodie, or a bandana. Oh I do. When I was a kid the rule was "Don't
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by carapace 4y ago
First of all, thank you for your service. My dad was in the Army. (Briefly. He was too nuts.) Respect. And thanks for the detailed reply. There are trade-offs, yes, but that's not really what I'm getting at. It's more tha
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by carapace 4y ago
Well, like I said, I've seen it for myself. E.g. some folks broke into the house across the street and were squatting. My sister's car got broken into and some stuff stolen.
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by carapace 4y ago
> I am saying perhaps shoplifting is not in fact any worse than typical trends, as Walgreens suggested for their stores. That's what I said too, "Walgreens overestimated and overstated how bad shoplifting was". Anyway, it
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by carapace 4y ago
Great! I just bought it. I'm not really a gamer, I want to learn CL. :) (I just played a bit and I really like it!)
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by carapace 4y ago
Forgive me if this is a dumb question, if I install this through Steam can I hack on it?

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