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by carapace 4y ago
Reminds me of Python Tutor ( https://pythontutor.com/ ) (Not to nerd-snipe but it would be fun to write a little doggerel to make Python Tutor draw a parse tree, eh? If you do it please post a link?) We need more tools lik
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Finite element analysis might work well?
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> If you are unfamiliar with Mastodon, you will no doubt wonder what the big deal is. How is this one going to be any different than its slimy competitors? I think it's important to remind people that Mastodon isn't a "com
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by carapace 4y ago
One of my favorite jokes from the Simpsons: Homer and Mr. Burns are chilling in the rocket house Homer: Mr. Burns, you're the richest man I know. Mr. Burns: Ah yes, but I'd trade it all... for a little more. - - - - > people
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by carapace 4y ago
I think you're raising a good point. FWIW, I don't think working on your car should be an actual crime. That's messed up. I see this (the Sac law) as a sort of county-wide HOA rule. Sacramento is the seat of the state gove
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You can always adopt?
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This sounds bad but it's one of those laws that prevents trouble. (As an aside, I once signed a lease in San Francisco that was eleven pages thick, small print, and for each clause you could easily imagine the lawsuit that led to its i
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by carapace 4y ago
At risk of being overly pedantic, I have to point out that you quoted my conclusion (which is based on my attitude), my attitude is, as I said, an unsettling mixture of reverence and annoyance. I'm actually pretty eager to learn and us
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by carapace 4y ago
My attitude is, on the one hand, reverence for such a fantastic intellectual feat, but on the other hand, annoyance that it's so opaque and difficult. It's sort of like performance art ( very well-paid performance art) rather tha
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Cheers
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by carapace 4y ago
Excuse me if this is a dumb question, is there something like Godbolt for AVR compilers?
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That sounds good!
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It sounds like you might want to read "Battle for the Life and Beauty of the Earth". If you want to go deep his magnus opus is "Nature of Order". It's transcendent.
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by carapace 4y ago
They caught on for covering large areas (stadiums, aircraft hangars, etc.) but they don't really make sense on what you might call the "human scale", roughly 3 to 10 meters, say. At human scale wood and metal are strong and
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by carapace 4y ago
Probably the biggest environmental win would be to make arcologies: ecologically integrated cities. > Arcology, a portmanteau of "architecture" and "ecology",[2] is a field of creating architectural design principles
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> Open Source is usually $0 cost because I believe there is a problem with Stallman's guidelines "Open Source" is not RMS's thing, he is the "Free" software guy. By getting that wrong you kinda disqualify y
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by carapace 4y ago
See also this thread on Permies.com forums: "My Progress Gleying a Pond With Pigs" https://permies.com/t/38201/Progress-Gleying-Pond-Pigs Long story short: pigs make ponds. You gotta see it to believe
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by carapace 4y ago
> Will AI put programmers our (sic) of work? Yes. The questions are: "How soon?" and "Which programmers?" > Should I worry? Are you satisfied doing a job that could be done by a simple script? > Do you think th
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by carapace 4y ago
There are pretty much only three major inventions (he claimed boldly, hoping to spark a fun and informative discussion): The Haber-Bosch Process, without which none of us would be here reading this today. The transistor. 'natch. Rare e
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by carapace 4y ago
FWIW, I want to make it clear that I'm not criticizing David Graeber. I'm not an anarchist myself, but I very much value and respect his work. Also, when I used "their" above I meant David Graeber and the co-author of t
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by carapace 4y ago
I'm sympathetic to the arguments presented in the book, my complaint is that it's "preaching to the choir" too much. I think it would be a stronger book if it was less polemical. I think it's fascinating and import
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by carapace 4y ago
I'm putting together a litter bot (to pick up litter, not to drop it!) and it's incredibly how simple it is compare to hobby robotics, say, twenty-five years ago. You just plug things together and then write some code (which you
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by carapace 4y ago
> That seems more like science fiction than fact. It's not evenly distributed yet but the future is here: radio-networked pocket supercomputers; print-on-demand machines, and DNA; etc... > housing & land, clothes, potable wat
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by carapace 4y ago
That's kind of my point: there's so much fascinating and important work going on right now that the book just sort of gestures at in the rush to make their political points. FWIW, I'm sympathetic to their arguments, but I&#x
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> How is it that America can still be traumatised from the world wars architecturally but europe is not? America is young, Europe is old.
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FWIW, I wasn't that impressed with "Dawn of Everything", I wish it had more data and less polemic. (I think the polemical argument would have been stronger if, paradoxically, it had been weaker.)
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Inflation shouldn't be happening in an economic regime where UBI makes sense. UBI makes sense when science and technology make production so efficient that normal people are shut out of the economy, they can't compete with corpor
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by carapace 4y ago
Perhaps Tyson isn't the best example. Like I said, normally I'm not a "think of the children" type, but IMO you've got to give the kids (et. al.) a fighting chance, I really did watch the trailer for the series and
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by carapace 4y ago
You're missing the point. The problem isn't that he is "speculating out ahead of the facts", the problem is that this series paints him in exactly the same light as, say, Neil deGrasse Tyson.
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cf. Englebart; and Ashby "Introduction to Cybernetics" The fundamental principle of intelligence augmentation (of human intelligence by machine assistance) comes from selection : the machine can generate options beyond those whic

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