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by carapace 4y ago
My friend, I'm sorry, he is a kook. (At best he's a kook, if he believes his own fiction he's merely a kook. He might just be trolling for the money. If so, he's a pernicious conman. But I think he's earnest. A
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by carapace 4y ago
Please and thank you. I got one of his books as entertainment, it's a guilty pleasure, I like "kooky" fringe stuff. So I was actually pretty stoked to see the series appear on Netflix, but then I watched the preview... It is
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by carapace 4y ago
I usually refrain from this sort of meta-comment but I gotta say I'm a little startled to see my original comment was flagged. I'm not sure exactly what to make of that. In any event, thanks for linking to the scene. I re-watche
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by carapace 4y ago
I was just curious, you seem like a meticulous thinker so I figured you had done your homework before adopting an unusual Forth style. Cheers
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by carapace 4y ago
A friend of mine who's a neuroscientist likes to say, "Psychiatry is not a branch of medicine." He means it in a constructive way, the implied follow on is "that would be good though, and we should strive to do that.&qu
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by carapace 4y ago
In that case, your Forth style is fascinating. Cheers! :)
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by carapace 4y ago
> unchanged humanity Adapt or die. Evolution is a thing. Your complaint reminds me of a bacteria complaining about all the oxygen. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxidation_Event )
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by carapace 4y ago
Did you ever read "Thinking Forth"?
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by carapace 4y ago
FWIW I'm starting a Mutual Benefit Corporation. (It's non-profit, but not a charity.) It's not a coop, but the board works by a Quaker-inspired consensus model (rather than Robert's Rule of Order or something like that
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by carapace 4y ago
I'm going to hang my comment off yours, since it's nearly a perfect "hook". You don't need to build that device. You are that device. (Check out Michael Levin's lab's work, et. al. The machinery of though
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by carapace 4y ago
(It's Romans, not Proverbs) > 18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. 19 For what can be known about God is plain to them,
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by carapace 4y ago
> What do you think is the biggest problem with solar energy? Stupid people. (Also the biggest problem with everything else. It's almost, but not quite, the only problem.) > How can this problem be solved with our existing kno
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by carapace 4y ago
Oh really? I think the ball of aluminum foil in my junk pile is about to meet its fate. Cheers
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by carapace 4y ago
Wow! Cheers!
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by carapace 4y ago
I'm pretty sure there's already a C compiler for it. :) Anyway, I've got the dysfunction, I just added an email address to my profile if you want to contact me. Cheers!
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by carapace 4y ago
Are you talking about actually doing that? I ask because that's more-or-less what I'd like to do, using Wirth's Project Oberon.
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by carapace 4y ago
Excellent! Couldn't have said it better myself. I'm starting a new stack (based, as it happens, on Prof Wirth's Oberon RISC chip) and network. Let me know if you're interested. I don't know how to save the masses
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by carapace 4y ago
Once, in a small town in Colorado I passed two people, a man and a woman, and there was something very strange about them. I mentioned it to a friend of mine and he told me about them: they were refugees from the far south, from a indigeno
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by carapace 4y ago
That's awesome! Does that get hot enough to melt aluminum?
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by carapace 4y ago
Yah, that's why I think this might be a good idea (or at least not as terrible as some other ideas): it's just turning up the knob a little bit on a process that's already occurring naturally.
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by carapace 4y ago
There's this kid who figured out a solid state device that boils water to steam when the sun shines on it. (It's a flat, thin layer of a black foam-like material.) I'll try to dig up a link... Anyway, you could mass produce
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by carapace 4y ago
It's not something I want to argue about, but I feel like I can envision a world where you connected with your audience without the intercession of a "black box" corporate system. (I hesitate to believe that an algorithm cou
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by carapace 4y ago
For me the crucial point is that those services are closed and proprietary and they do not make hardware, in other words, they are packaging capabilities that your machine(s) already have, they are not fundamentally adding anything to the
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by carapace 4y ago
Those three things go together , there are no trade offs. "And therefore your answer is a charade." Smaller is cheaper is easier to produce in large volumes, yeah? You can buy small, cheap, mass-produced EVs in most of the rest
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by carapace 4y ago
Just like hammers and mallets are equivalent, yeah? - - - - Recursion and loops are equivalent. They both just compile to branches with negative offsets, eh? - - - - If you take enough LSD everything is equivalent to everything else.
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by carapace 4y ago
I was one of those kids who was deeply affected by my parents' copy of "The Whole Earth Catalog" (in my case the "Next" WEC.) I learned about people like Bucky Fuller, Christopher Alexander, Gregory Bateson, Bill
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by carapace 4y ago
ORT (Only Read Title, sorry) What I'm hearing is "put a non-deterministic black box between you and the man command." Nah. I recommend a stiff dose of Mickens: "Why Do Keynote Speakers..." https://www.y
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by carapace 4y ago
You can do recursion in Boolean logic. It leads to imaginary Boolean values. See "Laws of Form". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laws_of_Form
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by carapace 4y ago
I'm sorry, I don't understand what you're saying. The police said that they couldn't do their jobs because the DA wasn't prosecuting. The Progressive bloc said that the police were fudging the reported numbers and s
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by carapace 4y ago
> Let that sink in Or go do some research. I'm a left-leaning grow-in-SF person who voted to recall Boudin. I've had Progressive friends tell me to my face that I was fooled by the police. Okay, for the sake of discussion, let

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