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by cicero 8y ago
I have heard critiques of functional programming, but not that there is a problem with leaky abstractions. Can you provide an example? Does it invalidate the discipline of trying to use pure functions when possible? I learned to program usi
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If you take Socrates at his word, I think he is sincerely trying to find answers. He asks a question that he really wants to know the answer to, but then sees potential flaws in the answer, so he asks more questions to test the strength of
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by cicero 8y ago
I discovered the word "meme" on Usenet discussion groups back in 1992. It was a well-known idea in the Hacker News of that day, and was being applied to things that were being passed around on the Internet. However, since this was
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by cicero 8y ago
I have one and I love it. I got it from a T-Mobile promotion where they gave away a free SE with the purchase of an iPhone (including another SE). So I got my wife and I matching phones. The SE does everything I need, fits comfortably in
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by cicero 8y ago
"Our love affair with self-driving cars is a form of 'techno-chauvinism,' Prof. Broussard says. 'It's the idea that technology is always the highest and best solution, and is superior to the people-based solution.&#
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I hope this means that Apple will give the Macintosh line more attention.
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> I am usually sceptical of anything that has even a whiff of human exceptionalism Why are you skeptical? There is clearly a huge leap in rational intelligence when you go from other animals to humans. I would expect we would eventuall
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This was the normal case with most college students in the U.S. Dormitory rooms when I was in university (1980s) were typically a single room with two twin beds, two desks, and maybe a private bathroom, but often a bath shared with another
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by cicero 8y ago
It appears that the dropping ball does something to advance it.
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by cicero 8y ago
I always press the lock button before I put the phone back in my pocket, but I've seen people put the phone back in their pocket or purse unlocked. If you have the phone app already running, butt dialing is very likely to occur.
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by cicero 8y ago
I agree that some preachers misuse their little bit of Greek knowledge, but Lewis was a professor of literature and knew Greek well. Storge and eros are not Biblical words, but they are still Greek words that are often translated "love
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The Christian Liturgy in Rome was originally celebrated in Greek and was only later translated into the Latin language, which dominated the Church until modern times. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyrie#In_Western_Chris
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The Four Loves by C.S. Lewis [1] is about four different Greek words that are usually translated as "love" in English: storge, philia, eros, and agape. The self-sacrificing love, agape, is what the GP is talking about. 1: https
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by cicero 8y ago
At this stage in my career, Python is my most used language, but I would prefer static typing (ideally with type inference) and native executables. I've been learning Haskell for that reason, but I see that Nim would also fulfill those
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HAL 9000 replica powered by Alexa(masterreplicasgroup.com)
1 points by cicero 8y ago|0 comments
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I am not even convinced that understanding happens at a biological level. I think there is still a lot that can be done to model aspects of human reasoning in software to produce useful results, especially if it is married with machine lear
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It may seem a stretch to connect this will to power with the “illness” of scientific materialism, but I wonder. At the beginning of modern science, we bracketed purpose and meaning in order to see more clearly the workings of the impersona
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Of Astronomical Significance(thecatholicthing.org)
3 points by cicero 8y ago|1 comments
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At my school, we teach Scratch in 5th grade (US, age 10) and I teach Python in 6th grade. I think Scratch and the like are good starts, so I'm glad to see more offerings. Even so, stepping up to Python is a big step from the blocks lan
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Centuries worth of rare earth elements found near Japan(asahi.com)
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by cicero 9y ago
You are correct that the books are dated, but I have found the occasional teenager (I teach high school) who is able to look past that and be fascinated with the big ideas inside. I loved the books as a teenager, but now I have issues with
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by cicero 9y ago
God of the gaps is rejected by most well-educated theologians, especially in the Catholic Thomist tradition. According to St. Thomas Aquinas, God is the foundation of existence, like a substrate underlying reality, but distinct from all oth
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by cicero 9y ago
Why is the US more violent? More video games? American football? Or is it just the easy access to guns that makes Americans violent?
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Python Idioms in Rust(benjamincongdon.me)
182 points by cicero 9y ago|78 comments
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The novelization of the first Star Wars movie alluded to controversies over "droid rights", but that was a theme that never developed as the series progressed.
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This story[1] shows the prosthetic that he received at the time of his injury, but it does not have a hand that can grip a baseball. 1: http://abcnews.go.com/US/teen-builds-baseball-throwing-prost...
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by cicero 9y ago
When I think of "authentic" Tex-Mex, I think of El Fenix in Dallas. They certainly have a long (in American terms) and interesting history[1] with that cuisine. My favorite comfort food, especially during cold weather, is their Me
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LaTex-Mex?
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I worked on a project in 1993 for which we bought a SparcStation 20 with 1 GB of RAM, but we used it with 2 X-Terminals to support 3 developers. At the time we thought 1 GB of RAM was crazy! I believe the machine cost us $10K. So, I can ima
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by cicero 9y ago
It is certainly viable. I follow an interesting group of users and unfollow anyone who becomes problematic. There are some "Promoted" tweets that are essentially ads, but they are easy to ignore if not interesting.

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