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by ctrw 3y ago
I tried building a reddit style baord using that. The main issue became that calculating weights was more expensive than everything else combined. At one extreme you have the trust matrix which you just multiply with itself to get the nth h
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by ctrw 3y ago
Lisp is syntax which happens to be executed. Forth is execution that happens to have some syntax. If you want a dual of lisp you need to look at Joy or Factor.
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by ctrw 3y ago
I mean there is no reason to not do a digital handshake when doing a physical handshake. Just need a fairly non invasive implant.
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by ctrw 3y ago
They are OK for text input, it's the extra symbols you need for coding that are the issue. Even the () for lisp are second class characters.
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by ctrw 3y ago
I'm glad you agree.
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by ctrw 3y ago
No, turns out physical chorded keyboards are a lot worse than I remember for code.
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by ctrw 3y ago
When you're too cool for temporal modal editing so you invent spacial modal editing. Been using that for a while and yes it is the best parts of vim with the best parts of Emacs. The main selling point is that I can now edit lisp code
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by ctrw 3y ago
Current deep fakes are good enough to fool your mother. I've done it with friends to show what's possible.
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by ctrw 3y ago
Yeah with the advent of good deep fakes were at the point where everyone having their own private key is a must for all communication that's not face to face.
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by ctrw 3y ago
Both are the right stuff.
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by ctrw 3y ago
No that's sicp chapter 4 and 5. Again I have no idea why no one talks about those. They are the most mind bending parts of the book.
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by ctrw 3y ago
The first three chapters will take you a year. The next two will take you longer. I always find it odd that no one talks about the lisp book where you write a hardware simulation of a computer to run the compiler you also wrote on.
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by ctrw 3y ago
I think it's a bimodal distribution. On the one hand you have the unflappable who just calmly watch what happens. On the other you have the far too flappable who is already out of the lab and making good time out of the building and th
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by ctrw 3y ago
Ok I'll bite. How did the world survive for millions of years with bevers around before we killed most of them on every continent?
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by ctrw 3y ago
Those terrorist bevers must be stopped at all costs.
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by ctrw 3y ago
No, the people who run those are the people who couldn't cut it as reddit mods. If you want the old internet vibe the dark Web is the place to be. Tor, freenet, i2p. I'm quite partial to freenet because it's completely segreg
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by ctrw 3y ago
You just need to be as disreputable to the current establishment as we were to the previous one. Slap a swastika on it and you'll never have people trying to take over your project. Same way goatse kept the old forums from being overra
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by ctrw 3y ago
Mine of your business. That's the point of open source.
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by ctrw 3y ago
They are going for regulatory capture because they have no moat and open source Ai models are eating their lunch.
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by ctrw 3y ago
Apparently 6 pull ups are now a super human feat who no one is expected to manage.
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by ctrw 3y ago
The fit question is pretty easy: able to pass the 1940 army fitness test: https://www.artofmanliness.com/health-fitness/fitness/are-yo... The others aren't and are person dependent.
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by ctrw 3y ago
Sure, the issue is that most loops are farily simple and putting the logic in the middle of a function far away from the iteration is bad. It's the same reason why I use let instead of a function when I want to encapsulate simple state
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by ctrw 3y ago
Common lisp let's you do recursion when you need it and not when you don't. Using recursion for iterating through a list is stupid because you bury the lead in the middle of a function and you do the same thing until you stop. Usi
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by ctrw 3y ago
The difference with lisps is that the debugger is always part of the runtime and you have full access to all the languages capabilities while inside. I've yet to see a C debugger which does more than a fancy version of printf. Imagine