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by dreamcompiler 2mo ago
No, for several reasons: We wouldn't want to pollute the moon. If we needed to resume live testing we could just do it underground the way we used to. The politics of launching a live nuke on a rocket -- even though it's theoretic
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by dreamcompiler 2mo ago
I started reading this article and thought to myself "Author is just talking about Leroy and calling it Gorton for some reason." Sure enough. I learned a lot of history from this wonderful piece. And I still have the Leroy device
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by dreamcompiler 2mo ago
We already know how to compute sunset times accurately and doing so requires one millionth the computer power of LLM inference. It could even be cached for most big cities for every day of the year. https://www.timeanddate.com&#x
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by dreamcompiler 2mo ago
Reminds me of the datura all over my yard. I keep chopping them down (while wearing gloves) but they keep coming back. They're pretty but definitely a "look, don't eat" plant.
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by dreamcompiler 2mo ago
The reason why is interesting. Since the test ban treaty of the early 1990s, the US can no longer test its nuclear weapons by exploding them. Thus they have to simulate them exploding, nanosecond by nanosecond, to be assured the bombs will
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by dreamcompiler 2mo ago
What could possibly go wrong? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49105190
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by dreamcompiler 2mo ago
Good point. I'm amazed that people are out there buying new Jeeps and Ram trucks. But I'm equally amazed people are out there buying 365 too.
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by dreamcompiler 2mo ago
Until this administration which is actively canceling wind projects with taxpayer money. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49208314
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by dreamcompiler 2mo ago
Microsoft is the General Motors of software.
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by dreamcompiler 2mo ago
Because those other groups are not privileged. Criticizing the people in power is always okay and it should be encouraged.
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by dreamcompiler 2mo ago
This makes no sense to me. The entire point of Schmitt triggers is to not switch back and forth constantly without a good reason. Something is missing from your explanation.
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by dreamcompiler 2mo ago
What's the current state of web apps on IOS? Does Safari yet support local databases well enough to build useful web apps? Pretty much every app I can think of building for my family could just be a website iff local browser-resident p
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by dreamcompiler 2mo ago
Let me predict how Kinney management is going to react to this fiasco: They're going to call it a PR problem and say they haven't done a good enough job of selling the benefits to the customers. So they'll double down and tel
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by dreamcompiler 2mo ago
There's also a part of the US where one must drive on the left: The US Virgin Islands. Driving there is more difficult than "normal" left-side driving (such as in the UK or Japan) because the cars in the USVI are standard US
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by dreamcompiler 2mo ago
Thanks. There's one of these in Santa Fe, NM and I didn't know it had a name. I find driving on it odd but it works.
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by dreamcompiler 2mo ago
Another reason many people rejected heliocentrism was that you could get excommunicated (or worse!) if you professed to accept it.
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by dreamcompiler 2mo ago
That's true but it's not the most important aspect of macros. Macros let you define a new language that describes your problem solution more directly than you can in raw Lisp. In other words they let you create a Domain-Specific L
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by dreamcompiler 2mo ago
And that particular threading macro looks a lot like monadic code in Haskell, which looks a bit like Forth, which looks like a shell command with pipes. Macros let a domain programmer (as opposed to the compiler writer) in Lisp implement al
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by dreamcompiler 2mo ago
> reminded me of the intertwined nature of DNA, RNA and proteins in Biology My analogy is how a changing electric field generates a changing magnetic field which generates a changing electric field which ... is light. Forth is the electr
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by dreamcompiler 2mo ago
Tail recursive functions on a tail-jump optimized compiler can be as performant as loops. If the compiler was written by someone who has read the Steele papers, it generates the same assembly code in both cases.
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by dreamcompiler 2mo ago
Same here. This situation is so mind-bogglingly ridiculous that I don't know how anybody takes GrapheneOS seriously. I mean, let's say I wanted to buy a big airplane but I don't like Boeing. Airbus looks pretty good and they
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by dreamcompiler 2mo ago
This explains why I'm seeing commercials for Life360 now for the first time ever: They've developed a new revenue stream by selling everybody's location to advertisers. Now deleted from my family's phones.
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by dreamcompiler 2mo ago
This is both a bad and a good idea. First the bad: Helium is very expensive to extract and store. You'd need a lot of venture capital. And you'd have a tough time competing with Qatar which produces between 1/4 and 1/3 o
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by dreamcompiler 2mo ago
This USB-C toothbrush is something I've been looking for so I don't need to bring a special charger. What would be even better is an electric toothbrush that doesn't contain a battery that would work with USB-PD plugged in. W
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by dreamcompiler 2mo ago
Likewise usurping Ctrl-F with their own shitty global search function rather than the perfectly good page search provided by the browser. Looking at you, Confluence.
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by dreamcompiler 2mo ago
And of course you often cannot paste a 6-digit number into these fields. You have to type all 6 digits by hand.
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by dreamcompiler 3mo ago
React was invented to make multiple DOM changes quicker and set up DOM event dependencies declaratively. Fine. Some websites benefit from this. Most do not. Since React's invention, it has gotten more bloated, browsers have made living
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by dreamcompiler 3mo ago
I haven't bought a Sony product since 2005 when they put a rootkit on music CDs. Apparently their customer-hostile attitude hasn't changed much.
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by dreamcompiler 3mo ago
I think of C as more of a dark side language because it's basically a portable assembler. Lisp at least prevents you from doing the stupidest things like overrunning array bounds or writing to freed pointers*, which C is perfectly happ
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by dreamcompiler 3mo ago
Oh of course. Mycelium is just the tip of the iceberg e.g. "Spock had a secret sister." Oh come on! Yes some Trek scripts are better than others, as are some entire shows. But the creators of Disco seemed like they had never watch

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