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by eschulte 15y ago
+1 for x220 8) The nipple mouse in the middle of the keyboard means you never have to take your hands away from home row.
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by eschulte 15y ago
To echo a good question posed in the comments of the original article. "what is the digital equivalent of civil disobedience and protest?"
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by eschulte 15y ago
I believe there is a google summer of code project to this effect, but as has been said previously in this thread "I'll believe it when I see it". I think it more likely that Emacs-Lisp will continue to grow on its own incorporating its own
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by eschulte 15y ago
As the author of blorgit I'm surprised to see it on HN this morning. That page was created 2-3 years ago, and I don't think blorgit gets much use these days. I'd recommend just using the publish interface built into org-mode (see [1]). I
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by eschulte 15y ago
white-paper describing the protocol (from the wiki) http://www.magnusbrading.com/phantom/phantom-design-paper.pd...
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by eschulte 15y ago
Happy to share. Metzinger takes a hard line on strong materialism and against the existence of the self. For a more general overview of current strains of scientific thoughts on consciousness I'd recommend _Conversations on Consciousness_
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by eschulte 15y ago
So on the up side, I think turning it off would be the same as putting it to sleep. The question is do you ever turn it back on...
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by eschulte 15y ago
Your consciousness is your brain hardware. The software exists in the neuronal connections and weights (both of which change over the course of your lifetime), and if these are taken from a real brain (presumably the brain that's been slic
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by eschulte 15y ago
Assuming you're a materialist, a fully functional running model of a brain at the neuronal level would necessarily give rise to consciousness, and should be treated with the same ethical rules as biologically generated consciousness.
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by eschulte 15y ago
Technically, when you're in deep (non-REM) sleep your conscious is also turned off.
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by eschulte 15y ago
Thomas Metzinger addresses this exact question in his book _The Ego Tunnel_ ([1] a great non-technical overview of his work in Philosophy-o-Mind/Neuroscience), and he comes down strongly on the side that any artificial generation of "consci
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by eschulte 15y ago
It's no APL... conway's game of life in a single line of code http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1041500
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by eschulte 15y ago
http://www.justice.gov/contact-us.html
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by eschulte 15y ago
That's a really good question. I don't know what specific action American voters could take. After some searching the best I could find is this group ( http://www.citizen.org/ ), which seems to be a non-profit working in the general area o
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by eschulte 15y ago
no linebreaks? it's not animals.txt gentlemen stay within 79 characters of the start of a line
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by eschulte 15y ago
If you upvoted this article and think raising awareness of such overreaches is important consider contacting your elected representative, the person whose job is to hold government organizations accountable to the public's concerns. https:
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by eschulte 15y ago
i see no macros, why not add the feature that lets users add features?
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by eschulte 15y ago
+1 for this idea, I think "eventually updated" should be largely sufficient for a generally one-way change like repository updates. I'm "live updating" right now, and the time estimates jump between 2 hours and four days depending (I believ
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by eschulte 15y ago
and to add to this, they play nicely together, so you can asdf-install a new local version of a package available through quicklisp, and (require 'that-package) will load your newer local version.
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by eschulte 15y ago
Great to see quicklisp mentioned here. Hopefully this will stem the tide of "but common lisp has no libraries/package-management systems" comments.
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by eschulte 15y ago
Clojure is an aesthetically clean, wonderful language for parallel manipulation of lazy sequences. However after using it as my main language for slightly over two years, I found myself all-to-often butting heads with its paternalistic fun
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by eschulte 15y ago
same with `format', they're easy to bad-mouth until you've used them a couple of times, then you don't want to contemplate programming without them
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by eschulte 16y ago
There's no point being angry with Microsoft as, like any company, their stated goal is to make money. Anger should be directed at the US patent system which creates an environment in which businesses must act this way -- not an entirely fa
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by eschulte 16y ago
Much of the simplicity which renders multi-command, single-line pipe chains facile to the posix shell user would be lost if the interchange format was any more complex than plain text. If you need fields, then separate them with a text deli
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by eschulte 16y ago
there is now a "lexbind" branch in the Emacs development repository, so this won't be the case for long...
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by eschulte 16y ago
also Emacs has a build-in (as of Emacs 24) mode which exports to pdf and html, and allows code snippets to be evaluated /in-situ/ -- see http://orgmode.org
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by eschulte 16y ago
then call your cable provider and ask that Al Jazeera be added to the lineup, if they get enough of these requests they will act on them, the only question is how much is enough
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by eschulte 16y ago
Lisp interpreter in 4 lines of Clojure! https://gist.github.com/720413 Sorry I know this is rude, but I'm tired of seeing so many posts about lisp interpreters in high level languages, the vast majority of which don't mention macros -- th
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by eschulte 16y ago
Here's an imagemagick example; over six minutes with xargs, under 20 seconds with parallel $ ls *.png |wc -l 3580 $ time ls|sed 's/$.*$\..*/\1/'|parallel convert {}.png {}.ppm ls --color 0.00s user 0.01s system 63% cpu 0.016 t
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by eschulte 16y ago
Completely changing your stated principles on the importance of net neutrality and openness in the wireless sphere, because it suites your financial situation, is not "compromise" it's hypocrisy.

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