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by flubert 6y ago
>But then where are all of these immensely-correct fast-written programs? Ah, the Fermi paradox of programming languages. I wonder what the appropriate terms should be for the Drake equation of language adoption? I definitely think the
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by flubert 6y ago
How about C? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25531871 https://github.com/vsedach/Vacietis ================ Vacietis is a C compiler for Common Lisp systems. Vacietis works by loading C code into a
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by flubert 6y ago
Anyone know if there are technical restrictions on third-party battery packs? As in, if you don't buy the cryptographically-signed (or whatever) OEM approved battery pack, it won't work? So if you buy a used electric vehicle tod
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by flubert 6y ago
That seems like an interesting plot for a story. Stonepunk? It seems a sufficiently advanced society could have Antikythera type computing mechanisms ground from stone. And extravagant "wood"-working artifacts shaped by sharp s
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by flubert 6y ago
Not an actual liquid piston engine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluidyne_engine https://archive.org/details/liquidpistonstir00west
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by flubert 6y ago
All the car seats for my kids were chiefly composed of plastics. I'm sure there is quite a high factor of safety for car seat design, but there are quite a few time and temperature related failure modes for plastics (i.e. getting brit
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by flubert 6y ago
> And the worst parts of Common Lisp would be the massive, inconsistent, designed-by-committee language, CLOS, and macros. I've always wondered what would happen if there was a CL standardization where everything was CLOS'ified
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by flubert 6y ago
I'd recommend the book/audiobook "Why We Sleep" by Matthew Walker. https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=why+we+sleep&ia=web
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by flubert 6y ago
Can't thoughtful discourse begin on a topic that is wrong, discussing why it is wrong? For example, I'd love to see a critique of what is wrong with: http://alternativephysics.org/book/GPSmythology.htm ...wh
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Ask HN: What evidence would convince you of intelligent extra-terrestrial life?
33 points by flubert 6y ago|43 comments
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by flubert 6y ago
Was it a regulator paperwork hurdle? Regulations themselves? High cost of labor? No skilled labor available? High cost of warehouse/manufacturing floor space? All-of-the-above?
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by flubert 6y ago
Some historian somewhere must have come across records of how long a chariot wheel lasted. It seems like that would have as close to a similar loading as a bicycle. 100 miles? 1,000?
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Bluetooth-Enabled Anonymous Covid Tracking (Washington State Notify App)(doh.wa.gov)
1 points by flubert 6y ago|0 comments
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by flubert 6y ago
>recommended against by NIST As a layman who has too many passwords that rotate too often to keep in memory effectively, I'd like to pass this along to our IT department. Can someone post a link to the NIST best password practices?
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by flubert 6y ago
That link was 404 for me. Maybe this will work better? https://www.pine64.org/2020/12/02/pine-store-community-prici...
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by flubert 6y ago
Is there a word for waiting-for-a-twist-that-never-comes? I keep thinking that the Australia Project was really a front for Manna "leveling up" and secretly turning the Terraform dwellers into Vites to further keep them easier to
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by flubert 6y ago
I wonder how communities like the Amish fit into the larger scheme of things. It seems like they've decided to ignore anything later than the 1700's technology. Are there other groups with different technology cut-off dates? If
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by flubert 6y ago
I wonder if we could grade how much better a current system is vs something like the QNX 1.44MB demo disk. http://toastytech.com/guis/qnxdemo.html
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by flubert 6y ago
>Riemann hypothesis for example I'll recommend reading the chapter on the Riemann Hypothesis from the book: The Millennium Problems by Keith Devlin. https://www.amazon.com/Millennium-Problems-Greatest-Unsolved... Th
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by flubert 6y ago
>lack of practical examples Maybe check out: Geometric Algebra For Computer Science https://geometricalgebra.org/ ...there's at least a chapter on a ray tracer, if that is practical enough.
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Visual method for solving polynomials (Lill's method)(youtube.com)
1 points by flubert 6y ago|0 comments
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by flubert 6y ago
Anyone know of research on other types of these "fatigues"? I could see "advocacy fatigue" being a thing.
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by flubert 6y ago
LibGen? "Shannon's Measure of Information and the Thermodynamic Entropy" https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3703629
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by flubert 6y ago
- Entropy Demystified: The Second Law Reduced To Plain Common Sense ( https://www.amazon.com/Entropy-Demystified-Second-Reduced-Co... ) - A Farewell to Entropy ( https://www.amazon.com/Farewell-E
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by flubert 6y ago
>has anyone formalized the idea that the second law can be interpreted as a general inability of computer programs to predict one another? Arieh Ben Naim thinks entropy is better described by Shannon's Measure of Information. I hav
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by flubert 6y ago
If you haven't started investigating the "new" CGRP medications, you need to. There are several on the market now, and it is a once-a-month injection. These have been a real life-saver for me. Going from 15 headache days p
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by flubert 6y ago
Just to be more consistent with the rest of the prefixes, which are all (integer) powers of 1,000. And because engineering notation is a thing. And because we normally group digits by the thousands (e.g. 1,000,000). Curious if anyone has
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by flubert 6y ago
>Medical bankruptcies represent 62% of all personal bankruptcies. The 62% number generally comes from: https://www.amjmed.com/article/S0002-9343%2809%2900404-5/pdf Table 2 Debtor said medical bills we
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by flubert 6y ago
>Do you still have coverage if you get laid off? https://www.dol.gov/general/topic/health-plans/cobra
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by flubert 6y ago
The thing that always makes we wonder in these types of online health care discussions, is why Medicaid and Medicare are ignored. This is a genuine question, since I'm privileged enough to have a job with good health insurance, and I

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