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by gasbag 9y ago
Programming was in its infancy 50 years ago, but in reality we don't really know what its development arc is. We could be in the toddler stage right now, or we could still be in infancy when compared to future developments in the fiel
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by gasbag 9y ago
Bret Victor has a page on his site about this.[0] The first hit when I searched for "visualization" was: "The core technologies in energy storage tend to be physics-based, but software plays essential roles in the form of de
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by gasbag 9y ago
> A pollution tax would certainly help but is far too big of a thing to accomplish in the short-term. There's no need for a big car tax or a pollution tax. We could just end the massive fuel subsidies we have in the US. Of course
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by gasbag 9y ago
> So the bottleneck would appear to be, not the physical limitations of communication, but the rate at which we can structure information to be consumed by another mind. Yet the way in which we must structure information surely plays a r
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by gasbag 9y ago
> We're arguably the least cavalier about taking life of any life on earth. Fungi beat us in this respect. Most of them feed exclusively on dead matter.
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by gasbag 9y ago
Commerce that remains internal to a state also shouldn't be regulated by the interstate commerce clause, yet that's been done for almost a century. There are no new heights of sophistry here, US history is littered with examples
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by gasbag 9y ago
I have done the calculations, and you are in fact wrong. I'd show you how, but any seventh-grader could find the mistake in 20 minutes, so I'll let you correct your own homework. I'll be nice and add that dimensional analys
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by gasbag 9y ago
Someone else linked Sucrose, which has a tree chart. Looks like the expand/collapse nodes isn't working though.
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by gasbag 9y ago
If you want to hear a great example of spatial audio, check out The Quiet American [0] and be sure to use earbuds. He records his environment using two in-ear microphones to get all of the effects discussed in the article: sound shaped by
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by gasbag 9y ago
> In other news although we can harbor optimistic thoughts for scientists, medical professionals, lawmakers and maybe even politicians all around the globe to do the "right" thing to preserve human life in a currently recogniza
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by gasbag 9y ago
> turns you into Tim Leary Or Doug Engelbart, or Steve Jobs, or any number of the other pioneers of personal computing who cited their psychedelic use as formative or informative. I also just want to note that there are at least three e