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by gumby 3y ago
The author may well be on to something but personally I hate "story mode" in popular science books, and would really hate it in actual science papers, both the ones I read for work and the ones I read for fun. I want to go stra
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by gumby 3y ago
> In addition to the shared backbone interface, there would need to be software written to make an almost-endless number of configurations work smoothly for the most demanding of users. This describes modern devices connected via USB C o
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by gumby 3y ago
Back when my kid was born I bought a video cam. I upgraded the videocam a couple of times, but I realized I didn't use it much because when I did I was videoing not being part of what was going on. As a result there isn't much vi
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by gumby 3y ago
I want this feature on by default, but recognize that all but a tiny number of users will be confused and inconvenienced by this when using a public wifi. Imagine using this in India where they law requires that every public wifi require a
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by gumby 3y ago
My understanding is that apple's MAC randomization tries to give each SSID a different MAC but records the mapping so that the next time you connecct to a known SSID you get the same MAC. I can see why they would choose to do this -- i
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by gumby 3y ago
This looks quite interesting and useful! But I wanted to comment on some bitterness in your post: > the school went the extra mile to ensure I don’t have the resources to learn on my own, The things you list are department or even course
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by gumby 3y ago
The paper: https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/STROKEAHA.123.044904
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Seeing Too Much Light at Night May Raise Your Stroke Risk(gizmodo.com)
3 points by gumby 3y ago|1 comments
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by gumby 3y ago
It can be measured?
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by gumby 3y ago
Golf-ball sized hailstones are unusual and likely outside the design space. Crazy that people were concerned about "chemicals leaking" -- do they think the panels are full of goo?
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by gumby 3y ago
Unfortunately, despite all that effort, deletion leaks memory.
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by gumby 3y ago
To be fair, EMF is 1/r^2 so the transducers (speakers) are indeed far from the ear. Not that they need to be, but...
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by gumby 3y ago
Yes, they have the responsibility, not the captain, as evidenced by the specific insurance they carry. Of course, lawyers will try to spread the blame around (who chose the pilot, did captain's actions or orders somehow get in the way
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by gumby 3y ago
BTW emacs commands are the default in readline, thus in bash. They are ubiquitous in Mac text fields and buffers as well. Google docs too. Those commands are so deeply wired in my brain (from contionuous use since the 70s) that I dodn&#x2
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by gumby 3y ago
Yes, I worked in MACLISP, though by the time I stared CADRs already existed.
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by gumby 3y ago
They were smoking crack. By the time this was written, regular RISC platforms were riding an economy of scale and were beating dedicated Lisp hardware, those metrics shown in the article notwithstanding. In addition: two months to a compil
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by gumby 3y ago
I’d really enjoy a prehensile tail, despite the adaptations required for trousers and chairs. Also, I was enough a nerd growing up that other kids would have pulled it.
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by gumby 3y ago
Streams have numerous design problems (e.g. representation is managed by the stream, not the thing you’re printing) making the shift operator syntax the least of the problems.
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by gumby 3y ago
Truly marvellous!
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by gumby 3y ago
The latter. When writing a somewhat standard implementation people expect redundant special forms (like both if and cond ) so there are more than you think. OTOH you can implement some in terms of the others so maybe there aren’t as ma
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by gumby 3y ago
Lambda is a special form
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by gumby 3y ago
> The way that ryelang gets around this is that you pass the arguments in a "code block" surrounded by "{}" Like Lisp’s QUOTE which has to be a special form.
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by gumby 3y ago
I know well what a FEXPR is (I was a Maclisp maintainer) but they are special forms. It is interesting to imagine inverting the sense of execution, but as you say it's hard to do much optimization.
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by gumby 3y ago
Yes, but with supposedly no special forms there cannot be a lambda operator. Turns out the language does have special forms, which is OK; it's just weird to say there aren't (though it's an understandable goal). When I worked
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by gumby 3y ago
> Rye is homoiconic, it has no keywords or special forms (everything is a function call, everything is a value) How does it implement and , or , or if ?
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by gumby 3y ago
Though initially resistant, they were incentivized to do so with the ipod which acted as a "gateway drug" for people to switch to macs. it's hard to believe anyone buys an iphone to get access to the watch, but if your watch
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by gumby 3y ago
I mention you can have other terminals as well, and those in other urban areas can be connected to transit. You spread the parking around; in cities it’s often easier to take transit.
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by gumby 3y ago
Lots of complex issues, but the distance one is manageable: put the check in / security part of the terminal in the city or at its edge and then send the passengers straight to the appropriate terminal (and their luggage straight to th
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Ex-DoD Official Says Chinese-Made PCBs Plague U.S. Systems(eetimes.com)
2 points by gumby 3y ago|2 comments
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by gumby 3y ago
Just to clarify, the “singularity” conjectures a slightly different and more interesting phenomenon, one driven by technological advances, true, but its definition was not those advances. It was more the second derivative of future shock

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