i_feel_great

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by i_feel_great 7y ago
Pharo is looking less and less like Smalltalk with every release. I looked at the typed slots a while back and they just look alien. Types in an extreme late-binding language?
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by i_feel_great 7y ago
Can someone please explain what replaces systemd in Guix?
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by i_feel_great 7y ago
Tools you can use to recover from the loss or destruction of your laptop/desktop as fast as possible. Or having to hand over your password to the authorities. This involves compressing all of the state and data and removing and/or
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Cafe owner ordered to pay Instagram influencer $1,600(theguardian.com)
10 points by i_feel_great 7y ago|0 comments
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by i_feel_great 7y ago
I still remember undergraduate biology class where the lecturer mentioned that crazy idea of proteins being infectious. Most scientist thought the results were errors and that Prusiner was a fool. Even after kuru was proven to be cause by i
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by i_feel_great 7y ago
Kawa ( https://www.gnu.org/software/kawa/ ) is even better, and I only ever came across one other person who has ever heard of it.
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by i_feel_great 7y ago
Alas, it looks like it hasn't had much love since 2014: https://github.com/the-concurrent-schemer/scm
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by i_feel_great 8y ago
In BSDs and Linux, you can recompile the kernel without USB support. But then you will have to go back to using a PS/2 keyboard and mouse.
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by i_feel_great 8y ago
What then do you think is the right way to help these countries out of the rut they are in? I used to think the Grameen Bank way was the best way, but even that has come under criticism [0]. 0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&
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by i_feel_great 8y ago
Too many forces will oppose this at every turn. The various religions and political ideologies come to mind.
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by i_feel_great 8y ago
I am researching building an earthbag house in Australia. But I am scared it will look bat-shit weird and no one will buy it.
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by i_feel_great 8y ago
Nauru is the plaything of the China vs anti-China forces. No good will come of it for the Nauruans. Also other Pacific Island nations
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by i_feel_great 8y ago
There is Larry Niven's Ringworld [0], which proposes a ring instead of a sphere. 0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringworld
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by i_feel_great 8y ago
> I curious as to whether the spiraling ramp helps direct the wind through the tunnels in some way To me it looks like it channels wind coming from any direction down the spiral. At the bottom it presumably channels the air current to pu
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by i_feel_great 8y ago
I took Anthropology 101 at Auckland Uni and was lectured by Doug Sutton. He suggested the reason they sailed against the prevailing currents is that when they ran out of food and water without finding land, they let the currents carry them
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by i_feel_great 8y ago
Smalltalk blocks are anonymous functions sure, but the evaluation is delayed - you have to pass the message #value (and its variants) to it. This not the case in Scheme and maybe Lisps, where evaluation is eager. Passing Smalltalk blocks an
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by i_feel_great 8y ago
In this YT video of him playing Chopin's Etudes, someone forgot to turn on the lights and he in not able to see the score, but he plays on regardless. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=12&v=gONhZu5ad4s
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by i_feel_great 8y ago
There's no fun reading that
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People might have lived in Australia twice as long as we thought(theguardian.com)
1 points by i_feel_great 8y ago|0 comments
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by i_feel_great 8y ago
You have tentatively restored hope in me that startups are not just get-rich-quick schemes.
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by i_feel_great 8y ago
The Smalltalk feedback/living-in-the-debugger coding style. I was happily coding in Python, C#, Java etc when I ran into Squeak, and then Pharo and Dolphin Smalltalks. This style presents the smallest barrier between idea and working c
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by i_feel_great 8y ago
You Americans might laugh at this, but then you voted Trump. Us Aussies have our own shitty politicians, so we are not laughing.
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by i_feel_great 8y ago
And that article has a section where it plainly mentions its shortcomings: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discounted_cash_flow#Doesn't_a...
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by i_feel_great 8y ago
"They traded short term gains for long term losses." This is the entirety of the problem with modern capitalism, isn't it? There is no way to account for long term losses that stakeholders can put value on. Just look at what
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by i_feel_great 8y ago
"Ipomoea are normally poisonous ..." Note that Ipomoea batatas is sweet potato is a staple throughout the world and is very delicious, especially the purple-skinned, cream-fleshed variety. The young leaves can also be cooked and e
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by i_feel_great 8y ago
It is never the child's fault.
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One university changed overnight when 25 semiautonomous robots roam campus(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by i_feel_great 8y ago|0 comments
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by i_feel_great 8y ago
By the way, how do I update pharolauncher to pick this up?
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by i_feel_great 8y ago
Depends on the field. Right now the ATO (Australian Tax Office) is undergoing a vast reengineering of how business and organizations deal with government. The project is SBR ( https://www.sbr.gov.au/ ). There is a lot of LOB
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by i_feel_great 8y ago
I use Facebook to keep in touch with family and friends only. I have never posted a photo of myself on Facebook. I have adblock and noscript running. I use an alias and not my real name. But Facebook suggested I tagged some faces on some ph

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