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by informatimago 6y ago
Somebody needs to read GEB...
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by informatimago 6y ago
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1250844985433272320?s=20
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by informatimago 6y ago
The good joke! Most of them are refractory to the GPL! And you'd want them to get human rights???
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by informatimago 6y ago
Unless you write it in CL, in which case you get a debugger REPL, and you can debug it hundred of million of km away. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gZK0tW8EhQ
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by informatimago 7y ago
Right. But he didn't have the fish and baby seal diet for 2 weeks before pooping, and he didn't freeze it at -50˙C you get above the Arctic Circle. (Common freezers only go at -30˙C). So that refutation is inconclusive, and the e
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by informatimago 7y ago
Let's go one step further: (let ((p (read-from-network))) (lambda () (eval p)) ie. basically, the server program is an interpreter that loads the actual program when it's booted. From this, you can see that the whole discussion co
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by informatimago 7y ago
And that's nothing. Wait for AI in power sockets! For now, they only have simple processors in USB-C charger, but soon there will be more intelligence in there, than you can imagine! :-)
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by informatimago 7y ago
and foremost, illegal: French tourists face jail term for stealing sand https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-49394828
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by informatimago 7y ago
Also, email addresses ARE case sensitive. While the domain name is not case sensitive (but of course, domain names only contain ASCII characters!), the local part of email addresses ARE case sensitive, and <John@foo.com> can be very
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by informatimago 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odeillo_solar_furnace
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by informatimago 7y ago
Remember: YOU are not Google!
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by informatimago 7y ago
It looks like Tesla AI doesn't take the signals into account, but only the car movements.
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by informatimago 7y ago
Impressive!
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by informatimago 7y ago
It's not air conditioning that is warming the Earth, it's capitalism! If we accepted that we don't need to have such big profits, we could accept to stop working when it's too hot (or too cold, or too dark, etc). If we
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by informatimago 7y ago
Actually, most planets don't have plate tectonics, (and what is the probability of a dinosaur extinction event?) So their population is "first generation", and they basically don't have fossil fuels. So no industrial a
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Uniform Structured Syntax, Metaprogramming and Run-Time Compilation(m00natic.github.io)
128 points by informatimago 7y ago|41 comments
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by informatimago 7y ago
A lot of time will pass with actual self-driving cars, before AI reaches the point where such moral dilemmas are even taken into account. And the first question is whether such moral considerations should be included into what is essentiall
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by informatimago 7y ago
Women involved in 100% of Unwanted Pregnancies.
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by informatimago 8y ago
Ok. What new does it bring over LISP implemented in 1960?
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by informatimago 8y ago
See: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/comp.lang.lisp/wr3ekiL...
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by informatimago 8y ago
I don't think so. The problem with the watermelons (green outside, red inside), is that they're a runaway psyops from the cold war time KGB. It's basically a headless chicken that keeps running in the courtyard. More interes
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by informatimago 8y ago
On the other hand, the fact that Apple applies the same rules to Facebook as it does to the rest of us small developers, is a good thing. Apple protects his customers. Of course, you may ask who controls the controller, and whether &quot
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by informatimago 8y ago
Rename it Notsofarout already, since you will have to a in couple of years anyways!
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by informatimago 8y ago
Only the parentheses look like brackets. Everything else looks quite nice. But for lisp programming, those bracket-looking parentheses are ugly...
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by informatimago 8y ago
Well, a Mac is needed to develop macOS and iOS software. But you can also use it to develop Android software; And in general, linux or unix software (either by installing GNU tools and libraries, or via a virtual machine); And of course, al
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by informatimago 8y ago
Alternatively, irc://irc.freenode.org/#hn
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by informatimago 8y ago
1- blogs without feedback/comments are useless, stop using them. 2- there's no point in considering commits as programs if it's not easy to modify them. It is not easy with git. Nobody can remember the commands (we have to
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by informatimago 8y ago
Smartphones and perhaps tablets, ie. mobile computers would have been the solution, but no. We’re just lazy bodies.
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by informatimago 8y ago
They would, as long as they would have bought the least little screw and paid in USD (eg. thru Amazon).
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by informatimago 8y ago
Notice that with the global liberalism regime force feed on peoples, corporations have the right to sue governments when the later have laws preventing the corporations to make profit. https://www.theguardian.com/business&#x

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