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by jfoutz 8y ago
i'll defer to lispm's expert opinion, but i always thought of macros as _conditional_ evaluation. `if` is a special form because it does not evaluate the branch not taken. it's tricky to implement `if` without using `if` or `
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by jfoutz 8y ago
I think they were checking culturally popular predispositions. I may claim this one cubic inch is special, but who cares? If 5-10% of the country believes it, it sorta makes sense to look into.
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by jfoutz 8y ago
Ruby and objective c are both strongly influenced by small talk. Yes. That’s on the right track. I’d say messages are very loosely coupled compared to a function or method call. In c everything is laid out by the linker. You can play games
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by jfoutz 8y ago
And it’s expensive. You pump a ton of energy into a system to get water. Water is so cheap you can pour it on the ground.
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by jfoutz 8y ago
So far they have been S3XY. i'm pretty sure the next model has to be a space character so they can move on to the next word.
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by jfoutz 8y ago
My grandma has shaky hands. She can’t really fill out a scantron. I have no problem with people filling out their own ballots. The pristine filled out and verified by the voter ballot seems harder to spoil than a hand filled out ballot. My
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by jfoutz 8y ago
Those books are amazing. I wound up building a forge, buying a crucible, and making some tongs out of strap iron. One afternoon i had my mold ready. Fired up the forge, and melted down some aluminum. Then i realized how wildly unprepared i
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by jfoutz 8y ago
Article is about material deformation. It’s charming, and I’d encourage people to read it. Now days the equivalent might be a really shiny controller, or letters worn of of a keyboard.
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by jfoutz 8y ago
Cadillac languages with a bunch of stuff in the std lib take away a lot of fussy bike shedding problems. I like not having to worry about library selection in my first through fifth revisions. I’m willing to put up with a lot more using a b
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by jfoutz 8y ago
1) Come work. 2) 1 seems pretty doable. 3 is probably pushing it. Still less than 1% increase, but would be a stretch. 3) yes? We aren’t exactly crime free today. More labor, bigger economy, police and courts and jails would scale up >1%
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by jfoutz 8y ago
You might say, if you can identify and simulate all cases of real life degradation, your problem is basically solved, just reverse the simulation on your inputs. I’m not saying ocr isn’t hard. I’m saying normalizing all those characters ba
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by jfoutz 8y ago
Palaeontology drives a lot of fossil fuel discovery. Perhaps not so important over the next 100 years, but I believe it was pretty significant over the last 100 years. With regard to economics, deflation seems bad. Really bad. I (think) I g
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by jfoutz 8y ago
Maybe. I don't believe all retired people would require a full level 5. They don't have the daily commute. They're in a fairly unique position that, if it's raining or snowing, whatever they needed the car for, they&#x27
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by jfoutz 8y ago
Even factories. Java puts everything on the heap. There's no on the stack object. Java and go are both pass by value. Java makes it easy, because i know everything is a pointer to a thing. I (unreasonably?) freak out about go because i
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by jfoutz 8y ago
happy to admit my c++ experience is very, very old. I totally understand that things have changed. But even back in the day, libraries could do stuff that hid 'new' from me. Heck, java libs will call 'new' all the time.
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by jfoutz 8y ago
The last few days i've been struggling with how go decides heap vs stack. Coming from a c/c++/java background where it's super clear, malloc or new goes on the heap everything else goes on the stack, i've found go a
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by jfoutz 8y ago
Like you'd expect? No one is making claims of free energy. It's like putting a stirling engine on the side of an internal combustion engine. You have a chance to grab some of the waste heat, why not use it? Specifically, capturing
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by jfoutz 8y ago
Resupply isn’t quite the right word. If I break the X, i have to fix it myself or wait 2 years.
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by jfoutz 8y ago
Culture exports. Hollywood and the internet spring to mind. The cia apparently funded a lot of modern art to show american cultural supremacy.
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by jfoutz 8y ago
Pejorative. In context I’d say they would take magic mushrooms, because they are natural. But they would avoid lsd, because that’s chemicals. Sorry for the definition by example, can’t think of an obvious definition, but hopefully gets the
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by jfoutz 8y ago
The feel and the smell of books engages me a bit more than a screen does. When I’m really into a book, it’s much more likely that the texture of the stack of pages will pull me out than my partner saying it’s time for dinner. Books are weir
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by jfoutz 8y ago
There’s a movie that is sympathetic to kearns. Not the truth, might give some insight. Also it’s a pretty good movie. So likely not a total waste of time either way.
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by jfoutz 8y ago
furthermore, multiple projectors could increase resolution. if there's an energy threshold to overcome to cause hardening, and if you can arrange for 2 sources to just barely exceed that threshold, then you could have very crisp print
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by jfoutz 8y ago
steriolithography[1] is neat, and i think older than deposition style printers. This is kinda wacky. Rather than a conceptually simple layer by layer approach, this has this funky convolution. they're getting it for free with the simpl
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by jfoutz 8y ago
I am considering revising my opinion about uninformed choices. Mostly, there's a whole bunch of stuff to know. I think i'm on board for things that are transparent and trustworthy. Where did this egg come from? how was the hen car
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by jfoutz 8y ago
More ruby, less bash. (Somewhat kidding)
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by jfoutz 8y ago
apple has masterful market segmentation. they want the inexpensive option to not really fill a specific niche, they want it to be a little uncomfortable, that you're already making compromises so you'll pay a grand for the fancy o
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by jfoutz 8y ago
Well, and now they're going to spend a lot of computer time finding parallel constructions for the same molecule they want to patent, so they can patent those as well.
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by jfoutz 8y ago
The whole thing is concrete examples of thinking deeper about a problem. I guess it can be motivating if you’re ever in position to corner an enemy army. I’d say it’s examples of game theory, that worked, without any sort of sense of game t
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by jfoutz 8y ago
search. I advertise a rule set, you give me a function - pattern really - and i return all the data related to that pattern. There are other organizations that accept a function. effectively the result is return the record in the True case,

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