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by jfoutz 3y ago
Take a look at https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHRDLU Cyc is sort of like that, but for everything. Not just a small limited world. I believe it didn’t work out because it’s really hard.
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by jfoutz 3y ago
I went to a small show the other day, and was thinking about how tough it is to package up that feeling. An audio recording or a video or photograph can capture some, kinda. Sort of a sad shadow of the real thing. Writing is the only thing
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by jfoutz 3y ago
I read your comment and was all ready to write a, I guess, rant about joint probability distributions and costs associated with tests and on and on. You know, a good old rant. But I took a moment to actually read the article. Low and behold
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by jfoutz 3y ago
Does that apply to international airports?
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by jfoutz 3y ago
oh, ha. yeah, that was sort of the root of the joke. companies like Celera, or whoever had the money would write a (large) check for big iron. smaller organizations were realizing they could get slower computers power pretty cheap, and they
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by jfoutz 3y ago
I know hn isn't the place for memes, but, I'm obligated. Imagine what they could do with a beowulf cluster of pentium pros?
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by jfoutz 3y ago
I'm sure someone will have a much better recommendation. Do you have an old physics book? Working a few or a lot of simple voltage divider problems, to just really nail down V=IR is helpful. a ton of digital stuff can be thought of as
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by jfoutz 3y ago
Amazon, Alphabet, Meta. Who are the F and G, and where is apple?
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by jfoutz 3y ago
It’s a Roman numeral joke.
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by jfoutz 3y ago
you can hack up eval, map, and apply in c without too much headache. I'd recommend int char and some sort of string representation as primitive. I'd also recommend not garbage collecting, and just malloc everything. Like, a weeken
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by jfoutz 3y ago
That looks really nice. I'm sure it's a great solution for lots of developers. I think I'm going to stick with nix. VM's, docker, orbstack and nix all seem to let me make a machine that looks like "X". The thin
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by jfoutz 3y ago
So, Mac doesn't come with a package manager. There are things you can do with port and brew, to alleviate some pain. Me personally, I fool around with a lot of languages, and sometimes I don't quite keep every project up to date w
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by jfoutz 3y ago
Every human, everywhere must contend with large men coming and taking their stuff. I have very little to no first hand experience with alternatives to liberal democracy. Persuading my neighbors to take more or less seems a whole lot easier
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by jfoutz 3y ago
They might be pissed when they find out the vast majority of cures kill the patient.
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by jfoutz 3y ago
I'm happy to give lisp credit for everything cool. but Common Lisp has all the good stuff you need to manage different generations of objects under changing classes, not the least of which is jumping into the running system and examini
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by jfoutz 3y ago
It’s something else. Monkey patching comes from Ruby, since classes are open, you can change implementations at runtime. I’m not quite as familiar with meta magic, but I believe it has similar characteristics. Sorta like dynamically injecte
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by jfoutz 3y ago
I'm not an expert, but think about linear algebra. you can write each dimension value in terms of time t(a) -> t(b) x = sin(t) y = 2cos(t) or whatever. if there is a symmetry, one of those equations should cancel out. another way to
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by jfoutz 3y ago
I'm new to nix/nixos but gradually building up my environment. it's like having your whole OS in git. it's amazing. want to try out some nightly build? no problem. on most computers (personal, home computers) the various
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by jfoutz 3y ago
not quite the same, but the police used to work the same way. https://www.oldbaileyonline.org/static/Policing.jsp#constabl... Traditionally, householders served in the office of constable by appointment or ro
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by jfoutz 3y ago
this is still my favorite. https://oimo.io/works/life/ That dev has a bunch of cool projects.
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by jfoutz 3y ago
Printing press. broad access to clean water. transistor.
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by jfoutz 3y ago
Wasn’t the paper leaked by the industry guy? Didn’t he edit it to include himself? He might have jazzed up some other wording as well. It’s worth giving the benefit of the doubt to the final product. Let’s get some replication (or not) and
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by jfoutz 3y ago
It's been a while since I had an anthropology class. If I remember correctly, it's really tied to how harsh the environment was. So natives in Alaska had to hunt or starve. For equatorial people, the stakes were much lower. There
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by jfoutz 3y ago
All my knowledge of keming came from roundabout sources, but I think there are some pretty serous sources. I've never gotten around to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computers_and_Typesetting but that's a pre
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by jfoutz 3y ago
Yet another username password pair? Yet another credit card entry? Nah, let jfoutz pay the fraction of a penny and get no ads. Content producer gets paid, and I get to read the article. The site can choose, based on attested properties to s
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by jfoutz 3y ago
It provides a uniform service for ensuring a client has desired properties. That’s kinda tricky to do well. Traffic for monitoring, you can do with a jwt, but like, enabling chunked transfer in python request lib is a problem you discover.
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by jfoutz 3y ago
This kinda seems like a fantastic way to implement micro payments. The site owner sets up a attestor that knows they’ve paid. I hate Wei in general, but it really could open up control over bots and paid access.
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by jfoutz 3y ago
Yes. Applets were very slow to load, and more dangerous than flash. I think applet was the first tag removed. But at the time, you could load up excel in a tag with the right com magic. The early web boom was wild.
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by jfoutz 3y ago
A friend, college educated responsible adult, went to the petrified forest in Arizona. Park ranger gave the whole talk about how rare and special these rocks are, and how they're disappearing because people are stealing them. The range
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by jfoutz 3y ago
I get the joke. I would absolutely buy a tool factory factory. Tempering the steel alone would be worth it. I’d even be interested in one more layer up, for access to car, rocket and chip factories.

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