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>UK is in this weird place where there isn't one kind of ID that everyone has - for most people it's the driving licence, but obviously that's not good enough The US also lacks a national ID, but as a non-driver myself, th
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The problem with that argument (which people also use on animals like sharks) is it assumes that these other organisms haven't also been evolving in the human timeframe. Yes, you can find evidence of organisms that look more or less li
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It's interesting that he seems to have written this for a pocket computer, because there actually was a pocket computer of similar vintage that had LISP built in -- 1989's Casio AI-1000 https://pockemul.com/index.p
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>You can already see this with YouTube: AI-generated videos are a mild amusement, not a replacement for video creators, because made by AI is becoming a negative label in a world where the presence of AI video is widely known. But that&#
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To be fair, in the analogy Chesterton wasn't saying we shouldn't question things but rather that we should understand why things are the way they are before assuming that we can change them for the better, and a lot of tragedy in
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One of the few games to have had a future Nobel Laureate work on it! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demis_Hassabis
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No, the idea of games having fair vs unfair puzzles was very much a thing at the time. For example, Sierra adventure games were infamous for having puzzles that made no sense (like using cat hair to make a false mustache, which nobody could
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"Compiled languages can be used externally" I realize that 8MB of RAM seems absurdly small to modern audiences, but I can assure you that I ran early versions of Turbo Pascal and compiled fine with 64K.
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It's funny how old things become new. From the late 19th century (and in declining amounts all the way up until the 1980s), people in the US routinely would order things from the Sears Roebuck catalog and have them delivered. Local mer
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That's what a herald is in the literal sense - someone who is telling the news. Of course these days it is generally used metaphorically.
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I'm not sure there's a point to doing that with a lot of pop music, which is often written by committee to give to a pop star whose personality and looks are likewise crafted by other committees to attract a particular audience. T
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As noted, the park is huge. It's worth re-emphasizing how huge -- it's larger than several smaller European countries including Luxembourg -- over 3000 km^2. Expecting that people don't need gas in this vast area is absurd.
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> I mean, just imagine trying to run something like the Museum of Science and Industry, Museum of Natural History, or the Field Museum for free. While it is possible they'll get gutted and/or forced to charge admission in the c
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It's interesting to see a mention of "The Arcade Machine" (1982) and its creator here. This wasn't exactly a game but rather an early version of what we call "fantasy consoles" (like PICO-8 and TIC-80) today. T
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They are both grotesque fonts -- and that it isn't an insult, that's a technical term! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sans-serif#Neo-grotesque
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The part that Ellison claimed was ripping off his work was the Terminator traveling back in time to kill someone in the present day, which was similar to his Outer Limits episode "Soldier". There are a lot of things that may or
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I like ZIL, in part to be contrarian, but it actually is an interesting language, both because it is based on a subset of the 1970s Lisp-related language MDL, and because it is the language the Infocom implementors used historically, and th
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Well, maybe. In cases where they don't either reduce the electronics to a single custom IC or cover the electronics with resin it might be possible from a technical perspective. It still isn't probably worth it from an economic pe
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Some of them even lasted in the 1990s (in the US). I had a CRT monitor blow a capacitor in the mid 1990s and took it to a repair shop. It cost me something like $100 to have it fixed, but that was still way cheaper than buying a new monitor
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Lua has a long history with gaming since the late 1990s. The LucasArts adventure game "Grim Fandango" (1998) used Lua internally, and more recently it seems to have become the standard language for "fantasy console" game
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I have an archive of all my email going back to 1992. (Granted, this is more accessible prior to 2000 or so when things went unnecessarily to HTML). It is a wonderful resource, not only for practical reasons but also it's like my own p
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There is no information in this article whether you can share your screen wuth Matrix (essential for any serious meeting) Can you?
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Or male bees!
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I used to work at a research institute that had two campuses on either coast and we had those "iPad on a stick" type telepresence robots so people on one coast could attend (physical meetings) on the other. They eventually went aw
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The simple answer is you don't need a "framework" -- plain empathy for the less fortunate is good enough. But if the EA's actually want to do something about malaria (although the Gates Foundation does much, much more in
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As Adam Becker shows in his book, EAs started out being reasonable "give to charity as much as you can, and research which charities do the most good" but have gotten into absurdities like "it is more important to fund rocket
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There is a great recent book by Adam Becker "More Everything Forever" that deals with the overlapping circles of "effective altruists", "rationalists", and "accelerationists". He's not very sympa
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F# from OCaml isn't much of a leap, though. F# is basically OCaml modified to fit .NET datatypes.
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The DART (Dublin's commuter rail to and from its suburbs) is great (as are the Luas trams around the city). The inter-city trains going to Limerick, Cork etc. (which many Irish I've met don't even know still run) remind me of
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And for over half of a decade already! The award-winning 2017 movie "Ladybird" was a nostalgic look at that distant year of 2002!

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