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by jhgb 5y ago
> Especially in literal fields where power is hard to come by. Is it really? A square centimeter of a photovoltaic surface should provide you with at least a milliwatt of power on average. Thas's not to be scoffed at IMO.
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by jhgb 5y ago
Sounded lispy to me, so I thought it was Paul-Graham-let. ;)
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by jhgb 5y ago
So this is basically a web version of Gtk-server? One then wonders if this couldn't have Gtk-server's interface. Or, vice versa, if Pglet interface couldn't be added to Gtk-server.
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by jhgb 5y ago
> Father-son duo helped techies ‘hack exams’ Oh, that's cool... ...wait, you actually meant "to cheat", not "to solve a technical problem in a clever way".
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by jhgb 5y ago
You would also notice that all people in the paintings have two legs, two arms, and two eyes, and yet this knowledge would not help you understand Napoleonic Wars, or to predict the outcome of the war from the initial conditions, or anythin
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by jhgb 5y ago
> gender is the most salient social structure/feature of the napoleonic world I don't even know what that means. To me that's like saying that net wealth is a social structure. Or that nationality is a social structure. I
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by jhgb 5y ago
> why is that said to be so? Uh...because that's what the archeological findings are? For example, from https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1... : "Cities and other large settlements
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by jhgb 5y ago
> war is broader than gender? Everyone has the latter. Everyone has a species, and yet we share most genes with other mammals. So when you're describing some fundamental topic like the role of glucose in a mammal cell, the fact that
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by jhgb 5y ago
That's an interesting argument but we know that the transition to agriculture has been horrible to humans, health-wise. Even if there are some minor immunological upsides (which I'm not sure Diamond is the one to convince me about
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by jhgb 5y ago
> ridiculous, willfully self-poisoning rubes, driving around in noisy, stinky, slow, expensive to own operate and maintain turds Maybe they'll look at similarly as we look at the people of the time of the Neolithic Revolution (and p
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by jhgb 5y ago
Again, there's like a hundred topics that have been omitted from history books, and saying which three of those your book doesn't cover isn't helpful if you're trying to promote a book. If I were to write a book about An
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by jhgb 5y ago
Well, to be fair, even the "positive" information here seems quite a bit broader than the "negative" information. Like, "war" is a very broad topic on its own. You can describe the events (battles and such), yo
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by jhgb 5y ago
The question is, why those specific things? Surely there's hundreds of other issues not being considered in the book, so telling you which several issues out of hundreds are not considered does not provide much information on wha
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by jhgb 5y ago
> It's difficult for most people to initially understand why you can't store a large number that can be represented by an equivalent size integer as a float accurately. Because you don't have all the digits available just
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by jhgb 5y ago
> People regularly leave People regularly fled from behind the Iron Curtain, too.
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by jhgb 5y ago
> India is a democracy. Tech may move faster, but that doesn't mean it's right. Voters decide what's right, ultimately. ... The Amish are wise in this: wait for the community to approve technology, and only then apply it t
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by jhgb 5y ago
Also known as Practical EVE Re-Engineering Language?
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by jhgb 5y ago
That's called a catalog. ( https://reldb.org/c/index.php/twelve-rules/ , Rule #4)
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by jhgb 5y ago
Since you're talking about a "satellite train", so as to speak, I'm not sure you need to "speed up to intercept". If for example the orbital period is 90 minutes and the time between two consecutive satellites
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by jhgb 5y ago
> and Mil Comms satellites will be. Like Starlink in the future, then? Possibly? https://spacenews.com/u-s-army-signs-deal-with-spacex-to-ass...
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by jhgb 5y ago
In that case, what's the problem? If nobody is going to buy it, then there's nobody that needs to be discouraged from buying it.
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by jhgb 5y ago
Actually, Starlink is not on a planet. (But that Indians don't like competition is understandable.)
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by jhgb 5y ago
Just to be clear, I'm using the word "module" here in an extremely generic, language independent way. Basically in the sense of "things that can be compiled individually". In many languages (for example in Lisp), th
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by jhgb 5y ago
Loops are a lot of fun in Common Lisp, what with LOOP ( https://gigamonkeys.com/book/loop-for-black-belts.html ), ITERATE ( https://common-lisp.net/project/iterate/doc/Don_0027t-Loop-I... ),
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by jhgb 5y ago
> I've never seen recursive looping over a thing get turned into efficient SIMD code in any language. Starting with loops has no good reason to be better able to achieve that but for practical compilers it makes a huge difference. W
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by jhgb 5y ago
They're not "essentially equivalent". A while loop can't begin in one module and end in another. A tail call sequence can. Loops are not modular.
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by jhgb 5y ago
Show me a practical type system that rejects all programs with logical bugs.
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by jhgb 5y ago
And despite that, they're still not ashamed to extract the full price of the service even from those people to whom they can't offer 80% of the content.
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by jhgb 5y ago
It seems to me that this would be best ensured by writing the codebase in a custom language the compiler of which would put a loop around the whole code but the language itself wouldn't have loops. This could be yet another instance of
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by jhgb 5y ago
So this would probably be the first MediaTek chip that isn't crap, then? Whenever I looked at the options in the past, MediaTek was always the "it's cheap alright but don't expect it to be good" option.

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