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by lisper 1y ago
> if we're allowed to peek under the hood Peek under the hood all you want, where do you find motivation in the human brain?
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by lisper 1y ago
> They are going to act despairing -- but that's not the same thing as despairing. But how can you tell the difference between "real" despair and a sufficiently high-quality simulation?
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Mamluk(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by lisper 1y ago|0 comments
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by lisper 1y ago
I know that "me too" comments are frowned upon, but I really feel the need to chime in here. Brazil is my favorite movie of all time. It is eerily prescient. It's important to keep in mind while watching it today that it w
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by lisper 1y ago
> Is there any way to use HN karma? Nothing other than vanity AFAIK. It's actually a bit of a scam because karma accumulates and never expires. I've been on the leaderboard for a long time, not because I'm making particul
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by lisper 1y ago
If you don't know, then you aren't the target audience. But there are two applications: the first is breaking in to a system under some very obscure set of circumstances that you are very unlikely to encounter in the real world.
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by lisper 1y ago
Yep. I am blown away not just by Dani's execution of this routine, but also by its design . It is a true thing of beauty, with layer upon layer of subtlety that most audience members will never appreciate because they don't k
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by lisper 1y ago
Rethinking email is great, but IMHO you are not taking full advantage of the opportunities that arise from building a new client. When you build a new client, you can not only process incoming emails in new ways, but you can also change th
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Fake Oxford(slate.com)
3 points by lisper 1y ago|2 comments
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by lisper 1y ago
> so much of it boils down to “I practiced for years and developed a seemingly superhuman ability to manipulate this object”. Amateur magician here (but a magician member of the Magic Castle, so I know a few things). Manual dexterity is
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by lisper 1y ago
> Programming languages, like all languages, exist for communication between humans. That is manifestly false. Machine language and Brainfuck are both programming languages, and they are not designed for communication between humans. T
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How the Golden Gate Bridge Works [video](youtube.com)
7 points by lisper 1y ago|1 comments
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by lisper 1y ago
"Please sign in to confirm you're not a bot. This helps protect our community." Um, no.
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Starship will soon fly over towns and cities, but will dodge the biggest ones(arstechnica.com)
31 points by lisper 1y ago|4 comments
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PYREX vs. pyrex: What's the difference?(corning.com)
173 points by lisper 1y ago|122 comments
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by lisper 1y ago
> A study asked different age groups to mentally count 120 seconds. People under 30 averaged 115 seconds; those over 50 just 87. This can be interpreted in two ways, which lead to diametrically opposite conclusions. 1. I say "start
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by lisper 1y ago
> This is about those aged over 100, not 110 which is a completely different ballpark Is this some kind of new math? 100 and 110 are within 10% of each other, which seems very much in the same ballpark to me.
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by lisper 1y ago
Once upon a time there were these places called “retail stores” where you could go look at actual products and even try them out before buying them. Alas.
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by lisper 1y ago
Cue the smug Common Lisp weenies... Oh, wait, that's me :-)
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NASA discovers 'clearest sign of life that we've ever found on Mars'(washingtonpost.com)
15 points by lisper 1y ago|1 comments
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Never-aired episode of 'The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour' (1969) [video](madlyodd.com)
1 points by lisper 1y ago|0 comments
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by lisper 1y ago
It is uncommon because it turns out that text diff is good enough 99% of the time, especially if you follow normal formatting and indentation conventions. Also, structural diff is actually a very hard problem.
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Jetson One Personal Electric Aerial Vehicle(jetson.com)
2 points by lisper 1y ago|0 comments
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by lisper 1y ago
> In actual Common Lisp development, code is stored in text files and edited and diffed as text in source controlled repositories. That's true, but there is a very big difference between S-expressions stored as text and other progra
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by lisper 1y ago
It never ceases to amaze me how many times people can essentially re-invent S-expressions without realizing that's what they are doing.
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by lisper 1y ago
> The database page size in bytes. Must be a power of two between 512 and 32768 inclusive, or the value 1 representing a page size of 65536. What an odd design choice. Why not just have the value be the base 2 logarithm of the page size
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by lisper 1y ago
> You can't rip apart that word into "auf" and "passen" and then individually translate them literally. Sure, just like you can't separate "pay attention". Both are idiomatic. But you can separ
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by lisper 1y ago
What German phrase did you have in mind? Because the idiomatic translation of "to pay attention" is "aufpassen", which literally translates to something like "pass on" or "fit on".
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by lisper 1y ago
> In Spanish, you “lend” attention. In Swedish, you “are” attention. In Hebrew you "place [your] heart" (lasim lev).
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Centralia Mine Fire(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by lisper 1y ago|0 comments

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