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by lutusp 11mo ago
> ... Is this really common? Only among people who don't code. A non-coder doesn't know the difference between a block of code, and a picture of a block of code. A woman visits the studio of a famous artist. She says, "Tha
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by lutusp 11mo ago
> It’s very hard to read without the colors! Many up-to-date messaging environments allow you to copy & paste text directly from your coding environment with indentation and syntax coloring intact. This is something the sender can es
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by lutusp 11mo ago
This is astonishing. A screenshot is not only the least useful representation of a subject under discussion, it also requires more bandwidth than text. I see two possible reasons for this -- the sender has no technical experience, or they&#
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by lutusp 11mo ago
The author of the article has a Ph.D. in psychology and the journal is named "Seeds of Science." To a seasoned traveler in life, these are both red flags (real science journals don't need to proclaim their relationship with s
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by lutusp 11mo ago
Yes, thanks, I didn't want to invoke it by name. Certainly relevant.
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by lutusp 11mo ago
The biggest problem with possible future AGI/ASI are not the possibilities, but that all the feedback loops are closed, meaning what we think about it, and what computers think about it, changes the outcome. This sets up a classic chao
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by lutusp 1y ago
> I explained to my kids that investing is like having a magic box that generates more money over time. That is wildly misleading. Investing is super important, but it shouldn't be described in this fairy-tale way. Young people migh
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by lutusp 1y ago
> Although I wish Linux were easier to use [ ... ] We're getting there. I run Linux Mint with an XFCE desktop -- an intentionally minimal setup. The system performs automatic updates and the desktop layout/experience resembles
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by lutusp 1y ago
I like this idea -- a simple interface/frontend for an otherwise complicated topic, for the less skilled among us. It has intriguing possibilities beyond technology ... Q: Why does God allow so much suffering? A: What? There is no God.
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by lutusp 1y ago
> I recently saw someone post [1] that 987654321/123456789 is very nearly 8, specifically 8.0000000729. Okay. Try this (in a Python terminal session): >>> 111111111 ** 2 12345678987654321 (typo corrected)
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by lutusp 1y ago
> Unless by the early 1950s the US and possibly others were launching objects into orbit, and their doing so has been a closely guarded secret even until now. Because of the very public competition between the US and the former USSR, any
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by lutusp 1y ago
You're all missing the point! This is not about whether an app can be installed on an Android device, it's about whether the device's owner has any say in the matter. It's about freedom of choice. Over the decades, from
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by lutusp 1y ago
> Weren't Nazis sending rockets into space by 1945? Soviets and Americans, probably as well. No to all, without reservation. The German V-2 didn't go into orbit, and the US and USSR weren't active in large missile activity
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by lutusp 1y ago
My favorite John Draper story -- not sure if it's true, heard it from several sources. One day IBM called me up and asked if I would write them something like Apple Writer, for their new PC. I instantly asked, "Under what terms?&q
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by lutusp 1y ago
> could you hazard a guess at what dialect this very old Forth game from Byte magazine was written in? The writeup identifies the original Forth source/version as most likely FIGForth '78, so I assume that's correct. This
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by lutusp 1y ago
> As a child, I really was amused by the demo of GraFORTH on Apple ][, which included 3D wireframe animations, which at the time were magical. I originally wrote GraFORTH ( https://archive.org/details/a2_GraFORTH_1981
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by lutusp 1y ago
> Being found not guilty supports my contention. Not necessarily. A cynical modern legal strategy is to bombard people with frivolous legal actions that only the well-heeled can afford. Defendants can argue that claims are baseless or fr
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by lutusp 1y ago
> That's not what Recall is and not how it works. You're right, I overstated how Recall works, right now. At the moment, it's opt-in and the images are only stored locally. I was wrong -- my claims were several months out
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by lutusp 1y ago
It's a matter of choice. We have no choice about firmware drivers, but we do about which Linux distribution to install. Since there is a choice, we can exercise it and send a signal that open-source is preferred. > And, I am pretty
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by lutusp 1y ago
This is an excellent article as well as a sign of the times. I wish the list of Linux choices had included Mint, which is essentially Ubuntu without Snaps. Snaps are a partly closed-source Ubuntu project that contradicts the open nature of
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by lutusp 1y ago
> How about stellar mass black holes? Blank holes aren't dark enough. Because of their accretion disks, they typically stand out from their environments. Also, unlike dark matter, black holes tend to give themselves away by the foca
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by lutusp 1y ago
> ... every definition of dark matter that I read says it does not interact with electromagnetic radiation ... Actually, dark matter does interact with electromagnetic radiation -- it can deflect it, as in the case of gravitational lensi
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> But few people have asked what, exactly, is science? How does it work? The author asks the question, but then never answers it. That isn't surprising -- nearly no one outside science understands how it works. * Science rejects aut
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> "What if I just don't want OneDrive? Microsoft has embedded it so deep into Windows that there are no easy ways of getting rid of it." This is not so, at least for the present. In current Windows releases, go to "Co
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by lutusp 1y ago
On the topic of low-quality investments, there should be a posting rule that HN submissions consist of text, not pictures of text, so readers can search for additional information by copying text, not images. Nothing is more frustrating tha
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> "If something isn't working for you, please double-check your DNS records, and triple-check that TLS certificates are readable by the Postfix user, and that DKIM keys are readable by the OpenDKIM user. Postfix and OpenDKIM lo
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by lutusp 1y ago
A key factor behind psychology's low replication rate is the absence of theories that define the field. In most science fields, an initial finding can be compared to theory before publication, which may weed out unlikely results in adv
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by lutusp 1y ago
Total agreement with the article's conclusions. I'm an Android developer who once had about six apps listed in the Play Store. But as time passed, maintenance became more and more baroque, and a simple Android version change requi
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by lutusp 1y ago
> That's just like, your opinion, man. I would love to know how many younger readers recognize this classic movie reference.
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It would have been nice to see a Rust/Python time comparison for both development and execution. You know, the "bottom line"?

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