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by metagame 5y ago
That's not actually the truth. You can go to F-Droid, or Cydia, Amazon or one of the dozens of SEA app stores that exist. You have plenty of options. Your argument is basically that Wal-Mart is everywhere, so Wal-Mart should be forced
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by metagame 5y ago
Painting is almost exclusively mental, and requires just as long or longer stretches of mental exercise.
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by metagame 5y ago
Creative canvas painting. It's actually an incredibly deep (skill-wise) field.
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by metagame 5y ago
They've tried a lot of "reimagining." It never works. No one wants Intel on mobile, despite Intel's mobile chips being absolutely great when they were actually releasing them, and no one wants a genuinely high-performanc
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by metagame 5y ago
Painting is serious labor as much as anything else, and requires skills and effort comparable to and sometimes exceeding programming.
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by metagame 5y ago
Do you have a blog, by chance? Your writing style's really engaging.
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by metagame 5y ago
Bit of trivia: The Bob Morris mentioned in this and many other Multics-related articles was the father of one of the people who made the implementation of the Lisp dialect this website runs on (and, of course, one of the founders of YC). He
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by metagame 5y ago
This assumes that we're "truly" sentient, and on top of that, that we have actual free will. Both seem unlikely if things are actually simulated.
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by metagame 5y ago
This isn't about trying to "raise him." There's a difference between instilling your own moral principles upon someone and actually helping them. Their only idea for solving the problem, in retrospect, is to remove from
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by metagame 5y ago
They didn't help their son while he was alive, and blamed the bad outcomes of his life on the single object that seemed to bring him joy. They even turned him away when he came home for help, according to the article. They allowed thei
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by metagame 5y ago
Rest in peace. Roger Hui deserves a black bar just about as much as anyone. A (likely incomplete) list of his talks can be found here; if you have the time, you should watch at least some of them: https://aplwiki.com/wiki&#x
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Obfuscated Python (2001)(p-nand-q.com)
1 points by metagame 5y ago|0 comments
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by metagame 5y ago
Probably skeptic, because they lived elsewhere, got an education for relatively inexpensive or free, and all they see is the difference in the value of currency. Or probably skeptic, because they're planning on moving to a good state.
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by metagame 5y ago
Why wouldn't a country mean little to someone, even if it is a democracy? I live in the United States, and any theoretical vote I give is completely worthless unless I would move to Maine, and even then it's still not worth much.
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by metagame 5y ago
If you want a Lispier robot programming game, check out GNU Robots. You use the dialect of Scheme that most GNU tools are extensible with, so you'll get something out of it! https://www.gnu.org/software/gnurobots&#
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by metagame 5y ago
The human race isn't in danger, though. The population's actually going up year after year. There are some countries that aren't having enough kids to stay at their peak population without allowing immigration, which may be t
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by metagame 5y ago
«For the crime of breaking numerous state and city laws» «Except, none of those are crimes.» Breaking the law is the textbook definition of a crime, isn't it?
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by metagame 5y ago
This is a very poorly written article. To save you some time: Yes, they're getting rid of Electron. No, they aren't going native. Yes, they're doing what Qt and Gtk+ and Microsoft have already been doing for years and just us
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Needed: A New System of Intellectual Property Rights (1997)(hbr.org)
1 points by metagame 5y ago|0 comments
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by metagame 5y ago
I hope you enjoy it! I got a lot from checking it out.
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by metagame 5y ago
In throwawaylinux's defense, they've been using the account consistently for three months, and have a sizeable portion of karma (roughly (* 3 x) my own current 222, and (* 40 x) my own two days spent here). I believe, if I'm
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by metagame 5y ago
K&R is still an example of computer science education. Programming languages are a subset of computer science, it's a book that tries to teach you a language. There's a substantial body of evidence in linguistics research that
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by metagame 5y ago
I edited my comment pretty significantly to clarify; you might want to give it another look. Putting this comment here to avoid the "Wow, what an irrelevant comment" problem. You might find your comment, while a decent literal rea
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by metagame 5y ago
Yes, I know. That's why I pointed out that zipped HTML was available, but that's not quite a native web copy! Especially given how the zipped HTML in the epub format is usually presented (a million tiny HTML files in a single dire
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by metagame 5y ago
TAOCP uses a significantly different methodology of teaching, and it's also very explicitly aimed at a significantly different market of programmer and in a significantly different area of endeavor within computer science. It's a
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The Synthesis of Algorithmic Systems (1966) [pdf](jdl.ac.cn)
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by metagame 5y ago
It is a civil issue rather than a criminal one, albeit still violation of law, which is why I used "crime" in the same way that the US government calls piracy and copyright infringement a crime despite it generally being a civil o
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by metagame 5y ago
The Open Source Initiative coined the term to begin with. Using it incorrectly is harmful, and is how we've ended up with "literally" meaning "figuratively" in modern English. By insisting on the correct definition,
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by metagame 5y ago
Computer science, historically, has been a field filled with books that encourage you to write code while not particularly having you read much of it. K&R is a good example of this. PAIP went against this notion, and has you spend muc
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by metagame 5y ago
It by definition is not open source. The term has a definition. This breaks literally the first rule. https://opensource.org/osd

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