mr_luc

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by mr_luc 5y ago
I'd definitely agree with the specific point of both paragraphs, especially because you said 'language designs' in the first. But I think the essay uses 'language' to mean what you do in your second paragraph, &#x27
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by mr_luc 5y ago
I'd agree that it's a totally valid sentiment in our industry. In the specific context of an essay on pg's site though -- look at those graphics! :D This seems to me like a dude who is okay with wooden tables.
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by mr_luc 5y ago
This is a line that resonates with me, and the one which some negative comments might overlook (3 hours in, at least): "What can you say in this language that would be impossibly inconvenient to say in others? In the process
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by mr_luc 5y ago
I don't think it has to be - I think they're thinking about how to turn that research into money in a healthy way, so as to keep doing relevant work in a super capital-intensive area and maintain their ability to exert some contro
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by mr_luc 5y ago
> A smart designer of a Decentralized application could see not storing data in a centralized storage, as an advantage because it lets them side step all of these problems. I agree, and I'd love to see Our Decentralized Future happe
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by mr_luc 6y ago
It does a good job. It asks “why?” and then shows the causes, with numbers for each cause. Of course, there’s a deeper and more contentious kind of “why?” and it doesn’t go as deeply into that, other than to show some things that seem to co
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by mr_luc 6y ago
> how did they survive in the role for any length of time? Not all knights saw that much action. I agree though that they had strong incentives, besides survival in battle, to be at least defensibly competent. As to those incentives --
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by mr_luc 6y ago
Consumer Reports can be really useful. I've found them to be great for getting up to speed on quality of products like snow blowers, some kinds of cars, etc. Their model seems like the only way to provide a service that good, outside o
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by mr_luc 7y ago
Yeah with WebRTC data channels can be UDP! It's just -- and this may be mildly out of date -- EXTREMELY hard to find a server-side setup that will let you do all of what the browsers now support with WebRTC. My recollection from the la
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by mr_luc 7y ago
I'm happy with my 9-to-5 schedule now -- I can stop work at a specific time, and mostly stop worrying. Mostly. But it's not the same kind of freedom as knowing that the weekend has started, and that there is a multi-day period w
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by mr_luc 7y ago
> we're peddlers of the neutral and inevitable Inevitability is the most important, least understood concept I think. You hear it expressed sometimes as 'great surfers need great waves.' (Of course 'great' leaves
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by mr_luc 7y ago
BEAM languages too.
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by mr_luc 7y ago
I thought I remember hearing that he worked on high-altitude suits at some point in the 40's, ie with some of the same people who would design space suits, which explains the loving detail in the book 'Have Spacesuit, Will Travel.
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by mr_luc 7y ago
> As far as I'm concerned I wish this had started 40 years ago rather than a bit less than 20 Absolutely agree. I bought an 8-pack of used Heinlein paperbacks the other day that I hadn't read since I was a wee lad, which includ
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by mr_luc 7y ago
I feel like the Common Lisp and Erlang communities have produced writing about software that has really stood the test of time. From the CL spec, to Norvig's "Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in Commo
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by mr_luc 7y ago
Huh -- when I read this: > This pattern is hard to achieve in practice in a high level language, although you might have luck emulating it with gcc’s labels as values functionality. it sounded familiar, and immediately made me wonder if
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by mr_luc 7y ago
The Pacific Northwest is a poor example there, because as you indicate, the "cold" winter days in the densely populated areas are still pretty mild. The Great Lakes region of the US (like Minnesota, where I live), and some parts o
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by mr_luc 7y ago
I remember that in Ecuador and Peru people called that kind of kidnapping "secuestro express."
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by mr_luc 8y ago
I lived in a small fishing village, barring the occasional tourist and surf expedition further afield, and it's still my favorite place in the world. I loved the only street noise being the occasional donkey. I worked over a tiny EDGE
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by mr_luc 8y ago
I lived down there for 7 years that coincided with his presence in the country, and I've commented on the uniqueness of Correa as a politician before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5984041 I think it's stil
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by mr_luc 8y ago
A silly example of a movie like that I've looked for off and on in a digital/streaming form for a long time is my favorite Marx Brothers movie, "A Night in Casablanca." (I know, I know, it's one of their least &#x27
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by mr_luc 8y ago
Per Appendix B, the source of the data is the CDC's Wonder "multiple cause of death" data, which does include the codes you mention: https://wonder.cdc.gov/mcd-icd10.html "... The Multiple Cause of Death
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by mr_luc 8y ago
This is an excellent question, but my first impression is that they aren't doing anything sneaky. I see that some of the data is labeled "per 100,000 individuals," not deaths. Obviously, there is a specific policy push and
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by mr_luc 8y ago
They do break it out by age as well. snipped to imgur: https://i.imgur.com/yLTwL3J.png Edit: my original comment may have implied that I was minimizing the importance of the issue, which I hope wasn't the impression I
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by mr_luc 8y ago
Yeah, but I'll bet it's high-quality and comparable enough among some countries to be useful. Tracking these three causes together would probably help as well; if one culture is biased towards over-counting overdoses, for instan
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by mr_luc 8y ago
For me, the most useful page of the linked PDF is page 22, the tables of 1999-2015 stats, without any projections. I see numbers from the CDC for general population like: Alcohol deaths per 100,000 1999 2015 Pct Increase 7.0
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by mr_luc 8y ago
Unless your place is also slowly moving upwards. :) Most of Scotland is still slowly moving upwards due to the post-glacial rebound from the last ice age. It's a centimeter a year at the fastest in Europe, I think, and technically is s
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by mr_luc 8y ago
Aha! This is the perfect place to ask this! I've dipped back into reading SF after a long time of only reading the classics (Heinlein et al), and the Three-Body Problem, which I read a few days ago, did seem to me to fit into that mo
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by mr_luc 8y ago
As a data point for low-end assassinations -- some cities don't have the police resources to investigate fully every time a faceless teen or young twenty-something rolls up on a moto, shoots someone, and rolls on. I remember this being
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by mr_luc 8y ago
Ah, that's an interesting breakdown. For me, those numbers boiled down to "a Tesla M3 is $10k cheaper than an A4 because it gets $10k of government rebates" - 7500 : Federal tax credit - 2500 : California rebate

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