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by nahuel0x 5y ago
Somebody did the calculation of how many bitcoins we can mine with the energy released by burning the entire planet? That would be great
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by nahuel0x 5y ago
The sperm progress bar is the very definition of a jumping the shark moment.
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by nahuel0x 5y ago
For the curious, check this essay "Did Russell Advocate Preventive Atomic War against the USSR?": https://mulpress.mcmaster.ca/russelljournal/article/download...
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by nahuel0x 5y ago
But Erlang provides something that Kubernetes/Docker/Systemd isolation does not: fine granularity / per request isolated processes. Is the difference between a code bug killing a single call in a VoIP system vs killing an ent
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by nahuel0x 5y ago
It's a sign of decadence, the question "what's my contribution to society?" is out of sight. Becoming rich by the crypto lottery should not be seen as an achievement with pride, but as the shame of becoming a harmful par
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by nahuel0x 5y ago
There is a replacement in sight?
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by nahuel0x 5y ago
A visual 1993 guide: https://imgur.com/a/KhUINw1
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by nahuel0x 6y ago
Not to be picky, but what are the advantages of using CL for this kind of software instead of Julia?
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by nahuel0x 6y ago
I think Carrier Command (at least the PC version) was not a bootdisk game but a normal .EXE.
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Neurons might contain something within them(join.substack.com)
101 points by nahuel0x 6y ago|67 comments
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by nahuel0x 6y ago
You want a microkernel.
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by nahuel0x 6y ago
Somebody knows the name of this Apple //e program?
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by nahuel0x 6y ago
Native compilation will need to be manually enabled on init.el or is already enabled by default?
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by nahuel0x 6y ago
Fear of individual/personal death is somewhat mitigated because we know other beings will survive us. Now imagine if all the life forms and stars destiny is an eternal and permanent death, all of them, just like forever . Feels as sta
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by nahuel0x 6y ago
Maybe there aren't anything like "fundamental laws" and all are emergent patterns, like we are, and in other places in the Universe the "fundamental laws" are completely different. In that case, the hermetics had a
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by nahuel0x 6y ago
Open the Google Cloud Console (probably the most complex Material UI example), and imagine it in Win95 style. It will be so much better.
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Crux: The Strength of the Record(opencrux.com)
3 points by nahuel0x 6y ago|0 comments
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by nahuel0x 6y ago
Similar to this great short "Uncanny Valley": https://vimeo.com/147365861
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by nahuel0x 6y ago
An autodidact in an hostile environment correcting Principia Mathematica at 12 and later pointed as "the genius" of a group who included von Neumann and Wiener. Pitts was clearly a mutant :)
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by nahuel0x 6y ago
Fuchsia network stack is also being rewritten from Go to Rust [1] and it follows a functional core/imperative shell pattern, something very unusual in network stacks [2]: [1] https://fuchsia.dev/fuchsia-src/contrib
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by nahuel0x 6y ago
Following this article, is very interesting to read the "First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC" by Von Neumann (1945): http://web.mit.edu/STS.035/www/PDFs/edvac.pdf
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by nahuel0x 6y ago
There is a beautiful book in the same line of thought, but from 1902 and by a classic anarchist, Kropotkin [1] and also a comment about it by Stephen Jay Gould [2]: [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_Aid:_A_Factor
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by nahuel0x 6y ago
There is a (defunct?) W3C working group about this, see https://www.w3.org/community/httpslocal/ and https://github.com/httpslocal
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by nahuel0x 6y ago
Intuitively we can postulate the humans are more conscientious than a chicken, and the chicken is more conscientious than a bacteria, and the bacteria (maybe it can "feel" pain) is more conscientious than the thermostat (who proba
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by nahuel0x 6y ago
I'm not qualified to check if quantum mechanics and relativity are really derivable from his model, but if they are, seems like a big achievement at least as theoretical juggling (independently of the reality of the theory).
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by nahuel0x 6y ago
I don't know if something of this is real, falsifiable, or how much of it is original work (and surely you need to peel off the Wolfram classic ego driven sentences) but I think I'm not the only one finding this project thought pr
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by nahuel0x 6y ago
But to feel is the core of consciousness/qualia. You can postulate free will as an illusion, but is harder with consciousness.
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by nahuel0x 6y ago
There is an active TC39 proposal to add immutable types to JS: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-record-tuple
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by nahuel0x 6y ago
The Rust vs Zig discussions seems to echo the dichotomy between the declarative and imperative languages, but at the type level. In Rust (as is common in other static languages) you define the types declaratively, while Zig takes the poorly
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by nahuel0x 6y ago
Inside this concept there is a Douglas Adams like short-history about a self-conscious progress bar.

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