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by scrupulusalbion 11y ago
I am pretty sure that it has long been illegal to fly any non-FAA-approved aircraft (whether manned or not) near airports without that airport's approval. Does that qualify as some regulation to you?
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by scrupulusalbion 11y ago
Happiness can trivially be due to things beyond our understanding, so challenging that emotion can make one conclude that one has no good reason to be happy. Unfortunately, I don't think this works very well with emotions like anxiety
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by scrupulusalbion 11y ago
I have no experience compiling anything on OSX, so I am not sure if I will be very helpful. Looking at the download page, it looks like the OSX version is 32-bit only: "It should compile and run on 32-bit GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, Mac O
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by scrupulusalbion 11y ago
/s See, you say that as if homeopathy were dangerous merely for what it provides s/ (which is hopefully just filtered water).
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by scrupulusalbion 11y ago
FWIW, PicoLisp[0] is one of those lisp dialects that went way out of its way to be syntactically simple/pure/consistent. Whether this is a good idea, I don't know, but it is nevertheless an interesting example of a modern-ma
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by scrupulusalbion 11y ago
I always find it strange how people are seriously concerned with trolling. I understand that children, the emotionally immature, and the psychologically ill are actually harmed by trolling. However, those people are already at risk of bei
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by scrupulusalbion 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Permanent_Fund
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by scrupulusalbion 11y ago
>The next step up would then be a REPL shell. I had been juggling the idea of using a modified REPL for shell work, but I haven't written much code. However, someone has written such a shell, namely Avesh[0]. Check out the Reddit
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by scrupulusalbion 11y ago
This and Lisp-flavored Erlang make me wonder how far one could take the idea of a Lisp syntax atop some other language. As a half-joke, I wonder if one could make a Lisp-flavored C work; should I fear or be slightly bemused at the idea of
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by scrupulusalbion 11y ago
Check out the comments, which require a Facebook account. A young marketing executive has made an innocuous comment on this somewhat elaborate joke. Suppose his/her boss thought that video games were a waste of time and saw that comme
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by scrupulusalbion 11y ago
Why is this phenomena a cost to society? By this phenomena, real prices are able to decrease, with all the concomitant benefits of having reduced expenses.
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by scrupulusalbion 11y ago
The original keyboard design was meant to be used to type the characters present in the APL code page [0]. My intention was that one would still be able to type the same (or perhaps mostly the same) characters as the original keyboard but
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by scrupulusalbion 11y ago
I think I came up with the idea about 6 months ago. It is on the back burner until I can find a way to mount the switches (Cherry MX Blues (had enough of those lying around)) [0] without resorting to a PCB. Any ideas on that front are wel
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by scrupulusalbion 11y ago
A few months ago, I had the idea to remake the old Space Cadet keyboard. One change was to make the bucky bits (e.g. control, alt, meta, super, etc.) allow you to type unicode characters instead of APL characters. Other than that and havi
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by scrupulusalbion 11y ago
>This really should be stopped now. Sure, stopping this instance is possibly worth the trouble, but what about next time? Amateur satellites are already possible, thus the possibility of an ever increasing occurrence of space graffiti.
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by scrupulusalbion 11y ago
Perhaps lisps do not benefit from progression in libraries; creation of new resources; and don't need to change often enough to warrant new documentation. What does it mean when a language becomes less and less useful without its speci
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by scrupulusalbion 11y ago
If I met someone with whom I shared numerous characteristics, I wouldn't find the coincidences interesting nearly as much as the engaging conversation with someone who was effectively a stranger a few moments ago.
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by scrupulusalbion 11y ago
The lesson from the quote would be to actually observe more for what you are looking. Coincidences are common, but it isn't serendipity until you actually notice it. >I think I just feel saturated by online dating and the pre-engin
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by scrupulusalbion 11y ago
> I say this as a person who met a woman who said she basically doesn't date anyone who has anything less than a Master's degree. At first, I thought that is petty. However, such bluntness is helpful to you; you get to very qu
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by scrupulusalbion 11y ago
I don't think that phones are secure, but people do use them for things like 2-factor authentication. I suppose that it is the form-factor that is more relevant, since most phones are smaller than a TI-83, so much so that people are w
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by scrupulusalbion 11y ago
Strictly speaking, money (as opposed to currency) is whatever is the most commonly used currency in a given region. Gold is not generally used as a medium of exchange anymore (i.e. it is not a currency), so it is merely a valuable commodit
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by scrupulusalbion 11y ago
More importantly, end-to-end encryption means that your desktop/laptop/tablet/phone/TI-83 is doing the crypto, especially signatures. On a somewhat related note, I remember reading some documentation on a one-time passwo
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by scrupulusalbion 11y ago
Infatuation is the word that I think should be used in place of love in this context. Most people want love, but seeking to get it immediately (instant gratification), dooms one to stay in the infatuation phase for lack of sober relating w
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by scrupulusalbion 11y ago
To expound a little, one should worry about the plank in one's own eye before one worries about the splinter in another's. To me, this means that one's first responsibility is to take care of oneself. If you can't take
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by scrupulusalbion 11y ago
It seems to me that in this situation savings accounts would have the nominally negative rate, whereas checking accounts would have a nominal rate of zero. Since inflation affects the real value of both accounts equally, then the checking
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by scrupulusalbion 11y ago
My understanding from taking a Red Hat sysadmin course is that what you get from a RHEL subscription is firstly access to their repos from which to download updates and additional packages. The other, perhaps bigger, portion of a RHEL subs
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by scrupulusalbion 11y ago
I see helicopter-parenting and absentee-parenting as min-maxing; these are the munchkins of parenting. Just as in role-playing, the parent gives little to no concern to other issues that are important for the child's development. T
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by scrupulusalbion 11y ago
Recently I had the idea of a FIFO review process. That is, when you submit a paper, you must then submit a review of the paper that has been sitting in the same queue the longest. Thus every researcher winds up reading as many papers as h
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by scrupulusalbion 11y ago
Requiring someone to wear an ankle monitor for the rest of their life sounds bonkers. You would either have to give him/her the charger or mandate that he/she return to a police station or court house to have the device recharged
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by scrupulusalbion 11y ago
I now feel somewhat smug over refusing to fly whatsoever since hearing about the body scanners. The security theater is indeed a serious issue, but if the body scanners are physically harmless (not certain about that), then I am not sure w

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