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by slver 5y ago
> That, and if genome similarities were to be explained away by an intelligent designer using the same "toolbox" (so to speak) then why would he create crabs multiple times without using those same widgets? I also don't kn
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by slver 5y ago
The way you phrased is reminded me how blindly we walk through life, doing things that our body forces us to do, because despite all our bravado about how smart we are... we really have no clue what we do and why we do it most of the time.
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by slver 5y ago
What is his clear message of urgency?
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by slver 5y ago
Depends what you focus on as your definition of "living beings". If you look at our cells, they behave more naturally while we sleep. While we sleep, they're "awake". So yes, that's their natural state. But the
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by slver 5y ago
Yes. Basically we're 2-in-1, we have two modes (macro and micro, or from macro perspective: operation and maintenance), and they're largely incompatible together for many reasons, but both are needed in order for the organism to e
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by slver 5y ago
That part in particular is as simple as... you get higher because you're laying down, so there's no vertical pressure on your back.
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by slver 5y ago
Sleep is basic resource management: it takes too much resources to both run all macro systems, and also all microsystems (on cellular level). So they take turns and interleave through the sleep/wake cycle. As you say, microsystems take
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by slver 5y ago
Of course at the lowest level it's "explicit" as in you see the API used to implement it. But in practice there's nothing explicit about it, because any function can yield and you don't have to explicitly know it di
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by slver 5y ago
Regarding Lua async-by-default execution: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49764681/how-exactly-doe...
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by slver 5y ago
I could guess about "the". But seriously, this is much clearer: "set window location to target href" And this is even clearer: "window.location = target.href" Adding the flourishes of human language is kinda cu
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by slver 5y ago
Parsing JSON with various slightly specialized string fields like "email" or "url" and so on is precisely what I had in mind by simple input. There's absolutely nothing there for "parser combinators" to do
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by slver 5y ago
Yes laws can’t be implemented in a straightforward and neutral way. That’s not a benefit of laws or something we need to preserve. Exactly the opposite. The fact the process is sitting on a case for YEARS because they can't decide how
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by slver 5y ago
I've been thinking about this for literally decades. Unfortunately while the idea is solid, and very much viable, it's all about institutional inertia, not merely technical ability. Good luck to this startup, and I mean it.
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by slver 5y ago
> Who actually wants this? People want good libraries for doing this with the languages they already use Like the JVM? This runs on JVM.
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by slver 5y ago
The problem is keeping the adversaries balanced. Otherwise you have one side overpowering everything (and typically not through the "correctness" of their argument, but scale and resources) and the adversarial system becomes detri
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by slver 5y ago
It’ll help people understand the language if you remove optional words tbh. Hypertalk is HyperTalk, but the world isn’t written in it for a reason. Good luck. Btw Lua is also implicitly async like this as well.
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by slver 5y ago
The pattern used here: "foo then bar" is identical to JS promises, I notice. Of course, it's more elegant when you don't have to wrap it in functions. But it hardly warrants an entire language I think.
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by slver 5y ago
> 90% of what happens in a UI is ubiquitous across software. Buttons are clicked, images are positioned. Thing is, there are countless fun ways to reimagine basics like "buttons are clicked, images are positioned". But that&#x2
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by slver 5y ago
Technically all JS also lives in the HTML document. All JS is either in HTML attributes, in HTML script blocks, or referred to from HTML script blocks. The HTML page was always the boss. There's simply no reason for what's done he
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by slver 5y ago
Fun idea, but inline scripting only works for the simplest things. I could write my handlers inline with JS as well, but I really would rather not. Maybe a bigger question is why not have this as a JS library, but its own language. Because
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by slver 5y ago
I wish we had a WYSIWYG focused on extremely explicit whitelist of nodes and attributes permitted, and in what configuration (you can put X in Y, but not Y in X).
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by slver 5y ago
I tried to read through this I couldn't figure out what problem was solved. Does anyone have TLDR?
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by slver 5y ago
Today in baseless generalizations...
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by slver 5y ago
Unfortunately that also results in them trying to prove their colleagues are wrong about other of their colleagues being wrong. So the bottom line is that ironically due to this science gets stuck on false beliefs and they can be a bit hard
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by slver 5y ago
Also, notice that famous and/or rich people never die of "old age". They got proper healthcare, an issue was identified, there was at least an attempt to treat it. But your average folks... eh, died of old age.
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by slver 5y ago
Cultural evolution is part of evolution as much as genetic evolution is. In fact cultural evolution in practice supersedes genetic evolution in many places because it adapts and propagates orders of magnitudes faster than genes. If you want
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by slver 5y ago
What's true about the majority of society... shapes society. I also think it's ridiculous spectator sports exist, and right next to so-called next we get sports news. Is anyone asking me? No. I'm in the minority. Sorry to be
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by slver 5y ago
I'd just invoke Plank's principle and thousands of other examples right before your eyes. You shouldn't need research when you're swimming in the conclusion.
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by slver 5y ago
This only matters when you parse complex syntax. Most input isn’t.
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by slver 5y ago
Wrapping primitives comes with its own set of problems. Like having to unbox it all the time for things like basic display. So you either validate it all the time or you unbox it all the time. Also with dedicated primitives you need to vali

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