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by thelazydogsback 6y ago
Our species is at the most interesting point (now + coming few generations) in its evolution I'd think (creation of WMDs, genetic engineering, effecting plant-scale changes, artificial intelligence/life, spacefaring, etc.) - a t
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by thelazydogsback 6y ago
Hire. Fire. Hire. == the Krebs cycle
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by thelazydogsback 6y ago
Agree, but I think it excels at it's intended purpose, as a "gradually typed" system where types can be added at the various places, and inferred types that "meet in the middle" will structurally type as intended. I
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by thelazydogsback 6y ago
So the Anova is a combo dry convection and steam oven, correct? (Not microwave) Looks interesting. I was wondering also if you know a model that combined variable inverter (not duty-cycle) microwave output, convection, and steam-sensor. th
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by thelazydogsback 6y ago
As I worked on the device-drivers and devices that could play them (like the Tandy/Memorex VIS lol) I still have a bunch of unopened Medio CD-ROMS. One of these days I'll have to hook up the old chan3 coax to the TV and fire it al
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by thelazydogsback 6y ago
How does this compare to https://supabase.io/ ?
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by thelazydogsback 6y ago
I think TS on the server is a great choice for all the reasons that make TS interesting -- esp. the expressive structural typing system which is not found in the other languages. What is missing is a better runtime that supports true sha
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by thelazydogsback 6y ago
Weird title, as the default modes of Vi and Emacs are diametrically opposed and opinions there tend to run strong.
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by thelazydogsback 6y ago
Reactoring and reuse is a bit of a pain compared to functors or typical OO code in C#, etc., esp. moving from idiomatic F# to to more performant code, when this is needed. For example, I may use a List at first, as it's natural to sta
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by thelazydogsback 6y ago
Go?! I don't think there's even a comparison here -- the .Net ecosystem is huge compared to such a newcomer. I've been looking at .Net libs (for F# and C#) and JVM libs (for Clojure) recently, and I've came across way m
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by thelazydogsback 6y ago
Personally I think a "forward blinker" would be useful, in the middle of a car/bike. Many times at a 4-way stop where all the cars arrive relatively simultaneously, if a car doesn't have any blinkers on, I have to guess
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by thelazydogsback 6y ago
ebay baby! Went on a core memory kick a few years ago and just happened to catch an auction at the right time.
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by thelazydogsback 6y ago
I don't think AI is needed here -- I wrote an Outlook plugin about 15 years ago that used fuzzy diff between messages in the thread that extracted only the new information added by each person and presented it as a message digest or as
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by thelazydogsback 6y ago
This seems pretty cool -- but one issue to me is that (similar to the chasm that exists in low-code app building once the magic doesn't suit you) that if I already have the skills to create a mobile app that integrates tensorflow, I pr
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by thelazydogsback 6y ago
One fun item I'm lucky enough to own is a core memory stack from Dijkstra's Electrologica computer, ca.1958 or so -- very low density obviously. This machine is where the first working Algol compiler was written.
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by thelazydogsback 6y ago
I wrote a Lisp in F# last year, and I started with Fexprs and used them as the basis to write quasiquote and defmacro, which are then used to write things like defun and let: "backtick char ` is expanded to quasiquote by the reader
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by thelazydogsback 6y ago
I remember that season 2 of Rick and Morty seemed to as well, at least when it first came on Hulu
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by thelazydogsback 6y ago
Innoreader -- the full web app and the Android app are both great
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by thelazydogsback 6y ago
psyco worked well for me at the time as well -- I remember doing something with it and pyGame, FWIR.
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by thelazydogsback 6y ago
I have noticed this as well. Also "Covid", for example, doesn't seem to be in the vocab.
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by thelazydogsback 6y ago
It amazes me that the stack-entwined implementation with the GIL remained the canonical version this whole time -- I would think that the Stackless version (or similar) would have been the default long-ago. This really should have made it w
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by thelazydogsback 6y ago
Yeah, I grew up in NYC and never had any idea what they were saying in the station or on the train. Over-driven mics, underpowered amps and tiny speakers == total harmonic distortion exceeding intelligibility thresholds...
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by thelazydogsback 6y ago
I don't get it -- if you're not going to program in Prolog (and have full Prolog operational semantics, custom operator syntax, access to CLP libs, etc.) then why not just backtrack with iterators directly over a logical var abs
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by thelazydogsback 6y ago
I worked at MS in the Multimedia group working on things like sound-card and CD-ROM drivers, "MMSDK" tools, etc., and the venerable (lol) Radio Shack VIS, which had a version if Encarta. FWIR, most of the animations used Marcromin
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by thelazydogsback 6y ago
Great art piece regardless of size -- I could totally see this playing from a 8mm projector at the Whitney museum in 1968...
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by thelazydogsback 6y ago
NIM and Red (also on HN today) seem both seem to have an interesting and intersecting feature set. Anybody here used or heavily evaluated both that can comment?
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by thelazydogsback 6y ago
FWICT, all the job-finding and -reviewing sites are pure and utter scams (w/the exception of LinkedIn) -- they post false, misleading, repeated and outdated jobs intentionally as a bait-and-switch tactic, they mine and share all yo
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by thelazydogsback 6y ago
Huh??
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by thelazydogsback 6y ago
Fond memories of POKEing hand-assembled Z-80 code (LDIR, baby!) from TRS-80 BASIC...
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by thelazydogsback 6y ago
Reminds me of this: https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/14ucj2/til_b... "Bill Gates was recruited to write the class scheduling software for his high school. He used that power to place

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