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by getpost 1mo ago
Too late to edit my post. I did find this, "A History of Erlang" https://lfe.io/papers/%5B2007%5D%20Armstrong%20-%20HOPL%20II...
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by getpost 1mo ago
I would love to read his reply, but of course I understand that correspondence is private. Do you know of something similar that is available on the web?
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by getpost 2mo ago
I live in LA. It's a sensitive subject. My district concilwoman sends out mailings that extoll her ability to get repavements done. To me, it's absurd to claim credit for merely doing her job. Maybe she does perform miracles, but
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by getpost 2mo ago
On July 23, @CJHandmer provided an update on Terraform Industries' hardware and process to produce synthetic natural gas from solar power and air. "Other than plants and some cyanobacteria, I believe this is the first ever commerc
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by getpost 2mo ago
There's an app that updates the desktop https://downlinkapp.com/
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by getpost 3mo ago
Just as I know there is no such thing as bug-free code, I know that I am always wrong, in one way or another.
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by getpost 3mo ago
Ha! The instruction that copies itself. I posted also posted it, 6 years ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24820583
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by getpost 4mo ago
> While the original Macintosh was by no means cheap, it was about half the cost of the Apple III Made me look it up! I was developing Apple ][/III/Lisa/Mac software at the time. I used the Apple III to write Apple Pascal
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by getpost 4mo ago
Yes, it is almost as if the current administration doens't want people to acces medical information.
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by getpost 6mo ago
I didn't mean to suggest that iNat is proactive, they may well be. IIRC, the exact chain of events was: Invasive Species Observation posted -> a curator at the LA Natural History saw the post and notified the CDFA (Agriculture Inspe
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by getpost 6mo ago
That would be doxxing, not that it matters here.
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by getpost 6mo ago
I can hide my home-based observation locations, but others usually do not. People who post observations in my front yard cause other iNat users to visit. This hasn't been a problem in that there have been only a few additional visitors
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by getpost 7mo ago
Benj Edwards wrote a nice profile on arstechnica[0] (Feb 11). "Tinney went on to paint more than 80 covers for Byte, working almost entirely in airbrushed Designers Gouache, a medium he chose for its opaque, intense colors and smooth f
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by getpost 8mo ago
Off-topic, but I was interested to read Carl's Twitter bio[0], "I’ve spent a lifetime switching my Special Interest every year or two. By now I’m surprisingly knowledgeable in a lot of fields— a skill now obsoleted by AI." Th
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by getpost 8mo ago
> it's hard to translate it into Chinese. It's a text about non-duality, among other things. Like the Heart Sutra, or the Diamond Sutra, or 101 Zen Stories, it's not supposed to make sense in an ordinary way. A successful
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by getpost 8mo ago
Brad Marshall[0] makes a case for the benefits of stearic acid (C18:0), which is predominant in beef tallow and cocoa butter. It acts as a beneficial metabolic signal that promotes mitochondrial fat oxidation, higher energy expenditure, and
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by getpost 9mo ago
Thank you for posting this!
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by getpost 9mo ago
Tell us. What inspired you to say this?
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by getpost 10mo ago
Kenneth Mejia, our progressive, data-driven controller audited LAPD helicopter use, and published his findings. "The ASD program costs nearly $50 million annually while most of the flight time is not devoted to high priority events. Ou
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by getpost 10mo ago
> Like dosing on ketamine then getting up on stage and making Nazi salutes. It's much more likely to be the Adderall. "One reason that narcissists so commonly abuse drugs and alcohol is because the substances amplify their feel
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by getpost 10mo ago
> you take that at sunset and let it reinforce your normal cycle Yes, the way Michael Grandner explains it in this podcast[0], melatonin is an ancient molecule that signals, "it is dark." If you give it to nocturnal species, it
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by getpost 10mo ago
This is an interesting detail I had not heard. Can you link to a backstory on this? Why would such a contract ever be signed (especially for a technological product)?
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by getpost 11mo ago
No, you don't, at least according to Robert Sapolsky https://www.amazon.com/Determined-Science-Life-without-Free-...
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by getpost 1y ago
You're lucky to have that perspective.
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by getpost 1y ago
It's an apples-to-oranges comparison, but I'm reminded of the ~10^12 fps (1.7 ps exposures) demonstrated in work at MIT[0], which was for a completely different application. [0] https://web.media.mit.edu/~raskar&#x
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by getpost 1y ago
In a recent podcast[0], Ben Bikman explained some of background and pitfalls of GLP-1 drugs. When the drugs were first prescribed, dosages were much smaller than the dosages now prescribed for weight loss. Microdosing might be a better and
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by getpost 1y ago
I'm working on this[0] 2 hr 52 minute interview with Craig about his new book. He makes the point national health care is a big part of what makes this work. There is a safety net, so people are empowered to take more financial risks.
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by getpost 1y ago
In the deafault instructions, I tell it not to compliment me or apologize.
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by getpost 1y ago
> everyone should be aware that it’s very likely that each MDMA dose is incurring some level of damage I think this is overstating the risk in supervised clinical usage, depending on what you mean by "some level of damage." It&
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by getpost 1y ago
Being optimistic is normally a good strategy for success, but it doesn't feel appropriate in dire circumstances, such as at the onset of World War 2. 70+ million people died, not to mention all the injuries, crimes, and environmental d

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