hprotagonist

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by hprotagonist 7mo ago
"The shocks I experienced as DOCTOR became widely known and “played” were due principally to three distinct events. 1. A number of practicing psychiatrists seriously believed the DOCTOR computer program could grow into a
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by hprotagonist 8mo ago
if you can!
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by hprotagonist 8mo ago
This is very much what apple wants you to believe; they have very good PR. In actual fact, though, apple is a very effective fifth or sixth mover, and has been for a very long time. They watch everyone else fuck it up and get it wrong a b
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by hprotagonist 10mo ago
So, we can anticipate that the new Anthropic browser will now have the interpreter Ken Thompson previewed for us 41-odd years ago?
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Solving Fizz Buzz with Cosines(susam.net)
215 points by hprotagonist 10mo ago|65 comments
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by hprotagonist 10mo ago
> Soon ChatGPT will start to weave ads into their output because they'll need to make $. you have no reason to believe this is not already the case.
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I Sued my landlord and maybe you should too(medium.com)
4 points by hprotagonist 10mo ago|3 comments
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by hprotagonist 1y ago
> If they'd just kept on quietly making the best IDEs available while everyone else in the industry has lost their damn minds, they'd be golden. I recently heard this referred to as "the Brother Strategy": where you d
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by hprotagonist 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canary_trap
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by hprotagonist 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%A9r%C3%A8se_of_Lisieux also bears reading. Her "Little Way" is well worth chewing on.
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by hprotagonist 2y ago
I started using RSS in ~2007, and I haven't stopped. I think i used thunderbird first, then google reader, then feedly, then a self-hosted freshrss for the last few years. I have a graveyard of old blogs and webcomics whose URLs I ca
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by hprotagonist 2y ago
> Oh... the "worst protein powders" section is just a link to: > https://www.consumerreports.org/health/nutrition-healthy-eat ... paywalled.
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by hprotagonist 2y ago
Good old vdiff: https://catb.org/jargon/html/V/vdiff.html Visual diff. The operation of finding differences between two files by eyeball search. The term optical diff has also been reported, and is sometimes
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by hprotagonist 2y ago
In this vein of work, I also heartily recommend Kingsley Amis' "Lucky Jim" (1954), which arguably began the "campus novel" genre.
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by hprotagonist 2y ago
Or do anything with GPS.
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by hprotagonist 2y ago
> to just make up an answer supported by no direct evidence for something you can't explain. It sounds a lot like religion in fact. Well, it sounds like the Aether, really.
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by hprotagonist 2y ago
See also, "Blueberry Earth" https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.10553 This paper explores the physics of the what-if question "what if the entire Earth was instantaneously replaced with an equal volume of clo
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by hprotagonist 2y ago
especially with fennel on top, i can certainly see the uses and appeal! coming from mostly python, i miss a robust stdlib.
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by hprotagonist 2y ago
https://github.com/nobiot/org-remark handy, if you’re in the emacs ecosystem.
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by hprotagonist 2y ago
thou is the singular intimate. (compare the tu- form, in french). You could be singular or plural, but it was always formal. (compare the vous- form, in french) Knowing this puts a whole new spin on things like the KJV, since as moder
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by hprotagonist 2y ago
yinz needs worsh. it'll cool y'off.
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by hprotagonist 2y ago
I will continue to not care, i think. Why would I want a TV when i can get a monitor and stuff a soundbar on the bottom, and an apple TV into HDMI1?
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by hprotagonist 2y ago
but how about an entire city? http://pac.tom7.org/
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by hprotagonist 2y ago
The first — and maybe only, or at least sufficient — use of tissue engineering at scale is not going to be growing organs for implantation, growing meat in a lab for human consumption, or anything quite that flashy. The first one is going t
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by hprotagonist 2y ago
Chris: So, I talked to him. Mitch: You did? Chris: Yeah, and he used to be the number one stud around here in the 70’s. (whispers) Smarter than you and me put together. Mitch: So what happened? Did he crack? Chris: Yes, Mitch. He cracked,
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by hprotagonist 2y ago
to me it’s a hallmark of a writing style that understands itself to be written speech.
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by hprotagonist 2y ago
From a few months later: https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1661/01/03/ and after that to the Theatre, where was acted “Beggars’ Bush,” it being very well done; and here the first time that ever I saw wom
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EmacsConf 2024(emacsconf.org)
148 points by hprotagonist 2y ago|9 comments
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Andy Grove: Rich, Famous, Smart and Wrong (2007)(science.org)
6 points by hprotagonist 2y ago|1 comments
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by hprotagonist 2y ago
> At some point between, say, 2000 and 2012, everyone forgot that. September.

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