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by koudelka 1mo ago
The term robot came from the Czech language in 1923. The word was coined by Czech author Karel Capek, first used in his play R.U.R. (translated as Rossum's Universal Robots).[7][8][9] The term comes from the Czech word robotník ('
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by koudelka 9mo ago
the Huygens algorithm is also worth a look https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/nsdi18/nsdi18...
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by koudelka 2y ago
Don’t forget about The 13th Floor , also from 1999.
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by koudelka 2y ago
Can you give some examples of how elixir is too clever? It’s been a breath of explicit fresh air for me…
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by koudelka 2y ago
I’d imagine that’s an application of a rule, whereas an exploit is a violation of a rule that allows for (a && !a) or some such inconsistency.
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by koudelka 2y ago
Jeff Lowenfel’s “Teaming With Microbes” is a fantastic introduction to the soil food web and its implications for organic no-till farming. Highly Recommend. https://www.amazon.ca/Teaming-Microbes-Organic-Gardeners-Rev...
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Synthetic Sentience – Joscha Bach [37c3] [video](media.ccc.de)
4 points by koudelka 3y ago|0 comments
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by koudelka 3y ago
Honestly though, bless Kyle for truly being himself on the internet.
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by koudelka 3y ago
perhaps a lack of consistency would have resulted in a universe incompatible with life, so there’d be nobody around to ask the question?
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by koudelka 4y ago
for the purposes of this conversation, that’s a distinction without a difference
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by koudelka 4y ago
"You show loyalty, they learn loyalty. You show them it’s about the work, it’ll be about the work. You show them some other kind of game, and that’s the game they’ll play." -- The Wire
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by koudelka 4y ago
if you enjoyed this comment, you may also enjoy the The Trigger Effect episode from James Burke's Connections series. https://archive.org/details/james-burke-connections_s01e01
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by koudelka 5y ago
We (Frame.io/Adobe) are all-in on Elixir, and we're hiring!
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by koudelka 5y ago
You might be interested in Partisan's fault injector. I don't know if @cmeiklejohn is still working on it, but it's really cool nonetheless. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrwhOkiifQ8 https://gith
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by koudelka 5y ago
that’s the scuttlebutt. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/exclusive-tiger-cub-archegos-...
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by koudelka 6y ago
So is Urbit a piece of performance art, or is it software that does a useful thing?
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by koudelka 6y ago
and also because high partial-pressure oxygen is quite toxic. :)
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by koudelka 6y ago
I don't think it's exactly connected to the kickstarter, but in this[1] interview with James from May, he talks about how he's currently working on the K-Web[2]. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUb6Sv-rUv0
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by koudelka 6y ago
How often is the best earth-facing satellite imagery updated? It'd be really cool to sic handwriting recognition on it to continuously look for "SOS".
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by koudelka 7y ago
Do you think Stephen Hawking would have survived the virus if this had happened ten years ago? Surely you're not suggesting that he should have been selected out.
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by koudelka 7y ago
> Suddenly bringing up a deep water fish would make it explode. every 33ft up the volume of air doubles. I could be missing something, but I don't think this is quite correct. Coming up from the first 33ft (10 meters) of depth, the
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by koudelka 9y ago
Not so, Segregated Witness adoption pushed it from $4 to about $15.
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NoSQL slinger Basho looks like it's suffering from a case of NoBIZ(theregister.co.uk)
3 points by koudelka 9y ago|0 comments
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by koudelka 11y ago
Drop me a line if you encounter any issues. :)
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by koudelka 11y ago
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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Show HN: Visualixir – A process visualizer for remote BEAM nodes(github.com)
2 points by koudelka 11y ago|0 comments
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by koudelka 11y ago
When I built something like this, I used http://wkhtmltopdf.org and http://pdiff.sourceforge.net .
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by koudelka 11y ago
The Task module is great for this kind of thing, too. http://elixir-lang.org/docs/v1.0/elixir/Task.html [ add: fn() -> 1+2 end, hang1: fn() -> :timer.sleep(1000) end, hang2: fn() ->
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by koudelka 13y ago
This is complete bullshit, I have first-hand experience with this. The FBI showed up with two black SUVs and one local police car. They were all in plain clothes except for the single uniformed police officer. There was no SWAT team (in my
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by koudelka 13y ago
Do you just work out of the IAC office or are you owned by IAC?

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