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by stew-j 4y ago
> Does nothing well except generate heat. Like the current GPUs running my application? I wish you would directed that to my comment above. I would reassert that something like this, perhaps with the qualification of it being well engine
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by stew-j 4y ago
> Look, you’re not wrong about anything Nor you! I was just returning to thank you for posting your original idea to listen to this--I was only clarifying my thoughts before--Leary was human like any of us and I think a progressive, tr
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by stew-j 4y ago
I agree that hallucinogens have therapeutic promise. Leary (and John Lilly, and others) was forward thinking in this respect. But they can be dangerous if misused, with the potential to cause chronic psychotic disorders, for example. I a
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by stew-j 4y ago
Designs like this are what I like to see in my field of implicit modeling of geometry. We need processors with more general purpose ISA, recursion, and 64 bit floats due to the functional techniques we use. There's a fair amount of i
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by stew-j 4y ago
Respectfully, it's about what I expected. A mostly earnest man addressing the real problems of the military/industrial dystopia, the world's break from reality, with a bit of wisdom and a lot of snake oil. Cannabinoid snake
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by stew-j 4y ago
In other words, like hallucinogens, computers and "cyber-enhanced" reality aren't necessarily bad medicine , but they are strong medicine . Playing them off as "cool" and enhancements worth trying without conside
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by stew-j 4y ago
Thank you for your comments and consideration of our time. I think it was Stanislaw Lem that said there is so much poor quality writing out there, reviewers should present the materials they find good in, rather than the bad--I know that&#
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by stew-j 4y ago
Is it too late to nominate Nadsat? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadsat or Newspeak? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak both expressive languages developed by forward thinkers for our modern e
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by stew-j 4y ago
> Hackernews armchair linguists seem to think an ideal language for world communication can somehow be engineered from some small set of primitives, like Scheme I see we have met. My ideal computer language would be Scheme in Ido. :) I
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by stew-j 4y ago
I got to thinking about silent movies, like Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. I don't think I ever saw another treatment of home ownership quite so apropos as: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Week_(1920_film)
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by stew-j 4y ago
OK in Firefox desktop Linux.
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by stew-j 4y ago
Anything interesting in it? Would you recommend it and why?
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by stew-j 4y ago
It's interesting to draw a parallel between the popularization of acid by Leary and the popularization of the Internet by many. John Lilly experimented with hallucinogens, but knew that a lot of preparation was in order. sed &#x
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by stew-j 4y ago
Nice writeup, thanks. > It depends. I hardly ever give up a computer, we still have a '98 Windows laptop doing recipe duty in the kitchen. (It's getting harder to find a small 32 bit Linux distro these days, though.) Energy e
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by stew-j 4y ago
It might have been more interesting to watch Aki Kaurismäki's movies, including the Proletariat Trilogy if I understood Finnish. I'd like to know a very different language from my native English like Japanese, too. (Akira Kuros
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by stew-j 4y ago
I like Couturat et al.'s Ido even better. I can't "think" in it yet, but it is very regular and easy to learn. The main (irrational, personal) issue I have with it is the monotony of endings, -o is always a singular no
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by stew-j 4y ago
We need you here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32430592
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by stew-j 4y ago
As I finished the code for straight-line coil geometry tonight, I thought of an abbreviation for the above story. Take the year it happened, 2014 and subtract 30--(re)read this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninet
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by stew-j 4y ago
A Kubrick-directed LHOTP would have been a different series, too, I imagine. I don't think NBC had a Kubrick level budget either. On a side note, there was a rumor that the Capricorn One movie was filmed on location too: https:/
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by stew-j 4y ago
My father taught me how to chop wood in the early seventies at the age of 8 in the remote territory of suburban Connecticut. More dangerous was the wasps whose nest I disturbed near the wood-pile, and my face swelled up like a balloon. We
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by stew-j 4y ago
Right, but LHOTP showed the importance of community--and the power of cooperation. [1] This was a strong theme in the first season. I grew up in Kansas in the late '70s to mid '80s, and the "theme" back then was the ac
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The Flying Girl and Her Chum(gutenberg.org)
1 points by stew-j 4y ago|1 comments
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by stew-j 4y ago
As a follow on to a my previous submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32142757 Disappointingly, while the sequel "The Flying Girl and Her Chum" had a similar charm to the original, and even though it di
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by stew-j 4y ago
I forgot to add, at the time in 2014 I was working on this project https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32491982 which lead to this one: https://github.com/JMC-design/tovero As I was taking a break fro
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by stew-j 4y ago
> “Hippocratic Oath” equivalent Excellent idea! This would definitely apply for investors, entrepreneurs and software devs, like myself, if you consider those "respected" :). I took an "Ethics in Computing" course i
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by stew-j 4y ago
I'm sorry you had to have any involvement in that morass of a mess too. I've had more friendly interactions with the police in the new state I live in, 1500 miles away--although before that incident I never had any run-ins with t
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by stew-j 4y ago
> It sounded preposterous That's what everyone I told about my February 2014 incident in Wichita Kansas said, including now ex-friends I knew since elementary school. At about 1 AM in the morning, I was soaking in the bathtub after
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by stew-j 4y ago
> Since our tastes are so far apart, I guess we have nothing else to talk about. QED
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by stew-j 4y ago
1. Values (objects) in Scheme are tagged, carrying the type with them. And no, a variable, the identifier that names a location which stores a value isn't statically typed. From R6RS: https://docs.racket-lang.org/r6rs&
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by stew-j 4y ago
Both are R6RS, by the way.

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