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by zasdffaa 4y ago
Emotions have a purpose - disgust to keep us away, love to keep us together, lust to procreate, fear to chase us from danger. Without a purpose for an emotion, it's hard to see why these would happen. And maybe their emotions would be
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
It is questionable if it's universally innate, there being many atheists, but now you've explained it I can see your point. Have to say you used some ill-focussed or ill-expressed arguments which is why I have been repeatedly chas
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
Ok, points taken, except with 'China and Soviet state official atheism'. I don't see the relevance to either trade or sex.
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
Not sure if relevant but dram refreshes continuously.
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
Strange comment - nobody was suggesting banning trade (even weirder about banning sex).
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
I'm not an expert but I'm pretty sure there were wide exchanges of peoples happened thousands of years earlier (eg. stonehenge burials came from a wide range of europe - this from memory). Edit: https://www.bbc.com&#x2F
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
Not being flippant, but some MDMA. It makes a huge difference to my quality of life if used occasionally.
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
> The hash idea works even in mutable land Uh, how? Other than removing it from the dictionary, mutating it then adding it back.
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
Please give some links to a few such SO posts, thanks.
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
two-wrongs.org and www.two-wrongs.org get me a DNS lookup failure.
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
Contact the people who designed and used Lisp machines and get their very, very expert take. Many are still alive.
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
RPN is forth not lisp, and I seriously doubt HP got their idea from emacs. I think HP's RPN precedes the first release of emacs anyway. Edit: 1st release of emacs was 1976 so I take that last bit back.
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
DB 'expert' here - agree completely. It's about profiling then banging your head against it and learning more from books/the docs/web. That's really it.
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
I don't want to diss this, it's useful to some but to say "Your database knowledge is outdated" is presumptuous to the point of insulting. It's basic to intermediate level stuff, like using CTEs to break up queries
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
It was exceedingly narrow to the point that the first cavers chosen there were small women iirc. Pic of them halfway down https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2015/09/homo-nal... plus article.
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
Things have a purpose. You might use your oven 2% of the time, you don't turn it on and use it (or turn it on and leave it empty) 100% of the time just cos it's there. When the purpose is done, you stop.
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
Then may I recommend in addition Hacker's Delight. The 1st ed is most fun, 2nd ed has a lot more depth in certain areas (division IIRC) which you might choose to skip.
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
A good non-dev can be hugely helpful to devs and much increase their productivity. To repeat: a good one.
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
Do you (or anyone) have some idea why anyone could possibly have thought 16 bits would be enough? Many decisions are bad in hindsight but surely no hindsight was needed for that.
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
Speaking as a brit, the opium wars were an abomination but China does like to (or find convenient) playing the victim.
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
Can you point to some examples of owl/sql transforms being flipped? I have trouble believing that an invertible transformation is hard (presumably each step is invertible, right), and certainly "never would have been able to disco
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
I see nothing in your link to justify what you say. Perhaps you can elaborate.
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
At my university I asked about these flashy new machines which I'd never have a chance to use, I was told they were slow. That was way back then.
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
...and that's the sort of critique I'm interested in and which should have been given initially.
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
Perhaps.. but clueless comments are usually evident by the very lack of solid info. So why even post? I get further pissed off by having people argue back when I say something from my small island of expertise (SQL and a few other things) t
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
Then "You absolutely can use it without CLOS" would have sufficed. You opined in addition on the quality of clos. That could have been very useful if you'd explained it.
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
Yes and no, books are fab but words from the genuinely wise can save you a lot of otherwise wasted time so I always appreciate for knowedgeable advice as well.
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
This "afterthought ... poorly bolted ... worse than its predecessor" is a type of HN comment that's too common. Not being a CLOS or Lisp user, I have no idea why you say this and can learn nothing from it. HN's really st
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
Indeed, thanks. FTR "Feolite is a type of iron oxide sintered into building blocks, which are then used for heat storage" which is exactly the stuff. That's an astonishing difference in capacity.
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
I'm afraid I can't see the relevance of that, can you point to something more specific.

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