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If you thought a manga guide is fun, a visual novel is even better. Don't miss the game Magical Language Lyrical Lisp (魔法言語 リリカルLisp, 2007) [0] from the same (?) author, it's a magical girl visual novel tutorial on basic Lisp syntax.

I was stunned when I first saw it back then. Initially I thought it was just a simple parody, like asking you some questions and comparing it with the answers. But it was the result of serious hacking, it was evaluating the Lisp code in your answers for real. The author apparently implemented an actual Lisp interpreter using the scripting language of the NScripter visual novel engine. Although it's a really minimalist Proof-of-Concept, but it even has a mark-and-sweep garbage collector and an incomplete tail call optimization (supported feature list [1]). Source code is under BSD [2]. Don't know Japanese and can't comment on the game itself though...

For those who don't know, NScripter was a standard visual novel engine used by many games in the 2000s-2010s. It also has a FOSS reimplementation, ONScripter, by anime and manga aficionados who wanted to play games on non-Windows. Its scripting language was mainly designed for the "if-then-else" storylines and never intended to be a general-purpose programming environment. Implementing a Lisp interpreter is something that its designers had never imagined.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20120109071225/http://lyrical.bu...

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20160514130040/http://lyrical.bu...

[2] https://github.com/zick/Magical-Language-Lyrical-Lisp
I mean things like knowing simple polynomials, which ties into things like asymptotic complexity. Which has the word “asymptotic” in it. That basic.
I think deleting the word lazy, deleting the 2nd paragraph, and deleting the 2nd part of the last paragraph would get the same point across.
>I am a mathematician. Nature is of no consideration whatsoever in some fields of maths.

It's not about actual nature (the universe etc) being into consideration.

It's about many mathematicians coming to see maths as exploration (physics-style) of a mathematical universe, so to speak, rather than a simple constructive process.

So, they come to see mathematics as a kind of physics in this regard, no in the sense that they concern themselves with the outside nature. But in that math work appears to them as exploring a natural landscape (just one made of patterns and numbers).
That depends on the contents of the supplied image. But I agree, it's more about the need for the ability to take over control rather than exercising the ability.
GDPR does apply. UK has it implemented as domestic legislation. Lots of confusion and FUD about this. We have exactly the same rules today as we will in 2021.
Yes, I suspect this is much easier as you don't need to alloy as the steel is already alloyed with carbon.
I liked the integration with binfmt_misc! There are several different approaches to bundle data files with a single executable, as the author probably knows it. My favorite one is AppImage. Even though, I've also looked into using alternative approaches to software distribution in the recent past, and ended up creating an extra section in the ELF file to store ancillary data. `objcopy --add-section <params> --set-section-flags <params>` appends the payload to the executable, and libelf can be used at some later point to retrieve the data back. Works like a charm, as long as you don't let `strip` remove unneeded sections from that executable file.
Fair point, housing is very close to a zero-sum game, assuming you need to be within commuting distance of a population center to work.

It'll be interesting to see how a combination of UBI and increasingly available remote work affects the geographic distribution of property prices. We're not short on land area to build houses, after all - we're only short on land nice and close to economic centers.
Looks like it may be Microsoft Anna text-to-speech. The poster added reverb and echo and it was very, very close to the youtube security video that captured the warnings. The device that recorded that may have also skipped on its own recording and may not be perfect.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8B--BNdnuvA

The original video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nygTJeu9fU
To provide UBI rather than targeted charitable aid to people assessed as being needy, they should probably donate that portion of their income to a randomly selected US citizen instead.

(Though I agree that the targeted poverty relief payment to those with the greatest need for extra dollars would be a better use of the funds)
If you own a rental in an inexpensive part of town, or perhaps outside town, and you know a lot of people will be looking for more peripheral and inexpensive places, what would you do with that rental? I think most owners would simply increase rent as demand also increased. It might be slightly beneficial for the price of central apartments, but then most people like the convenience of being close to shops and public communications.
Algorithms and data structures are mathematics.
At this time of year I always think of this, as we had a child in Finland around Christmas time.

A related story on children sleeping outdoors, in subzero temperatures:

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-21537988

I admit I was a little skeptical on that topic, before we did it with ours, and I saw how well it worked out.
WASM is definitely one to look out for.
Those operating system functions still need to exist and still consume RAM. It doesn't matter whether they run in userspace or kernel space.

If you don't need those functions, you can remove them from kernel space in a monolithic kernel. It's possible to build Linux without TCP/IP support and with no on-disk filesystems.
Apple put a security check on my unchanged, 20 year email account last week. After contacting a chat helper and changing the password, it was resolved. The rep said "you are what makes Apple, Apple!"

Overnight (five days ago), without any activity on my side, an ominous security lock appeared on that email account, and much effort was made with a contact at Apple who required my phone number with a call-back, and almost did not clear up the condition. I do not own a "smart" phone here in California! It was obvious that they are connecting phone numbers with data profiles, which I have assiduously avoided for a decade. Why was the first contact not sufficient, and why add insult to injury with smarmy customer praise, only to then do exactly the opposite of what was said? yuck

edit- I am furious about the whole thing. I did nothing to start this, and use the email for super-ordinary things. It seems obvious that some tipping point has been reached within Apple Inc., such that two-factor authentication with or without consent, is now more important than customer satisfaction and good-will.
How do you cover medical when freelancing? Do you have a family to support?
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I wonder what's the motivation behind this fork. Embarcadero is the company currently maintaining and selling Delphi dev tools. They also have their own commercial C++ IDE. Is it treated as demo App for their own toolchain.
This is the same wave of nostalgia I felt a little while ago when there was a post about the Digital Mars compiler...
I find it amazing (in a bad way) that whenever you talk about hydrogen someone comes up and wants to talk about cars.

There's a number of use cases where clean hydrogen will be desperately needed. This starts with areas where hydrogen is already used today - but it's hydrogen made from fossil fuels - like ammonia production and includes areas like steel production where hydrogen really is the only game in town for a low-carbon production.

We'll need all the clean hydrogen we can get, and probably more than that. There's no plausible scenario where we'll have excess hydrogen that we can waste in an area where it's just vastly less efficient than the available alternative.
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Upgraded my partners iPhone for Christmas. We went through the process for automatically copying everything over from the old iPhone to the new one.

First thing it told us was to bring the two devices near each other and ensure bluetooth was on. Did so. Nothing happened. Rebooted the old phone, and for some reason it then worked.

Secondly it told us to sit there and wait for everything to copy across in 5-10 minutes. Supplied no visual feedback of progress and eventually after about 25/30 minutes it just failed. Second attempt succeeded, but as before, no visual feedback of progress, which was annoying.

Not good enough, for the price of these devices.
No, I liked Google's results better 10 years ago. They are trying too hard to guess what I am asking for, and sometimes I find it difficult to look for a variety of answers because I get the one "right" answer, posted on a couple dozen pages. Some searches turn up so many of their new widgets that I don't even feel like I get a page of results... just canned questions and answers and widgets. Other searches give me 2 pages from a single site (pinterest, reddit, etc.), or most often, multiple pages of SEO-optimized content from people trying to flip Wordpress blogs for profit. If searching for reviews on retail products, I almost always ignore the first few pages of results on Google to try to find real reviews by real people.

I prefer search engines that are just search engines, and give me a basic list of results that I can judge for myself.
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But it's still trade secrets. I can tell you most companies will not patent the processes etc. that are crucial to their business, because they know that the knowledge in those is worth much more than the patents would be (it gives them a big a competitive advantage). Instead they patent the ideas behind their products in an as broad as possible manner so that nobody can actually know what they actually do and that it covers nearly every possible variations.

That's why with the current system we are left with the worst of both worlds.
As mentioned elsethread, the IRA did in fact often phone in warnings before a bombing.
This paper was rejected from SIGROFL 2008 (LOL)
They used their own corporate email...how exactly is that phishing? By that assumption, all company emails should be directed immediately into the trash bin
I was expecting explanations to begin shortly, got bored after the second stunt. The format is, frankly, horrible. This must be the analog of the "You want a tutorial to do X? Lemme record myself writing painfully slowly in "New Document.txt to explain it." style of tutorials.
This is a bit old but I used to write my JavaScript to PNG and load that instead. I don’t recommend it, it’s just for fun.

I think the encoder still works:

https://donohoe.dev/project/jspng-encoder/
I am excited because hydrogen can be used in steelmaking for a much more carbon friendly process than burning coals. Cheap hydrogen will be a game changer for emissions regardless of if anyone uses it to power vehicles.
That "Now This" or whatever it is drivel that trickles out a 250 word article over the span of a 3 minute slideshow is mind numbingly bad.
Of course they're not do-gooders. It's a spy agency, shady stuff is their very raison d'etre.

I was questioning the original point made by AsyncAwait, which was that "CIA does very little guarding national security as far as I can tell." The "as far as I can tell" part of that comment makes the rest just silly, since making sure you can't tell is 90% of spy work.
The kernel is small, because all the extra stuff is outside the kernel. It's still stuff that exists and consumes RAM.
Also, from the 9/11 and anthrax era, the DC area sniper shootings.
I'm also going to start using this app
...the all software in the world is a form of "remote control" on the initial installation.
I doubt Pythagoras would show up very often outside of domain problems, but basic logic and polynomials, logarithms etc shows up everywhere where you do algorithms and data structures.

Math is a language and a developer will get a code review explaining something using that language (complexity etc).

You can do without it but that doesn’t mean it’s a good idea not to simply know those things. It’s not years and years of math, it’s a tiny bit.
Handling servers and embedded Linux is much different than setting up an iPad, which is a consumer device...
Acetaminophen is a destroyer of the body's main antioxidant tripeptide glutathione.
Injectable N acetylcysteine is antidotal.
https://www.acetadote.com/about.php
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/323936
I'm going to repeat my comment from 11 days ago where you posted the same thing:

> So the myth is true, unless for some reason you don't consider eyestrain and tired eyes "bad for the eyes".
Do you have a source to explains how you're describing this?

I'm aware of government (financial) aid, as well as appointing government officials to "consult" and direct restructuring, but it's much less clear that it was "effectively dissolved" or that a "new" General Motors purchased assets from the old one.

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/12/19/bush-bails-out-us-...
Your example converts high-energy light (ultraviolet or blue) to low energy light (red).
This process is easy and it can be done with quantum dots, as you say.

The reverse process of converting red light to ultraviolet light, as it would be needed for this water splitting, is far more difficult and it has much lower efficiencies, especially when the input light has a low intensity. (The common green-light pointers convert infrared to green, but that works because the input is a laser beam with high intensity, so that optical media can behave non-linearly, and it still has a low efficiency).

So no, wavelength conversion would not work.

The only thing that would work would be to replace their semiconductor crystal with one having a much lower bandgap, like the silicon, gallium arsenide or cadmium telluride that are used in photovoltaic devices.

However any such non-oxide semiconductors would be chemically unstable in contact with the nascent oxygen, so that would still not work.
To anyone interested, see "Anaheim 17"

http://www.thecentraloffice.com/calif/OC1/OCP.htm
Like I said - if you're not given due process, did the crime not occur? Or did you not get justice because of a corrupt institution? The discussion is about getting the evidence judged on its merits (or lack thereof), which has not happened in this case, and looks unlikely to happen at this rate.
Eyestrain involves many more factors than just “long-term near focus” - brightness, contrast, color intensity... by experience, I can assure you that I’ll never be able to read as comfortably as on e-ink on any LED screen - not even on the highest-quality Apple / Samsung / LG screens. My brain and eyes simply work better with e-ink, it’s all more relaxed.

If this is not you, good (how old are you?), but the numbers clearly show that I’m not the only one with this problem. I’ll likely buy an e-ink monitor as soon as as prices go under £500 for 15’’ or so. I am already tempted by the reMarkable, if it had a “dumb monitor mode” I would have bought it already.
Of course it is. In this case, it's the biggest subthread here.
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> UK and US has also fostered a culture where everyone's voice is deemed equal, even the idiots

I've thought about this a lot as the pandemic and reaction unfolded. My feeling is that it's a little more nuanced.

From my perspective, it goes like this: (a) politics co-opts science, and (some) scientists become political (for career reasons), (b) political news media puts narrative-supporting "experts" on a pedestal (to reinforce their credibility), (c) people are told they lack the intelligence / knowledge / ability to ever be an expert, (d) people feel internal, unrealized shame at their ignorance, (e) people attempt to cover that shame by posing as experts for their peers, in fact just parroting whatever sound-bites they heard without critical thought, (f) rational debate drastically decreases, as critical thinking skills and underlying understanding have atrophied.

The net result: removal of critical thinking in the public, increased partisanship and anger, and a decreased ability of the public to dismiss crackpots posing as experts.

Recommended response: learn about the actual underlying issues, then (gently, remember (d)!) turn conversations to apolitical explorations of the underlying issues and truths.
Fireworks was basically sketch + a slice of Photoshop but years before Sketch was even relevant.

Absolutely mind boggling how Adobe didn’t see value in it at the time.
Check out https://vereign.com. One of the portfolio companies of CV VC, very solid tech.
It’s not, as any new CA would have the same problem.
I have found Reddit r/lisp and Freenode #lisp to have great communities these days. They serve as good alternatives to comp.lang.lisp. It wasn't always so but both communities have evolved over the last decade to become more friendly to beginners.

Also some of us here from this forum also hang out at a Freenode channel named #spxy (also accessible via https://app.element.io/#/room/#spxy:matrix.org on Matrix). This is a small computer science and mathematics literature club, so quite relevant to those who are curious about or who work in the intersection of mathematics and programming. Incidentally, many members of this channel are also Lisp programmers.
IME in the US anything beyond trivial handiwork risks causing damage that costs more than paying a professional from the start.

Sadly my experience with professionals is the quality of their work is basically random. Sometimes I pay a lot and the quality is terrible. Sometimes I pay very little and it turns out great. And at the end of the day I don't have the time or strength to do everything I could possibly learn and do myself. So my experiments will continue until the neglect from the previous owners is fully repaired.
> Obviously anyone who does this, regardless of motive, is mentally ill in some capacity.

I'm not sure why you think that is obvious. Without knowing the motive we have no means of assessing the decision making process of the attacker(s).
Related post, from a few weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25270762
Not at all: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backdoor_(computing)
I believe the concerns raised are valid. Palantir had CIA as the only client for years. Was “adopted” in Greece right after Pompeo’s visit. A coincidence? Maybe. The company and the CEO have a questionable reputation and ideas about things I value like “democracy”, it was given to the Greek state for “free” apparently and in 2020 we all know what “free” means. To top it all, Palantir has already being accused of selling public records data obtained by police departments in US states to private corporations. So for all we know they are just funneling data to the CIA and selling data to private corporations while providing trivial “big data” services to governments.

By the way, the EU is monitoring Palantir’s presence in Europe. There is feeling that Palantir’a services are “planted” rather than “requested”.

Before Snowden one could argue these are wild conspiracies, post-Snowden, I cannot think of a reason for a government to accept official spyware on its digital soil other than lack of sovereignty.

Would China and Russia accept Palantir as a big data analysis system to fight COVID?
I certainly agree that a higher threshold is warranted for such monumental changes. Constitutional amendments require ratification by 3/4 of the states.
not a great comparison. people on unemployment benefits are under existential stress to find a job. When all you're doing is fretting about when benefits are going to end or spending all your time learning some new trick to become employable, don't expect quality leisure output.
That just means the decision to block the site was made by someone outside of Vodafone. Assuming they face meaningful penalties for noncompliance, I wouldn't consider it false. But it would be nice if these kinds of messages identified who is to blame.
Supply and demand is not a law there is also sensitization and the creation of culture. A city with nice restaurants creates higher value on interesting food. The same applies to music-centred cities and art.
Seems to be Microsoft Anna:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8B--BNdnuvA
I wasn't optimizing for value. I was optimizing for contentment.

If you are worrying about the value of an asset at a particular moment, and even mildly thinking of selling it, spare yourself the worrying. If you bought in at a high price, and you are going to sell it now, it will still be a small profit. If you bought in at a low price before, you can likely afford to wait. Even if the value goes down, you will still have made a profit. But thinking this way gets the worrying part of taking such a speculative decision out of the way.
money can be exchanged for goods and services.
also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8513209 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1103156

It's worth going through the previous discussions for the recommendations of similar films
UBI will partially decouple housing demand from work locations. This could raise prices in rural areas and lower them in cities.
Look here:
https://www.hybritdevelopment.com/

Particularly the "Downloads" section, they have quite a bit of info reasonably easy to digest for interested lay people.

It may be expensive, but it's pretty much the only game in town. The only possible alternative is direct electrolysis, but that's even less developed. The hydrogen path is from what I understand technically not that much different from direct reduced iron with natural gas, which is something that already is in use for a significant chunk of steel production.
You could say that math is the part of laws of physics which humans can't imagine being different. You can pretty easily imagine a world where newtons laws are different, but I'd argue it is impossible to imagine a world where 1 + 1 is not 2. However being impossible for us to imagine doesn't mean that such worlds can't exist, it would just have completely ridiculous consequences we can't imagine, so those rules are a part of our universe and not a fundamental logical truth.
Well those are some big generalizations. Objectively, USA and EU are neither the largest and certainly not the fastest growing markets for many products. In other words: even if that is true - who cares? Also, traditionally Japan is considered a major developed world market by patent law.
Kindles are not cutting-edge tech, they never were. They are robust and cheap, so they can enable Amazon’s strategy to flog at-cost low-end hardware that makes it easy for consumers to buy higher-margin digital goods. The likes of Dasung and reMarkable actually advance the field.
Wait until you lose the secondary 2FA device. Then apple just locks you out because Apple owners apparently don't get robbed or lose their phones.
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To implement proper tail recursion?
Yes, that's what my comment says (but maybe you read it before I edited it to be clearer):

>> Muddying the waters, some mathematicians would expand the definition of "nature" to include completely abstract ideas - anything that feels "discovered", for example.
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Yeah the stunts and music are slow by our standards, but skip past them and you may find it interesting? It's a great video if you don't know about car differentials.