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I'm "A disciple of another sect", a Prolog programmer and I'm always a bit nonplussed when LISP adepts praise the simplicity of their preferred language for taking only (checks again) seven primitives to represent every function. That sounds like 6 primitives too many. In Prolog, there is one "primitive", the definite clause, and it is all the syntax of the language.

Quickly-quickly, a logic program is a conjunction of definite clauses, a definite clause is a clause with at most one positive literal, a clause is a disjunction of literals, a literal is an atom or its negation, an atom is a predicate symbol followed by n terms, a term is a constant, a variable, or a function symbol followed by m terms, where n, m are the arities of the atom and the term.

That's all you need to express any computable program. And note well that Prolog is a language created to be usable, and used in practice to write everyday programs such as the web server running the SWI-Prolog documentation website [1]; not some Turing tarpit that only exists to be studied under glass, or put on a pedestal and worshipped for its useless purity. It is not Brainfuck, it is not Haskell, it is, I dare say, the C of the non-imperative languages: simple, pragmatic, usable, to the point.

Now, I understand why LISP adepts praise the abstraction and power of their language: compared to, say, Java, or, from its own time, COBOL, or FORTRAN, LISP is certainly a leap ahead in modernity, in thinking about programming as computation. And, garbage collection, of course. Yes yes yes. But - all the special syntax! Seven primitives! Why is all that necessary?

Imperative languages are so exasperating to use sometimes _because_ they have all that special syntax, purportedly to "make it easy" to fulfill everyday programming tasks. But, may the gods help the unwary prorgammer who strays from the beaten path, as laid out in Stack Overflow. Special-puprose syntax is a straight-jacket, an oxymoron, an attempt to liberate the programmer by tying her hands behind her back. A language like LISP, that prides itself of being a completely different paradigm should not brag for its special purpose syntax, but try to get rid of it. Lest it become Haskell.

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[1] https://www.swi-prolog.org/pldoc/doc_for?object=section(%27p...
there are still TONS of bots, despite what musk says
We literally just had a movie about this.
Indeed, found something in this vein https://github.com/hakavlad/nohang/issues/58
When Siddhartha becomes Buddha under the tree, he is in the state of bliss, nirvana and he has absolutely no need to go back, go back to the human world. But it was Brahma and Indra who request him to do so as per Buddha's own account.
It's a great study. I would welcome if they did the same experiment and analysis on groups of people who had an anxiety disorder diagnosed and got healed, preferrably with CBT or other non-pharmacological methods alone, and a healthy population. It would be interesting to see the effects of therapy on this mechanism and whether an higher excitable FPI stays activated in the healed cohort or it's exitability is less, or the amygdala activation is again the root of all of this. It's notable that some healthy individuals had high FPI excitability but were not anxious.
I have a hunch (nothing more than that) that Dutch linguists (to keep their jobs relevant?) helped in making people care less about the language. By continuously changing grammar and spelling rules. The Dutch I learned in school is very different than what you have now, and I wouldn't be able to pass an exam without relearning the whole grammar.

We also have this (rather popular) grammar contest on TV, called "Het Groot Dictee der Nederlandse taal", that seemed designed to only appeal to linguistic purists. With ridiculous sentences that bring orgasms to language elites. Especially the 2013 version [0] by Kees van Kooten was called a "sadistical language experiment" by De Volkskrant newspaper.

Those frequent changes and the TV show made me decide I do not care a single bit about getting the grammar/spelling correct, and I'll just invent own constructs and adopt any slang, if they are fun.

[0] https://archief.ntr.nl/grootdictee/2014/05/27/dicteetekst-20...
I think the Windows platform could do with a re-write to be honest. The NT kernel is fantastic - just need to develop a new consumer OS atop it that can work with any device. (Maybe Rewrite it in Rust or Zig).

And maybe they will give us a GUI framework apart from HWND that will at-least last 5 years. Or integrate web standards right into the OS.
Car Prices Might Be Unsustainable for Buyers
You might be able to devise a test.

Try these things out.

Count in your head at a steady pace using words and try to hold a conversation at the same time without losing your timing.

Then imagine a moving image of the same numbers steadily ticking over and again try and hold a conversation without losing your timing.

The 2nd scenario should be easier.

You can do similar things with memorising numbers. Next time you have to enter your OTP, sound out the digits to memorise it before entering it.

Then try memorising a picture of the numbers before entering it.
Ah I'm not sure you can extend this study to high anxiety circumstances in otherwise non-anxious people.

The executive functions that highly anxious people need to engage are precisely the functions that high stress levels disrupt.

This is about low stress situations in anxious people.

Not high stress situations in non-anxious people.

It's not likely that we can extrapolate between the two. And it's likely under those scenarios a third or more mechanism comes into play (flight, fight, freeze).

Not to mention the control were all men so we do need better sample for replication before we consider extrapolation.
The 'service' is basically hosting this file: https://www.schemastore.org/api/json/catalog.json - you could host that locally and point your software to it, modifying the other URLs where needed

It's a pity the catalog format doesn't support an 'import' or relative URLs for schemas - would have made local extensions a bit easier.
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> because native Anglophones will not know either

I'm not sure that's true. There are still underlying patterns to it, even if it's very convoluted. The exceptions are in the core language that native Anglophones know well. For vocabulary in the periphery, I think native Anglophones (with the same accent) will tend to come up with the same pronunciation for an unknown word because they apply the same patterns.

For example, someone from the UK will infer the language the word was borrowed from, and then apply the rules of that language combined with the same system of English pronunciation butchery that has been applied to it to come up with the same result.
Chrome does a good job of killing tabs when oom, but Firefox seems to just hang the whole system. Is there a way to make FF more murderous?

edit: I found about:unloads which shows tabs memory usage and unload order
And soon you learn that when it is an adjective it is a-tom-ic and not at-om-ic
I worked in a big box electronics retail store in the early 2010s. Most customers were reasonably trusting which as someone not looking to screw them over made for quite a pleasant job. Perhaps the worst type of customer, was the vaguely ‘informed’ know it all ‘nerd’. Around this time, the “don’t buy the expensive gold-plated HDMI cable” movement was in full swing, but it was also about this time that different types of HDMI cables were starting to matter for (higher-end) prosumer setups.

Trying to convince some abrasive knowitall that our $15 home brand HDMI cable is going to be the bottleneck in their setup, and that it was basically orthogonal to any ‘good plated’ BS, was almost always not worth it. Eventually I learned to just let them make their own mistakes, dooming them to slink off to Amazon or whatever when they weren’t getting the resolution or frame rate they were after and eventually happened upon the CNET article that made them see the light.

The fact that there is an objective functional difference between different types of HDMI cables, whereas the jury is still out on blue blocker glasses, is pretty much irrelevant to my point. Any ‘science says…’ rhetoric is almost always parroted by people that don’t know what they’re talking about. At the end of the day, self-described ‘informed consumers’ LOVE feeling like they’ve got The Knowledge that’s going to give them a leg up on the slimy salesperson. A fair bit of the time though, the fact that the majority of these people aren’t actually all that knowledgeable means that these pearls of wisdom get corrupted over time and end up being entirely untrue. I’ve got no doubt that plenty of Hacker News regulars are the sorts of people that were incredibly hard to work with back then.
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It still does. And it's easy too see once you understand the core precepts of Buddhism, that it's not based on rebirth or karma. Those two are just one possible way to see our existence in this universe.

Buddha started with the question: what is the cause of suffering? Desire. But desire is nigh unavoidable in life. Every member of society is likely to have many desires. Thus, everyone is likely to have pain, sooner or later. A person with pain is likely to propagate pain to another person, or more. This a major method through which suffering in society as a whole tends to grow. So we need a way to tell members of society to reduce the propagation of harm. Thus, ahimsa, i.e., do no harm.

But people aren't just gonna internalise such 'for the greater good' ideas, and especially not when they are in pain. Buddha recognised that people often need a strong faith system to root them to these ideas, instead of relying on pure rationality to prevail all the time.

Buddha accepts that we do not really know how the universe works, but this fact does not remove the need for a strong faith system, because humans are imperfect. So — and being a philosopher — Buddha says humans can believe in whatever faith system works for them, as long as the system they choose upholds the core precepts.

The cycle of rebirth and karma just happened to be the predominant faith system at his time, and it also happened to fit the requirements, so most of his followers — at the time — had an easy job of adapting.

But he also warned against believing such faith systems to be the truth, instructing that people must not blindly take his teachings as authority, and must instead examine everything through their own experience and reason through it. When questioned, what to do if such examination reveals a truth that goes against his teachings, he clarified that one must go with the truth. The authority of scripture was explicitly placed below that of one's own experience and reason.

Thus, until proven, the cycle of karma and rebirth is not necessarily true, not is it required to explain that life is suffering and himsa (harm unto) propagates suffering. It's just a convenient way to tie it all together, just as good as any other unproven faith system.

If you don't believe me that Buddhism works just as well without karma and rebirth, take a look at Zen Buddhism. Despite being a modern form of Buddhism, it still holds closely to core of ancient Buddhism. And Zen makes no claim for, or against, the concept of Rebirth. It basically goes, "Idk. Does it matter?". According to Zen, who you are in this life, ceases to exist when you die, and that is plainly observable, so why not live the best life while you have it?

As you can see, this faith system also works to uphold the core precepts of Buddha. And I don't think he'd disagree with Zen on this matter. In fact, he'd probably be glad that Zen has made awakening accessible to people who had no background in the Hindu ideas of karma and rebirth, and thus would have found it harder to reach a path to awakening if they had to adopt those ideas first.
Would be insecure because nothing would be randomized, all your systems would have the same ASLR slide, etc.
You are attributing some kind of consciousness and purpose to what was a popular movement.

The Hindus of that time were used to different sects within Hinduism, some denying Vishnu the supreme godhead, some denouncing the entire pantheon and vedas, etc.

The pansyncretisism came quite naturally and 'brahminism' is a myth created recently to claim victimhood (woke ideology of suppressors and suppressed, very similar to the worker class and bourgeoisie of the communist thought)
English has more than 26 sounds, so we need more than 26 letters. There are many solutions to this problem, but all require learning a new way of writting and so will be hard to teach.

Spanish considers 'll' a different letter from 'l' and a couple other examples, but they can do that because they have about attackany sounds as the latin alphabet (I don't remember the exact number, but Spanish doesn't use some letters at all so counting would need some effort)
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JSON and XML both support UTF-8. Neither supports embedding arbitrary binary data directly, especially if that data is not valid in your current character set
Two more feral cattle populations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swona https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chillingham_cattle

(I don't believe for one minute that the Chillingham Castle cattle are actually wild).
>I think that is missing the point a bit

same right back at you.

just because at some point you might (or I guess you and the author are arguing will) get injured doesn't mean strengthening yourself is invalid. in fact healthier and in better shape you are the less likely you are to suffer debilitating injury.

tweaking my strong knee that is used to squatting heavy weights and otherwise supporting active lifting is way different than my father tweaking he's knee with artificial joint.

at least for me the problem is lettings things get worse. I should learn to seek help/corrective action right away, but I always just want to "see if I can ride it out" which can then turn into months of unnecessary suffering with long lasting issues. pre-emptively starting resistance training is very beneficial for most people.
Obligatory reference to The Chaos: https://ncf.idallen.com/english.html
Accents change how letters are pronounced, but it isn't a large difference, and it is consistent across all words that share that letter.
Amazing: After receiving complaints about the lack of punctuation, Dexter published a second edition in 1805, this time containing pages full of punctuation in the appendix. He tells the readers to "peper and solt it as they plese."

Amusing though these are, they illustrate why spelling reform is hard in English: spelling correctly has become a status marker, and any changed spelling looks not merely wrong, but also stupid and deserving of contempt.
In my experience, this is not very true. I hear lots of pronunciations for words like gnocchi, usually until people are shamed into saying it correctly.
Two-way quantum computers (2WQC) – symmetric enhancement to attack NP problems [video]
I think people are looking at this from the wrong perspective. X.com is not a rebrand. Elon Musk is trying to build a new service and is just jumpstarting it by shifting the Twitter user base.
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I once got a club night for an event called "Sold Out" and while I could see what the organisers were trying to do with that - give the idea it was popular - I could also see what a mind-blowingly terrible name it actually was, giving the impression of a) being "sold out" so not worth trying to get a ticket for, and b) being a "sell out" which is not the impression any brand trying to be cool should give.

A friend was booked to DJ there and apparently it was not sold out, it was barely attended at all, to my complete lack of surprise :D
We are all also temporarily alive
Yes, I think people sometimes underestimate how much people’s experiences differ. I find weight lifting boring but enjoy running; many people report the opposite and others hate both.

So while the long-term benefits of exercise are well-established, it’s up to the individual whether the benefits outweigh the cost for them personally. And in the context of disability, some of those benefits might not apply or may be counteracted by the exercise exacerbating a chronic condition.

The benefits of exercise are great enough that I would encourage people to try to find an activity they like and accommodates any disabilities. Unfortunately, this isn’t feasible for everyone.

Edit: fixed an incorrect word.
Truly an inspired design if that is the case. Also the fact that the rear doors either do not have an emergency release or you have to lift the carpet to get to it is a marvel.

Donald Norman very early in his book "The Design of Everyday Things" discusses door design in modern buildings focusing on the lack and/or ambiguity of signifiers. These vehicles solve the problem just by removing the ability to open them.
That's not true, because in addition to taking 1 second it could be emptying all your caches. Performance isn't just adding up wallclock times.
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The anatomy of an atom.
You seem to have an axe to grind. If you are intellectually interested in the topic, there is no shortage of material on internet and YouTube.
Slides: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/1fymjwd7obq8sdv1e661f/two-way...

Article: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/372677599_Two-way_q...

This is enhancement of standard one-way quantum computers (1WQC) by adding missing operation: "reversed" version (CPT symmetry analog) of state preparation (e.g. pull/push, negative/positive pressure, stimulated emission/absorption). There are many arguments it should be possible, but needs experimental confirmation.

In theory this enhancement allows to attack any NP problems, but it likely will be more difficult than Shor's factorization - so might be completely impractical (?)

There are many interesting new question - like of theoretical complexity class for such 2WQC, somewhere between NP and PSPACE?

There might appear also different approaches to NP, so maybe it would be safer to start thinking of cryptography based on PSPACE? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSPACE-complete
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It did .. thanks apple
This feels like…one degree away from a no true Scotsman argument.
NOT ONCE has this article mentioned NEPAL.

Buddha was born in Nepal. Omission of these facts in mainstream articles like these has robbed Nepal of its history.
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I don’t see how it affects our conclusions whether or not he planned it ahead of time. The facts about who is checking what are unchanged.
Its too bad eink tech is not quite good enough yet.
Maybe something like this would be nice :
https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/5/23541379/lenovo-thinkbook-...
Are you implying pushyamitra was driven by Hinduism to kill Buddhists?
One of my favorite games growing up! In high school, one of my earliest programming projects was a VB6 program that could unlock locked Jazz2 levels. I can't remember whether those levels were locked because you had to achieve something or if you had to buy them. In any case, I somehow figured out how to manipulate those files to make them playable. There wasn't any encryption or anything. It was just a matter of finding the right byte and changing it to something else.

Something I liked about Jazz2 was how performant it was on my lousy Intel Celeron PC I had at the time. Strangely, I remember the menus and stuff being kind of laggy, but the game itself always worked really well.

Jazz Jackrabbit is like if Sonic The Hedgehog was on acid had a gun! I never understood why the game wasn't more popular. Epic Megagames really underappreciated what they had.
The syllables are a-tom, but word breaking at the end of a line doesn't follow syllables in english.
Lot of tools that can do this and they've long been around. For example, txtai has been able to generate embeddings with sentence-transformers since 2020.
The average person doesn't understand PEMDAS (or BIDMAS as I was taught it), because it's a stupid arbitrary convention and cannot be applied consistently. It only exists because infix notation is inherently ambiguous, and it gets worse the more operators you add. The better rule would be simply: use brackets to denote the order of evaluation in all cases.

The right response to

6 / 2(1 + 2)

is not "use PEMDAS", it's "syntax error".
See, that's what I mean about sensible applications of rent control. Having a small class of rent controlled appartements is silly and it's not something you ever want to do, it's only ever a terrible compromise between politicians and landlords that everyone knows is a bad idea.

It doesn't suppress supply when building is already wildly profitable and is just being slowed down by permitting either.

The negative impacts of rent control have been the subject of literally hundreds of empirical studies. It's a known quantity at this point and, when you quantify the impact, it's generally worth it, especially in our current zoning hell. It also helps with price stickiness once supply does increase : as you know, developpers only like to build upmarket appartements, which typically take a decade or more to trickle down to the average person.

The main thing is not to do silly things like only apply rent control to a small portion of appartements, we know it doesn't work, and to allow rent to increase with any reasonably incurred costs. This way you actually incentivize landlords to repair their apartments, you reduce the mobility risk, etc...
How did Bad Apple become the go to demo video for projects like this? It's like Doom for things that can't quite play Doom.
> As long as the space comes back when you need it, you don't have to care.

That's a common assumption but it's also a lie: because you do have to care about wearing your media, reducing its lifespan. Abusing storage with heavy doses of r/w activity (which is what swapping does) is not good. Yes, the issue is not as bad in modern "disks" as in rust-spinners, and can often look like a matter of efficiency (because of how memory is physically "flipped", on modern drives it's more efficient to write a ton of data rather than a few bytes), but in reality you are wearing your disk more than you would if macOS kept its grubby hands to itself.

Of course this is not a downside for the people who will sell you replacement disks, or rather replacement machines (since drives are now soldered), who coincidentally happen to be the people who develop the disk-wearing OS.
> Elon has always used Twitter as a way of getting attention for himself and his companies. It's his primary platform. Even ignoring his ego, it makes sense he would bump up his own content

also so he can deflect or downboost criticisms of him and his companies
I remember when this was a huge issue on Windows. Lately for me, Windows updates take maybe one minute (managed with autoupdate on), while my Mac and iPhone regularly see 10+ min updates.
I think the Buddha would've not cared to be an object of worship. That's kinda missing the point.