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I think I understand what the author is trying to get at here (The gardening metaphor clicked with me in particular). The question asked is, "Why are functions not like programs?".…

> it all gets open sourced shortly after Ah, of course. OpenAI, the company famous for open-sourcing it's developments. How could I forget?

It is also graphical, and multi-threaded!

HN really needs to introduce some rules regarding twitter links. Not everyone can access them, not everyone wants to, but they're increasingly prevalent on the front page.

Maybe he's just one of those lucky people that only need 4-5 hours of sleep every night ¯ \ _ ( ツ ) _ / ¯

It may just be a matter of where they live. I got used to sending money in btc to my grandmother because the countries we live in currently happened to be at war with each other an…

Not from US and this is the first time of my life I even heard of Ms. Pac-Man

> Computer Science seems unable to invent new things since 1980 Can you tell me more about this and why you think that's true?

Keep in mind that modern Emacs also has tabs out of the box, but really they're what other software calls 'workspaces'.

Forth as well

Why did it work, though? Wouldn't the disks die halfway through the game? Did they end up cutting / optimizing the feature?

I think one of the techniques underexplored in all the hype is guiding the evaluation process depending on the context. I.e. if you're generating code, it has to satisfy the parser…

It's pretty raw and buggy still, but if you're already a cl hacker, you'll certainly enjoy it. It is missing most useful Emacs features but also seems to have some of it's own, par…

Does that book happen to have a particular image of a wizard on it's cover? :)

I didn't get the reference, but thanks for the heads-up.

I'm incredibly curious as to what that even looks like. Where do you study? Can you give us a photo?

Feel free to go outside in headphones and put this[0] on. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=086uhG3Rf3U

TBH even uttering the words "cancel culture" on the internet nowadays is enough to make me physically cringe.

> Nick Bostrom’s new tome … has a great cover True, but I wish they went with the Sisyphus one. For context, they did a survey on the cover of the book, and one of them features Si…

> definately relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/2871/

Not writing javascript is a good enough reason for me tbh. Makes the world a better place.