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The question is whether the method is sufficiently novel or specific enough to the problems/difficulties of solving a specific domain’s problems to warrant a patent. It’s one of th…

For these kinds of project, there are a few reasons: 1. Less opportunity to get distracted by other capabilities 2. More opportunity for experimentation with a new medium 3. Target…

I'm not assuming anything. I'm explaining that they can be, because the original comment made it sound like autistic people can't understand social behavior at any level.

I didn't say it wasn't sociopathy; it most certainly was. Autism and sociopathy are not mutually exclusive. And as they were executing their plan, I do not see any point where thei…

Autistic people are unusually good at studying patterns objectively. While each individual person is... an individual, studying a sample from a population yields patterns, and thus…

You’re confusing the difference between understanding and comprehending. The former is partial but useful within a context, the latter is total and is the result of mastery. One ma…

Personally, I would tell you that whatever understanding you gain may still have bugs. Unless your understanding is as complete as a formal treatment of the code, then there may st…

User names match... are you the original author? Why commenting in the third person?

I don't think video in a text window is a silly toy. Sounds like another useful tool in the toolbox.

This organization is going out of the way to avoid spraying insecticides. It seems far more effective than increasing predators because ecosystems tend to adapt to predation.

Remarkable 2 is pretty good, though last time I used it the search feature for large pdfs was pretty janky. The BOOX eink devices are also perfectly fine; they're really just andro…

PineNote isn't really a consumer device. PINE64 has made it abundantly clear that the PineNote is a developer playground device; they're waiting on the community to refine the soft…

Oh, yeah that does make sense now that I think about it.

“Pontifications by email” makes it clear enough. Email is an automated message delivery system, and the pope delivers messages from above, soooo… Such are many of the names coined …

Even Terry Davis wasn't that bold.

Dotcl sounds like a lisp macro that interprets TCL. :D

I feel like that isn’t exactly a very useful definition of plaintext. If you mean “ASCII” say ASCII. Plain text is text intended to be interpreted as bytes that map simply to chara…

Forth is at this point more of a culture than a language. It's a culture about keeping designs simple so that they're understandable. Without this, Forth is only powerful for progr…

The credit goes to Luhmann. Ahrens wrote a book about Luhmann's system, but Ahrens' book was more about the practical side of study habits and the nature of knowledge as much as it…

That wasn't the issue. The problem was that most of Windows system utilities are not managed, but the WPF move was trying to make a patchwork quilt of managed vs. unmanaged utiliti…

No, the issue, as outlined in the post, is real problematic behavior of real people on the internet who are inclined to tell anyone who is skeptical regarding the data (whatever it…

Worked for me.

A direct conclusion. The insight I'll draw from that is that academia gives voice to the results the current zeitgeist finds interesting and believable without properly verifying t…

The purpose stated in the article in the mind of Birren was to reduce eye strain. I don't think it's so much that humans "prefer" it as such, more that we're very well adapted to w…

This reminds me a bit of the Vannevar Bush's Memex; what he'd really hoped it would become.