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Too late to edit my post. I did find this, "A History of Erlang" https://lfe.io/papers/%5B2007%5D%20Armstrong%20-%20HOPL%20II...

I would love to read his reply, but of course I understand that correspondence is private. Do you know of something similar that is available on the web?

I live in LA. It's a sensitive subject. My district concilwoman sends out mailings that extoll her ability to get repavements done. To me, it's absurd to claim credit for merely do…

On July 23, @CJHandmer provided an update on Terraform Industries' hardware and process to produce synthetic natural gas from solar power and air. "Other than plants and some cyano…

There's an app that updates the desktop https://downlinkapp.com/

Just as I know there is no such thing as bug-free code, I know that I am always wrong, in one way or another.

Ha! The instruction that copies itself. I posted also posted it, 6 years ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24820583

> While the original Macintosh was by no means cheap, it was about half the cost of the Apple III Made me look it up! I was developing Apple ][/III/Lisa/Mac software at the time. I…

Yes, it is almost as if the current administration doens't want people to acces medical information.

I didn't mean to suggest that iNat is proactive, they may well be. IIRC, the exact chain of events was: Invasive Species Observation posted -> a curator at the LA Natural History s…

That would be doxxing, not that it matters here.

I can hide my home-based observation locations, but others usually do not. People who post observations in my front yard cause other iNat users to visit. This hasn't been a problem…

Benj Edwards wrote a nice profile on arstechnica[0] (Feb 11). "Tinney went on to paint more than 80 covers for Byte, working almost entirely in airbrushed Designers Gouache, a medi…

Off-topic, but I was interested to read Carl's Twitter bio[0], "I’ve spent a lifetime switching my Special Interest every year or two. By now I’m surprisingly knowledgeable in a lo…

> it's hard to translate it into Chinese. It's a text about non-duality, among other things. Like the Heart Sutra, or the Diamond Sutra, or 101 Zen Stories, it's not supposed to ma…

Brad Marshall[0] makes a case for the benefits of stearic acid (C18:0), which is predominant in beef tallow and cocoa butter. It acts as a beneficial metabolic signal that promotes…

Thank you for posting this!

Tell us. What inspired you to say this?

Kenneth Mejia, our progressive, data-driven controller audited LAPD helicopter use, and published his findings. "The ASD program costs nearly $50 million annually while most of the…

> Like dosing on ketamine then getting up on stage and making Nazi salutes. It's much more likely to be the Adderall. "One reason that narcissists so commonly abuse drugs and alcoh…

> you take that at sunset and let it reinforce your normal cycle Yes, the way Michael Grandner explains it in this podcast[0], melatonin is an ancient molecule that signals, "it is…

This is an interesting detail I had not heard. Can you link to a backstory on this? Why would such a contract ever be signed (especially for a technological product)?

No, you don't, at least according to Robert Sapolsky https://www.amazon.com/Determined-Science-Life-without-Free-...

You're lucky to have that perspective.