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Agree. Purely opining, but I assume that it's because of the emotional connection that artistic media has on people, despite the flaws. People remember the emotions the artwork eng…

There are parallels to the “rapid application development” push of the 90’s. Visual Basic, Tcl/Tk, Python with Tkinter, HyperCard; all of them promised shortening the development c…

There is no formal “next in line”. The closest potential successor would have been the deputy prime minister; Chrystia Freeland held that role until a few weeks ago when she dramat…

Now for the most important question: can you run DOOM on it? :)

I’ve been thinking about this topic thru the lens of moral philosophy lately. A lot of the “big lists of controls” security approaches correspond to duty ethics: following and upho…

I’m thinking of the metaphor between Newtonian and general relativity. At low energies, masses and velocities the two theories correspond in predictions with little discrepancy. If…

I think that’s an oversimplification. If you have a Windows system handy, look for a file named “errata.inf” [0]. It’s a giant configuration file that is full of tweaks to make dod…

It's also a complex number, a Unicode character, an ASCII character, an Extended ASCII character, a glyph, the multiplicative identity element, a raster image, ... The GP point is …

This might be No True Scotsman, but it doesn't sound like you are a "finger gunner" after all. After (fairly) long time in the industry, it seems to come down to: - understanding w…

I feel like there are parallels to computer security. A lot of my experience in this domain is looking at systems that were designed in a thoughtful way, but the designer didn’t fu…

I don’t have your answers, but the runtime source has some pointers that would likely get you the answer you seek: https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/runtime/HACKING... I…

Just to be clear, there are many aspects of biology that that professor is ignoring on a regular basis that you’ve elided (hibernation, molting, limb regeneration, etc). What speci…

What are alternatives you would suggest to these frameworks? (I am also deeply skeptical of these frameworks, but don’t have a strong argument against them, and they seem pervasive…

But the Ferengis changed their society to include “fe-males” due to internal politics and change from within. It wasn’t instituted from the outside, it was Ferengi society advancin…

Buy a TE pocket operator. They are reasonably priced. If you like chiptunes, PO20. If you want to sample, PO33. If you want a drum machine, PO32. I have an OP-1 and a collection of…

Mostly a note to self: it is interesting to read this account and connect it to the financial planning case studies that show up in personal finance blogs and articles. It seems li…

Incorrect. The program under inspection could halt or could not halt; undecidability is a statement about Turing machines inspecting that program and unable to make a determination…

The halting problem has been proven definitively undecidable via proof by contradiction, by Alan Turing. The proof implicitly created the notion of Turing machines, a key model of …

It would be interesting have a Forth running on it, as I feel the philosophies are aligned.

I don’t mean to belabour the point, but I think the nuance is worth exploring. The key point in my view is “control”. You’ve referred to Uber.com/Xmas-sale as an example where Uber…

The article talks about ownership transfer of a url database and the potential for history rewriting. An incentivized blockchain could be part of the solution to ensure history rew…

I can barely believe I’m typing this, but an incentivized blockchain (aka Bitcoin et al) is a legitimate option to ensure a coherent and mutually agreed upon history of information…

I think it could fit in with a conversational chat bot the same way that ads are part of podcasts and YouTube channels: a conversational and explicit ad that helps pay for the othe…