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Emotions have a purpose - disgust to keep us away, love to keep us together, lust to procreate, fear to chase us from danger. Without a purpose for an emotion, it's hard to see why…

It is questionable if it's universally innate, there being many atheists, but now you've explained it I can see your point. Have to say you used some ill-focussed or ill-expressed …

Ok, points taken, except with 'China and Soviet state official atheism'. I don't see the relevance to either trade or sex.

Not sure if relevant but dram refreshes continuously.

Strange comment - nobody was suggesting banning trade (even weirder about banning sex).

I'm not an expert but I'm pretty sure there were wide exchanges of peoples happened thousands of years earlier (eg. stonehenge burials came from a wide range of europe - this from …

Not being flippant, but some MDMA. It makes a huge difference to my quality of life if used occasionally.

> The hash idea works even in mutable land Uh, how? Other than removing it from the dictionary, mutating it then adding it back.

Please give some links to a few such SO posts, thanks.

two-wrongs.org and www.two-wrongs.org get me a DNS lookup failure.

Contact the people who designed and used Lisp machines and get their very, very expert take. Many are still alive.

RPN is forth not lisp, and I seriously doubt HP got their idea from emacs. I think HP's RPN precedes the first release of emacs anyway. Edit: 1st release of emacs was 1976 so I tak…

DB 'expert' here - agree completely. It's about profiling then banging your head against it and learning more from books/the docs/web. That's really it.

I don't want to diss this, it's useful to some but to say "Your database knowledge is outdated" is presumptuous to the point of insulting. It's basic to intermediate level stuff, l…

It was exceedingly narrow to the point that the first cavers chosen there were small women iirc. Pic of them halfway down https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2015/09/homo-n…

Things have a purpose. You might use your oven 2% of the time, you don't turn it on and use it (or turn it on and leave it empty) 100% of the time just cos it's there. When the pur…

Then may I recommend in addition Hacker's Delight. The 1st ed is most fun, 2nd ed has a lot more depth in certain areas (division IIRC) which you might choose to skip.

A good non-dev can be hugely helpful to devs and much increase their productivity. To repeat: a good one.

Do you (or anyone) have some idea why anyone could possibly have thought 16 bits would be enough? Many decisions are bad in hindsight but surely no hindsight was needed for that.

Speaking as a brit, the opium wars were an abomination but China does like to (or find convenient) playing the victim.

Can you point to some examples of owl/sql transforms being flipped? I have trouble believing that an invertible transformation is hard (presumably each step is invertible, right), …

I see nothing in your link to justify what you say. Perhaps you can elaborate.

At my university I asked about these flashy new machines which I'd never have a chance to use, I was told they were slow. That was way back then.

...and that's the sort of critique I'm interested in and which should have been given initially.

Perhaps.. but clueless comments are usually evident by the very lack of solid info. So why even post? I get further pissed off by having people argue back when I say something from…