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I love all of this, but at least let your students use vi, it was around back then (or close). plus they don’t have to give it up when they go back in the real world, it’s an evergreen skill!

Is there a genuine opportunity to overturn either Wickard or Raich? That would be exciting.

Yes! The linked article didn’t capture all the symbols in the original DDJ article. There were in fact `<<` preceding each arg. The actual line was:

    obj<-method << arg1 << arg2

which requires overloading the less-than, unary negation, and the double-less-than operators.

I know the kinds of weddings you speak of, and it’s sad, and hard to disagree.

Even more sad that for $20-$50k you /could/ have a super unique, awesome and even low-stress wedding (ok that last part depending on parents/relatives may be impossible), yet so many are the same songs (you know them all), same venues (estate, banquet hall, rooftop, etc), same food.

A quite memorable article [1] described a “backwards” message-passing technique in C++ using operator overloading so you could do stuff like:

    obj<-method arg1 arg2;

[1] https://jacobfilipp.com/DrDobbs/articles/DDJ/1996/9608/9608e...

My horn is my larynx. I usually belt out “please don’t kill me” in a stern voice-of-command at my “max volume.”

A loud voice travels very well through car windows at short distances, even for big soundproof vehicles.

imitation learning is widespread among animals including many nonhuman species

8 years is an extraordinarily long lifespan for a rat, isn’t it? And he got a lot done!!

For certain kinds of software (financial systems, safety-critical systems) it may be very unwise to go beyond level 5.

There may be certain fields where you can't even get to 5.

Before the US it was the British with BP.

Before the British with BP it was the British East India Company.

Before the British EIC there were various periods of Arab, Turk and Mongol control.

Persia has been a political football since Alexander the Great. Cursed geography.

Picar [1] loads a SOUL.md file each session.

I don’t think it’s a real soul but it’s absolutely “a start”.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7T3ogtB5YS0

> Likes = truth

sounds like pop culture = art

which is obviously not true

As a counterpoint to my own argument above — the Ramones made more money selling T-shirts; every artist must market somehow; so yeah it’s definitely more complicated, I am presenting an oversimplified view.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47473673

Yeah art is art, it’s never paid well generally. You do it because you love it, and your audience loves it. And that is awesome.

And then commerce is commerce, and you make money and more money means you did something good.

And then you put the two together and it’s the same shit we’ve seen for thousands of years. tbh no surprises! This is all as expected.

There’s still phenomenal live music in every city I’ve ever visited, to the present day. Just go out and find it, it’s not hard!

Support live local music

Could this be confirmation bias?

Isn’t this the point of the unique & real discovery process that actual connoisseurs of an art form participate in? We find you (great artist), because you are brilliant at your art but terrible at marketing.

Then you might become popular because 1) we (the finders, the influencers) talk about you (I mean personally here, friend to friend, in person, not social media) and 2) if your art has broad appeal, it just needed the marketing. word of mouth marketing is the most authentic kind so of course it’s being faked!

There are many artists that I love that “no one has ever heard of” and that’s fine! At some point, some of them will make something with broad appeal and it’ll catch on.

There’s money at stake so of course people are trying to juice the process, but that’s been going on for a very long time, hence my original reference to payola (pay to play on radio) which started in the 1930s!

None of this payola bullshit takes anything away from the true talent producing amazing art today! It just means, as it always has, that if you want the good stuff you have to do your own research. Most are too lazy and that’s fine! They have other interests. But the art form itself does not suffer because there exist grifters who distort mass perception. Connoisseurs are less interested in mass perception.

Modern payola. Fascinating but not entirely unpredictable. I’m excited by the focus on hyper-local, authenticity is the scarce resource. Great artists are usually not the best marketers, but nothing beats “I am here, this is real”. No amount of algorithmic magic can create that experience.

what is the frame rate?

TLDR: earliest film depiction of a robot.

The video is worth a watch.

articles like these make me think that coding with AI is a little bit like writing Perl code: if you know what you’re doing, you can do brilliant things very quickly, but if you don’t, you can make spaghetti very quickly.

There’s Anatoli Bugorski [1] who accidentally put his head into the path of a high energy proton beam.

The injury resembled nothing like being hit by tennis balls.

> He reportedly saw a flash "brighter than a thousand suns" but did not feel any pain.

He’s still alive today, age 83.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoli_Bugorski

sure, setting and character are the same thing

Is there no room for describing the setting? Must every utterance that sets the atmosphere also advance the plot or reveal character? Is there no room for mood?

Have you ever tried to sleep while the person next to you watches a movie at full volume?

You’re both making valid and sincere points.

I think the confusion may be in a situation (regardless of culture) where one knows that a loved one’s family has a high regard for courtesy and manners, and you’re willing and eager to please them, sometimes this desire could be mistaken by others for an obsession or “reification” of the specific culture of the family.

I have enjoyed the politeness of the comments from you both and appreciate your courtesy!

um it probably is. Wasn’t there a case a few years ago where a dispensary was raided and the cops stole marijuana, and got away with it due to QI.

> Geordie's thing was mostly superpower-but-you-look-idiotic.

I always thought it was one of those banana hair clips, spray painted gold.

As an admirer of low budget creativity, it’s very inspiring. But it still looks ridiculous.

My first exposure to bzip: The first Linux kernels I ever compiled & built myself (iirc ~v2.0.x), I packed as .tar.bz2 images. Ah the memories.

Yes, there are better compression options today.

There was some 90s shareware DOS visualizer for various 4D shapes. I think it might have been called Hypercube, and thought this article might have been about it. It wasn’t, but was quite informative nonetheless!

No, it’s a secret FISA court decision that the public can’t see but a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee can, but he can’t tell us what he’s seen. But he can ask questions to get the surveillance state to pull another Clapper-esque whopper and get away with it.

I dunno? I think modern translators get idioms nowadays don’t they? If not, they should.

how hard is it to recognize common idioms and at least state the literal meaning followed by the semantic meaning? there are at most what, a few thousand per language?