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droideqaon We Induced Smells With Ultrasound

After we have Smell-O-Vision[0] we should work on the next big step for the internet:

<[SA]HatfulOfHollow> i'm going to become rich and famous after i invent a device that allows you to stab people in the face over the internet

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smell-O-Vision

droideqaon Uncertain<T>

Could this be implemented in Rust or Clojure?

Does Anglican kind of do this?

droideqaon Deterministic Simulation Testing in Rust: A Theater of State Machines

Reminds me of FoundationDB and Antithesis[0].

[0]: https://www.warpstream.com/blog/deterministic-simulation-tes...

droideqaon Enough AI copilots, we need AI HUDs

I want a link to the GitHub for this[0] which he linked to. Makes Prolog quite interesting.

[0]: https://www.geoffreylitt.com/2024/12/22/making-programming-m...

droideqaon OCaml Programming: Correct and Efficient and Beautiful

What about Haskell STM versus OCaml Multicore Eio?

droideqaon What will become of the CIA?

Well I assume the NSA is competent, not sure about CIA.

droideqaon What will become of the CIA?

A good article that is critical of the previous book by Weiner ("Legacy of Ashes") is this article[0].

Here is a quote from it: "A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist has distorted what was said, why it was said, when it was said, and the circumstances under which it was said—all to support his thesis that CIA has been a continuous failure from 1947 up to the present. Weiner’s use of the plural 'final gatherings' in the excerpt from his account suggests he knows what he is doing."

[0]: https://biotech.law.lsu.edu/blog/legacy-of-ashes.pdf

droideqaon India's richest man wants to turn every TV into a PC

This was posted yesterday[0] but I think it is something that should get more attention.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44544138

droideqaon Kryptos K4 Decoded: Final Passage of CIA Sculpture Solved After 30 Years

Awesome!

I would pay for a layman’s book that explained how all 4 parts were solved.

droideqaon The Artilect War – Cosmists vs. Terrans (2005) [pdf]

I am a proud cosmist!

droideqaon MilliForth-6502, A Forth For The 6502 CPU

Sorry, didn't check Algolia properly. My fault.

droideqaon The Artilect War – Cosmists vs. Terrans by Hugo de Garis (2005)

I am a proud cosmist!

droideqaon Government by algorithm

I found this on Wikipedia after I looked up Project Cybersyn[0] by the Chilean government.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Cybersyn

droideqaon NSA to cut up to 2k civilian roles

I thought this was quite saddening.

droideqaon The Lisp in the Cellar: Dependent types that live upstairs [pdf]

Sadly "deputy clojure" on Google brings no results...

The only hint is this repo[0] referenced in the paper.

[0]: https://gitlab.com/fredokun/deputy

droideqaon The Myth of the Genius Hacker

https://archive.ph/8Ni2B

droideqaon Show HN: Extension for full-text browser history search

Cool! Reminds me of Falcon[0][1].

[0]: https://github.com/lengstrom/falcon/

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12479977

droideqaon Typed Lisp, a Primer

I had such high hopes for Shen but the licensing shenanigans at the beginning prevented it from having a great, large open source community.

droideqaon Tail Call Recursion in Java with ASM (2023)

Cool, now ABCL can have TCO!

droideqaon US appeals court rules AI generated art cannot be copyrighted

Could a corporation be the author of a picture? Corporations have all the rights of people in the USA, right?

I always wondered why we don’t just let AIs run corporations and therefore give them personhood rights.

droideqaon They're Close to My Body: A Hagiography of Nine Inch Nails and Robin Finck (2020)

I don’t know if I like NIN, but I love Trent Reznor’s collaborations with Atticus Ross and I love How to Destroy Angels.

droideqaon Stoicism's appeal to the rich and powerful (2019)

"You want to live 'according to nature'? Oh, you noble Stoics, what deceptive words! Think of a being like nature, prodigal beyond measure, indifferent beyond measure, without purpose or consideration, without pity or justice, at once fruitful and barren and uncertain—do you want to live according to such indifference?" - Nietzsche

droideqaon "Big 3" science fiction magazines including Asimov's and Analog acquired

Anybody reading this might appreciate ‘Astounding’[0]:

“Astounding is the landmark account of the extraordinary partnership between four controversial writers—John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, and L. Ron Hubbard—who set off a revolution in science fiction and forever changed our world. ”

[0]: https://www.amazon.com/Astounding-Campbell-Heinlein-Hubbard-...

droideqaon How a key ingredient in Coca-Cola, M&M's is smuggled from war-torn Sudan

Ooh, I would like to learn/see links about that!

droideqaon Stop AI

This sounds like “Revolutionary Independence From Technology (R.I.F.T.)” from the movie Transcendence (2014).

droideqaon There is No Antimemetics Division

One of the best science fiction books I have ever read.

droideqaon Ask HN: Is anyone doing anything cool with tiny language models?

That's awesome!

droideqaon Ask HN: A friend has brain cancer: any bio hacks that worked?

I am not a doctor at all, but I found these via Google scholar.

1. Ruta graveolens extract[0][1]