giantdude

Seems like a lot of work. Snow is heavy. Shoveling seems a bit easier than moving an unmovable tarp full of snow, while slipping and sliding.

The criminal who embezzled billions spent some of the loot on philantropy, to fit in and look good. And?

duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33626670

I don't know why that man is not in prison. But it's been obvious for years that, in spite of repeated claims (that sent his stock into the stratosphere), that self-driving cars do not work, and will not work for a pretty long time - probably not in my lifetime. Possibly, never. And if they could, there is the obvious question 'why?', when public transit clearly should be the focus.

Sure, we all want sci-fi future, but smoking too much funny grass does not make fantasy real.

Today, AI is good at mangling together pretty three-legged astronauts, not getting you out of unpredictable tight spots. Taking billions from investors shows great skill at doing just that, not engineering something that is basically not doable.

What is this thing you call 'banking' and 'finance'? I suppose some pretend money is better than other pretend money, especially if you are close to the money fountain and have a big sack to stuff it into.

The entire point of this excercise is to not have banking and finance. Those who listen to middlemen who 'want to hold your wallet' will learn the same lesson over and over. Every centralized exchange will collapse or 'be hacked', as the founders like to call taking your money and moving it elsewhere.

Someone robbed a bank. Gee, I guess the currency is not sound.

From 'Let Over Lambda':

These solutions try to limit or eliminate the impact of unwanted variable capture but unfortunately do so at the expense of wanted, desirable variable capture. Almost all approaches taken to reducing the impact of variable capture serve only to reduce what you can do with defmacro. Hygienic macros are, in the best of situations, a beginner's safety guard-rail; in the worst of situations they form an electric fence, trapping their victims in a sanitised, capture-safe prison. Furthermore, recent research has shown that hygienic macro systems like those specified by various Scheme revisions can still be vulnerable to many interesting capture problems

Bloomberg terminal is the ultimate device for making information not available to people, so traders can front-run customers, collude, do backroom deals, and other nefarious stuff. I am surprised sheeple don't consider that a crime.

I don't think it's the terminal that we are missing, it's transparency.

But hey, why not!

Customer base is expanding rapidly! Is Tesla advertising yet? Class action, please.

>One of my kids, 15 at the time, ...

You had 15 kids at the time? How many kids do you have now? My hat is off!

Thanks, that is what I thought, but didn't trust my memory.

Yes, I did mean optimization - without it you can blow through your stack quickly (and the traceback will be long and redundant :)

That! Clojure is an elegant experiment with immutability. The implementation details of Clojure's datastructures are a pure joy to look at. JVM is an unfortunate choice as I see it, but it's a pretty solid system which is benefiting from decades of research on JIT, GC, etc, so not entirely unreasonable as a back-end.

I have few good things to say about Python, other than it sort of works. I classify it in the big-sack-of-stuff languages, along with Perl and shells. Not much elegance or style.

It certainly is superior. Now get rid of the inferior part (python) and use SBCL. No more pretending to be a Lisper!

slow. bloated. not particularly good at managing conses. is there tail recursion?

Has anyone tried it on an Intel Joule? Honest question about running on actual metal, Atom, etc.

I don't get it. I am a Smug Lisp Weenie. Lisp is not a syntactic sugar - the only reason it looks like it does is for metaprogramming. Those parens are not syntax - they indicate the underlying structure of the code, a tree which may be manipulated by Lisp macros.

Why would anyone pretend to program in Lisp without any benefit? Also, Python is the worst imaginable engine for running Lisp. [correction: I see there are some kind of macros...]

Someone probably told elon to look into the 'plumbing' of twitter. He brought a sink just in case.

That is really funny!

In practice it is not a footgun at all! If you use Lisp, you can tell what's a function and what's a variable by position - functions are always first in a list, variables - never, (except in bindings)... etc.

There is this thing we call humor. Try running the example!

Although Common Lisp is called Lisp-2, there are actually many more namespaces... I think I counted 5 or 6 the last time I tried. But it is pretty sensible to keep functions in a different namespace. For instance, it allows you to: (let ((let '`(let ((let ',let)) ,let))) `(let ((let ',let)) ,let))

Apple may have started this. Back in the day Ipods would ingest mp3 files and hide them with hashed names in weird folders to make sure you can't give a copy to a neighbor. Android is even worse: they create absurd views of the file system with entirely made-up structure... Well, Apple too, but I've been boycotting Apple since the 90s.

A few years ago I had a beer with a guy who was doing just that: registering unregistered domains automatically when someone hit them. He was bragging it was a good business, but who knows.

From https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Wayland "The X11 protocol was designed around running graphical apps across the network. While some people use this feature, it's far from common. Wayland drops this requirement as a way to greatly simplify its architecture."

X client and server are usually the same machine, but they don't have to be. While on the road, you can use your notebook to open a Gimp session on your home machine and edit an image stored there. That is, the Gimp runs on your home machine while your notebook has the GUI.

This is a lot to give up for cool compositing effects...

It's a shame it's not on a Xilinx FPGA. I am out.

Funny: I thought it was the most boring work I've encountered, after "A Different Kind of Science" by some guy who claims to have invented fractals...

When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a fractal, I mean a nail.

I hate these pseudo-scientific "everything is quantum" or "everything is fractal" 'creative' works by people who just don't understand...

I am pretty sure the last Roomba I looked at had an upward-facing camera.

Amazon can therefore ask the drone, I mean Roomba, to take a closer look at something.

This could be tied in with AI: move to the window and detect curtains or window coverings; offer to sell if missing or unchanged in over a year, for instance.

Is there something in your house you wouldn't want Amazon to take an upskirt shot of?

For some definition of 'anything', a computer that can run a 100MB Electron executable...