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koudelkaon I am retiring from fulltime writing (& pseudonymity) to launch Guardian Angel

The term robot came from the Czech language in 1923. The word was coined by Czech author Karel Capek, first used in his play R.U.R. (translated as Rossum's Universal Robots).[7][8][9] The term comes from the Czech word robotník ('forced worker'), from robota 'forced labor, compulsory service, drudgery,' from robotiti 'to work, drudge', from an Old Czech source akin to Old Church Slavonic rabota (работа) 'servitude,' from rabu 'slave'.

koudelkaon Clock synchronization is a nightmare

the Huygens algorithm is also worth a look

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/nsdi18/nsdi18...

koudelkaon Merry Christmas Everyone

Don’t forget about The 13th Floor, also from 1999.

koudelkaon Please do not attempt to simplify this code

Can you give some examples of how elixir is too clever? It’s been a breath of explicit fresh air for me…

koudelkaon Four billion years in four minutes – Simulating worlds on the GPU

I’d imagine that’s an application of a rule, whereas an exploit is a violation of a rule that allows for (a && !a) or some such inconsistency.

koudelkaon Barley plants fine-tune root microbial communities through sugary secretions

Jeff Lowenfel’s “Teaming With Microbes” is a fantastic introduction to the soil food web and its implications for organic no-till farming. Highly Recommend.

https://www.amazon.ca/Teaming-Microbes-Organic-Gardeners-Rev...

koudelkaon Why is Jepsen written in Clojure?

Honestly though, bless Kyle for truly being himself on the internet.

koudelkaon Is Mathematics Invented or Discovered? (2020) [video]

perhaps a lack of consistency would have resulted in a universe incompatible with life, so there’d be nobody around to ask the question?

koudelkaon Can the West’s perplexing employment miracle continue?

for the purposes of this conversation, that’s a distinction without a difference

koudelkaon John Carmack Leaves Meta

"You show loyalty, they learn loyalty. You show them it’s about the work, it’ll be about the work. You show them some other kind of game, and that’s the game they’ll play."

-- The Wire

koudelkaon DALL·E 2 prompt book [pdf]

if you enjoyed this comment, you may also enjoy the The Trigger Effect episode from James Burke's Connections series.

https://archive.org/details/james-burke-connections_s01e01

koudelkaon Heuristics for Development in Erlang

We (Frame.io/Adobe) are all-in on Elixir, and we're hiring!

koudelkaon Toxiproxy is a framework for simulating network conditions

You might be interested in Partisan's fault injector. I don't know if @cmeiklejohn is still working on it, but it's really cool nonetheless.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrwhOkiifQ8

https://github.com/lasp-lang/partisan

koudelkaon Goldman Sold $10.5B of Stocks in Block-Trade Spree

that’s the scuttlebutt.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/exclusive-tiger-cub-archegos-...

koudelkaon Who Owns the Stars: The Trouble with Urbit

So is Urbit a piece of performance art, or is it software that does a useful thing?

koudelkaon British engineers develop process to turn moon dust into oxygen

and also because high partial-pressure oxygen is quite toxic. :)

koudelkaon Connections by James Burke (1978)

I don't think it's exactly connected to the kickstarter, but in this[1] interview with James from May, he talks about how he's currently working on the K-Web[2].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUb6Sv-rUv0

[2] http://k-web.org

koudelkaon Men rescued from Pacific island after writing SOS in sand

How often is the best earth-facing satellite imagery updated?

It'd be really cool to sic handwriting recognition on it to continuously look for "SOS".

koudelkaon Has the Covid-19 response gone too far?

Do you think Stephen Hawking would have survived the virus if this had happened ten years ago?

Surely you're not suggesting that he should have been selected out.

koudelkaon The Deep Sea

> Suddenly bringing up a deep water fish would make it explode. every 33ft up the volume of air doubles.

I could be missing something, but I don't think this is quite correct.

Coming up from the first 33ft (10 meters) of depth, the pressure would go from two bars to one, or half, so the volume would double.

But any deeper, the ratio of pressure between the current depth and ten meters shallower isn't double, it's n/(n - 1).

koudelkaon Coinbase adds support for Litecoin

Not so, Segregated Witness adoption pushed it from $4 to about $15.

koudelkaon Visualizing parallel requests in Elixir

Drop me a line if you encounter any issues. :)

koudelkaon State of emergency declared across France after Paris shootings and explosions

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

koudelkaon Show HN: Diff.io

When I built something like this, I used http://wkhtmltopdf.org and http://pdiff.sourceforge.net.

koudelkaon Show HN: Parex – Simple Elixir module for parallel execution

The Task module is great for this kind of thing, too. http://elixir-lang.org/docs/v1.0/elixir/Task.html

  [
      add: fn() -> 1+2 end,
    hang1: fn() -> :timer.sleep(1000) end,
    hang2: fn() -> :timer.sleep(5000) end
  ]
  |> Enum.map(fn {k, t} ->
    {k, Task.async(t)}
  end)
  |> Enum.map(fn {k, t} ->
    {k, Task.await(t, :infinity)}
  end)

koudelkaon Pressure cookers, backpacks, and quinoa, oh my

This is complete bullshit, I have first-hand experience with this.

The FBI showed up with two black SUVs and one local police car.

They were all in plain clothes except for the single uniformed police officer.

There was no SWAT team (in my case).

koudelkaon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2013)

Do you just work out of the IAC office or are you owned by IAC?

koudelkaon 15-year-old girl invents flashlight powered by the heat of your hand

If your extremities' temperature is cooler than the ambient temperature, maybe all you need is a version with the heat-collection plates flipped?

koudelkaon MongoDB's New Query Matcher

You might try a compressed filesystem using ZFS.