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Interesting. Maybe instead of humans intervening in the AI, the AI should intervene in the human's driving.

This is awesome. Is anyone else old enough to remember trying to cancel AOL?

I don't know why people are knocking the vue forum. I find it comprehensive with fast response.

> In the real world, that would be the equivalent to requiring you to get permission from anyone that sends you a letter before showing it to someone else.

No, it is equivalent to the post office showing the letter to someone else.

Maybe a stupid question ...

Isn't passing a function to itself kind of like recursion?

The framework is custom. But I was really talking about how great reactive was for my application. It is a control system with a lot of inputs and outputs. The graph is about a dozen levels deep.

> just using dataflow programming directly is both simpler and faster,

But a good reactive system is simpler to write, understand, and debug. At least that is what I found in my latest project.

I see a white cloud. Could that be vapor? I always thought vapors were invisible.

> Arbitrary side-effects coupled with asynchronicity are a recipe for Heisenbugs.

I find it easy to avoid side-effects in imperative reactive code. With side-effects I wouldn't call it reactive.

> , if you add in the constraint that you can't change signal routing at runtime

Once again, this is easy in imperative code.

I am not complaining about functional code. It definitely has its place (just not for me). I just finished an awesome product with imperative reactive code and I thought maybe I was missing something.

To be honest I've only seen pot vapes. And I do see smoke, not vapor.

I just get a page with the URL shown.

Can someone explain the synergy of using reactive with functional? Reactive is great and functional is great but I don't see what they have to do with each other.

Let's hope Trump doesn't find out fusion might replace coal. They need our investment.

I'm not sure why it is called vaping. You can see smoke come out. It uses a heater to burn the juice.

It doesn't have to be a touchscreen. I drove my brother-in-law's porsche suv when it came out. It had physical buttons with a screen. You had to press through deep menus to do anything. I've used computers for decades and I couldn't figure out how to turn the radio off. I gave up and turned the volume to zero.

I wish people who use acronyms (like SICP) would define it at the beginning of the article. I hate googling all the time.

Hmmm. Am I allowed to ask why this is on HN?

And it is not "photos" but just a "photo".

In 1970, Princeton had an IBM 91 computer. It covered the floor of a building. It had two giant racks of bipolar memory (256 bits/chip) with 1 MB in each rack. It had an office for several IBM employees who managed the machine.

On day an IBM tech was bringing up the system using a check-list. He noticed a red light that said "temperature". He noted it in the log and kept going. It turns out he had forgotten to turn the water on. After a short while the room filled with smoke.

The machine was ruined. After the machine was replaced, the IBM office kept one of the old PC boards on the wall. It was curled up like a potato chip.

It's the old joke "we've established what you are, now we are now just negotiating the price".

As an early adopter of PillPack I can say that it is awesome. Not only are the packs very convenient (no more bottles, knowing when you forgot to take drugs) but the customer service is the best I've ever experienced.

I had tried to use the mail-order drugs provided by insurance companies and they were a disaster. I couldn't find out what was coming when. Drugs would seemingly-randomly show up in my mailbox.

> The functions being tested simply return the current time

Not a very interesting benchmark. This would only measure net latency and spin-up time.

> was planning to eat some again only if she killed the animal.

Or if the animal fell out of the sky. (2 points for being old enough to know the reference).

Could this (maybe only slightly) push out how long before quantum computers pass traditional?

Big blue birds?

> However, they didn’t know about the waves.

> Also involved ... aquatic expert James Houtz.

Not much of an expert if the didn't know about the waves.

My wife's phone and my daughter's have straps. They are built into the case. They swear by them.

This is at least the second time that tap dripping was involved in a scientific study.

The first that I know of is when some Santa Cruz (hippie capital) students set up electronics to record the timing of drips for a paper. They were going to break the pattern down to understand it. They tried and tried but the pattern always seemed random.

With the help of other researchers they discovered it was caused by chaos. This was the first time that chaos theory was described, although Feynman had noticed that some equations behaved weirdly when banging on his calculator.

In the 70's at HP (a very different company than the current HP) we had G-Jobs. A G-Job was working on personal development on HP time using HP parts. The term G-Job was a joke. If a manager asked you what you were working on you told them it was "government work". It was semi-officially approved of.

There was a catch though. If you wanted to sell your development you had to give HP first right of refusal. If HP didn't want it you could do whatever you wanted with it.

The Apple 1 was a G-Job. Wozniak offered it to HP and they refused. So he was able to sell it.

I thought google had removed the 20% project program.