This is not about replacing Emacs Lisp with Guile. It is more about replacing the interpreter and the parts written in C with Guile. Emacs Lisp will still be the language for scripting and the code for the plugins shouldn't change much.
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It just needs more AI, the solution for all software and platform problems du jour
What is the size of the Bitcoin economy, as in real goods traded with it, not financial and actual currency speculation?
HN should change their policy to ensure that users who flag articles should publicky explain the reasons for it.
Was all or part of the program written in another language and compiled to Javascript?
My Javascript is not the good but it looks that way to me, or perhaps was constructed from some table driven system.
How about just reporting the results without bringing their political preferences into the matter.
Google video saying "Sign in to prove that you are not a bot"
Ian? Freenet? Really?
Am I a joke to you?
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GbE3OkwWwAA25N_?format=jpg&name=...
I'm currently on a Quad Core Q9650 desktop from only God knows how many years ago, and it works perfectly fine after upgrading to 16Gb RAM and an NVME SSD, with the latter being what a 5 year old i7 may be equipped with.
On a laptop battery life is your main concern and it is something you have to look into.
Some newer peripherals may be a bit of a problem, but if you are mostly on the go you'll be fine.
Thank God for reader mode.
Of course given the potential deadly consequences we can't call them jokers.
According to Dario Amodei
> When something works really well, it goes much faster: there’s an accelerated approval track and the ease of approval is much greater when effect sizes are larger. mRNA vaccines for COVID were approved in 9 months—much faster than the usual pace. That said, even under these conditions clinical trials are still too slow—mRNA vaccines arguably should have been approved in ~2 months. But these kinds of delays (~1 year end-to-end for a drug) combined with massive parallelization and the need for some but not too much iteration (“a few tries”) are very compatible with radical transformation in 5-10 years. Even more optimistically, it is possible that AI-enabled biological science will reduce the need for iteration in clinical trials by developing better animal and cell experimental models (or even simulations) that are more accurate in predicting what will happen in humans. This will be particularly important in developing drugs against the aging process, which plays out over decades and where we need a faster iteration loop.
The authors of this paper don't think so.
http://www.paom.pl/Changing-Views-toward-mRNA-based-Covid-Va...
@DarioAmodei You don't suppose the same technology could be used to develop biological warfare agents?
If you don't know when a product is considered unsafe, then at least you should know when it was produced to know if it is fresh enough for "YOUR"your consumption.
It shouldn't be up to the govt to decide what is or isn't fresh enough for you. That is your choice.
Kent O. - Yes I do, and "you" should!!
According to this Wikipedia description of a window manager https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window_manager, would it be fair to say that Wayland doesn't perform the role of a Window Manager very well, among other things?
What is the equivalent component of X11 that Wayland targeted at its initial inception?
It looks me to me that there has been a lot of deceptive promotion around Wayland, because something that was conceived foundation for a not as yet developed window management system was presented as windows management system.
It even makes one wonder if all the people who have been promoting and touting its benefits know what it actually was.
It sounds a bit like promising a car when all you are focused on are the engine and the chassis.
There is a reason for the "you will own nothing and you will be happy" ideology being promoted by "PTB", ie subscriptions for ink cartridges, heated seats and advanced suspensions in newer cars.
Corporations now want a continuous income stream from the services provide by physical products they have "sold", but they don't want their employees and subcontractors from earning some of that income stream.
Some IT administrators have been know to schedule regular "downtimes" on perfectly performing systems just to ensure their users and bosses don't take their service for granted.
Bloke is not acquainted with Keynesian economics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OhIdDNtSv0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NO_tTnpof_o
All a man needs is food in his stomach and a place to rest at the end of the day. Everything else is vanity
What proportion of global GDP is dedicated to fulfilling our basic material needs?
It is mostly unnecessary. Inspite of the huge productivity gains made since the seventies, the current generation of young Americans are poorer than their parents and grandparents were at their age.
So what does all the IT optimization bring? Just more wealth for the owners and redundancies for their employees, including Joe Bloggs here.
It is time people in IT got to understand this. In the long term their activities are not going to improve their wealth. They are one of the few professions whose job is to optimize themselves out of a living, unless they own the means of the production their are optimizing, which they don't.
It is their employers that do.
> over the years what discoveries have been made at CERN that have had practical social and economic benefits to humanity as a whole?
Some responders to the question believe I was criticizing a supposed wastefulness of the research. Not knowing the benefits of the discoveries in high energy physics, ie the stuff the accelerators are actually built to discover, doesn't mean I was criticizing it.
Responses referenced the contributions the development of the infrastructure supporting the basic research itself have made, which is fine, but not the benefits of high energy physics discoveries.
So to rephrase the question - What are the practical social and economic benefits to society that the discoveries in high-energy particle physics at institutions like CERN have made over the years?
This is not just in relation to CERN, but world wide, such those experiments which create pools of water deep underground to study cosmic rays etc.
Wouldn't the same rules apply?
I take it this is for Apple's app store and Apple removed it.
I thought Youtube removed it from Play store or something, so Apple is the bad guy here.