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Sure. In the meantime, I believe the relevant xkcd - because there's always a relevant xckd - is 137.

Columbia's Last Flight is his masterpiece IMO: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2003/11/columbi...

This thread was deleted from 8chan less than ten minutes after it was created - too fast for even any archives to be created - and the poster was instantly condemned as a criminal for carrying out this criminal act. That is an extremely impressive response, especially when compared to anything from Big Tech.

I haven't quite figured out the timelines in the court documents but it's clear that the authorities were in the subsequent discussions and took the screenshots themselves because of the (You) markers next to their comments.

It's not implicitly better than using straight Lua, no. It just seems to hit the sweet spot of Lisp, game library and interactive development for me.

It's been a game changer for me observing the elegance and productivity of the Fennel language (https://fennel-lang.org/) combined with Love2d (love2d.org) and LuaJIT. Thanks to Phil Hagelberg for his documenting of his experiences (http://technomancy.us) and his work on a decent emacs mode for Fennel. Check out his previous winning entry, particularly the code that drops you in a repl and lets you live change a running Love game here: https://technomancy.itch.io/exo-encounter-667

If you're living in the US, you could of course just look outside and notice that you've just had the coldest October-April period on record. But yeah, the Arctic is clearly melting.

NOAA data goes back to the early 1970s. The IPCC paper can be found after a fairly trivial Google search here: https://web.archive.org/web/20120428072521/https://www.ipcc....

Good. So let's summarize:

- someone who disagrees with you can be called names

- you're ignorant of the history of NOAA

- if you can't find something, then the other person is a fraud

- but you claim they make fraudulent arguments anyway so that's OK

Very scientific.

Here: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/236534420_Projectin...

Arctic sea ice is normal and cyclical and follows both short and long term cycles.

Run along little gamma. He said it in front of Congress. It's in the Congressional record. There is boatloads of coverage of what he said at the time and his prediction, like all of his others before it, is complete bollocks.

The International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has a 1990 report that uses NOAA data from 1974. It shows that Arctic sea ice is cyclical, as it's always been, and had a peak in 1979. SO NOAA was measuring sea ice extent at least as far back as 1974.

https://web.archive.org/web/20120428072521/https://www.ipcc....

Also, the third graph on page 202 shows that the Earth was MUCH warmer a thousand years ago than it is now, despite far less CO2. This isn't particularly surprising since carbon dioxide levels track global temperature - not the other way around - as the ice core data going back 800 000 years shows.

The 1985 Department of Energy report Projecting the Climatic Effects of Increasing Carbon Dioxide uses data going back to 1925 that shows, surprise, that Arctic sea ice is normal, cyclical and has nothing to do with CO2 levels.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/236534420_Projectin...

Not trolling. I genuinely believe that the evidence shows that a) carbon dioxide has nothing to do with warming and b) the world's climate is just fine. Your linked piece starts with the misleading graph from NOAA which conveniently starts at the peak of 1979, omitting all of the data we have since the 1920s showing Arctic sea ice is cyclical.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIEGo8E9s_8

I remember when it was accepted scientific consensus that plate tectonics was a crock of shit. Didn't make it any less true. If the data shows that the Arctic is doing fine, then I don't care how many climate alarmists say it's melting if it isn't. Tony Heller destroys the fundamental deception of global warming here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RwjYkYCXnU

OK, ask them for their research going back to 1970 because strangely enough, they leave out everything before 1981 to give the impression that Arctic ice is on a downward trend.

No, we tend to take what people say at face value. Even if they're fraudulent hacks like James Hansen: https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1988&dat=20080624&id=...

Ask NOAA for their temperature records going back a century and see if it's normal and cyclical instead of their cherry picked data from 1979 onwards.

The intro to The Road Warrior postulates that two great warrior tribes went to war and that the world's reliance on oil was fatally crippled as a result. Not a word about climate change anywhere.

When you were growing up, did you watch NASA's James Hansen saying in 2008 that we would have NO Arctic sea ice in summer by 2018? Was he correct? No?

You would have go back and look at the whole century to see that it's just part of the normal cycle.

Really? The Danish Meteorological Institute is recording the surface mass budget at record levels.

https://www.iceagenow.info/greenland-ice-sheet-surface-mass-...

No it isn't. It's called a debate. Show me the increasing temperatures since the 1930s and I'll concede I was wrong.

For an entertaining examination of the question of consciousness and its implication for philosophers, I recommend Rupert Sheldrake's lecture here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFhsObpja8A

Thanks for all your hard work so far. Really looking forward to its release!

"In the last year, believers in the conspiracy have also been in armed standoffs with the police in Arizona, and one blocked the Hoover Dam demanding the “Release of the OIG Report,” a Qanon-based conspiracy theory loosely derived from the success of #ReleaseTheMemo."

Er, the OIG report is very real. The summary of it was posted to the IG's site the other day:

https://oig.justice.gov/reports/2019/f190129.pdf

Fahrenheit 451 managed a few disturbing ones:

- The Hound, an automated drone for assassinations

- Seashells, in-ear music playing

- Large flat-screen TVs playing reality soaps that the viewer interacts with

Fairly normal setup. I have something similar on my own server i.e. not AWS.

Very cool. Works like a charm in DOSBox.

Haha - I did an mmx version of this in assembler about twenty years ago for Konstantin Boldyshev's asmutils package. Doing things 8 bytes at a time made it ridiculously fast.

It's always important to know when someone is out of their specialty. The researcher I practically worship on a particular subject once wrote a defence of something I personally know to be complete nonsense because I was there and know what happened.

Dave's Laurel Canyon piece is meticulously researched and he's in his specialty. He's wrong about the moon landings.

Not from Parys but used to be a regular visitor: one example is streaks of obsidian in the rocks from the explosion which I believe is unique.

I was in this exact position a month ago and I landed a great job because of doing very well in two technical interviews. I also am a strong Python programmer who was rusty on the classic CS stuff. Go to Codility's programming lessons page:

https://app.codility.com/programmers/lessons/1-iterations/

and try to do at least two exercises from each lesson up to lesson 15 if you can. The open reading material at the top of each section is excellent and discusses all the CS theory you will need.

Good luck!

Coincidentally enough, I had Future Sound of London on when I checked this out. Very appropriate!