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I like beating people in concept but not in practice.

not just a cost question but a resource availability/energetic cost of resource extraction question.

If it takes more and more fossil fuel use to extract the increasingly rare components of the renewables, then renewables may not be able to save us.

I don't know if it is true, but it is a legitimate question which is worth knowing the answer to...

“Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muß man schweigen.” L. Wittgenstein

The AOE lab book is also great if you like guided learning.

Ah, just run 'em all under a cobalt-60 source. (joke)

Yes, that was the joke.

Want to read "Sedenions: a Practical Guide" ("Trigintaduonions", anyone?)

My great-aunt Gloria told me at this year's family reunion that she had used machine language (not assembler, she was quick to add) when she started programming.

This is a wonderful spin; the author says that they don't believe Tolkien intended this. But it's a fun thing to think about.

Maybe, but that would be better than accepting them and then doing this.

Would not buy a tesla. There are other electric cars on the market.

where your face recently was.

Ooh ooh! Now do git.

Plato wants a word with that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLATO_(computer_system)

"Now you've got three problems."

Also inevitable.

The author wrote "uncontrolled growth", not "any growth".

Dunno about the pdp-1, but the pdp-10 series machines allowed the registers to be addressed like memory, if I recall correctly- the registers were special and faster than the rest of memory, but one could put machine code in them and run it there. I guess using registers would have been tricky in that case though.

can be. I never dink, I just update and use it.

Ultimately, pursuit of perfect efficiency results in crystalline systems which are fragile.

Slack is the ur-antifragility.

(efficiency pursued for itself is AN enemy)

doesn't necessarily mean they are ACTUALLY measuring anything real. just sayin'

when all matter turns to EM radiation, at the end of the universe (arguendo), then time will cease to be measurable, and so will distance.

one point which I think some have missed -- the "missing chunk" is probably due to a stroke the patient suffered as a baby; recovery from damage that occurred when the brain is still extremely plastic might be very different from damage suffered later, or through physical trauma.

controls unintuitive

I vaguely remember someone telling me, a long time ago, that Thomas Reps' PhD thesis

(https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/book/6267325)

showed that it wasn't practical to build this kind of editor. Perhaps that was not at all the point; it was a long time ago.

I wonder, though, can anyone explain 1) if Reps' thesis does bear on the Treefrog work 2) what it was in Reps' thesis that bears on the difficulty of making syntax-tree based code development tools?

it is in fact recommended.

"Forever chemicals" perhaps?

patience

SSC FTW

Anecdote: tried this years ago and found the bite guard intolerable. The one I had, which looked just like the picture, was big and bulky and uncomfortable. CPAP in my experience was much less annoying. Obviously YMMV.