reedwolf

Not sure what you mean. You can buy GPUs anywhere.

You can even buy Tesla V100s that power AWS accelerated instances.

Lem hated it. He said Tarkovski turned his book into a Dostoyevsky novel.

The problem is that it focused almost exclusively on the relationship drama and jettisoned the science fiction.

Example from C2[0]:

  (* x y percent approxEqual *)
  DEFINE approxEqual == 100.0 / rotate [0 =] [pop] [dup rolldown -   
  swap /] ifte > 

[0] https://wiki.c2.com/?JoyLanguage

>>Thus Python3 failed (and frequently, continues to fail) to be a compelling upgrade to anyone but unicode purity fetishists

Huh? No new project of any note is using 2. Everyone has either upgraded to 3 or never even learned 2 to begin with.

Not sure what you mean.

This was the best way to do it. Slowly and painlessly. Any project that matters is now on 3.

For a bad transition, look at Perl 6, a debacle so big it was renamed Raku and became a different programming language.

Relevant SMBC:

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2010-11-09

Wouldn't market prices reflect that everyone is now starting off on n amount of money?

Also, you're going quickly run into many of the problems current redistribution programs face. One of the big ones is how to deal with people that spend money irresponsibly.

"Climate scientists don't know why, but, starting 20 millennia ago, the earth’s climate began to warm."

Maybe it's just something the Earth does.

I'm still skeptical that this is an actual thing. I think people might just be overestimating how clearly other humans can visualize something in their minds.

Do people with "aphantasia" see visual imagery in dreams?

Luckily, Mariott doesn't have anything else to worry about right now.

Python packaging is now a solved problem.

Use Poetry. Resolves all your dependencies and manages your virtual environments.

Also lets you build and publish your own projects with a few commands.

https://python-poetry.org/

And then I can finally go to Titan.

What would the Government do? Force people to go back to work at gunpoint?

I'd love to see them try.

What happens when one of these mini-cloud providers like DO, Linode, and Vultr folds?

What are the consequences as a customer?

Does all your data just evaporate into the aether?

Always happy to see a Stanislaw Lem reference.

The Invincible by Stanislaw Lem. Little known, even in Sci-Fi circles.

Wow, this looks really interesting. Was there any particular reason you decided on this approach?

>Waiting another hour or so gives enough time for scouts to return from other sites, and then the entire cluster heads off together to this new site

What happens if a bee is late coming back and everyone is gone?

I can't help imagining an alternate history where a follower of Pythagoras stumbles across the mathematics underpinning universal computation. They or someone else creates a rudimentary programming language to fully express these ideas. Then Archimedes builds a mechanical computer to execute programs in that language. Perhaps Hero of Alexandria develops a steam-powered variant, and one of the successors of Alexander The Great puts the computer to use in warfare and conquers the world. Science is accelerated so that nuclear physics is discovered by the time Jesus is born...okay, enough for now.

Search Of 100,000 Nearby Galaxies For Waste Heat Signatures Of Large Civilizations Finds Nothing:

https://phys.org/news/2015-04-advanced-civilizations-earth-o...

"Exterminate! Annihilate!"

What does Snowden have to say about surveillance in Russia?

>I'd rather just use Javascript

Not a phrase you hear every day.

>Customers tend to get in the way of good code

Wow, everything wrong with the tech industry right here.

The concept in comic form: https://www.sparringmind.com/supernormal-stimuli/

>will either have been recovered by the victorious army or looted by the local population

This phrasing, with different terms for the army and the local population doing the exact same thing, reminds me of the famous Onion take on Hurricane Katrina:

>NEW ORLEANS—Throughout the Gulf Coast, Caucasian suburbanites attempting to gather food and drink in the shattered wreckage of shopping districts have reported seeing African­Americans "looting snacks and beer from damaged businesses." "I was in the abandoned Wal-Mart gathering an air mattress so I could float out the potato chips, beef jerky, and Budweiser I'd managed to find," said white survivor Lars Wrightson, who had carefully selected foodstuffs whose salt and alcohol content provide protection against contamination. "Then I look up, and I see a whole family of [African-Americans] going straight for the booze. Hell, you could see they had already looted a fortune in diapers." Radio stations still in operation are advising store owners and white people in the affected areas to locate firearms in sporting-goods stores in order to protect themselves against marauding blacks looting gun shops.

You need WDA: Well-Directed Autism

Just read the article and it seems fine to me. No idea what OP is going on about.

We can either have fast technological progress, or we can be completely tied up in bureaucratic red tape, with every potential innovation having to go through endless "oversight" committees staffed by non-technical airheads.

I know which I prefer.