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Active discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44702782
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> Does this project have some relation to LFE? Can you clarify what "LFE" stands for? Do you mean "Lisp Flavored Erlang" or something else?
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Indeed; Yggdrasil is also the name of a set of models of the emission from stellar populations: https://www.astro.uu.se/~ez/yggdrasil/ReadMe.txt https://www.astro…
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> Unfortunately that comes with the baggage of terrible memory safety. Isn't this unrelated to the parent post's thoughts about the benefit's of the C/C++ ecosystem (or lack the…
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"Hieroglyph" [0] was an attempt to address this and write positive science fiction. It was a project at ASU and a book[1] of short stories accompanied by a webpage with essays describing the…
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> they can probably measure continental drift (only joking) They can! Continental drift measurements have been done using radio interfometry since at least the 1980s: https://www.nytimes…
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> Magazines can make a similar comeback for niches like fashion and arts. But they will probably be funded rather differently from the ad-filled old media products. This has been attempted in the o…
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> What I find scary is that developers see web apps (and hence the open web platform) as no longer fashionable, and instead focus on developing mobile apps (iOS and Android). Based on my reading of…
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> Any time he goes off on some wild tangent in his books, I assume it's because he just recently learned a lot about it and feels compelled to put that info somewhere. Stephenson discussed thi…
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> Considering the three body problem and extrapolating I would expect star orbits in a galaxy to be completely chaotic on long time scales? That's more or less captured by the loss cone calcul…
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> I've been slowly gathering sources and information in the hopes of maybe writing a book about the Lisp Machines I would love to hear more about this. I have a friend whose mother-in-law was …
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They've since updated it: > Oct 8, 2024
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Correction: there are up to 12 of the 7 meter diameter antennas.
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It's not a dev environment, but when I have been observing at large (inter)national telescopes, there are often a variety of sound effects in the control room. These sounds often announce a chang…
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Direct link to the arXiv abstract page, where one can download the PDF: https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.05237 …
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