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lispm, to ai German
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Doug Lenat died. RIP.

He started the Cyc project, using Lisp Machines as a development environment. The project is roughly since 40 years ongoing. Cyc was the dream of a large-scale knowledge base of common sense knowledge. One that has many ways of reasoning and making inferences. It used SubL a variant of Common Lisp.

Here is an old screen shot...

nil,
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@amoroso @lispm that is a great find but I am still envious of that physical copy!

simon_brooke, to random
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Really useful episode of from @Eceni which is really helping with my thinking about localising food production. Recommended.

I'm wondering what bean I could most productively grow at field scale here in Scotland?

https://pca.st/episode/ae3b8a9a-2e38-4dfd-8140-94bb002442e8

nil,
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@simon_brooke
“Soybeans are the highest producer of protein per acre at 513,066 (g)/acre” https://humaneherald.org/2019/05/09/comparison-of-protein-and-caloric-energy-kcal-produced-per-acre-on-u-s-farms/#:~:text=Soybeans%20are%20the%20highest%20producer,at%20513%2C066%20(g)%2Facre

nil, to random
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Title: Hypermedia Systems
Authors: CARSON GROSS, ADAM STEPINSKI, DENİZ AKŞİMŞEK
Review: very well written and good explanation of the what/why/how of and hypermedia as it was intended. My only qualm was numerous code formatting/layout issues when ever a code block crossed pages eg missing and duplicated lines. Sometimes these lines are referred to by the text which can add to the confusion. I love the cover though and the font choices!

nil,
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@wmtalcott
Two examples: the one with Hx-Trigger-Name on the bottom of left page with missing definition on right page. The other you can see a closing button tag on right page with no opening button tag on left. There are probably 8 more that I caught but this shows it’s not just code blocks.

Pages from hypermedia systems showing a printing error

nil,
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@wmtalcott please propagate for me - I am staunchly anti-GitHub. Thanks!

nil, to random
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Sadly I must retire from . I really wanted to get to level 200 (I am stuck at 197) but I have to listen to my body. My thumb hurts after a few rounds now and continues on to the next day. Hopefully I can get a cybernetic one eventually but until then I am done. Or I become proficient with foot pedals!?

nil, to random
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Package label from my !

nil, (edited ) to Lisp
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Trying to normalize referring to any left bracket as lun and right bracket as ula prefixed by type so r for round, s for square, c for curly, a for angle. Which opens up the space for this question: what other types are there?

nil, to emacs
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is so important in a sense. Brutalist does not just mean stripped down it also means built up but only in ways in which function determines form. In Self there is a mandate for things to be animated so they don’t just transport or blink into existence. When I use I think about this a lot because of how much it violates this principle (yeah yeah it’s meant to work as a tui at cli. I don’t care about excuses. I only care about attenuation).

nil, to random
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absolutum obsoletum

nil, to random
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Just ordered a mechanical keyboard!

nil, to emacs
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I just want to say as an prisoner (if I had a car it would have a bumper sticker that said “my other editor is a post modern lisp machine”) that the ux is awful. Executing a mortal kombat fatality on my keyboard to save a file is sadism.

nil, to random
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Completely wore out the right direction on my switch lite dpad playing . As far as I can see it’s not serviceable sadly so ordering a new one. Hopefully this time my save data persists. Last time I just had to lose 74 levels. This time it would be 197! All I want is to be

nil, to tetris
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Sadly I can’t prove this but last night I got an all-clear at the exact moment I won a round of - I play a lot of that game (and not to brag but I win a lot. I am level 97 not including the levels I lost when replacing switch) and this is first time that has ever happened. Almost like one of those water bottle flip trick shots or something.

nil,
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@Zotmeister noooo are you serious? Lol I took a screen shot but it only showed the victory screen and not the all-clear :-( I had no idea you could do video capture but it makes sense.

nil, to random
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Parenthesis. Unbalanced.

nil, to random
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Instead of fighting with your comrades: Be the alchemist. The polymath. The gnostic. The pilgrim. The beginners mind. The artist. The liberator. The destroyer of subjugation in all of its forms. And as cybernetics is literally the study of subjugation... be the cybernetician. Learn to explain the system in ways that people from all walks of life can hear. Be the slogan: Attenuation Not Subjugation. Become the spectacle. Experience the Revolution of Every Day Life.

nil, to UI
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prior art:

nil, (edited ) to random
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Time is the medium of process.

simon_brooke, to random
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A lot of work done on the roundhouse site today. The remains of the round straw bales we used to insulate the roof have been taken out and rebaled into small square bales for the walls (of course we'll need many more of these); the hearthstone has been levelled and mortared into place; and (although they're not in these pictures) all the floor joists are on site ready to fit.

nil,
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@simon_brooke super inspiring!

racketlang, to random
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Are you ready for RacketCon?

We are!
:racket:​:racket:​:racket:​
Support you favourite Programmable Programming Language conference and get your tickets at
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/racketcon-2023-tickets-669052563227 (live stream only $10)

nil,
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@racketlang I thought racket was moving on from sexpressions so
don't you mean thirteenth(RacketCon)?

nil, to Lisp
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Did all the other people know about from ? I only stumbled upon it whilst searching for a process network definition language. Not exactly what I had in mind but pleasantly surprised to see !
https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/Legacy/IR/nistir6459.pdf

nil, to random
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My selfie.

nil, to random
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not sure how to describe the feeling of not being able to find any information about my childhood computer. It was a "USA Flex 486 DX2 66". It was the machine I first used a BBS on (technically me and my friend tried to connect to a BBS from their commodore64 but it didn't work - though his mom got the phone bill for our attempts to connect to a BBS in hawaii!). Anyway every once in a while i think about that computer. It was the machine I used the first version of Netscape on (and wrote my first line of HTML and in the next version my first line of javascript). Thankfully I was exposed to macintosh at school which got me hooked on hypercard and drove me towards smalltalk/self eventually which is why I guess I'm torn nostalgia wise as the xerox parc shit is what really stuck with me. I have no desire to physically own that 486 ever again or to experience DOS and windows 3.11 - they did not spark joy even then. I still wish I could find pictures of the machine or at least the Ads. I do still own my original Sega Genesis. That DID spark joy.

nil, (edited ) to random
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My name in is ﴾﴿

nil, to vegan
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Just found out moved from Bay Area to LA. Good for them and sad for me. Best chicken I have ever had.

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