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Rubberhose cryptography and WikiLeaks: Julian Assange as a physics student

medium.com
4 points·by sourcepluck·2 years ago·1 comments

Functions Tutorial: Arguments, Multiple Values, funcall and apply, closures

lisp-journey.gitlab.io
3 points·by sourcepluck·2 years ago·0 comments

Best open-source games as of 2024

slant.co
3 points·by sourcepluck·2 years ago·0 comments

Mathematics, Philosophy, and Artificial Intelligence [pdf]

sgp.fas.org
5 points·by sourcepluck·2 years ago·1 comments

Mathematics, Philosophy, and Artificial Intelligence

giancarlorota.org
7 points·by sourcepluck·2 years ago·1 comments

What is Realtalk's relationship to AI?

dynamicland.org
1 points·by sourcepluck·2 years ago·1 comments

An Easy Course In Programming The HP-11C and HP-15C (1984) [pdf]

literature.hpcalc.org
4 points·by sourcepluck·2 years ago·3 comments

Minetest breaks the chains of being a Minecraft clone with a new name – Luanti

gamingonlinux.com
1 points·by sourcepluck·2 years ago·0 comments

Access the Secret Gopher Web

nyxt.atlas.engineer
2 points·by sourcepluck·2 years ago·1 comments

In Defense of Screen Time

fast.ai
2 points·by sourcepluck·2 years ago·0 comments

Meta does a U-turn, will share its technology with Five Eyes members

news.slashdot.org
92 points·by sourcepluck·2 years ago·77 comments

Jungle Music with Janet in the Browser

lisp.trane.studio
3 points·by sourcepluck·2 years ago·0 comments

Zynthian, where have you been all my life?

zynthian.org
5 points·by sourcepluck·2 years ago·2 comments

Protesilaos – philosopher, Emacs guru, hut builder – on War and Leftism

protesilaos.com
4 points·by sourcepluck·2 years ago·0 comments

Soothing Lisp (and Shen) Agitprop

invidious.flokinet.to
3 points·by sourcepluck·3 years ago·1 comments

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sourcepluck
·2 years ago·discuss
I've probably 10 more questions, but you've already shared generously in a couple of other comments. Thanks for that. I've bookmarked, and will investigate. Best of luck with it
sourcepluck
·2 years ago·discuss
I forgot

https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/penguin-t4-gnulinux-l...
sourcepluck
·2 years ago·discuss
Didn't re-read, of course
sourcepluck
·2 years ago·discuss
Wow, that's so very cool! Olimex are wonderful!
sourcepluck
·2 years ago·discuss
I'm waiting on "Code" by Petzold to arrive, which I'm hoping will scratch a similar itch, but this seems like a really great way to do it! The nand2tetris course seems so very great. Emulating it all in C sounds fun.
sourcepluck
·2 years ago·discuss
Oh wow, it's happening there! I've followed and starred and bookmarked and all that, and will be having a browse around a bit more closely when I get a moment. I think I'm roughly understanding what the group is about. I'll follow up, thanks!
sourcepluck
·2 years ago·discuss
Geez, where do I sign up?

Sounds great. Don't listen to the pseudo-realists who chase dreams of grandeur rather than doing something (at least semi-) useful or good with their lives.
sourcepluck
·2 years ago·discuss
Thank you, that's wonderful, I'll be sleuthing there and getting a feel for things. Cheers!
sourcepluck
·2 years ago·discuss
This may have been true at some point... in the 90s? I'm not sure if it actually was even true then. In any case, it isn't true today:

https://minifree.org/product/libreboot-t480/

https://pine64.org/devices/

https://puri.sm/products/librem-14/

https://www.raptorcs.com/TALOSII/

https://frame.work/ie/en/products/laptop16-diy-amd-7040

https://www.olimex.com/Products/DIY-Laptop/

https://shop.mntre.com/products/mnt-reform
sourcepluck
·2 years ago·discuss
Agree with the other responder, largely. I've been bothered a few times by Emacs locking up, but never enough to be actually upset about it. Bugs, I don't see it, it is very very solid for me, I can't remember the last time something didn't work as expected. Hmmm.

Still very Lem-curious, though!
sourcepluck
·2 years ago·discuss
Eww, an unclosed parenthesis. Horrid! The Lisp gods will not be happy. Excuse me, HN people!
sourcepluck
·2 years ago·discuss
The word "free" is being ruthlessly abused here, surely...

If I follow the link there, it costs 239E for a 5-day pass, where each of the 5 days must be used in a 1 month period. That's not "gratis", that's 47.8E per day the train is used?
sourcepluck
·2 years ago·discuss
Lol @ "office horror software". So apt.
sourcepluck
·2 years ago·discuss
Hmm, reading a bit more on the same article, i.e., this one here:

https://www.vegasmaster.com/gambling-tax-free-countries/

I see these relevant lines:

  > The laws concerning gambling tax around the world aren’t all black and white. In most cases, there is a sort of gray area which states that you will be taxed on winnings if gambling is your profession or your main source of income. However, if you gamble and win but you have a bigger source of income and don’t rely on professional gambling to pay the bills, you won’t be taxed.

  In other countries, like Kenya and Ireland, players aren’t taxed on their winnings, but bookies must pay a certain percentage of taxes on the total bets or winnings they record. In Ireland bookies must pay 1% on all bets placed through them, while in Kenya bookies have to pay 7.5% tax on all winnings they record.
sourcepluck
·2 years ago·discuss
I only learned yesterday after reading this article that, apparently, a good many countries have no taxes on gambling wins. The reasoning is - again, from my quick bit of reading, if someone in the know wants to correct me please do - that most people lose, and the government doesn't want to be liable to help all the people who lose heavily.

Which is great for the pros, I suppose. Here's a list of countries, which you'd have to check individually, after I searched "gambling tax free countries":

    Austria
    Australia
    Belgium
    Bulgaria
    Canada
    Czech Republic
    Denmark
    Finland
    Germany
    Hungary
    Italy
    Luxembourg
    Malta
    Romania
    Sweden
    United Kingdom
sourcepluck
·2 years ago·discuss
Betfair, or somewhere else, if I may ask?
sourcepluck
·2 years ago·discuss
Could you share the name of your former employer, or if you can't, could you share the name of similar employers?

I'm on a bit of a probability (gambling, sports betting, stats, etc) kick these days, and I'd be interested in reading more about people and companies doing this in practice. I'd been imagining there must be organised sports gamblers, but they don't seem to be overly searchable.
sourcepluck
·2 years ago·discuss
Does anyone have any links to political analysis of what's going on with chess.com, and its involvement in various scandals? I think your wager has something to it, in any case.

I think there'd be material there for an investigative journalist (if such a thing still exists to get out the old whiteboard and start figuring out connections and trying to piece together what might be going on behind the scenes. In any case, there's a lot of money involved.
sourcepluck
·2 years ago·discuss
I loved browsing the emacsconf videos this year, really nicely presented, and such cool stuff happening. Still have lots to watch, but so far in particular the infrastructural and UI type stuff seemed amazing, there's loads happening! Favourites included:

https://emacsconf.org/2024/talks/casual/ -- Charles Choi designing UIs for human beings rather than octopuses (this jibe is meant fondly, I am a happy octopus)

https://emacsconf.org/2024/talks/literate/ -- Howard Abram, literate programming

https://emacsconf.org/2024/talks/gypsum/ -- Emacs and emacs lisp clone in Guile

https://emacsconf.org/2024/talks/rust/ -- Rune, an experimental Emacs core in Rust

https://emacsconf.org/2024/talks/julia/ -- lovely talk about the synchronicity between Julia and Emacs

https://emacsconf.org/2024/talks/guile/ -- Robin Templeton relaunches Guile-Emacs!

https://emacsconf.org/2024/talks/mcclim/ -- eh, this talk accepted questions from lambdaMOO?
sourcepluck
·2 years ago·discuss
What is better, from your experience?

I'm a happy Emacs user, but think having more options is great, and I've delved into some Common Lisp and certainly am eager to learn more. So I'm thrilled to see Lem continue to be developed.