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Like I told the other moron, I was homeless, on my own early, and an alcoholic. You're making excuses for people that aren't proactive. I'm not disparaging the poor, I was poor for the majaority of my life, I'm disparaging the poor choices people make to stay there.

My mother to this day is an oxycodone addict. My dad is somewhere out there, maybe, I don't know. I didn't let those factors dictate my life. And once I learned how to make better choices, I stopped being homeless, went through a rehab, and got my career together. It was hard, but it was a hard choice I made, for myself.

You don't know who I am because of an opinion your reactionary, careless ass misread on the Internet.

Get a grip.

I'm speaking from three years of homelessness after being independent and nearly homeless at 17 and recovering from several years of alcohol abuse.

Don't assume, because it only confirms that you don't know what you're talking about.

Even through all of that, I found time to exercise. Even when I was a drunk, hell I still jogged now and then.

I'm not saying bad things don't happen, I'm saying having three jobs and eight kids isn't "a bad thing happened"

You're absolutely right, but in the scientific autismverse, this is a very hot topic, and there are often flame wars and arguments. This is the equivalent of a psychologist using tabs instead of spaces.

We all know what you and I meant, but the lingo in the academic side of all this has very distinct connotations, etc.

It's an unsolved issue, really.

I didn't diagnose anything.

Don't take my personal opinion and make it accountable to a professional one. I'm not a doctor. But before doing finance I used to do some basic tutoring and teachers assistant stuff for a place filled with kids with "autism" and there was a very wide array of personalities there.

As per dimensionality, yes that's what I was saying. Each symptom or descriptor exists on its own spectrum, not the entire disorder/illness/whatever it is medically classified.

Anyways, yeah. I don't know what's an illness, what's a disorder, I don't particularly care what the medical industry uses to distinguish those two words, but I've spent a chunk of time working with autistic students, and its close to my heart.

That's not practical, the high sea can be incredibly dangerous, even with modern nautical technology. Most tech out there is informational, there's very little you can actually do if the ocean decides to throw a tantrum.

Also, ships don't just go to waste when they reach EOL, if they do. They get scrapped, similar to a car I guess, but a lot of material can be reused or recycled or sold, and so on.

Anyways yeah, giant tugs, not a good idea. Not a good use of resources.

I have one of those """smart" "" keyboards on my phone

It even fucked that up

Guix uses it extensively. I'm away from a computer now but I'm sure there are some gifted minds working on it. Andy Wingo, others.

And anyways, isn't that the case with most software? HN loves APL, but there's only a few implementations around any more, Arc used to be the big topic of HN, it's all but dead, software comes and goes.

Scheme will die someday, or change enough that its something different, but the lessons of programming with linked lists and eval will stick around in those that bother to learn them. Ie, people like you and I.

Maybe you should check the Savannah repo. Maybe they need some work done that you could do!

It was time ten years ago.

Autism is one of the most complex moving-parts mental disorders that I know of.

I'm speaking about kids mainly, because that's what I'm familiar with, but some kids have mood swings and some don't, some have cognitive tempo irregularities, some have sensory disruptive effects, some have learning disability effects, some have communication difficulties, some have spatial permanence issues, some have memory issues, there are a million different components to the autism spectrum.

The autism spectrum is often thought of as a number line, but it actually exists in several dozen dimensions, it's a very deep spectrum, with documented cases all over it.

It gets worse now that there's so much medication flowing around, there are kids who don't have attention disorders getting put on attention meds, kids with normal social skills getting out on psychotic stabilizers.

Autism has been affected strongly by how aggressively mobile the psychopharmaceutical industry has become. It's disgusting. It's completely demonic that mental illnesses are graphed and measured and these MEDICINE companies are optimizing for how much orange plastic bottles are being assigned to children!

The article is right, DSM did call for it a few years ago, but it will take time and effort to reeducate doctors, the public, the children... It will take time before parents begin to realize the extent to which they are being manipulated and profiteered upon, and the effects of all these drugs in these kids will be profound.

I feel strongly about this, but I'm so disenchanted with how America handles big pharma. It's a complete joke. Orange plastic and green paper is worth enough to violate the minds of our youth.

Edits: it's my phone keyboard!

R7RS large is underway now! CL also has unhygienic macros, non-lispy loop grossness, lots of cruft, lots of poorly named functions that are named two different ways in two different places, and generally reeks of the 70s.

Scheme actually tried to compete with CL once, with a language called T. It had something sorta similar to CLOS and if I recall it was aiming for optimized performance per Sussman and Steele, but it eventually languished.

SBCL is the only thing keeping CL alive and they don't have the wherewithall to begin a modernized spec.

I don't hate CL, but I LOVE scheme. It is much more pleasant to actually work in, and feels cleaner. All the potholes of CL leave me checking under my fingernails for grime.

Gosh, I want to spend some time with rust and ggez, and then some guy shows me this awesome haxe engine!

I hadnt seen this!

That's a pretty high-powered kit though, it's got console support, it's got volumetric lighting, all sorts of cool optimizations, wow! Where have they been hiding it?!

Thanks for showing me this!

But you knew what I meant.

In hindsight I should've clarified that my opinion originates from a layman. I am not a doctor or psychiatrist or anything of the sort.

Thanks for the correction!

I don't understand what you're asking. Python is completely unlike scheme.

The type situation irks me because I do ocaml for a living, so I rely on the type system a lot. Scheme reminds me of a more seductive flavor of FP, though sometimes it's cumbersome to ensure that a data structure isn't being subtly changed somewhere.

I love that GNU loves Guile. There are few Scheme implementations as well polished as guile is, and what a breath of fresh air it can be to sit down to some '() stew after a few rough weeks of spreadsheet hell at work.

Might be just me, but it's kind of like having another universe to take a vacation in.

It does make me miss types, doing data structure programming in scheme can be irritating I guess, but still. I can compose, I can syntax-rules if I wanted, etc.

The sexpr universe isn't dead yet.

I hope rust community gets more interested in openfl. There's some good libraries already, opengl support, vulkan, there's ggez which mimics the LOVE api, but OpenFL is a fully equipped kitchen sink that a lot of multimedia developers are already familiar with, or used to be.

Congrats to OpenFL team! Fantastic work, inspiring dedication!

And go haxe! Haxe is cool too!

Most of these patients are likely exhibiting some spectrum of antisocial behavior, which means staying indoors or generally away from other people.

I don't think it's as interesting as it seems. I'm rather certain there's a sensible explanation.

No, but CERN Is known to be careful with their PR. Presumably, and this is just my intuition speaking, a big enough cluster of computers would solve this, but they're taking an opportunity to experiment with different techniques and methods for this experiment, and that's pretty much it.

If CERN had an unlimited budget, I suspect they'd do it however they did it before.

Isn't that what a line of credit is? Or a debit card? It's got a history of spending, it's very hard to double spend, and its completely traceable?

Sometimes I think fed has learned from Bitcoin that they don't trust us with Bitcoin, and they shouldn't trust us with cash either. I don't feel like they really give a shit about what a distributed ledger actually accomplishes and how it protects users.

Additionally, mining. Mining is a huge problem in my eyes because it wastes a ridiculous amount of energy to not produce anything. I'd love to just buy-in with my credit card or with cash, and have those coins generated (until supply is depleted) to meet the value at that time. If fedcoin worked like that, that'd be neat. Otherwise, it's just an energy sink, and I think we should start being more conscious at where all this energy is going.

Side question, HNers who use Bitcoin, why are you using bitcoin? Why aren't you using monero? If it's just convention, then switch! That's how conventions change!

Maybe not as an individual, but as a society or as a species, there are few absolutes for us to pursue. History and Math are the only absolutes we really have.

What I'm meaning to say is its a righteous goal compared to pursuing art or literature, because it's universal in nature.

I think Turing will be remembered as one of the few people who changed the course of human thought in its entirety.

I understand what you're saying, and sure, my goal right now this weekend is to get some plane tickets and an airbnb booked, there's no computing mysticism there.

But as a whole, I think we humans have an objective to find four the most information possible and to do the most computing as possible. That's essentially what the singularity is about, a human creation coming to a point of autonomy. That's the next step for humans, I think, abandoning flesh and spreading autonomous machines throughout the cosmos.

I guess it IS my religion.

Thanks for these! Proton is interesting, I think the space has a lot of potential.

I'm concerned that someday html might be the standard for gui system markups, that could go wrong easily.

Part of my perspective on this, maybe yours as well, is the amount of projects in electron that just didn't need to exist in the first place. Guys writing email clients, for example. Nobody is going to use something like that. Casual users will prefer the browser and power users need mega-apps like Thunderbird to be productive enough.

I've been hoping Elm guy would try and bring Elm to Qt or OpenGL or something like that. I think desktop apps have a lot to learn from FRP, which is prevalent in web tech, or at least more so than it has been in the past.

It almost reminds me of Emacs, ya know? Everything and the kitchen sink, and the plumber, and his truck, and the Home Depot. Unnecessary!

Anyways thanks for your comments. Your experience is helpful!

So what electron developers appreciate is an easily accessible markup+canvas?

Text editors are a great example, they're very difficult to get right.

I wonder why more desktop GUI platforms aren't equipped with something similar to html5->native markup.

Thanks for your comment, that clears up the question of appeal for me a bit. I can see how much frustration is saved in a project like vscode by using electron.

I understand your frustration, but in a world with a dozen different languages to choose from for cross platform native desktop apps, there's very rarely a case to be made for electron even existing.

I'm not trying to prove your point by making the insufferable comment that you hate and already expect, so please understand I am genuinely interested:

Why would, or why should, a person interested in creating a cross platform desktop app, choose electron?

If it's just to use their favorite web components to design with, is that really a good enough reason? When GTK and Qt both provide js api capabilities, what else is there to gain?

Please understand, I'm not a web developer, I'm not familiar with most of it, but just the thought of 100+MB overhead for an app is completely unacceptable to me. But again, the benefit of using web tech is lost on me.

I found it online, looks fascinating! Thanks so much!

That's the best kind of book to read, the kind someone wrote after reading a bunch of other books.

The language in GEB can be a bit much, but I find it to be a consistently effective took for opening someone's eyes to the vast universe of computer science.

There should be a GEB for Hackers or something like that, though. Accessibility is an issue. Maybe not accessibility in the sense of grokking the content, but certainly in staying engaged to it throughout the text. It feels like a lot of work.

Humility is important too. GEB could definitely use some more of that too.

Thanks for your insight

There's a headline from ten years ago...

Is it frustrating answering these types of questions? If I was a plumber, I'd get tired of people complaining about their WiFi not working.

That must be a nice benefit of being part of a large corporation is being somewhat more delineated from the hype cycle of innovations like this.

"Yes ma'am I understand your router keeps rebooting, but I made it so that you can flush your toilet now."

That's not so long though, in the scheme of things. Especially if the computer was very fast.

I read this book Artemis by Andy Weir recently (the guy who wrote the Martian) and it mentioned a moon Internet, and it was like 8 seconds away from the earth Internet or something like that. However, and the book didn't mention it, but what if a computer could be constructed that could perform extremely large calculations, and it was cheaper to produce there? In the book, they used a lot of glass for decor, because the ingredients to manufacture it were byproducts of other manufacturing already present, but something like that could be possible in space.

I like to imagine a satellite orbiting earth, with a little factory onboard, and it would send out probes and repurpose all the space junk in orbit and convert it to energy or use it to build stuff.

A planet computer could be expanding itself in that same way, and even though the calculations' results might be delayed, that might be more effective.

If humans make it another couple hundred years, they're gonna get to start thinking and building that stuff. That'll be cool

I know it was off the track of the article, I was gravitating to the more interesting idea.

Thanks for your time!

I certainly disagree that GEB was pretentious. For beings that can understand information, surely computation is the highest possible goal. To that end, a certain seriousness and prestige is available when referring to CS.

We all have our opinions.

Did you find GEB to be a helpful reference? What kind of science were you studying?

Not to invade your privacy, I was just curious.

But what if there was a way to write algorithms that can't be expressed with a von Neumann architecture?

Do you know where I can read about what categories of biocomputation there are? Is there a biological Turing machine that's ever been built, or no, I guess it'd be grown?

As another commenter said, computation is a more vast category than the simplicity of one instruction and then another instruction. Fantastic things can be computed, but most of them are difficult with modern computers.

Parallelization in a biocomputer would also be an important advancement. Like how early computers were room--sized, I can imagine a room full of intricate, strange plants all arriving at their results. That's a lot cheaper too, presumably, then a bunch of GPUs on a rack. Even if it's more expensive, the category of computing it could do might make it still worth it anyways.

Do you think someday that biological computing could perform useful computations?

I'm sure you're busy with important work, you don't have to answer these. I'm sure your knowledge is immense, so your time is precious! Thanks for your comment!

Electron will still use too much RAM though... /s

This is cool. It makes me wonder how big a computer can be. If bounded by the speed of light, could a planet-sized computer ever make any sense?