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Emotions have a purpose - disgust to keep us away, love to keep us together, lust to procreate, fear to chase us from danger. Without a purpose for an emotion, it's hard to see why these would happen. And maybe their emotions would be baffling to us because their world is so alien.

It is questionable if it's universally innate, there being many atheists, but now you've explained it I can see your point.

Have to say you used some ill-focussed or ill-expressed arguments which is why I have been repeatedly chasing you for an explanation. Take that as you will. But thanks for clarifying.

Ok, points taken, except with 'China and Soviet state official atheism'. I don't see the relevance to either trade or sex.

Not sure if relevant but dram refreshes continuously.

Strange comment - nobody was suggesting banning trade (even weirder about banning sex).

I'm not an expert but I'm pretty sure there were wide exchanges of peoples happened thousands of years earlier (eg. stonehenge burials came from a wide range of europe - this from memory).

Edit: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-47938188

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The ancestors of the people who built Stonehenge travelled west across the Mediterranean before reaching Britain, a study has shown.

Researchers compared DNA extracted from Neolithic human remains found across Britain with that of people alive at the same time in Europe.

The Neolithic inhabitants were descended from populations originating in Anatolia (modern Turkey) that moved to Iberia before heading north.

They reached Britain in about 4,000BC.

Details have been published in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution.

The migration to Britain was just one part of a general, massive expansion of people out of Anatolia in 6,000BC that introduced farming to Europe

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Not being flippant, but some MDMA. It makes a huge difference to my quality of life if used occasionally.

The hash idea works even in mutable land

Uh, how? Other than removing it from the dictionary, mutating it then adding it back.

Please give some links to a few such SO posts, thanks.

two-wrongs.org and www.two-wrongs.org get me a DNS lookup failure.

Contact the people who designed and used Lisp machines and get their very, very expert take. Many are still alive.

RPN is forth not lisp, and I seriously doubt HP got their idea from emacs. I think HP's RPN precedes the first release of emacs anyway. Edit: 1st release of emacs was 1976 so I take that last bit back.

DB 'expert' here - agree completely. It's about profiling then banging your head against it and learning more from books/the docs/web. That's really it.

I don't want to diss this, it's useful to some but to say "Your database knowledge is outdated" is presumptuous to the point of insulting. It's basic to intermediate level stuff, like using CTEs to break up queries (and you don't discuss how this can overload the optimiser), and doing multiple aggs in one select.

I also can't C&P from your pages as they're images, but Ghost Conditions Against Unindexed Columns has '... AND type = in (3, 6, 11)' - is that right or did you mean 'type in (...)'. It also talks about multi-col indexes as being more useful in some cases, true, but very elementary.

This is good and well done, but please don't oversell it.

It was exceedingly narrow to the point that the first cavers chosen there were small women iirc.

Pic of them halfway down https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2015/09/homo-nal... plus article.

Things have a purpose. You might use your oven 2% of the time, you don't turn it on and use it (or turn it on and leave it empty) 100% of the time just cos it's there. When the purpose is done, you stop.

Then may I recommend in addition Hacker's Delight. The 1st ed is most fun, 2nd ed has a lot more depth in certain areas (division IIRC) which you might choose to skip.

A good non-dev can be hugely helpful to devs and much increase their productivity. To repeat: a good one.

Do you (or anyone) have some idea why anyone could possibly have thought 16 bits would be enough? Many decisions are bad in hindsight but surely no hindsight was needed for that.

Speaking as a brit, the opium wars were an abomination but China does like to (or find convenient) playing the victim.

Can you point to some examples of owl/sql transforms being flipped? I have trouble believing that an invertible transformation is hard (presumably each step is invertible, right), and certainly "never would have been able to discover" seems inconceivable to me.

Looking at the paper it is very dense and abstract, also 50 pages long.

Edit: on reflection I am doing a bit of sealioning which was not my intention but it does look that way. I'll try to read your paper but if you assure me cat theory really allowed you to do those things you claim, I'll accept you at your word.

I see nothing in your link to justify what you say. Perhaps you can elaborate.

At my university I asked about these flashy new machines which I'd never have a chance to use, I was told they were slow. That was way back then.

...and that's the sort of critique I'm interested in and which should have been given initially.

Perhaps.. but clueless comments are usually evident by the very lack of solid info. So why even post?

I get further pissed off by having people argue back when I say something from my small island of expertise (SQL and a few other things) they clearly know less than me - I can't learn from them and they won't learn from me. I don't mind n00bs, we all were once, but to willingly remain n00bs by rejecting information, well I can't comprehend it.

I miss posts from the likes of BeeOnRope. The really good people get driven away.

Then "You absolutely can use it without CLOS" would have sufficed.

You opined in addition on the quality of clos. That could have been very useful if you'd explained it.

Yes and no, books are fab but words from the genuinely wise can save you a lot of otherwise wasted time so I always appreciate for knowedgeable advice as well.

This "afterthought ... poorly bolted ... worse than its predecessor" is a type of HN comment that's too common. Not being a CLOS or Lisp user, I have no idea why you say this and can learn nothing from it.

HN's really starting to put me off with suchlike rife blanket-damning posts that are uninformative and usually come from people who have little experience.

Indeed, thanks. FTR "Feolite is a type of iron oxide sintered into building blocks, which are then used for heat storage" which is exactly the stuff.

That's an astonishing difference in capacity.

I'm afraid I can't see the relevance of that, can you point to something more specific.