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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.


Not sure if relevant but dram refreshes continuously.


On-die CPU caches typically use SRAM. Modern DRAM chips are already die-stacked in several layers. But maybe DRAM is more heat sensitive than SRAM, so more difficult to stack atop a stronger heat source?


IIRC, the RPi SoCs have a DRAM chip stacked on top of the processor.


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


The recent rise in mercantilism / trade wars / tariffs / America (or insert country) First / China one child policies / China and Soviet state official atheism / Russia and China banning gays


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


I see it as a restriction on an innate desire of humanity which is therefore impossible to constrain or stop, merely drive it underground.


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.


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

>>


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


I personally don't like what that drug does to my blood pressure. I have had better luck with 2c-b but the best positive long term effects from magic truffles (a specific version of magic mushrooms sold fresh in Amsterdam). They were all fun but only the magic truffles had this long come down period of laser focused introspection that drove meaningful and positive long term changes in my life and lifestyle.


> The hash idea works even in mutable land

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


So long as you don't store things in such a way that you can't tell derived and stale data from new, the idea works exactly the same?

I fully grant that immutable structures take away the concerns over data being coherent together. Such that it's easy to do without worrying about someone changing the data under you.

Oddly, it can sometimes make it even harder to know that data is stale. Since updating a small part can devolve into a chore. Still fully agreed that that is the best default position.


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.


And please document your findings! Would love to read.


Seriously. A well documented history of the lisp machines would be at the top of my Christmas list.


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.


Sorry, I mistyped. I was thinking about HP42 and above RPL not the basic RPN. RPL is a blend of lisp idiom on top of good old stack based RPN (list, map, numerical tower). It goes so far that they even added quoted lambda expressions. You could push << a -> + a a >> on your stack.


RPL is like LISP in that it's all about quoting. ' and eval are primary (unshifted) keys on these calculators.

There was a LISP based pocket computer: the Casio AI-1000:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-yuZ2pejGU


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