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The term robot came from the Czech language in 1923. The word was coined by Czech author Karel Capek, first used in his play R.U.R. (translated as Rossum's Universal Robots).[7][8][9] The term comes from the Czech word robotník ('forced worker'), from robota 'forced labor, compulsory service, drudgery,' from robotiti 'to work, drudge', from an Old Czech source akin to Old Church Slavonic rabota (работа) 'servitude,' from rabu 'slave'.

the Huygens algorithm is also worth a look

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/nsdi18/nsdi18...

Don’t forget about The 13th Floor, also from 1999.

Can you give some examples of how elixir is too clever? It’s been a breath of explicit fresh air for me…

I’d imagine that’s an application of a rule, whereas an exploit is a violation of a rule that allows for (a && !a) or some such inconsistency.

Jeff Lowenfel’s “Teaming With Microbes” is a fantastic introduction to the soil food web and its implications for organic no-till farming. Highly Recommend.

https://www.amazon.ca/Teaming-Microbes-Organic-Gardeners-Rev...

Honestly though, bless Kyle for truly being himself on the internet.

perhaps a lack of consistency would have resulted in a universe incompatible with life, so there’d be nobody around to ask the question?

for the purposes of this conversation, that’s a distinction without a difference

"You show loyalty, they learn loyalty. You show them it’s about the work, it’ll be about the work. You show them some other kind of game, and that’s the game they’ll play."

-- The Wire

if you enjoyed this comment, you may also enjoy the The Trigger Effect episode from James Burke's Connections series.

https://archive.org/details/james-burke-connections_s01e01

We (Frame.io/Adobe) are all-in on Elixir, and we're hiring!

You might be interested in Partisan's fault injector. I don't know if @cmeiklejohn is still working on it, but it's really cool nonetheless.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrwhOkiifQ8

https://github.com/lasp-lang/partisan

that’s the scuttlebutt.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/exclusive-tiger-cub-archegos-...

So is Urbit a piece of performance art, or is it software that does a useful thing?

and also because high partial-pressure oxygen is quite toxic. :)

I don't think it's exactly connected to the kickstarter, but in this[1] interview with James from May, he talks about how he's currently working on the K-Web[2].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUb6Sv-rUv0

[2] http://k-web.org

How often is the best earth-facing satellite imagery updated?

It'd be really cool to sic handwriting recognition on it to continuously look for "SOS".

Do you think Stephen Hawking would have survived the virus if this had happened ten years ago?

Surely you're not suggesting that he should have been selected out.

> Suddenly bringing up a deep water fish would make it explode. every 33ft up the volume of air doubles.

I could be missing something, but I don't think this is quite correct.

Coming up from the first 33ft (10 meters) of depth, the pressure would go from two bars to one, or half, so the volume would double.

But any deeper, the ratio of pressure between the current depth and ten meters shallower isn't double, it's n/(n - 1).

Not so, Segregated Witness adoption pushed it from $4 to about $15.

Drop me a line if you encounter any issues. :)

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

When I built something like this, I used http://wkhtmltopdf.org and http://pdiff.sourceforge.net.

The Task module is great for this kind of thing, too. http://elixir-lang.org/docs/v1.0/elixir/Task.html

  [
      add: fn() -> 1+2 end,
    hang1: fn() -> :timer.sleep(1000) end,
    hang2: fn() -> :timer.sleep(5000) end
  ]
  |> Enum.map(fn {k, t} ->
    {k, Task.async(t)}
  end)
  |> Enum.map(fn {k, t} ->
    {k, Task.await(t, :infinity)}
  end)

This is complete bullshit, I have first-hand experience with this.

The FBI showed up with two black SUVs and one local police car.

They were all in plain clothes except for the single uniformed police officer.

There was no SWAT team (in my case).

Do you just work out of the IAC office or are you owned by IAC?