You keep making some sort of vague attacks against the democrats, and yet haven’t made any concrete comparisons. Starting to wondering now if you’re a Russian shill.

How many of those centuries would they have been able to inspect, catalog, and widely distribute their findings about stuff as small as bacteria? The tools we have now are quite new, and still insufficient even now. Maybe in another 100 years we’ll have it all mapped out.

If anything it’s genetics at play attempting to produce the healthiest offspring.

Kagi is one of the few subscriptions I think is 100% worth the price. In fact, I’d pay double. Very happy user for almost two years.

I haven’t used lisp is 30 years, so help me understand/remember why this would be easier than say C++ or any other language with object inheritance and virtual functions. Is there something else about it?

OO is absolutely the wrong paradigm for interactive fiction. Writing a text adventure has been my favorite way to experiment with a new language for decades now, and I’ve gone down the OO rabbit hole too many times. For this use case, you want something more like an ECS, so that a single entity can be more than one kind of thing at the same time. Consider a talking robotic vehicle. It is an object in the world: the player can interact with it from the outside. It is a room, with contents: the player can be inside it. It is an NPC: the player can speak with it. Trying to accommodate that in an OO inheritance hierarchy has always tied my code—and brain—in knots. An ECS-like architecture can handle it easily.

Thanks - I hadn’t heard of ECS before. That expanded my mind :)

That was my reaction when I first came across it.

That is definitely the easiest solution to come to.

I suspect a little of both. Plus some people were turned off by the forced democratic “primary”. I remember similar sentiments when Hillary ran. I just realized Trump has only won when running against a woman. I think we’re just not quite ready for a female president, for whatever reason.

Funny anecdote - I was flying through Minneapolis and the passengers on a plane about to depart had to get back off the plane so it could be rebooted. It takes 20 minutes to power down to zero and 20 minutes to boot back up. The gate agent said it was a known touchy computer on that plane - I was wondering if that was true.

I’ve been learning a bit about it after learning about RRCF (Robust Random Cut Forests). The ISOTree library is really well documented if you want to play with it.

This is exactly what you would expect if there was foreign meddling on HN. Has me wondering….