inawarminister

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Comment · 2 years ago

There's also cowry-as-coinage, which seems to be very old and very distributed (Africans, Arabs, Indians, Southeast Asians, and East Asians were still using cowry for international trade to the dawn of the Industrial Age)

Indeed, the Chinese kanji for money stems from Cowry. 貝

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_money

[1] https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E8%B2%9D

Incidentally, as an Indonesian, I just recognized the shells we children used to play was exactly this species! Ancient currency, of which millions from thousands of disparate culture used to toil and fight for, used for children game tokens... Haha.

Comment · 2 years ago

I think Numerical Elixir (NX) allows for GPU programming. It uses XLA for scheduling computation?

Comment · 2 years ago

Teleoperated remote presence robots that can do the majority of what astronauts need to do and allow for experienced operators to do EVA manually if needed (due to crossover between mind and machine)

But also human cognition augmentation

Comment · 2 years ago

Thanks! The comparison table is really enlightening. I think I'll try hacking up Colemak first with layer 3-6, but if I can't make it I'll try habituating with KOY layout.

Comment · 2 years ago

I like to write Clojure, and getting away from home row to write the parentheses was... annoying. I did try (and my fingers still remember!) Colemak a few years back, though.

I found Neo2, which is a German keyboard layout with 5-6 layers of keys (which is ironic since I don't actually... speak German). Tried Neo2 vanilla and Bone/other layout, but nowadays I'm just using QWERTZ + Neo2 layers, which is available for Linux and Windows/Mac with utilities.

Just look at the following layout!! https://dl.neo-layout.org/grafik/bilder-einzeln/flat/neo_qwe...

Now I'm thinking, maybe modifying Colemak with Neo2-style layer 3-6 might be perfect for me, and a few others...?

Comment · 2 years ago

Yes.

“I have to go to work — as a human being. What do I have to complain of, if I’m going to do what I was born for — the things I was brought into the world to do? Or is this what I was created for? To huddle under the blankets and stay warm?"

- Marcus Aurelius.

Comment · 2 years ago

Wouldn't the Arabic naming tradition, having patronymic, location (like German noble names), and 'nicknames' be more of a solution?

e.g. Jason Brahamsson "the Tall" of West London

Comment · 2 years ago

Yeah, most Xiaomi users flash their phones with custom or AOSP ROM for a reason

Xiaomi SW isn't as bad as other Chinese manufacturers, but still...

Comment · 3 years ago

Does Elixir's Set-theoretic Types support declaring restricted subset of types for modelling purposes as often done by ML programmers? The "Type-Oriented Programming" or "Domain-driven Design"?