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New comment by koudelka in "I am retiring from fulltime writing (& pseudonymity) to launch Guardian Angel"

koudelka — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 03:58:47 +0000

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'.

New comment by koudelka in "Clock synchronization is a nightmare"

koudelka — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 18:38:56 +0000

the Huygens algorithm is also worth a look

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

New comment by koudelka in "Merry Christmas Everyone"

koudelka — Wed, 25 Dec 2024 09:09:10 +0000

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

New comment by koudelka in "Please do not attempt to simplify this code"

koudelka — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 01:46:25 +0000

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

New comment by koudelka in "Four billion years in four minutes – Simulating worlds on the GPU"

koudelka — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 06:00:38 +0000

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.

New comment by koudelka in "Barley plants fine-tune root microbial communities through sugary secretions"

koudelka — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 02:45:10 +0000

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...

Synthetic Sentience – Joscha Bach [37c3] [video]

koudelka — Sun, 28 Jan 2024 09:27:36 +0000

Article URL: https://media.ccc.de/v/37c3-12167-synthetic_sentience

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39163917

Points: 4

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New comment by koudelka in "Why is Jepsen written in Clojure?"

koudelka — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 07:51:18 +0000

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

New comment by koudelka in "Is Mathematics Invented or Discovered? (2020) [video]"

koudelka — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 23:38:20 +0000

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

New comment by koudelka in "Can the West’s perplexing employment miracle continue?"

koudelka — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 07:42:35 +0000

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

New comment by koudelka in "John Carmack Leaves Meta"

koudelka — Sat, 17 Dec 2022 02:00:07 +0000

"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

New comment by koudelka in "DALL·E 2 prompt book [pdf]"

koudelka — Wed, 03 Aug 2022 05:18:59 +0000

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

New comment by koudelka in "Heuristics for Development in Erlang"

koudelka — Wed, 05 Jan 2022 00:05:32 +0000

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

New comment by koudelka in "Toxiproxy is a framework for simulating network conditions"

koudelka — Wed, 03 Nov 2021 03:50:18 +0000

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

New comment by koudelka in "Goldman Sold $10.5B of Stocks in Block-Trade Spree"

koudelka — Sun, 28 Mar 2021 00:37:21 +0000

that’s the scuttlebutt.

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

New comment by koudelka in "Who Owns the Stars: The Trouble with Urbit"

koudelka — Sun, 13 Dec 2020 10:09:39 +0000

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

New comment by koudelka in "British engineers develop process to turn moon dust into oxygen"

koudelka — Fri, 27 Nov 2020 23:22:33 +0000

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

New comment by koudelka in "Connections by James Burke (1978)"

koudelka — Fri, 27 Nov 2020 18:38:46 +0000

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

New comment by koudelka in "Men rescued from Pacific island after writing SOS in sand"

koudelka — Wed, 05 Aug 2020 20:22:47 +0000

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".

New comment by koudelka in "Has the Covid-19 response gone too far?"

koudelka — Fri, 20 Mar 2020 01:33:24 +0000

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.