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Conway's Game of Life


Sometimes you need to see all the available tools. Replace the "talent" with a little "technique".

Cannot draw 3D with perspective? Use isometric-ish projection with graded axes.

Cannot do music? Learn music theory, some scales and so on.Maybe an easier instrument.

Of course it will not replace a person with natural talents, but it can help to overcome those beliefs.


Whats the answer to services?

More services! /s


It is the same as Nicanor Parra's:

There are two pieces of bread. You eat two. I eat none. Average consumption: one bread per person


Basically all of the UNIX world.


"Limit cycles" come to mind. How you translate "cycle detection" from and to a continuous space?


I can't even understand your question.


This is like when kids start to ask "stupid" questions, when in reality those are sometimes useful data coming from another paradigm.


I'd say that when a question from a child is called "stupid", it's more likely that the grown-up is the stupid one.

Children can ask hard questions sometimes, and grown-ups can get embarrassed when they don't know the answer. Instead of admitting their limitations, many adults will call the question "stupid" or the euphemisms "funny" or "strange", indicating that the child should not ask such difficult questions.


An addiction can be sometimes a masked emotional need/problem.

-I want porn, because I carve intimacy

-I want to smoke, so I can relax or be seen as Y.

-I drink a lot of coffee because I dont have time for Quality Sleep.


Almost every single drug addict and alcoholic has an emotional basis for their addiction. Be it childhood trauma, a predisposition to anxiety/depression, etc.

The fact that these reasons exist doesn't make the addiction any less of an addiction. It's often a reason why rehab centers try to take a holistic approach and not only tackle the addiction, but the surrounding lifestyle choices that further enable the addiction.

It's not "addiction is a masked emotional needs problem" it's, "addiction is often accompanied by emotional needs problems". Subtly different, but different nonetheless.


Sometimes complicated things are just bad abstractions: you dont have a clearer framework yet.


Yeah, it's the dog calculus thing


>It is built for the joy of building something. It s built for fun, both in its coding and in coding with it. It is not the fastest language with the hottest features. It is not the most stable thing or the best tool for every or even any job. It likely will never be those things. If you use it and you get utility out of it I am happy about that: that is amazing and excites me! I genuinely believe slope to be a useful and fun language to use and I enjoy working on and in the language.

This applies to FORTH. Cool name tho.


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