unpx[asciilifeform]: phf, asciilifeform, and other lispers, I wonder what do you think about Sussman's idea on computation and his new book ``Software Design for Flexiblity''. I feel like it may be connected to Growing a Language, by Guy Steele.
billymg[asciilifeform|cgra]: for the logs: china's US Hegemony and Its Perils (Have Been a Disaster for the Human Race) and other escalations
signpost[cgra|asciilifeform]: curious if anybody's done simulations on the smoke coverage of post-nuclear exchange.
signpost[cgra|asciilifeform]: afaik the problem's not strictly the zapped cities, but that the pile burns and burns.
signpost[asciilifeform|cgra]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLdlR6kslKA thought I might've seen something like this
signpost[asciilifeform|cgra]: seems like near-equator starts to clear pretty quick.
PeterL[cgra|asciilifeform]: burning cities can't be any worse than the forest fires they have been having the past few years, can they?
PeterL[asciilifeform|cgra]: I'd expect a good solid volcano would do a bigger dent on the global climate than even the biggest wars?
signpost[cgra|asciilifeform]: I mean, "cities" is carrying a lot of the weight in that sentence.
signpost[asciilifeform|cgra]: could be limited exchange, could be mutual automated dead-hand strikes with multiple-reentry vehicles
asciilifeform for thread-completeness, recommends, lol, the 'live in the bull's eye' 'solution' to all of this!1
bitbot[asciilifeform]: Logged on 2023-02-11 23:55:57 asciilifeform[4]: lives in very 'convenient' locale for that one, not needs to study at all for 'wat do after'
asciilifeform: signpost: krakatoa is traditionally thought to've'been good model for 'nuke winter' fwiw.
asciilifeform: http://logs.bitdash.io/pest/2023-02-28#1024340 << asciilifeform finds difficult to muster enthusiasm for watching linked film given sussman's conversion to lolcow. (but if sumbody watched -- plox to report)
dulapbot: (trilema) 2016-02-23 phf: sussman was there though, when mit switched from sicp to python for their intro programming course, and he defended that decision with his remarks at ILC https://web.archive.org/web/20090327115612/http://blog.snowtide.com/2009/03/24/why-mit-now-uses-python-instead-of-scheme-for-its-undergraduate-cs-program
bitbot[asciilifeform]: Logged on 2023-02-28 06:48:54 unpx[jonsykkel|deedbot|signpost]: phf, asciilifeform, and other lispers, I wonder what do you think about Sussman's idea on computation and his new book ``Software Design for Flexiblity''. I feel like it may be connected to [https://www.youtube.co