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by 0815test 7y ago
> Etymologically they may be unrelated but come on. Every single time you say one of those words we all know what word people are going to think of instead But surely this must hold all the more strongly for the "a" word? Even
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by 0815test 7y ago
Why should we blame Unicode for this? Emoji-like features were used for a long time on Internet forums, in SMS-like mobile apps, and even as "dingbats" in printed text. Emojis in Unicode are simply standardizing support for this
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by 0815test 7y ago
AIUI, you can use the shim to boot end-user-enrolled code, even if it's not signed by the MS key, but it will only do so pursuant to direct user interaction. So the shim effectively replicates the standard SB model, where the end-user
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by 0815test 7y ago
> Nerd, geek, and freak are nowhere near as utterly vile as the n word. They are in completely different leagues. Yes, which supports what I said, contra what GP said. You can't just take such a vile word with such vile connotati
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by 0815test 7y ago
> The N word is of course much more extreme given America's ugly, unresolved history around race, but it's the same rough deal. I think this is quite dubious. "Nerd" and "geek" or even "freak" were
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by 0815test 7y ago
Well, FPH-style posts were banned across-the-board because they were held to be leaks of privacy-sensitive material, and harrassment. But somehow, /r/fatpeoplestories suddenly got a lot more popular. Also somehow, /r&#x
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by 0815test 7y ago
> In 1990 you needed an expensive dye sublimation printer with mega expensive consumables to print colour. Not so, four-color ribbons for impact printers were a thing.
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by 0815test 7y ago
I feel the same way about the Inadequate Equilibria book https://equilibriabook.com/toc/ (free-to-read). In many ways, it's a different look into the very same problems, with more depth and less egregore/m
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by 0815test 7y ago
> seeing as it created those ideas (like Mickey Mouse, etc) Mickey Mouse, perhaps[0]. Many other Disney characters and broad ideas were ripped off of public domain work (sometimes it's even more complicated, see Winnie the Pooh - th
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by 0815test 7y ago
> What people forget in the debate over public company 'CEOs' is that, when the price of disney shares goes up from $24 to $135, that is millions upon millions of peoples retirements that are that much more secure. I would happ
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by 0815test 7y ago
> Africa’s Only Hope Is Industrialization This is a common point of view, but not one that's universally agreed upon. Here's a YT video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsAjHzAGZDU which explains this controver
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by 0815test 7y ago
> Twenty minutes of exercise and you felt better? High-intensity exercise, seems plausible. Aerobic exercise is an annoying timesink by comparison, even though it does nevertheless play an important role in building up cardio endurance.
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by 0815test 7y ago
> No, the reason is as stated elsewhere. Rust doesn't run on these systems because no one bothered to tool up LLVM for them. Part of the problem is that LLVM developers themselves are apparently unwilling to release support for arch
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by 0815test 7y ago
Never mind the suffragette movement of the 19th-c., democracy and women's rights were Enlightenment ideas and there are many quotes of the foremost Enlightenment thinkers (such as J.S. Mill) supporting them quite strongly. So, either
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by 0815test 7y ago
> Western democracies are very good at monitoring and subduing radicals. In a way, that's true - democracy is based on some degree of reasonably-widespread consensus, not on what a single power-hungry autocrat might want at any give
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by 0815test 7y ago
Yes, thing is, the amount of work that seems to be needed to bring up a mainline kernel "properly" on even one of the most open and best-documented SOC's in industry (the one Purism chose for this phone) is already a bit scar
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by 0815test 7y ago
> RISC-V shuffles the immediate bits on its instruction encoding to speed up decoding the immediate in hardware You're right that this might be a problem, in principle. Surprisingly enough, however, RV is actually more than competi
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by 0815test 7y ago
I'd imagine that a modern kernel has a lot of pointless fat in it and that the 5-hours figure could be reduced if perhaps only slightly, with appropriate optimization effort. It might even be useful to deliberately have such a super
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by 0815test 7y ago
Something I've never been able to figure out is whether our modern, deep sub-um and even nm-scale process nodes, are directly usable for anything analog. I suspect that they aren't - that the noise levels are now at a point whe
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by 0815test 7y ago
Yup, of course. Today it "exists" as a supported architecture in Linux, however... so it makes sense as a suggestion to whoever may want to try something broadly similar, but in a way that can even be practically useful. (Almost
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by 0815test 7y ago
Interesting. Making it run RISC-V rather than ARM would provide slightly quicker emulation, I believe. (And indeed, more generally, running a RISC-V VM provides a quick way of enabling modern 64-bit code to run even on hardware that's
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by 0815test 7y ago
> ED, Kiwifarms, do you really think it's mostly men who spend all that time concerned with social warfare, gossiping and reputational damage? Yes, actually I really do think so. Never mind ED or Kiwifarms, what about B1FF and the
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by 0815test 7y ago
In politics, what you "advocate for" can (sadly) be less relevant than how you define yourself, and what you present yourself as. And there absolutely are people and social movements on the U.S. left who are explicitly self-def
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by 0815test 7y ago
> the far-left are running newsrooms, universities, associations, corporations, public education, etc. Perhaps, but elite opinions in those sorts of highly-developed, urban institutions have been dominated by the "left" side of
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by 0815test 7y ago
> a left echo chamber, uninviting to most centrist and right leaning folks. Meh, it's all relative. I'm not exactly on the left and while the left echo chamber may seem uninviting, the right-wing echo chamber ( cough cough gab
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by 0815test 7y ago
Yup, the "post-modern" part I actually meant quite literally in fact. It's a societal attitude that somewhat widespread these days, of rejecting modernity in some forms (such as with the medical technology of vaccination, wr
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by 0815test 7y ago
I don't think it's just a fad, sadly. It's a kind of post-modern hipsterism that borders on the quasi-reactionary, of a sort that seems to be weirdly popular as of late, and it might stay around for a while whether we like
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by 0815test 7y ago
So the fact that Scruton is part of an "intellectual culture" we don't like and that might somehow be adjacent to views that are actually religiously intolerant, supremacist etc. (of which "it is literally, logically
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by 0815test 7y ago
If the salient thing about "the Mexican cartels" to you is that they happen to be Mexican... well what can I say, that's not exactly being a paragon of openness and tolerance, is it? I'm similarly unhappy about the focu
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by 0815test 7y ago
Aiva is way better than this honestly, and I mean the pure AI part of it, that (AIUI) only really generates monotimbral, piano-like music (the orchestration in the full pieces they release was - by their own admission - done by humans, la

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