Affric

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by Affric 1y ago
I hate that I think Theres a lot to this
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by Affric 1y ago
Cooperation/Symbiosis: win-win Predation: win-lose Competition: lose-lose This is how dynamically coupled systems work.
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by Affric 1y ago
I have phrased it as the author has phrased it. What gives you the idea I think Debian are any more prone to mistakes than anyone else? It’s one of the two distros I use at home. I admire the devs a great deal.
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by Affric 1y ago
But what does Debian see as the risks of patching the software they distribute and how do they mitigate them?
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by Affric 1y ago
The future is rarely made by people who are comfortable with the status quo. That’s the only thing we can get from this.
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by Affric 1y ago
Perhaps I should have put a larger explanation around it but I am mocking neither sureglymop nor BrandonM but we can still learn lessons from hindsight. Sure, it’s trivial to set the switch in BIOS for virtualisation, and download a couple
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by Affric 1y ago
Yeah, reading your original comment I was about to go off until I saw GPU pass through with DRM software. Highly cursed.
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by Affric 1y ago
“On Linux it’s quite trivial…” giving big “ or a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. Fr
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by Affric 1y ago
Yeah I did similar tests and got similar results. Curious tool but not what I would call accurate.
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by Affric 1y ago
I mean poetry is an arrangement of symbols, generally symbols that are related in their representation: assonance, dissonance, rhyme, meter, stress, meaning… The poet is limited to symbols. And every poet comes up against these limitations.
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by Affric 1y ago
Which decisions? Ive’s thinness obsession played a huge part in Apple developing the designs that permitted the M series becoming the computers with the best thermal profiles with great compute.
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by Affric 1y ago
Thanks for the recommendation but just to clarify the claim I am querying is that the reason Iberia was “civilised” was due to the Carthaginian presence. > Large parts of Rome's empire were civilized, not by Rome, but by Carthage an
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by Affric 1y ago
You got a citation crediting the Carthaginians rather than indigenous Iberian cultures?
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by Affric 1y ago
Steve: what would this product be like if it were magical? Engineer: I don’t think we can build that with our current technology. Steve: I don’t give a fuck. You’re a nerd who is meant to like inventing. Do it. It’s really easy when we live
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by Affric 1y ago
Absolutely stealing this
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by Affric 1y ago
That Martha Royer page is amazing. "I remember mama" wow!
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by Affric 1y ago
See the thing about astral is that they get why Python has been successful in the first place: When it was released it might have been one of the easiest to use languages. The focus on tooling and making the tooling fast has been sharp. See
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by Affric 1y ago
I mostly agree but it’s comical you have put “size accurate” in quotes but have said Mercator “maintains angles” without any qualification. It preserved rhumb lines.
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by Affric 1y ago
> What makes you think two is prime I will admit that for me it was being brainwashed through years of high school and university mathematics.
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by Affric 1y ago
> 0.9999… = 1? Yes, it’s just two ways of expressing the same number. More a question of place-value representation systems than what most people are thinking of which is 1 - ε.
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by Affric 2y ago
Sounds like you’re just making the argument for moving to the wet tropics
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by Affric 2y ago
Thanks for putting it so well. Commercial radio is the devil. Classic rock exists to sell lawn mowers to middle aged men
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by Affric 2y ago
100% No algorithm has been able to be able to be as weird but consistent as a community radio DJ. The radio can still surprise and delight like little else. All the tech companies have been able to replicate is the disappointment. Not to sa
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by Affric 2y ago
Charity bookshop workers in my experience know nothing about books and have no taste. But charity bookshops have different motivations and appeal to different shoppers. Essentially it’s only bad if you like reading good, hard to find books
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by Affric 2y ago
Sure but we build (leaky) abstractions, and this is even happens in legal texts. Asking an llm to build a graphical app in assembly from an ISA and a driver for the display would give you nothing. But with a mountain of abstractions then it
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by Affric 2y ago
Yep but Wikipedia exists to freely disseminate information to humans. Should they pay for the bandwidth for AI agents?
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by Affric 2y ago
Definitely already begun. Players diets, sleep schedules, low altitude flights…
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by Affric 2y ago
The wonderful thing about human language is that often context implies meaning. It’s more than the words on the page.
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by Affric 2y ago
> Diminishing sectarian hierarchy Boy, oh boy, did that backfire!
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by Affric 2y ago
Yeah but none of the thinkers you listed came close to saying something as radical "the first shall be last and the last shall be first". Like any moral philosophy professed Christianity has it's flaws, is professed by many a

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