Agamus

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by Agamus 5y ago
How many other 'mathy' people with aphantasia have trouble 'thinking like a cartoonist'? (And how many people with aphantasia are naturally 'mathy'?) Read Blake Ross' post for a better sense of why this me
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by Agamus 5y ago
It's fun that they assume that any of my computers have ever had a battery other than the CMOS one.
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by Agamus 5y ago
Web 3 sounds to me like people who came to the web in the Facebook era, and wish they could have what we had in the good old days. Who can blame them? The problem is that the solution to centralization is to stop centralizing, which the new
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by Agamus 5y ago
"Folks" never did care about their privacy. I've been trying to open people's eyes since forever, and it just doesn't work, because, you know, weeeeeeeeee!
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by Agamus 5y ago
Or a sign of 'genius'? Meet the Residents: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsEz1OAUBBM
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by Agamus 5y ago
As a former chef with 33 restaurants of experience and a lifelong passion for science, I can say that if you have an interest in "the science and lore of the kitchen" (subtitle), you must own McGee's On Food and Cooking.
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by Agamus 5y ago
Correct, but it wasn't always like that. I suspect many of us were raised in a time when K-12 was also structured in liberal arts, and was relatively decent, compared to today's standards. Am I alone in this, or are my suspicions
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by Agamus 5y ago
Agreed! Let's appeal to Feynman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkhBcLk_8f0 "I can live with doubt, and uncertainty, and not knowing. I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing, than to have answ
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by Agamus 5y ago
My path, which began in 1997: 1. IRC
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by Agamus 5y ago
My elementary school principal would let me skip class and hang out in the closet of his office where he had a Trash-80. My older brother would never let me touch his Apple][, so I loved that closet, and that computer. My career began there
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by Agamus 5y ago
My sense is that a lot of people who are zealotic about "web3" are people who never got to experience pre-FB, and want to do something about it. I wish them all the best, but I'm not optimistic yet.
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by Agamus 5y ago
I know many will disagree, but for me, the reason this place is so rad is that it doesn't aspire to be an "online community". By not striving, it achieves it. The interface plays a major role. Most are turned away by how 1999
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by Agamus 5y ago
I studied some philosophy as an undergraduate. My understanding is this: Ethical theory tries to answer the question, 'what should we do?' (e.g. death penalty or not?) Moral theory tries to answer the question, 'why should w
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by Agamus 5y ago
The article addresses information technology specifically. My first thought was, to what degree is this question relevant to other technologies, like, e.g., paper?
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by Agamus 5y ago
I dropped Windows for Linux with XP. I use Linux for all my computing needs, except a few video games that don't like Wine. For those, I do have a separate Windows machine that gets turned on to play those games (like a console), and t
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by Agamus 5y ago
1. Probably ~30% or so 2. Probably ~10% or so
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by Agamus 5y ago
I have been using IRC as a means to stay in touch with the people I actually care about since the 90's, and it hasn't let me down yet. Many of my friends are in their 20s, and only a few are developers.
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by Agamus 5y ago
I'm not an expert here, but truly interested to hear responses to this question. To say that 1+1=2 is "true", does that not require a corollary in "reality" to something fundamental that can be called a "one&qu
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by Agamus 5y ago
I'm not an expert here, but truly interested to hear responses to this question. To say that 1+1=2 is "true", does that not require a corollary in "reality" to something fundamental that can be called a "one&qu
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by Agamus 5y ago
The Trash-80 was the first computer I could use alone - my older brother wouldn't let me touch his Apple ][. It was 1982 and 1983, and the principal of my elementary school had one in his office. He let me skip some of my 1st and 2nd
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by Agamus 5y ago
"Seeing as data is indeed a commodity, we'd like some money also."
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by Agamus 10y ago
I have rarely heard this insight and perspective put so well. I have often "felt drawn to the bad" for the experience dividends and by the same reasoning. In some ways, I have always tried to train myself to be drawn to things I