Avshalom

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by Avshalom 3y ago
It's not that wild of an idea. Some one has probably played around with using the net bad rump kernel in openbsd.
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by Avshalom 3y ago
It's as flexible as commonlisp or smalltalk.
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by Avshalom 3y ago
I love that the article states it "would have required a giant antenna covering two-fifths of the state of Wisconsin... was never implemented because of protests and potential environmental impact" Yeah, i'm sure it was those
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by Avshalom 3y ago
https://www.businessinsider.com/walmart-costco-kroger-facing... or maybe they're not.
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by Avshalom 3y ago
Several of the Walmarts here in ABQ just got rid of self-check https://www.businessinsider.com/walmart-pulling-self-checkou... from three or four dozen to zero and probably worth pointing out that they just put them in like
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by Avshalom 3y ago
Was he talking about Somolia or was he talking about "It's good to be the king, even though the techno-fuedalism that enables that position is overlayed on a collapsing physical infrastructure and society"?
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by Avshalom 3y ago
https://xkcd.com/196/ feels more appropriate in this thread.
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by Avshalom 3y ago
They're called "misery C" because it's an easy joke.
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by Avshalom 3y ago
A (i think) related trick: https://kukuruku.co/hub/algorithms/using-the-quick-raise-of-... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8799088
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by Avshalom 3y ago
subtraction is trivial to add in userspace once you've loaded it though : - sp@ @ nand 1 + + ; or as it appears in the hello_world.FORTH file : dup sp@ @ ; : invert dup nand ; : negate invert 1 + ; : - negate + ; Th
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by Avshalom 3y ago
Right, basically the entire post-2000-crash version of silicon valley has been built on selling user data to advertisers or selling ways to use that data to advertisers.
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by Avshalom 3y ago
That lacks the haphazard enthusiasm connoted by the (extremely common) verb-phrase piling in.
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by Avshalom 3y ago
well it's (being used in the headlines as) the present progressive form of the verb pile: clowns had piled in; clowns piled in; clowns were piling in; clowns pile in; clowns are piling in; clowns will pile in; clowns will be piling in;
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Idaho's first 'abortion trafficking' arrest(jessica.substack.com)
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by Avshalom 3y ago
I just checked it, seems to work fine under Wine, no clue about windows https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/3r649q0mij35sbwooufih/cholo.z...
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by Avshalom 3y ago
I would just re-write my one-and-final draft by intentionally-poor hand because I knew no one was gonna call that bluff.
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by Avshalom 3y ago
Some people are just compulsive about some stuff. It's not always a thing you're (or they're) going to understand.
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by Avshalom 3y ago
What if I save a nazi's life is an argument that can be used against anything though.
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by Avshalom 3y ago
No, the casino is the scam that's why the house always wins and just like cryptocurrencies as soon as you build one the incentives are to make it an even more predatory scam. That's why they're variously illegal or heavily
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by Avshalom 3y ago
Because if "AI" is constantly "wrong" or "lying" it'd be bad for the businesses trying to sell it. So there's this marketing push to frame that recognition of constant obvious failure as anthropomorph
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by Avshalom 3y ago
The prices you charge are in part caused by input prices, except if you wait until the input prices go up you might not have enough padding to pay for it, so if you think the inputs are going to go up in the future you raise prices now .
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by Avshalom 3y ago
you can also cut the worst case non local edit case in half by implementing a circular gap buffer as in climacs https://flexichain.common-lisp.dev/download/StrandhVilleneuv...
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by Avshalom 3y ago
A real important sentence here is "Industry estimates suggest inventory losses can rise by 31% to 60% — or more — depending on the number of self-checkout stations used in a store."
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by Avshalom 3y ago
That sounds more like a way to let homeschoolers get out of property tax than it does anything that would lower the cost of childcare for workers.
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by Avshalom 3y ago
You can actually slow down or speed up the planet's rotation with a big switch. |_ open switch, slower __ closed switch faster You can also do it yourself by standing up or laying down
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by Avshalom 3y ago
It might be inevitable but they're currently on strike in part to avoid selling those likeness rights.
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by Avshalom 3y ago
Palantir works great in as much as it is primarily meant to keep Peter Thiel in the same room as government officials. The software side of the project is by all accounts a pretty generic contracting business and works about as well as any
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by Avshalom 3y ago
what is a harmful soda?
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by Avshalom 3y ago
I've got a reply to talos that explicates it in part but basically the rate of autism in this study is ~2:1 where as the rate in the general population is more like 1:100. This obviously isn't a random population so it's sket
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by Avshalom 3y ago
There's that. There's a cultural fear of aspartame that could cause people who don't like their child's diagnose to over report aspartame consumption* because they want something to blame. There's self selection in

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