Exoristos

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by Exoristos 5d ago
I'm perceiving a lot of enthusiasts of the race to the bottom here. Yes, Dell and Linux could offer prices and convenience that undercut frontier hardware companies like Sun and SGI. But now what do we have? The loss is palpable to tho
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by Exoristos 9d ago
E.g. institutional prestige that inheres in arcane scientific knowledge in modern times, which in turn yields political and social clout.
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by Exoristos 9d ago
"I can't practice minimum quality control as a web dev" doesn't sound like a problem with the standard.
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by Exoristos 11d ago
Work is a good.
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by Exoristos 13d ago
It's not much of a stretch to see this as certain powers punishing Facebook for not having actively suppressed the Trump campaign.
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by Exoristos 15d ago
Everyone's parents "suck"--they're humans, they're learning, they have problems of their own they struggle with, etc. There are no purely good parents. I'm not excusing actually wretched family conditions, but
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by Exoristos 15d ago
Given an effective sample size, parents have a much higher success rate ensuring children do not grow up as hazards to the society than publicly-funded programs do.
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by Exoristos 15d ago
This is a very cogent observation that I'm afraid is going to go over many heads. Children and parents are intrinsically suited to each other by genetics, shared environment, and other empirical factors. Societal and legal reasoning th
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by Exoristos 16d ago
You didn't replace the battery[0]? 0. https://www.ifixit.com/products/iphone-13-mini-battery
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by Exoristos 17d ago
It's to make commercial use of paper mind-numbingly easy in terms of calculation and avoiding waste.
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by Exoristos 17d ago
The discussion as I understood it was alternatives to modern capitalism.
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by Exoristos 18d ago
You're using quite a broad brush with "non-conformist," so I'll assume you're referring to Roman Christian martyrdom. The perception of Christians in that era was more or less that they were being coerced to libel C
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by Exoristos 18d ago
The idea that Christianity equates to "very very clean" scholarship regarding "original texts" would surprise most Christians in most periods. It's also not plain to me how this could even amount to a religion, cons
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by Exoristos 18d ago
Executive fiat, given the right executive body, and undergirded by healthy autarkies or other cell-type self-direction, worked well in most locales for most of the years humans have been humans. Certain flashy civilizations, Sumer, Greece,
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by Exoristos 21d ago
Many such mutual activities are being lost. But I can't believe permanently.
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by Exoristos 22d ago
What percentage of Condé Nast's or Bertelsmann's gross receipts do you think goes directly to editorial and print workers?
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by Exoristos 23d ago
He could hardly complain about his, as he didn't have one.
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by Exoristos 23d ago
There were and have always been trading and other exchanges all over the world. The Egtved girl was traveling from north to central Germany, probably for marriage. Now, if we mean most people did not do this, then sure. But there's a p
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by Exoristos 23d ago
Political movements can certainly be an important factor of modern power given the right instigators, but transferring the importance to oneself is, again, damaging mania.
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by Exoristos 23d ago
"People" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.
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by Exoristos 24d ago
In Hades, yes. Vanishingly few of us actually control our fates or societies even to a small extent. The modern tendency to think like we do is a form of mania. By indulging it, we damage the only control we really have, our relative health
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by Exoristos 24d ago
> opt-in by default That's called opt-out.
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by Exoristos 24d ago
I agree it's useless for any final-draft user-facing copy. However, again, I'm much more concerned about a reliable software engineering process, which Claude (and me in the loop) gives me in a way I have learned not to trust (at
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by Exoristos 25d ago
As an American English speaker, I'm going to assume "doddle" is a synonym for quagmire.
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by Exoristos 25d ago
Am I alone in not prioritizing the quality of prose produced by my coding agent? My foremost and almost only concern is how well it can engineer software.
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by Exoristos 25d ago
Not coincidentally, Claude is all Qwen needs.
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by Exoristos 25d ago
Not to endorse OpenAI's particular guardrails, but unless you're doing something groundbreaking, security best practices should be more than enough for web development.
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by Exoristos 25d ago
> I'm also thinking of the 2017 novel "Void Star" where AIs who operate everything have long since left ceased bothering with human languages, and it takes a rare sort of direct matrix-gazing savant to be able to try and h
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by Exoristos 28d ago
GP is probably talking about beach sand.
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by Exoristos 28d ago
"Big mob connections" infiltrated the state, the "police force at a high level." To me, this in and of itself says the strength of a given state apparatus is orthogonal to whether that apparatus is used "to protect

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