GavinMcG

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by GavinMcG 1y ago
How much is FakeBold doing there, though? Easy to say it’s “just” TNR, but if the features of TNR that make it characterless have been supplanted with something soulful, then haven’t you just found a soulful typeface that you like?
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by GavinMcG 1y ago
That mistake might induce human error—which is absolutely a source of danger—but it undoubtedly had a clear path to pull around the “stopped” vehicle, and as you said, you can generally trust Wayno not to plow into pedestrians. So what made
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by GavinMcG 1y ago
Have you read enough history to know what life was like before we got rid of child labor, established weekends as a norm, regulated food products, etc.? Or do you assume that the free market provides those things because you’ve only lived i
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by GavinMcG 2y ago
If you think someone is obviously wrong, it might be worth pausing for a second and considering where you might just be referring to different things. Here, you seem to understand “this” to mean “a serious bug.” Since it’s obvious that
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by GavinMcG 2y ago
Making horns non-mandatory at crossings wouldn’t prevent the engineer from using it when appropriate.
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by GavinMcG 2y ago
Why does it only count if the cells themselves freeze? Also, am I still allowed to play freeze tag, or do we need to rename that?
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by GavinMcG 2y ago
Something like this, perhaps? https://digitalculture.uchicago.edu/platforms/ochre-overview...
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by GavinMcG 2y ago
I think what you’re saying supports the view that language is structured and actively used—which excludes pheromones. But I don’t see how you get to the next step, of characterizing unspoken acts as carrying linguistic meaning. That is, s
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by GavinMcG 2y ago
Just as a data point, my guess is that a very small minority of English-language speakers would define the term as broadly as you do, at least in a context relating the concept to analytical thought processes. At the very least, I think mos
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by GavinMcG 2y ago
Why can’t you just start planting tomatoes?
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by GavinMcG 2y ago
Based on my experience, that statement is not only wrong, but obviously so. Because of that, I assumed it was not what you meant.
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by GavinMcG 2y ago
“That feature add” referred to auto-closure, I’d imagine.
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by GavinMcG 2y ago
You seem to be using “actual” in a way that suggests proportion to population is a key part of the definition. But although a company that served a market for 20 million might well have failed as the market shrank, it also had the opportuni
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by GavinMcG 2y ago
Very disturbing to have civil servants who were once children with underdeveloped sensibilities.
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by GavinMcG 2y ago
Isn’t that what the article specifically says lacks scientific support? Thus why the comment is hoping for primary sources.
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by GavinMcG 2y ago
They’re also voting for the policies that enable safe wealth accumulation and preservation, so “steal” seems like the wrong word—though there may well be some wealthy people who feel stolen from inasmuchas they’d rather live in a less secur
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by GavinMcG 2y ago
I’d imagine you might be aware, but just in case, there’s a Wireshark networking software that’s been around since 1998: https://www.wireshark.org/
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by GavinMcG 2y ago
> You don’t get something for nothing If that were true about the human condition in the same way that it’s true for conservation of mass, we wouldn't be living longer and healthier lives than our forebears. Yet here we are. Of cou
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by GavinMcG 2y ago
The conservatives tend to be literalists when interpreting statutes and regulations. There are judicial philosophy reasons for that, but also, statutes and regulations can be changed in response to court rulings. That said, the conservative
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by GavinMcG 2y ago
The Supreme Court has said it isn’t unconstitutional as a general matter, so a lower court’s ruling won’t force that to change. And because the practice is a holdover from English law and isn’t understood (as a historical matter) to be som
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by GavinMcG 2y ago
> a rational mind can believe an unlimited amount of true things without needing to in-believe anything Sure, if minds were logic engines pre-loaded with true axioms. But none of us believes only true things from the get-go, so the capab
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by GavinMcG 2y ago
I think memorization can play a role in internalizing knowledge, but it isn’t a “fundamental” as in necessary. Internalized knowledge can also come from other sources.
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by GavinMcG 2y ago
To me, “memorization” implies an active process focused on learning a particular set of “matches” (to adopt the term you’re using here). But it seems to me that tacit knowledge (and other products of less concentrated/deliberate learni
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by GavinMcG 2y ago
Do any of those reasons weigh against measuring the seriousness of financial crimes in terms of actuarial lives? No problem with the objection that lives are priceless, but couldn’t the inverse still be a useful lens?
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by GavinMcG 3y ago
Have you looked at the research regarding which of those two options leads to better patient outcomes?
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by GavinMcG 3y ago
Where no indefinite article is used, one tends to read the noun as definite. “Grounded a Fleet” would be more clear.
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by GavinMcG 3y ago
This has been an issue since well before the 2022 podcast. Here’s something from 2019, for example: https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/data-how-reading-is...
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by GavinMcG 3y ago
The commment said serious productivity, though. Many people don’t need general purpose serious computation in order to be seriously productive—they need certain tools and a certain environment.
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by GavinMcG 3y ago
What’s that have to do with Vim keybindings in particular?
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by GavinMcG 3y ago
But copyright doesn’t deal with secrets. Just the opposite: it gives control over something that one has made public and attaches upon publication.

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