Gibbon1

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by Gibbon1 2y ago
My comment perceptually, exponential growth looks like bring hit by a wall. It's nothing at all until it is. It'll be 1%. And in a while it double. And double a again. And again. And each doubling is the same amount of time betwee
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
My theory is any system you pick would work if it was run with good faith. The problem with the US system is the financial oligarchy that runs the US sees bad faith as a feature.
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
What do we call this? Oh right group punishment.
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
I liked Rocky Mountain BASIC with it's nice string operations and first class matrix operations. I think it had a sort function too. But can't remember.
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
Countries that stayed on the gold standard were practicing austerity bunky.
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
Seriously WTF? The hyper inflation was in the aftermath of WWI when Germany's economy was broken by 4 years of war. An it was austerity at the beginning of the 29 financial crisis that brought on deflation and collapse. Followed by the
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
Imagine reviewing changes where you changed the name of a function and the name of a field. Current Text based approach. 187 files changed. Structured Data approach. Function Fobar changed to FooBar. Struct Baz field vargle changed to bargl
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
The communists used quotas for rounding up anti-revolutionaries and other undesirables. Which often ended up with just grabbing random people off the street.
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
I never used gmail or Chrome because I didn't want to become dependent on tools controlled by a search and ad company. I definitely feel now that was the correct instinct.
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
I ain't leaving California any time soon either.
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
Not to mention it's now very obvious to anyone outside the US that the US conservative movement has no bottom. There isn't anything that they could be told to do that they would think is beyond the pale. Nothing, nothing at all. T
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
Do not discount the tendency of Europeans to be wellness hippies.
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
So I have the same model. And night before last instead of starting. It bleeped and flashed a row of LED's. And that's it. It doesn't have an LED display to show error codes. Pulled it out, nothing seems wrong. But I have no
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
"you can't store all usage data on the machine itself" I can buy 128M flash for $2/10k
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
I'm waiting from them to realize they can force the social security administration to buy their magic computer money with treasuries from the social security trust fund.
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
For the US I think all fines and seized money should go to the social security administration.
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
There is this bad penny bit of propaganda that a lot of people believe. Which is only the US has any agency. And everyone else does what they do either under orders from the US or as a reaction to something the US did. It's attractive
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
I'm a fool too but two things I remember. One was a paper discussing the thermodynamics of groups of particles. When they have strong interactions with nearby particles classic behavior emerges very quickly as the number of particles i
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
I made a guesstimate that it was cheaper for Britain to send unemployed people to Australia than it would be to feed them.
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
> Stalin's various purges and famines killed several times more civilians than Hitler managed to, for instance. Oh look one of you. Hitler didn't get the chance to execute Generalplan Ost.
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
Ever notice that people who idolize some famous person. They get really bent when someone calls that person on their bullshit. The reason they get bent is because their living vicariously through them. So an attack on the idol is perceived
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
I remember a Democratic primary debate where they asked the question what the candidate would do to fix social security. Jerry Brown said there was nothing to fix. And everyone in the room laughed at the fool. And that was 45 years ago. It&
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
There were issues with charging, motor driving, and batteries. For converting from ac to dc for charging you had either a dc generator or old school selenium rectifiers or vacuum tubes ones. I used to have an old 60's battery charger w
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
I have a product idea that I troll my IT friends with. A set of four thumb drives that sync to each other over their own WiFi network. The ratio of works super duper to terrifies the IT staff is off the charts.
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
Puts tinfoil hat on. Musk invests the social security trust fund in crypto.
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
My take is for young women there are a bunch of real economic and social benefits to women that go to college and so they do. The oldest of them is you go to college to meet men. It's the old 19th century reason. Send your daughter to
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
What'd be interesting would being able to shut down specific auto-immune responses. Currently most of what we have are hammers of one sort or another.
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
You look at birthrates in Africa and they're also falling fairly rapidly. The better run places are the larger the drop.
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
They could fix typeof to make it something useful. Like the ability to take the type of something and pass it around. And add slice and buffer typedefs to the standard library. Especially since they added counted_by to the language. Add a w
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
I highly agree that they need to add slice and buffer types to the standard headers. Especially true because the recently added counted_by attribute. Definitely feel the strict aliasing rule should be opt in. And there are a lot of small UB

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