IIAOPSW

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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
There's already a ton of open source tools and map community resources. Why should I trust the consortium set up by Meta et al?
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
I was trying to rig a feedback loop between a lamp and a photoresistor but it isn't working. Do you know if the photoresistor actually reads in light generated by other circuit components, or is it just supposed to simulate a variable
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
I agree with the goal, and agree with web based tooling, but the design-centric approach feels like dangling keys to keep my attention. Anyone who's attention can be captured with dangling keys doesn't have the attention to do cir
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
"we assigned everyone 9 digit phone numbers, but that ran out after 50 years of population growth led to over a billion people. Now we assign everyone an 18 digit phone number. Personally, I'm worried we might run out in another 5
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
Wait, you're ok only being allowed to buy Ford gas just so long as Ford gas is actually pretty decent?
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
Would you buy a car that only goes on Ford^TM approved roads and only takes Ffuel from Ford approved stations? Sorry, you can't drive here. That's a GM road. No, of course not. We all know that the ability to run on unapproved roa
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
The fb webpage still exists. No app. No permissions. No problems. If Facebook makes a change that kills the low-tracking front-ends and insists everyone be tracked more, and in response you grovel to them and put up with their new app, then
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
Yeah duh no real jail involved. That misses my point. Its called jailbreaking for a reason. Out the box its metaphorically in jail. Its restricted and limited in a bunch of ways that you have to break it out of. You paid to own it, Apple pu
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
No one is forcing you to use any app, let alone developers. Without this becoming a rant, what fraction of that "security" is protecting you from nothing more than apps that didn't pay the Apple tax. You must admit, the narra
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
If you own your phone in the first place, why did you have to break it out of jail?
881.
by IIAOPSW 4y ago
I for one believe in the principle that I paid to own the device and that entails loading whatever I damn well please on to it from whichever front, side, or backside I see fit!
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
Applesauce. Checkmate.
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
I want to be very clear about something that is easy to mistake in what I wrote. I am not endorsing a principle that "all truths are just narratives and we should give up on the idea that some things are objectively correct or not.&quo
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
Here's a counter-proposal. There is no truth, only narratives. "Truth" in the sense of classical logical formula evaluation is a special limiting case wherein one narrative has such powerful backing that it always trumps comp
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
Its literally bullshit in the highly technical sense. http://www2.csudh.edu/ccauthen/576f12/frankfurt__harry_-_on_... The essence of bullshit is that it is different from a lie, for a liar respects the fact that t
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
At the bottom what you're saying is no one is right about anything ever and its all just opinions and value systems maaaan. Sure if you define a value system where yelling a lot and accomplishing little is the goal then mission accom
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
We have an answer to that question. The answer is "Conrail" and "Amtrak". You can fairly argue that those were both very half-assed attempts to socialize the services, and were honestly both expected to fail from the sta
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
Its long and complicated. Amtrak exists in the first place because once upon a time these freight operators were also the passenger operators. While today they look like "extracting rent", once upon a time they were forced by re
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
Always, always, ALWAYS black out the sky.
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
This is such a weird rambling document. Like, just in the cold opening its going out of its dressing the IP discussion in the political terminology of someone with a vaguely nationalist agenda, calling it the "Western Intellectual Prop
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
Whats the difference between math and a language? Its all just literals (numbers) and verbs relating them (+,-,*,/).
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
Someone once told me I should be a comedian. So if academia doesn't pay me enough, I guess I know where to go next!
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
I have a name for the sort of mundane-yet-employable programming tasks. "Plumbing work". You're not doing the clever problem solving that once sucked you into programming, you're welding pipes together that other people
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
>How does the parse tree get represented? >Your question is about internal representation, but skips the process, and is about a representation that isn't the end of the process either. I think you missed the essence of my conjec
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
Well I have no idea what a fugelizer or a fugel or a bryles are, but those are just as good abstract "things" as any other and so I can just as easily fit them into the pattern of (thing) and (other thing) --(pro existence of)--&g
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
Lets face it. The "pretty girl profile" strategy works on a wide enough fraction of men that with probability close to 1 you can establish a legit connection to at least a few legit people at the company. Once you get that far, yo
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
I have an idea that's admittedly a bit left of field but not-quite-crackpot. Purpose and causation (and reasoning therein) is structured like a tree. You can always take a statement and ask for pointers up and down the tree by asking &
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
Never. Instead, we begin understanding ourselves as fancy interpolating functions.
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
>length-unlimited coherence that human beings can manage I've yet to meet a human that doesn't eventually run out of steam. You just aren't well situated to notice decoherence on time scales longer than your own coherence.
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
It strikes me as the classical version of a well known result in quantum computing: "nearly any gate set is universal for quantum computing".

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