Joeboy

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by Joeboy 4y ago
That's great, but I'm wondering whether the statement at https://tomlehrersongs.com/ constitutes a legally safe license, in the way something like a CC0 license would? Obviously Tom isn't going to sue anybody
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by Joeboy 4y ago
It was (among other things) the name of an album by White Town, aka Jyoti Mishra, best known for the hit single Your Woman. Apparently it was made on an Atari ST with a sequencing program that was given away free on the front of a magazine.
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by Joeboy 4y ago
Until the second line of your function (in the first example), it's pass by reference, no? It stops behaving like pass-by-reference because you then reuse the name 'd' to create a new object, which has a different id and live
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by Joeboy 4y ago
Perhaps I'm being simple minded, but the id of the passed object within the function is the same as the id of the object outside the function, no? My mental model is that an object's id in python is basically an address / poi
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by Joeboy 4y ago
My understanding of what's going on with python is it passes by reference (hence what your code does), but if the data type is immutable any modification results in a new instance being created in the scope of the function, and the obj
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by Joeboy 4y ago
Not by me (I'm much older than that), but it's not particularly surprising if somebody who's 31 and enjoys music from 25 years ago isn't down with the kids.
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by Joeboy 4y ago
> this is from someone who’s perfectly capable of enjoying genres like breakcore or gabber… An old person, you mean?
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by Joeboy 4y ago
See also[0] [0] https://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/my-life-as-a-turkey-introduc...
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by Joeboy 4y ago
How will your child cope in prison if they've never experienced school?
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by Joeboy 4y ago
I don't understand or like Gates' IP fixation. Of the many criticisms I've seen leveled against him, the covid vaccine IP thing seems like the most genuinely bad. But it seems like a huge leap from that to everything his foun
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by Joeboy 4y ago
I think some pages are missing? My copy has a "Chapter 26 - Using machine code", and "Appendix A - The character set". The latter also lists all the Z80 opcodes, in both hex and decimal. Those were the really good part
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by Joeboy 4y ago
> I don't understand... why is this a dichotomy? Those are the options for EA-type organizations, aren't they? You accept the money and use it to further your EA goals, or you refuse to accept the money and accept that you&#x27
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by Joeboy 4y ago
So many people seem to leap into this "billionaires are bad" rhetoric when EA is mentioned. I mean, fine, but it's not really an answer to what I said. I think it's maybe an example of the "Gordian Knot" mentio
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by Joeboy 4y ago
So, why are so many people against them giving away that money in pursuit of a fairer world? Is it just frustrating to see the rich (aka evil) give away money consensually rather than it being taken by force? I totally get it if the donatio
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by Joeboy 4y ago
Deracinated nerd here, but I find your perspective at least a lot more understandable than the people who at appalled by the idea of using rich people's money to save poor people's lives, from a robustly anti-capitalist standpoint
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by Joeboy 4y ago
Have you ever been close to anybody who died? If you have prevented that, and then you multiply that by a few hundred thousand, do you not get close to a place where rich people's investments not panning out doesn't seem like some
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by Joeboy 4y ago
I think you're making that comment with the idea that it's self-evidently wrong? Do I understand you correctly? I find it really weird that people are so glib about the "hundreds of thousands of preventable deaths" par
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by Joeboy 4y ago
There are surely two separate issues here? One is whether it's bad to eg. take first world crypto investors' money and use it to stop hundreds of thousands of people dying of preventable diseases in developing countries. Personall
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by Joeboy 4y ago
Quite possibly not the sort of thing they're talking about, but there's a slightly notorious scene that was presumably intended to portray the police as racist and stupid, which in theory is probably a much more acceptable mes
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by Joeboy 4y ago
First time I've listened to that for a couple of decades I think. Thanks!
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by Joeboy 4y ago
This sounds like a similar challenge to the one The World Food Programme faces[0]. In their case, they pick from a number of disbursement mechanisms on a case by case basis. Sometimes they physically deliver food or arrange in-kind aid via
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by Joeboy 4y ago
> The point of the fediverse was never to match the scale of Twitter on a single instance. Of course. I don't understand why you are telling me this.
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by Joeboy 4y ago
The other opportunity "they" are missing is that normally when a new social network struggles under the weight of new users, that's good publicity. Instead of going that route, people get offered a huge list of niche or una
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by Joeboy 4y ago
Two big, vanilla instances are https://mastodon.social and https://mas.to . Unfortunately they've both been struggling to keep up with demand lately. If you're paralyzed by choice, I'd say just go for o
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by Joeboy 4y ago
I've been wondering about the handling of PR / legal / moderation issues on The Fediverse. Surely if it becomes popular, those burdens will fall on the shoulders of well-intentioned volunteers who just wanted to run a server,
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by Joeboy 4y ago
Thank you! This is a much, much better response than the denialism I'm seeing in other replies.
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by Joeboy 4y ago
I sincerely hope it can conquer its current growth and signup issues and the unnecessary reputational damage inflicted by its advocates.
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by Joeboy 4y ago
Well, I would say it's a problem that a lot of people are trying to join the fediverse and it's currently quite difficult and confusing to do so. I would further say there's a marketing problem that Mastodon advocates keep sa
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by Joeboy 4y ago
> Otherwise just go for any "general" server That's exactly what I tried, and failed, to do. As far as I was able to discover, including via the site being discussed here, there are no such servers currently available for
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by Joeboy 4y ago
So, it's exactly like signing up for gmail if gmail was down and you had to either wait for them to fix it at some undetermined point in the future, find another email provider or set up your own email server instead.

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