JulianMorrison

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by JulianMorrison 5y ago
I could see both those lobbies being much reduced after the EV changeover.
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by JulianMorrison 5y ago
One which can be obtained the good way, or the bad way, yes. EVs will reduce pressure to allow damaging pipelines and shale oil.
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by JulianMorrison 5y ago
EVs are going to drive out gasoline for very comparable reasons to digital cameras driving out film cameras. That's a win for CO2, a win for air pollution in cities (that may be shaving points off people's IQ and definitely is sha
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by JulianMorrison 5y ago
That would treat the ducted air but it wouldn't treat the air already in the room. And if the air is being recycled, it would still linger for some bounded time before being pumped back through treatment. Having the UV in the room with
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by JulianMorrison 5y ago
It's non-specific because I'm not trying to write a manifesto right now. Nation state or sub-national state governments are not the only way to organise things that are done by society and for society.
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by JulianMorrison 5y ago
No, that's just a problem that lives in a different layer of how we organise the world. Right now we haven't decided to operate these centralised things as services provided by society, to society. Right now, they are owned by peo
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by JulianMorrison 5y ago
(I deleted my previous comment, because I don't think I said what I meant. So let's try again.) Distributed, peer to peer, is worse. Everything that uses it, as a suite of technologies ranging from torrents to Freenet to bitcoin,
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by JulianMorrison 5y ago
If I remember right the GC lives on a thread, even if the program runs serially.
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by JulianMorrison 5y ago
Yes, I understand the idea, the point I'm making is that the runtime is a monolith, it can't be split because each piece has necessary and irreducible connections to the other pieces.
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by JulianMorrison 5y ago
It is an unreasonable goal if (1) it's wildly outside the expected use cases and (2) it complicates things. Both of which would apply.
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by JulianMorrison 5y ago
The GC needs to mess with and start and stop and throttle threads. The threads resize their stacks and that needs to talk to the GC. System calls park and restart threads. And so forth. If you use any of it you'd need all of it.
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by JulianMorrison 5y ago
I'm imagining that the Go people would have a hard time making the compiled program smaller, because they're bundling in a M:N threading system, inter-thread channels, a garbage collector, a stack resizer, a syscall parking and re
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by JulianMorrison 5y ago
The answer is that every time they green-wash, the problem simply isn't solved, and the fight to solve it properly must continue.
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by JulianMorrison 5y ago
Or "this platform was explicitly designed to host abusers".
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by JulianMorrison 5y ago
Banning people is an upside. Setting boundaries of acceptable behaviour is necessary for having a space where people won't be troll-brigaded and hate-swarmed, and where the worst people on the internet don't drive out everyone els
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by JulianMorrison 5y ago
It's a wish list, but it's full of things I know are hard. Or at least things where the difference between doing them kinda poorly, and doing them with style, is a few billion dollars worth of established natural language processi
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by JulianMorrison 5y ago
That neener-neener attitude is a great example of why advertisers need to be told "just no, for the entire rest of your lives, without exception". What fraction of your lifespan spent behind bars do you care to wager that you can
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by JulianMorrison 5y ago
Ads should simply be illegal anywhere, anywhen. Perhaps if we did that for, say, 80 years, then after the last advertiser has dropped dead of advanced age, we could cautiously re-enable the legality of purely informational, manipulation-fre
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by JulianMorrison 5y ago
Things I want in a markdown editor: Grammar check. Auto-capitalise start of sentence and known proper nouns. Auto fix obvious typos without bothering me. Grammatically smart spellcheck. Detect and flag accidental double space. Detect and fl
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by JulianMorrison 5y ago
Taint mode in Perl.
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by JulianMorrison 5y ago
Using built-in libraries or using the array form of exec to call mkdir or writing your own directory creator feels like it's missing the nub of the problem. You are accepting unsafe input, and trying to work around that without making
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by JulianMorrison 5y ago
What's wrong with a second (simple, metal) staircase on the outside, like seems to be a thing in old city houses?
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by JulianMorrison 5y ago
It's there!
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by JulianMorrison 5y ago
The implied but not stated corollary is that everyone who is assuming there's a difference is making unsupported assertions.
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by JulianMorrison 5y ago
Probably some, if not the full amount.
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by JulianMorrison 5y ago
I feel like my ability to work in a focused, intelligent and productive manner is a very particular mental mode. Some days I can reach that mode for a few hours at a stretch. Nearly never 9-5 let alone the crazy hours that seem normal in th
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by JulianMorrison 5y ago
Talk about the money you'll lose when you get hacked.
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by JulianMorrison 5y ago
We have entirely too many antivax fools.
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by JulianMorrison 5y ago
2 things can be simultaneously true: Boris Johnson is a liar who is so completely untrustworthy that I'd check his assertion if he said the sky was blue, and in this particular case getting people boosted is a good idea. In fact the th
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by JulianMorrison 5y ago
It wouldn't disappear, it would just appear out of the blue and kill you. Proper reaction to a disease requires evasive action before it infects you.

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