LegibleCrimson

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by LegibleCrimson 3y ago
Seeing patterns clear as day is, in fact, bias. My condition heightens my biases and makes me confront how flawed reasoning about the "obvious" is. I wouldn't have brought it up if I thought you might try some weird ad homi
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by LegibleCrimson 3y ago
That's fairly rude. My point was that what manifests in myself as being negative manifests in other people as simply reading more into things than is actually there. Even trivial experiments are prone to biases.
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by LegibleCrimson 3y ago
I feel the same way, but people I know like their TV and I don't judge them for that. I have my own idle happinesses. If my favorite things to do were available on the same terms as modern television, I'd probably be pretty unhapp
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by LegibleCrimson 3y ago
The unfair bit is the filtering happening in your own brain. Without actual hard statistics, it's an anecdote. I don't care about scientific consensus, but I do care about process and data. If I try it myself, it'll be done r
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by LegibleCrimson 3y ago
No channel 4 content still sucks. I have no legal avenue to even pay to watch the Stand Up to Cancer Bake Off episodes, unless I move to the UK. I'm pirating something that I would gladly pay for if they'd just let me. I'm n
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by LegibleCrimson 3y ago
Most people I know went from dealing with live TV, high prices, and having to pirate what wasn't airing to paying for one or two streaming services to get everything they want. Then half of them kept getting new services and pay more t
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by LegibleCrimson 3y ago
It does when your friends are also watching and somebody texts you "GOOOOOOAAALL" 30 seconds before you see it.
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by LegibleCrimson 3y ago
That's an experiment that is extremely susceptible to biases and unintentional information sharing, including things like expressions on either party's face. Not to mention your very subjective determination of whether or not the
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by LegibleCrimson 3y ago
I regularly can't do that in LaTeX due to changes in packages. Yeah, the core is stable, but dependencies are still an issue in TeX land.
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by LegibleCrimson 3y ago
Science is specifically a process of cooperative knowledge building, using testable explanations and minimizing human biases. I would like to hear about your experiments, though. I don't have full faith in scientific journals, and they
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by LegibleCrimson 3y ago
Yeah, it's probably a regional thing. Here in Colorado, most cars don't really get that gross. I take a hose to mine like 3 times a year and dry it with a towel and it looks pretty nearly pristine. They'll only get very du
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by LegibleCrimson 3y ago
You could also provide some evidence instead of telling me to gather my own. I'd happily read some more double blind studies on the effectiveness of astrology, most of what I've read points to it all being complete bunk.
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by LegibleCrimson 3y ago
This is a 2.4 million year cycle, not something that can lend any credence to the idea that the arrangement of the planets at birth has any effect on a person. The arrangement of your house or neighborhood has a stronger gravitational effec
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by LegibleCrimson 3y ago
No, that's how optional flags should work. I mean how specifically -i works. With GNU sed: -lN, --line-length=N, -l N, --line-length N All work the same, set line length to N. -iSUFFIX --in-place=SUFFIX, -i NEXTARG --in-place NEXTARG
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by LegibleCrimson 3y ago
I can agree to a point, but it's not very scalable. Imagine if the safety of every bridge and building came down to each construction worker caring on an individual level. At some point, there need to be processes that ensure success,
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by LegibleCrimson 3y ago
I hate that behavior of GNU sed (and also of mktemp). Having a flag optionally take an argument is just so weird and surprising, and the syntax is always unexpected and inconsistent.
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by LegibleCrimson 3y ago
It's not just "progress" vs "no progress". Some technical innovations, like leaded gasoline, have had more of a negative impact than a positive. It's not a binary, and not all technology is without cost. The
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by LegibleCrimson 3y ago
You replied directly to a comment about currency, and replaced the word "currency" with "gold". How is that not comparing gold to a currency?
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by LegibleCrimson 3y ago
Bitcoin can't handle more than 10 transactions per second. That's absolutely useless for anything beyond a toy currency. I'm not against the idea of a fully-digital currency, even a crypto-currency, but Bitcoin is never goin
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by LegibleCrimson 3y ago
I read books pretty sparingly, but my wife reads about 150 books a year. We heavily exercise our local library.
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by LegibleCrimson 3y ago
Yeah, I keep seeing suggestions like this and I just don't get it. Like the only way people can fathom something being available is if it's for sale. We really need shorter copyright terms more than anything else.
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by LegibleCrimson 3y ago
I don't think that's what the word "private" means. It's not the same thing as "honest". Compare the data. Mozilla may be less honest than Google and Microsoft (a premise I also disagree with), but they ar
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by LegibleCrimson 3y ago
Yes. Literally every thread about monopolies.
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by LegibleCrimson 3y ago
My Comcast gigabit internet is only 25Mbps up. I'm pretty unhappy about it, as somebody who regularly has to push large docker images and wait forever each time.
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by LegibleCrimson 3y ago
Would be pretty easy for a motivated corporation to set up a branch composed entirely of those indigenous people for the purpose, or to form a partnership with a company of those indigenous people.
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by LegibleCrimson 3y ago
I don't understand the logic. They're more private for admitting that they don't respect your privacy?
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by LegibleCrimson 3y ago
TLS is more costly to implement than simply not encrypting or signing anything. Sometimes cost of implementation isn't the only consideration.
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by LegibleCrimson 3y ago
I'm kind of an AI pessimist, but I think that sounds like it could be a wonderful society. When the only work you need to do is work that you actually want to do. It could free up people to actually chase their dreams and achieve wha
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by LegibleCrimson 3y ago
I think that's impossible. Bevy works heavily with Rust types and generic monomorphization. You couldn't do that in another language without literally generating Rust code and calling the compiler.
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by LegibleCrimson 3y ago
Exactly, I'm sure good projects exist, but that involves active goodwill from the company. The incentives are loaded in the favor of exploitation rather than public good.

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