MrMcCall

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by MrMcCall 2y ago
from your website: > In the AI future people will be hungry for content that is curated by people they trust. I'm all for trustworth people and trustworthy work. Curation by sensible humans is precisely what all information needs. I
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
We live among idiots, my friend. And a shitton of them are right here on HN, and with damn high karma because there's nothing an idiot loves more than another idiot to validate their idiocy. And they always go Yosemite Sam on anyone
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> The confident incorrectness they breed is a problem. Looking at America here in 2025, it sure seems like the confidently incorrect are confidently and successfully convincing the submorons that they are correct, despite their both bein
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
No, I'm suggesting you not shit on your lawn, because I find my never shitting on my lawn prevents that ugly smell that you keep complaining about.
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No. Never. And neither has a drunken meth addict on an oz of shrooms and ketamine while snorting low-grade fentanyl. Because I care about my craft. > Any tips on fixing those? Understand that no matter how fancy the guess-the-next-token
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
thanks for the legit lol, but my back and groin have dibs on that tech FUN FACT OF THE DAY: Listening to LOTR with my kids, I made a joke that "Gimli, son of Gloin" was really "Gimli, son of Gloin, son of Groin" (having
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
I prefer our grains in the mouths of human beings, not rodents. I've seen those crazy videos of mice breeding unchecked inside a granary. It's freaking scary. Imagine the fleas! No thank you. And now they've got better hair t
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
I'd say it's like giving a sub-Saharan African a fur coat for the summertime. It's not looking like any creature on Earth is going to need more hair for quite a few centuries, if not longer. Maybe my balding head will be a
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY CORRECT. READ ^THIS^, FRIENDS. In the end, it really is just metabolic math. As a former wrestler who did some insane weight-losing in my youth, the muscle mass loss is due to extreme calorie restriction. Besides, just si
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
I feel for you, friend. The safest way, however, is to make hunger your friend, and walk an hour or two a day. That may not work well with your work schedule, but you can override your body with your mind, unless your mind suffers because o
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Sorry, I should have said that an Int64 shouldn't take more memory on a 64-bit system where the default int is 63 bits, because of the "reserved bit". It was early this morning.
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
> int and Int64 aren't any more different from each other than Int64 and Int32 They are, though. Int64 and Int32 only differ in bit length and are in formats native to the host microprocessor. int has one of its bits "reserved&
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
I see, now. From that doc: > Performance notice: values of type int64 occupy more memory space than values of type int I just couldn't even imagine that a 64-bit int would require MORE memory than an int that is one bit less (or 3
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
ravi-delia explained that the fact is that an OCaml int is different than either Int32 or Int64 because an 'int' sacrifices one of its bits to the OCaml runtime. Int32 or Int64 are treated completely differently and are library de
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
So an int has nothing to do with an Int32 or Int64. Thanks for your patient elucidation. This means the semantics for Int32 and Int64 are COMPLETELY different than that of an int. My problem is that I come from the C world, where an int i
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
"There's lies, damned lies, and statistics." --Unknown
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Only a few of the real players in this are old, even if they're the original source of the money.
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Learning the word "kleptocracy" is but one of many benefits of my being a huge William Gibson fan.
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Is it really larceny if there's no one to prosecute it, though?
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Saying "no limit" is like saying you can accelerate to the speed of light. There are physical limits, my friend.
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Fair point, I meant good/effective ones. I mean, I sure wish they had some good ones. AOC is the future, IMO, if we do, indeed, have a future.
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
"Some people just want to watch the world burn." --Bale's Batman's Alfred I suppose most of them probably don't even know they're evil. Of course, Alfred's story was about an Indian man sabotaging the Brit
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
That's funny; they obviously don't have any strategists. I'm certain they do, however, have folks who dictate policy so they don't lose any donations from certain large foreign orgs.
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The willfully ignorant have no peace to give.
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Great article. The article also mentions another artist who led a remarkable life: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Darger He wrote, over 60 years, a 15,145 page illustrated fantasy novel, as a janitor who had had a
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> We’re animals and have more in common with other species than we have uniqueness. Our bodies are definitely mammalian, and therefore most of our instinctive behaviors, but it's the differences that make us unique. We have the capa
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And that means that the OCaml runtime is not compatible with systems-level programming. If something is "available", it should mean that it can be used to its full capacity. One of those bits are definitely not available.
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So long as they're free to go where they want, I've got no criticism. It's almost certainly best for them to remain in their natural habitat, however.
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No. That which you do to the least of my brothers, you have done unto me. No, but I'll teach you how to not be a loveless, narcissistic destroyer of happiness, like that purblind fool. That doesn't mean I don't love you, but
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
I, too, loath to see a bird in a cage, my dear friend. Love will help us transform this world beyond this selfish, destructive idiocy. Peace be with you. We love you.

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