NateEag

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by NateEag 4y ago
I've recently started a trial of NixOS on a Framework laptop. It's definitely not ready for a normal person, that's true. I'm working in text files to configure things, and had to debug the GUI not starting after my ini
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by NateEag 4y ago
I wasn't able to find it just now, but I remember a warning several years ago in a SuperCollider tutorial to the effect of "Mac OS X does not hard-limit maximum volume, so BE VERY CAREFUL! You can damage your ears and hardware!&qu
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by NateEag 4y ago
> as believers in the bible who have actually read it would tend to given the apparently blessed non-monogamy within it as a text Just wanted to point out that while the Bible depicts a lot of polygamy, that depiction is not ever given
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by NateEag 4y ago
Yes. Very well put. As one raised in evangelical Christianity, I always see in The Velveteen Rabbit the theme of Love as a means of sanctification through devotion to the ideal, come hell or high water - becoming "Real". It works
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by NateEag 4y ago
Did you misspell "editor with language intelligence?" Because yeah, vim won't beat IntelliJ, but you can get it to be pretty decent with LSP: https://github.com/prabirshrestha/vim-lsp
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by NateEag 4y ago
"Just do it", as described in your post, is a great and productive attitude. It is, however, rare that telling someone else "just do it" gives them that attitude. I have never seen it happen. I have said "just...&qu
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by NateEag 4y ago
Ah, thanks for clarifying. I did indeed misunderstand. grep -o $pattern $filename | wc -l would work in that case, I think. I did have to think for a minute to come up with that version. It was definitely still much faster for me than writi
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by NateEag 4y ago
grep -c $pattern $file Half a second, unless I'm missing something? No objections at all to people building simpler UIs for common tasks. The classic Unix tools are like table saws without labels or safety features - confusing and righ
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frankly, as someone who is absolutely not a security expert but who pays attention to security concerns, most security efforts provide very little business benefit. What was it Steve Yegge said in that legendary platforms rant? "But I&
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by NateEag 4y ago
I largely agree with you, and would refer those with the concern I described to an idea I met in Brené Brown's writing: "To make the world safe for feet, one might try to cover it entirely in leather, which is an insurmountable ta
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by NateEag 4y ago
I think the concern is not that the word _is_ racist in origin, but that people whose lives have been irrevocably altered by racism and slavery may _perceive_ them as such. An idea doesn't have to be true to cause someone suffering.
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by NateEag 4y ago
As others have said, I wouldn't. Twitter is a cesspool because its design and human nature fundamentally work together in very unfortunate ways. I might consider building something vaguely similar with a different featureset meant to f
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by NateEag 4y ago
Good point. I'm not sure why I thought what I'd written above worked... shrug
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Possible, but physics is still really consistent, apart from maybe at the cosmological scale.
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All three of our children were obviously different in the womb. The oldest was pretty lazy and quiet during the day, but did get bouncy when my wife tried to sleep. The combination of couch potato and getting active when stimuli stops and t
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by NateEag 4y ago
Yes, and that would be the aforementioned controversial morals. While that shows absolutely reprehensible morals if true, it does not relate to his musical skills.
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...who built a simulation so robust that we've yet to demonstrate any actual bugs. This world is freakishly consistent, if it's the work of anything remotely like human intelligence (though I hold out hope for modern physics to wi
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by NateEag 4y ago
Yet those are probabilistic heuristics, not things which grant certitude. (Also, Russell's Teapot is not at all a fair comparison. A vast, incomprehensible, inconceivably simple unitary consciousness as the fundamental substrate of rea
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by NateEag 4y ago
Which works not just to preserve the previous statement from internal inconsistency, but also in regards to the incredibly useful Rule of Three ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_three_(computer_prog... ).
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by NateEag 4y ago
I suppose that's fair. My point was that if there's only matter, then mental / psychological harm must be in some sense physical harm. (FWIW I lean not-materialist myself, but it's a common perspective around here so I t
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by NateEag 4y ago
The digital camera is still several orders of magnitude slower and more expensive to operate than DALL-E or SD. Side note: if you're a materialist, you should believe that psychological harm is physical harm. It's obvious that b
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by NateEag 4y ago
> I think people will adapt by finally doing the thing they should have been doing all along: don't trust anything they see on the internet. This is an impressively optimistic take. Why do you think this will happen? Gelman amnesia
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by NateEag 4y ago
This jolts me and bothers my sensibilities, because I'm so used to wrapping my plain text at 80 columns, but it is a reasonable suggestion. The one downside is precisely that long sentences become harder to read because they either do
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by NateEag 4y ago
Ahhh, I see your point. I misunderstood you. Thanks for explaining!
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Where do you think the savings come from? If you aren't willing to accept some kind of reduction from hotel accommodations, you aren't willing to save money.
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by NateEag 4y ago
That unmoderated hellscape sounds bad, but I see no reason to think all social media being shut down would be such a terrible outcome.
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Most real problems don't need interesting code. You get paid to write glue and CRUD apps because that's what actually solves the problems most people and businesses have.
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It may not be realistic, but it is conceivable. The Road Not Taken by Harry Turtledove is a fun take on something like this concept.
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> Maybe people experience consciousness so differently, for some it's "invisible", and for others it's undeniable and obvious that it exists. Indeed. I have seen it proposed by hard problemists that people to whom it
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From my perspective, both sides clearly chose to undertake massive amounts of killing to get what they wanted. In my view, neither was a good course of action. I have room for the concept of just wars, but I don't think the American Re

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