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by NateEag 4y ago
No, it obviously wasn't. That England took unacceptable actions in no way justifies the Americans taking unacceptable actions.
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by NateEag 4y ago
thank you for clarifying this. As a clasically-trained pianist who then got into electronica and synthesis, it was mind blowing to me that people could wrangle expression and phrasing from a MIDI sequencer.
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by NateEag 4y ago
> Automated theorem proving is the same problem as “complete and label the diagram”, which image generation is okay at. How so? I'm no mathematician, but I don't see how these problem types are equivalent. Could you elaborate?
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by NateEag 4y ago
I think it _was_ unfair and illegitimate, from a procedural perspective. Practically, I think representation wouldn't have changed the outcome that much. I'm no historian, but my impression is that the taxes were in large part En
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by NateEag 4y ago
> There's also the fact that if we are still talking about a story from 1883, it says more about the quality of that specific work than the average of the era. Yes, exactly! Old things that are still remembered have passed a lot of
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by NateEag 4y ago
I think the US being the largest rich democracy might have something to do with that, too. The cultural history of valuing individual freedom above everything, so much so as to start a war rather than pay "unjust" taxes, also seem
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by NateEag 4y ago
I think it's a convoluted invocation of the idea that everyone is dying from the moment they are brought into this world of struggle and entropy.
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by NateEag 4y ago
Because death is terrifying at a primal level that almost can't be articulated. Anything that reduces the anticipated terror and misery is seen as desirable. That's mostly what cryonics is about, by the way. It gives hope at your
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by NateEag 4y ago
> and put him in a position that made it really likely he'd die doing the shameful shit of delivering a pizza. Delivering a pizza is not "shameful shit". It brings warmth, sustenance, and comfort to those Chris delivered
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by NateEag 4y ago
I haven't read the books, but I believe his argument is not "models don't work," but rather "all models are flawed, and you can't reliably predict the critical flaws. So, don't treat them with blind trust
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by NateEag 4y ago
I believe the author is referring to the money Taleb made during the 2008 financial crash, rather literally betting against people using mathematics to model complex systems (which collapsed and failed rather badly, much as Taleb predicts).
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by NateEag 4y ago
I don't have a source, but I have a nagging feeling that I once read that Twitter's original goal was to be a platform-independent away message. If true, that's very much a protocol in intent, even if not in practice.
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by NateEag 4y ago
The key word is letters . Physical, printed letters that a historian in the 2400s can physically hold and read. Digital communications will decay and vanish beyond repair, leaving our current era's ephemera irrevocably lost to the age
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by NateEag 4y ago
> To go back to your example, you lost your work after Windows decided to silently update and reboot overnight. Now the million dollar question: Why didn't you save your work before you left? Because humans are not perfectly consist
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by NateEag 4y ago
I spent years furious with OS X's flaky handling of windows on disconnect/reconnect of windows. A few hours with Hammerspoon have made that a non-issue, and I've hardly had to think about window positioning or size since hamm
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by NateEag 4y ago
okay, thanks very much for the overview!
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by NateEag 4y ago
Pennsylvania does this in 3rd, 5th, and 8th grades. Taking standardized tests in my youth was always a nice break - massively easier than the actual schoolwork I was doing.
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by NateEag 4y ago
Have you used magit? If there's a better one out there than magit's, I want to know.
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by NateEag 4y ago
It doesn't scale especially well to UIs with tens of subcommands, but I'm a fan of Docopt as a reasonable way to write basic CLI interfaces in many languages with a minimum of fuss: http://docopt.org/
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by NateEag 4y ago
Individual experiences aren't invalid. A well-designed study may be more revealing, but the individual experiences are legitimate and should not be discarded solely because studies are possible.
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by NateEag 4y ago
I don't know what the author is referring to, but in NDE research, you can find plenty of claimed witnesses to incidents where someone awoke and promptly made a claim about reality that proved to be correct and which they had no clear
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by NateEag 4y ago
You may find this post by someone who spent most of his life poor then became reasonably well-off enlightening, specifically his comments about how he was historically confused by the rich people in his life avoiding the topic of money: ht
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by NateEag 4y ago
The point is that the farmer and miner become the saints doing penance on our behalf - we all benefit from the work they do, then insist that they handle all the costs of the negative externalities their work produces. Sure, I suppose that
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by NateEag 4y ago
nah, physics just describes processes from reality. It's the universe that kills us.
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by NateEag 4y ago
Performance falls into the article's category of "things you can reliably measure." Thus, the author would agree that in performance optimization, you should collect and analyze data.
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by NateEag 4y ago
Yeah, I almost didn't say anything - it looked autocorrect-y. Just figured it would be useful to mention in case it was a genuine mondegreen.
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by NateEag 4y ago
> Eldridge horrors Just FYI, I think you probably meant "eldritch horrors": https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/eldritch
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by NateEag 4y ago
I think the main appeal is the simplicity. There's one deliverable. One. Users cannot download the wrong build, because the wrong build doesn't exist.
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by NateEag 4y ago
I massively prefer a good workstation with large monitors and a nice keyboard, but I've done plenty of real work on a laptop. Airplanes, coffee shops, recliners, internetless cabins... a laptop's been all I needed for doing everyt
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by NateEag 4y ago
I have never had an opportunity to deploy this tool, but here's a program for generating a TZ shapefile from OpenStreetMap data: https://github.com/evansiroky/timezone-boundary-builder In principle a calendar prog

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