NateEag

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by NateEag 2y ago
He's describing the average Christian's perspective, not saying what he himself thinks.
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by NateEag 2y ago
Here, have another approach to Lisp formatting: https://readable.sourceforge.io/ I looked into porting it to elisp a while back, but the elisp reader was missing a feature or two sweet-expressions require. I should see if t
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by NateEag 2y ago
> Well, lets just say this guy does not understand what is happening in the book. "When Hermione DIES Hariezer does nothing, and a few weeks later Voldemort brings her back." - in the book Harry steals Hermione's body from
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by NateEag 2y ago
For those of us who really hated HPMOR and didn't finish it, this review explains the issues in it better than I can: https://danluu.com/su3su2u1/hpmor/
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by NateEag 2y ago
And the explanation may or may not be total nonsense. Good luck figuring that out on subjects you don't understand.
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by NateEag 2y ago
No, it's acknowledging that for decades, the people doing mathematical modeling of waves dismissed lived experiences and reports of waves that didn't fit their models as "anecdotal", "folklore", and "insuf
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by NateEag 2y ago
I was pining for oldschool UT recently, and found that Xonotic ( https://xonotic.org/ ) has done a decent job of filling that void. The player base is small, and the skill ceiling is extremely high, but it's a shockingly
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by NateEag 2y ago
> It's perplexing to see people jump on this stupid "anti-plastic" mentality bandwagon when they probably owe their entire existence to plastics and other advances in material sciences. Trying to reverse these changes will
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by NateEag 2y ago
Except for when you can't, because all abstractions leak. https://www.hyrumslaw.com/
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by NateEag 2y ago
He probably meant "VGA port." To the untrained eye a serial port and VGA port do look similar.
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by NateEag 2y ago
It was a reasonable guess. Though asking if it was Rock Lititz might have been better than implying I was misrepresenting the group I worked with.
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by NateEag 2y ago
It was not, in fact, Rock Lititz. Little group called PEDG (Performance Environment Design Group), though it looks like they've rebranded to Nimblist: https://nimblist.com/
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by NateEag 2y ago
Many years ago I did freelance sysadmin work for a group that did stage lighting design for some really big names. At first I was really puzzled how a guy could be running this thing from Lancaster PA and have all these contacts with huge m
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by NateEag 2y ago
People talk about solar + wind with storage as leaving hypothetical fusion in the dust. If a fusion reactor can be made practicable, then we have a clean, low-radiation power generation system that will still work in the face of nuclear &#x
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by NateEag 2y ago
Not OP, but having written some Lua, I can make some guesses: - Relatively obscure language, so potential contributor base is limited from the start - Lua shares PHP's "One datatype to rule them all" design, which works but f
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by NateEag 2y ago
Never forget PHP's "Hello World": Hello, world!
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by NateEag 2y ago
I'm so sorry your dad did that to you.
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by NateEag 2y ago
I would probably try talking to my parents again if they actually gave me an apology for something they did and left it at a straight owning of their error. In my family of origin apologies usually started by owning something the apologizer
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by NateEag 2y ago
Imagine what GPT-5 might say in the future, once it's been trained on a snapshot of the Internet including these articles: > whose voice do you use? > It's based on Scarlett Johannson's performance in "Her."
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by NateEag 2y ago
> So I guess that's one thing that might characterize society: Lots of frustrated would-be grandparents. Perhaps also many alienated grandparents, confused, hurt, and angry that their children don't want them involved in their
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by NateEag 2y ago
Because using millstones to grind grains into flour leaves traces of sand and stone grit in the flour. It's really hard on the teeth long-term, IIUC.
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by NateEag 2y ago
> The only sensible way to draw a rational technophobic line is to look at specific technologies and their effects and decide if your life will be better or worse with each. Interesting to note that this is what the Amish actually do. Th
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by NateEag 2y ago
I mean... Humans do this. Not perfectly, no, but we do. As the only general intelligences we know of so far, I'd say it's support for the assertion that an AI with general reasoning abilities wouldn't need SO or other example
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by NateEag 2y ago
But better would be a prog-rock album named: Supravisiblue
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by NateEag 2y ago
> Do you have any pointers for the "load on tab" idea? I didn't turn up any good results in DDG and LLMs were just hallucinating. This is bash, not zsh, but I have this working in my dotfiles by just telling bash where to
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by NateEag 3y ago
I think his point is that these are important questions which science can't speak to.
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by NateEag 3y ago
> There's some useful insight here even if the percents are wrong. Whatever the numbers, even if 10% are Marias, they're still an untapped resource, if not "the biggest". And the fact that some of us have been this pe
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by NateEag 3y ago
This is an appealing narrative without evidence. How does the author know Marias make up the majority of most companies? Where's the data supporting that claim? It may be true - it sounds plausible to those of us who've been a Mar
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by NateEag 3y ago
I wonder if airlines are no worse than any other organization at dealing with human names, but they're exposed to many more edge cases than the average company, since they're in the business of enabling rapid travel between contin
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by NateEag 3y ago
This is a good point. It's not widely known, but US gasoline prices are actually in a defined currency unit, the mill ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mill_(currency) ). For most purposes, using mills as the base u

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