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by User23 3y ago
The ease with which magit lets me do an interactive rebase that splits a commit into multiple commits changed my workflow.
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by User23 3y ago
This agrees with my experience using GPT for software engineering. In the nontrivial case it usually bullshits nonexistent APIs and so on, but as an experienced dev that bullshit often still serves to point me in the right direction. This i
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by User23 3y ago
No mention of layout? Often the Verilog/VHDL is the easy part.
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by User23 3y ago
Because successful criminals are both more likely to become rich and to not get caught. There’s also the likelihood that both poverty and (street) criminality are caused by a propensity for poor decision making, high time preference, or mos
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by User23 3y ago
This is something so obvious that I don’t understand how I’m the first person I know of to say it: The hand is designed to work with the thumb and fingers in opposition. Therefore, modifier keys should go under the thumbs and the other keys
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by User23 3y ago
One can define a dichotomy of those technologies that improve human capability and those that deplete it. For example the fountain pen allows one to be a better calligrapher than a feather quill. On the other hand modern typesetting lets yo
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by User23 3y ago
> Sorry, but that's what they do. You don't agree, so there's nothing further to talk about. Agreed. One cannot educate the obstinate, and you are obstinately clinging to your ignorance here. Here[1] for example is another
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by User23 3y ago
It is. But for some reason you will never find the substring “migra” in these sorts of mainstream articles. And only one person so far in 150 comments has dared to suggest that the demand side of the equation ought to be dealt with. The pol
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by User23 3y ago
You are mistaken. Christian dogma doesn’t define any group of humans as inherently evil.
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by User23 3y ago
Transient is, if I recall, a big part of magit’s special sauce. It’s a great library for interactive chording.
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by User23 3y ago
One of the nice things about Christianity is how it works when the ruling class actually believes it. If they truly think they will be held eternally responsible for their actions they’re more likely to treat their subjects charitably and j
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by User23 3y ago
> The thing is, "cash" in one's account is not cash at all and is not being hoarded. It gets loaned out. It's put to use such that it generates interest income. No, it doesn't. Banks don't loan out deposits;
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by User23 3y ago
By cash I meant M1[1] which is the general usage (“let me check how much cash is in my account” &c). I’ll allow that I should have been more precise since you’re trying to nitpick your way out if answering the where does that money go q
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by User23 3y ago
> The money is always put to use, one way or another. It is not hoarded, because it's stupid to hoard large quantities of money. You don't get wealthy by being stupid with money. To highlight your ignorance let’s avoid distract
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by User23 3y ago
> You wrote: "ultra high net worth persons who mostly hoard it" I thought it was clear that the sentence after modified that. Although you need to ask yourself, when those UHNWIs spend a billion dollars cash on stocks and bonds
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by User23 3y ago
> Rich people do not hoard cash. They invest it, all of it. Did I not make that clear? I said that they "don’t appreciably change their expenditures except of course on finance (sic) assets, which observably have inflated like crazy
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by User23 3y ago
> it gave almost no guidance about how to actually use them in the real world This is funny, because an old buddy of mine who did a brief stint at the NSA let slip that they almost never compromise the algorithm, it's virtually alwa
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by User23 3y ago
U of Waterloo is a gem of a school. It's one of the few schools that when I see it on a resume it actually moves the needle for me. Their co-op program deserves every bit of the praise it gets.
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by User23 3y ago
To me, after Saturn, Uranus is the most famous planet with rings because of toilet humor. As an aside, either get or borrow a decent telescope and see the rings of Saturn and the Galilean Moons for yourself. It’s a really neat experience an
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by User23 3y ago
That depends on what they spend them on and what the recipient does with them. Which is, obviously, the exact point of the thought experiment. It’s not the existence of money, no matter how great the amount, that drives inflation, it’s the
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by User23 3y ago
> Inflation has been very low since the 1990s. Except for housing, food, healthcare, education, transportation, and energy. But yeah besides the eye watering increases in the prices of the things that make up the overwhelming majority of
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by User23 3y ago
> To me, it seems those are all indirect, delayed outcomes of the money supply. Why do you think that? Suppose that Treasury minted $100,000,000,000,000,000 in coins and locked them up in Fort Knox and never spent them. By what mechanism
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by User23 3y ago
I wouldn’t be entirely shocked if someone doing this kind of prompt injection attack is arrested for “hacking.”
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by User23 3y ago
Disney will still C&D and sue anyone that uses Mickey in a way they disapprove of and 99% will fold because otherwise Disney will bankrupt them with the legal process.
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by User23 3y ago
Amusingly the well regulated militia subordinate clause makes it very clear that the 2nd amendment is explicitly intended to protect “weapons of war.” Sadly, since the Dick act, Congress has defined “well-regulated” as “yeah, whatever.” Nev
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by User23 3y ago
Clemency is a wonderful tradition, but I get the impression that those who hold that power tend to view it as purely prerogative with no moral obligation. Which is too bad, because it certainly is meant to be justice’s last resort.
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by User23 3y ago
While sometimes eradication is in fact moral (hey smallpox), it’s not one of those solutions you want to look to without a truly thorough understanding that probably isn’t possible for non-pathogens.
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by User23 3y ago
Ah yes, the classic the only way to save it is to kill it plan.
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by User23 3y ago
How exactly do you expect to enforce the ban on feral cats? Having giant cat killing operations? Because spay and neuter isn’t going to cut it. Even if it didn’t just result in selecting for not getting caught, there would still be 10-15 ye
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by User23 3y ago
I highly recommend his autobiography. It gives some detail on his time growing up picking cotton, among many other interesting anecdotes.

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