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by Y_Y 2y ago
I have some sympathy for your position, but I'll add that the prevailing moral opinion seems to be "whoever got there first is the rightful owner". Of course you have to allow for armchair ethnologists not being particularly
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by Y_Y 2y ago
Almost! That will read the variable whose name is is the script argument. Also the directory argument needs a flag on my setup. It should be: python3 -mhttp.server "${1:-8080}" -d "${2:-.}"
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by Y_Y 2y ago
The week starts and ends on zero
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by Y_Y 2y ago
Is wasting cycles considered "climate action" now?
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by Y_Y 2y ago
From the people who brought you Useless Use of Cat, here's our newest innovation: Useless Use of Bash! That whole script could just be the last line! Maybe you could add defaults like "${port:-8080}"
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by Y_Y 2y ago
So where was o1-pro in the comparisons in OpenAI's article? I just don't trust any of these first party benchmarks any more.
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by Y_Y 2y ago
You correctly describe my position, but I'd add that I don't yet see that perfect equality would be more desirable than some small amount of inequality. Even behind the veil of ignorance I can imagine that, say, a society with a
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by Y_Y 2y ago
This reminds me of something Adam Smith said in The Wealth of Nations : "People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contriv
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by Y_Y 2y ago
Fair enough. I do think that "equality is good" is the claim that would need to be justified if this were a formal debate, but I can give some more details on what I think. Roughly, my feeling is that perfect equality is unstable,
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by Y_Y 2y ago
I appreciate your points, and you correctly assume that I'm not treating naturality as an intrinsic good. You may already appreciate this point, but I think that even without having a modern example of a truly equal society we can reas
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by Y_Y 2y ago
I'm not invoking the naturalistic fallacy, I'm saying that without external intervention economies will tend towards a non-uniform distribution of wealth. If you really desired to have everyone have the same amount of wealth you&#
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by Y_Y 2y ago
> A business continuity plan (BCP) is a system of prevention and recovery from potential threats to a company. I feel like global acronym bankruptcy is overdue.
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by Y_Y 2y ago
Is there some assumption here that inequality is bad? Or that there's some ideal number? Or that there's a meaningful comparison with modern economies? I see "inequality" as a concept like "uncertainty", it can
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by Y_Y 2y ago
That's old news: https://web.archive.org/web/20190118221826/https://www.infor... Fwiw I use EXWM in Guix and only interact with the computer through emacs (though I do need to use terminal and eshel
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by Y_Y 2y ago
I don't think false is truthy.
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by Y_Y 2y ago
https://bid.cwsmarketing.com/lot-details/index/catalog/167/l... I love that I can buy a pallet of miscellaneous medical supplies, and also that someone who specifically wanted them but now can't pay
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by Y_Y 2y ago
and then spend most of their time arguing about it?
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by Y_Y 2y ago
> Really, for many “page searches”, a good search engine should just be able to take you immediately to the page. Are you feeling lucky?
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by Y_Y 2y ago
The United Nations has a flag and anthem too. The umbrella interoperability initiative that includes Bizum is Swiss (neither EU nor Eurozone). Maybe you have a radical viewpoint, or maybe you're just unfamiliar with the subject matter,
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by Y_Y 2y ago
> so not really cross border except from a certain legalistic angle Is this a joke? Of course it's cross-border, it crosses international borders. It works because the countries involved put in the work to make it easy. The fact tha
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by Y_Y 2y ago
Original letter: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f9/Bill_Gat... Gates is truly the Thomas Midgley Jr. of software.
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by Y_Y 2y ago
> The seriousness, lack of interest of being humorous or cool. I love this. When ChatGPT compliments me on my great question or tries to banter it causes me great despair.
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by Y_Y 2y ago
A favourite YouTube documentarist, https://www.youtube.com/@KnowingBetter , has done several hours on the fascinating connections between the "major cults", their histories, and mainstream US culture (especially
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by Y_Y 2y ago
Ah, so that's why they don't drink much coffee in Utah. I thought it was because of some Broadway musical!
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by Y_Y 2y ago
In my experience, any time you're using scp, you'd be better off with rsync.
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by Y_Y 2y ago
Depending on what you understand by the term "prefix" you can dramatically shrink the search space without doing any thinking.
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by Y_Y 2y ago
Corals?
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by Y_Y 2y ago
I think you and GP are saying the same(-ish) thing. A non-profit which has no money cannot continue, and so if it spends more than it takes in then eventually it will have to stop. This may be ok if it's part of the mission, or if they
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by Y_Y 2y ago
> we have pushed hard on calendar and contacts being a core piece of the stack Imagine maintaining a useful piece of FOSS and then Mozilla shows up and "pushes hard" for some feature they want for a service that's missed t
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by Y_Y 2y ago
> >> philosophy > open_source & privacy_focused & user_controlled Is their philosophy a bit string? Or maybe this simple mistake of using a bitwise AND is what's gotten Mozilla's mission so corrupted these last

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