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by _0ffh 5y ago
Quite so! The reasoning (or excuse) with some folks seems to be "As I'm likely to be biased anyway, I may just as well be a bald-facedly lying propagandist", which is an even bigger problem!
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by _0ffh 5y ago
>The advantage is not having to remember all those funny constants This, very much! I've done a ton of physical simulation code in my life. Whenever some newb or student comes to me for the first time with their simulation code that
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by _0ffh 5y ago
Funny to see metformin popping up again, it's already a staple in the anti-aging movement.
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by _0ffh 5y ago
Nearly every other one? I'd recommend The Moon is a Harsh Mistress which is a romp imho, and also happens to be a better insight into his personal politics. Also, Have Spacesuit Will Travel , Farmer in the Sky , Stranger in a Stra
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by _0ffh 5y ago
Quibble: It's unpopular speech that most needs protection. In an ideal world those would be highly correlated, though.
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by _0ffh 5y ago
Yeah, and as usual it's the state that is called upon to shield them from the pressures of the free market. Because, really, who else could?
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by _0ffh 5y ago
I'm afraid the utilitarian vs deontological argument will never be resolved to everyone's satisfaction, because ultimately it depends on what axioms you choose to believe in. Personally, I stick by my conviction that utility canno
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by _0ffh 5y ago
Lol, I didn't expect a reaction after this amount of time! Thanks for taking this seriously!
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by _0ffh 5y ago
Quite! According to Wikipedia he "managed the development of the first ARM architecture", which is not the same thing as GP claims, at all!
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by _0ffh 5y ago
Also, the ends don't justify the means, or you'll just end up replacing one kind of tyranny with another.
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by _0ffh 5y ago
My carbon steel wok works perfectly on induction.
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by _0ffh 5y ago
Yeah, I think it is important to stress the point that the true strength of models like ABMs is that by systematically testing their behaviour for different circumstances and parameterisations can lead the experimenter to new qualitative in
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by _0ffh 5y ago
I can't wait until "trust the science" is finally replaced with "trust the AI"! /s
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by _0ffh 5y ago
The (consequentialist-)anarchist economist David Friedman (son of Milton) wrote a book about this very topic! I hope you'll find it as interesting as I did! Book: http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Legal%20Systems/Legal
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by _0ffh 5y ago
Yes, it's the free market taking over and providing a service that is in demand, in this case arbitration.
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by _0ffh 5y ago
How do we know that some of us are not actually gamers who've had access to their true memories temporarily disabled?
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by _0ffh 5y ago
The best advice I think I've heard so far against procrastination is: First, find a small sub-task of the thing you want to do, and lay it out clearly. Then commit a small amount of time to starting on that sub-task. Not on finishing i
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by _0ffh 5y ago
It seems to me that doom scrolling is the web equivalent of old TV's zapping phenomenon, where people just keep cycling through the stations in the hope that on some channel something interesting will pop up, sooner or later.
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by _0ffh 5y ago
Ugh, the 256 color VGA Lenna has horrible palette selection, most probably none at all (using the default palette). That picture could look so much better! It seems like one of these things, where what used to be reasonably common technic
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by _0ffh 5y ago
After reading [1], I'm not really sure backtracking is even an integral part of WFC, as apparently it sometimes fails to find a solution and needs to retry from start. Backtracking seems to be more of an optional add-on. [1] https:&#x
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by _0ffh 5y ago
It depends on how your shop is organised. Big corps like interchangeability in their work force, because they wouldn't even know how to allocate their employees as individuals. Smaller shops are better able to exploit specific skill pr
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by _0ffh 5y ago
> I'm much more effective at the things I actually wanted to do with the computer in phase 3 I agree, that's what I meant with "more convenient". p.s. Also, yeah, I guess I mostly just enjoyed the fiddling to get the
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by _0ffh 5y ago
I think the PC* environment roughly went through three phases. 1st phase: You must do everything by yourself. 2nd phase: You can do everything by yourself. 3rd phase: You must do everything through the OS. The third phase is much more safe
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by _0ffh 5y ago
Surely! If what you want is uniform, interchangeable cogwheels for the machine, you check if your candidates can act as uniform, interchangeable cogwheels for the machine.
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by _0ffh 5y ago
Assuming it is true that discussions on "free speech" always lead to "That Topic", maybe it is because a clique of political activists that claim for themselves the exclusive right to speak on any matter pertaining to &q
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by _0ffh 5y ago
I must admit although I was never much focused on either Lisp or Forth I tend to do lots of bottom up, no matter in what language. If I know I'll need a certain thing, for example a type to represent some kind of node or whatever, I&#x
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by _0ffh 5y ago
Yup, came here to make same remark! =) Ed. I thought this was some kind of joke article.
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by _0ffh 5y ago
I think there was probably a much greater correlation between computer science and nerdy people thirty years or so ago, which was progressively diluted by the steeply rising popularity of the field pulling in more and more less-nerdy people
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by _0ffh 5y ago
Q: What is intermediate mode? Is it an accidental "autocorrect" of immediate mode or an actual thing?
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by _0ffh 5y ago
Oops, I indeed got that important detail wrong! Thanks for expanding my dictionary!

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