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by ab5tract 1y ago
Not if those specs are only being published to comply with Energy Star.
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by ab5tract 1y ago
This is totally ahistorical. Regional newspapers would “break” stories that would then get picked up by national outlets. In that system it was the standard to reference the paper that first reported the story. People understandably have a
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by ab5tract 1y ago
The point is there is no evidence for your happenstance version of events. You believe it based on your own (very mainstream) biases of “primitive” cultures. There is no evidence of your position, it’s a fantasy you have wrapped around some
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by ab5tract 1y ago
There is no evidence whatsoever for your baseless disregard of oral transmission of historical events.
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by ab5tract 1y ago
Even in the face of the new evidence of structures miles below the pyramids, we have to have this debate? Or the chamber that was “theorized” by crackpots, included into Assassins Creed based on said “crackpots”, and then revealed to actual
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by ab5tract 2y ago
This is why no one should take capitalist true believers seriously. It’s not an efficient (let alone moral) distribution system if one of its outcomes is spiraling prices that are irreflective of genuine market demand. The whole problem hig
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by ab5tract 2y ago
A market that allows gamblers to cause resources to rot rather than lose money on their own bad bets is working exactly as a market should? Seems to me the bigger magical leap here is in the observer who considers this to be either desirabl
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by ab5tract 2y ago
English is a notoriously difficult language to work with. Should we be translating all of our English to Esperanto?
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by ab5tract 2y ago
*A handful of oligarchs and their useful idiots in the US. Fixed that for you.
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by ab5tract 2y ago
Python is less than 5 years younger than Perl. JS is less than 10 years younger. Your examples are both three decades old. More importantly: why does reading about someone using Perl cause you to “balk”? That’s the issue my comment was lame
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by ab5tract 2y ago
This kind of closed mindedness is part of a huge shift in programming culture since the heydays of Perl. Someone can post a tortured looking piece of awk code here and people applaud. Post the same thing being done in Perl and we are likel
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by ab5tract 2y ago
This is honestly fascinating stuff, so thank you for sharing! I wonder if it is an exposure issue: only those who use emacs know it is possible and those who know emacs have little incentive to leave their editor-OS. I guess I’ll have to di
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by ab5tract 2y ago
Got it! Thanks for chiming in off the cuff like this. Ill be keeping an eye on jank for sure.
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by ab5tract 2y ago
Awesome to read this! Since I’ve got you here, can I ask you for your thoughts on LispE and how it contrasts with jank’s approach? It seems clear that they both arrive from different lineages of the Lisp kingdom. LispE is also found danglin
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by ab5tract 2y ago
The “use emacs” prerequisite that shows up frequently when exploring Lisps has been such a dealbreaker for me in the past. I have no patience for learning “chords” or even using a non-modal-but-still-not-just-normal-input editor simply to e
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by ab5tract 2y ago
Are you just going to ignore the massive amount of research done by Citizen Labs in exposing the use of Israeli spyware to surveil journalists and activists?
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by ab5tract 2y ago
A few scattered examples of this does nothing to counterbalance the neoliberalism and outright cronyism of NYT. They are probably a big reason why you might even (wrongly) associate neoliberalism with leftist ideology. Back in 2004 they wit
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by ab5tract 2y ago
In Raku the ternary was changed to ‘exp ?? True !! False’ to free up the single characters ‘?’ and ‘:’ for other purposes. IME it’s not such a large shift for the developer (still easily recognizable as a ternary) while also having the bene
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by ab5tract 2y ago
What are you even saying? These were not signifiers of “telecom providers”. They were elements of competition amongst ISPs. In what world was Usenet and web hosting part of historical telecom offerings?
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by ab5tract 2y ago
Telephony switched to digital in the 90s. This didn’t miraculously change their regulatory status. The early days of the internet were defined by copious options for ISPs because telephone lines were required to be available under common ca
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by ab5tract 2y ago
And yet.. there still remains evidence that Aboriginal oral tradition maintained accurate history for 10,000 years. Is it really your point that “literate” cultures have a long history of genocide and therefore “oral” traditions are 100% ir
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by ab5tract 2y ago
Wasn't there just an article that demonstrated writing from 7,000 years ago? My point was that using prejorative language against oral traditions is inappopriate considering the supposed superiority of "literate" cultures is
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by ab5tract 2y ago
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/australian-stories... How many cultures that adopted written languages have any 10,000 year old stories which happen to be true, exactly?
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by ab5tract 2y ago
I like this point a lot. But then I have to ask... why do I continuously encounter arguments that claim that the fundamental science of these scales is simply settled? It feels like I read claims that dark matter is both a "given fact&
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by ab5tract 2y ago
No, they couldn’t. Just a single obvious example: What tools did they have to broadcast photoshopped images of you to all of your peers?
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by ab5tract 2y ago
Being “forced” to honor a contract that you yourself entered and legally bound yourself to. The horror, the dishonor, the overreach of justice!
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by ab5tract 2y ago
Pretending that “politics” exists as something separate or invasive is not only ignorant, it’s dangerous. If this were a thread about IBM machines of the 1930s, would it be playing “politics” to note that those machines were sold to Nazis a
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by ab5tract 2y ago
No offense but this comes off as an equally narrow accounting of the historical record.
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by ab5tract 2y ago
Since I rarely use junctions myself -- and never in the manner of applying non-boolean operations across their values -- the connection to automatic function application wasn't clear to me from your initial comment. I can see the paral
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by ab5tract 2y ago
Got it, that makes sense based on the link. In Raku, the equivalent would be: my @a = [1,2],; The connection to junctions is still not very clear to me, however. A junction doesn’t really have any correlation to a single element ver

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