aeneasmackenzie

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by aeneasmackenzie 4y ago
Wow, this is terrible. Obviously we need increased CPS funding to resolve this :^)
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by aeneasmackenzie 4y ago
> Is the United States Exceptional? Fun fact, it is a formal heresy to believe (a historical form of) this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americanism_(heresy)
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by aeneasmackenzie 4y ago
> After his [Erdos] mother's death in 1971 he started taking antidepressants and amphetamines, despite the concern of his friends, one of whom (Ron Graham) bet him $500 that he could not stop taking them for a month. Erdős won the b
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by aeneasmackenzie 4y ago
Leslie Lamport had an essay about this. Without a spec, even if it's just "Serves the user's homepage", your program is not even wrong.
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by aeneasmackenzie 4y ago
If you need multiple letter variable names, your function may be too long, or you are using a language that does not let you express yourself.
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by aeneasmackenzie 5y ago
It sounds like he wants a GUI so you’d just drag and drop.
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by aeneasmackenzie 5y ago
That’s not why. Better your cheap scammer than your enemy’s anything.
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by aeneasmackenzie 5y ago
A comment there mentioned “human panspermia” such as Niven’a Protectors, but I’ve also seen “humans evolved independently on every planet in the universe exactly the same.” I hunk this was the justification in Dickson’s Wolfling for example
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by aeneasmackenzie 5y ago
“Condemn us all to death”? COVID has like a 1% fatality rate concentrated entirely in the elderly and the unhealthy (damaged immune system, obese, …) you are overreacting.
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by aeneasmackenzie 5y ago
40K said it best: “An open mind is like a fortress with its gates unbarred and unguarded”.
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by aeneasmackenzie 5y ago
Rather than control theory you can use geometry to reduce the problems with cable driven robots. There are more but I like the Ambidex: https://youtu.be/aLaqMreVj9o
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by aeneasmackenzie 5y ago
Can you be specific? I anticipate that the people you are thinking of are heretics. I mean specifically that they deviate from dogmas of the church, not any colloquial definition.
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by aeneasmackenzie 5y ago
I don't know about Shakers, but dragging Catholic religious into this is laughable. > Breaking away from families of origin and remaking them into families of choice were not incidental for ... Catholic men and women, but should be
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by aeneasmackenzie 6y ago
This is false. It is true that the church teaches that you can be saved without going through the church, but this does not apply if you are aware of the church. Invincible ignorance does not apply to those who are not ignorant.
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by aeneasmackenzie 6y ago
What will he get from Permutation City? It's a work of fiction, entirely supposition.
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by aeneasmackenzie 6y ago
They have moved on from both into shakedown rackets.[0] 0: https://mobile.twitter.com/deangeliscorey/status/12975304053...
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by aeneasmackenzie 6y ago
A while back I walked into the mall of america to buy my wife a tablet to draw on. This was when the stores were right across from each other. Walk into the apple store, pick up an iPad, can't get it to vary line width by pressure with
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by aeneasmackenzie 6y ago
Yeah these efforts always fall flat. Buttbuttination is my favorite example.
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by aeneasmackenzie 6y ago
A while ago I was arguing with someone online about the best way to structure a matrix library. Then around four years later I realized he was completely right and I just didn't know enough to realize why. I'm sure this is a unive
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by aeneasmackenzie 6y ago
1. implement the patch category that Pijul uses 2. compose the patches 3. either you have a nice diff to show the user, or an explanation of why that is not possible, like "Can't show you the composition of A, X, Q because X depen
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by aeneasmackenzie 7y ago
Ever heard of the october revolution? That was the starting point.
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by aeneasmackenzie 7y ago
Check out lentil: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/lentil
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by aeneasmackenzie 7y ago
Says who? Yudkowsky? Why are you listening to him?
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by aeneasmackenzie 7y ago
Which is absurd: It's illegal for me to take several million pictures of a tv show and sell it.
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by aeneasmackenzie 7y ago
Anything like this: foo(a, b)
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by aeneasmackenzie 7y ago
Sadly doesn't work if the language typical format wants you to align things. Works perfectly in lisp or C though.
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by aeneasmackenzie 7y ago
Everyone's using QGMLWB now.
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by aeneasmackenzie 7y ago
>Which makes some sense; until at least Pope Urban, the Catholic Church was happy to perform both mixed sex and same sex marriages That's not what your [3] says. >Nevertheless, Historian John Boswell argued that Adelphopoiesis, o
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by aeneasmackenzie 7y ago
The Douay-Rheims translation is the most accurate. You can directly reconstruct the latin[1] from it. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douay–Rheims_Bible#Modern_Harv...
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by aeneasmackenzie 7y ago
This is limited: what about all the people who like the unique community that formed on anonymous imageboards? There's no posturing or attempts to build a reputation. You just throw out your piece and it stands alone.

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