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by bccdee 3y ago
I'd love it if the government would throw resources at the problem, though. People act as if we're already flushing huge amounts of cash down the toilet of socialized benefits, but the fact is that the government has been extremel
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by bccdee 3y ago
Role models are kind of a non-answer to the question. It's like saying the problem is "bad luck." Role-model-based policy solutions are, if not impossible, at least deeply impractical. Childcare subsidies and other forms of w
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by bccdee 3y ago
> To explore But then why start a colony? If you're just looking around, then the massive investment to build a comfortable habitat isn't worthwhile. I think the incentives just don't line up; that's my Fermi paradox
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by bccdee 3y ago
> If things are universally good on Earth, then sure. Bear in mind that the choice is between living on Earth vs spending the rest of your life in an extremely cramped spacecraft with the hope that, after several generations of spacecraf
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by bccdee 3y ago
That's awfully optimistic. For one, why would we colonize the galaxy? We probably can't beat lightspeed. It'll take generations to get anywhere, plus a huge upfront investment, and for what? We can't send resources back,
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by bccdee 3y ago
Yeah it just doesn't add up on the face of it. Having a good marriage does not entail spending 8 hours straight with your spouse every day of the week, no kids, no hobbies. That's nuts. It makes about as much sense as saying that
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by bccdee 3y ago
I'm so tired of hype cycles in tech, man. LLMs are articulate and knowledgeable but not particularly smart. They can regurgitate Stack Overflow snippets in a context-aware way, and sure, that can be handy in a "code assistant,&quo
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by bccdee 3y ago
It's the biggest & most popular app in the note-taking space. It's closed-source, which I don't love, and I've tried to look for alternatives, but there just isn't anything else that's as good as Obsidian.
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by bccdee 3y ago
Humans weren't trained to imitate a pre-existing body of text. We were trained to survive & reproduce in a competitive, limited-resource environment. This pressured us to develop critical thinking. I see no reason why we should exp
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by bccdee 3y ago
Reminds me a lot of "Turning the Database Inside-Out"[1], but I think Red Planet Labs is overstating their point a little. TtDIO is a lot more careful with its argument, and it doesn't claim to have some sort of silver bullet
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by bccdee 3y ago
Banning children from using the internet at all would decrease porn consumption among minors. That doesn't make it a good idea. Although, frankly, it would be more effective AND less of a privacy violation than the ID law would be.
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by bccdee 3y ago
Corner stores don't track your ID and purchases. Come on. We all know that any information you enter into a website will be used to create a profile on you. The fact that these profiles will be attached to very personal information abo
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by bccdee 3y ago
That's not a censorship bill, that's an anti-harassment bill. Harassment is illegal everywhere: I'm not free to follow you around calling you an asshole. I could get charged for that, especially if you're my employee, te
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by bccdee 3y ago
It's silly to contrast a narrow restriction on speech like "you can be charged for making statements which constitute harassment" or "this specific product cannot be advertised in certain ways" with a massive restri
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by bccdee 3y ago
Read the article ( `–` ) > The website blocking provisions are focused on limiting user access and can therefore be applied to websites anywhere in the world with Canadian ISPs required to ensure that the sites are rendered inaccessible.
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by bccdee 3y ago
No, they're plutocracies, in the most literal sense. The involvement of votes doesn't factor into it. The "public" in "republic" refers to the public at large. A private corporation, being privately held, is ne
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by bccdee 3y ago
Sure—I'm not saying that metaphysical idealism was never a dominant or influential idea, especially in premodern philosophy. But Rand lived in 20th century, when contemporary philosophy was overwhelmingly materialist. I'm genuinel
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by bccdee 3y ago
> Everyone else is just a long drawn out claim that we live in a false reality compared to another dimension or that man is impotent to know reality Can you name one mainstream philosopher, besides Plato, whose primary focus was the idea
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by bccdee 3y ago
> In Ancient Greece most of the philosophers were strong people, that had personally done great things, or endured incredible hardships with the aid of their philosophy, and these real world tests stood as evidence of its value. Are you
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by bccdee 3y ago
The point of htmx is to introduce more flexible tools for interacting with the server through html. Instead of being limited to forms which redirect you to a new page when you click submit, you can send requests and dynamically replace part
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by bccdee 3y ago
Not necessarily. You can't just build a high-powered microscope out of twigs and leaves. You need sophisticated manufacturing tools. Mineral resources. Where are we going to encode the knowledge of how to build or acquire these things,
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by bccdee 3y ago
Paying someone on fiver.com to write your essay for you is also difficult to distinguish from completing your assignment honestly, but that's still cheating, and that distinction should be drawn nevertheless. "First there were typ
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by bccdee 3y ago
You're understating how long good-quality paper will last. Proper archival paper lasts hundreds of years without fading or discolouration—we have no idea what the upper limit on its lifetime is. And, in practice, it doesn't matter
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by bccdee 3y ago
> Extremely formulaic spam which would have been instantly flagged a couple years ago just piles up in my notifications. Yah.
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by bccdee 3y ago
It was never a problem for me before and it's a problem for me now. That difference matters immensely to my experience of the platform.
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by bccdee 3y ago
Nah. Twitter never had this much of a bot problem before Elon bought it, which is a big clue as to what's actually gone wrong: He laid off all the moderators and all the staff who were training the automated bot detection algorithms. E
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by bccdee 3y ago
Companies have a right to fuck their employees over in all sorts of ways. "It's not literally illegal for them to do this to you" is the absolute weakest defence that can be made for any behaviour.
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by bccdee 3y ago
Seconding the shout-out to Budworth's Ultimate Encyclopedia. Best knot book I ever had. Not as comprehensive as The Ashley Book of Knots, but an extremely clear & thorough survey of the field nevertheless. If there's one k
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by bccdee 3y ago
> Under the revised terms, there is no runtime fee whatever for any game developed with a current version of Unity, only for those developers who adopt the latest version in 2024. So they haven't done a 180. They're no longer g
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by bccdee 3y ago
I wrote a manuscript in vim a couple Novembers ago, for NaNoWriMo. I used a couple plugins, primarily Goyo [1] to add some margins, but otherwise, yeah, plain vim. I don't think it was really any more productive than my current workflo

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