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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
It's well-proven in mice but the quantities of blood needed are gargantuan and make a transfusion-based approach extremely difficult. The most effective mouse models have used parabiosis -- not a palatable or moral technique for humans
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
Glad to have individuals in our world we can plausibly compare to Pharaohs. That's justifiable.
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
People will love all sorts of stupid shit if it's put in a gallery. (Commentary on that phenomenon is, in fact, an entire art movement -- readymades.) There are two questions we should be asking here: 1) Does a positive gallery recepti
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Dabblers and Blowhards: On Graham's “Hackers and Painters”(idlewords.com)
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
Taking a day off from your principles seems suspect, at best. (That's not to say that there's no way to justify doing so -- but it's difficult to conceive of what that might be.) Also, I frankly doubt that Stallman's lif
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
While these results are certainly impressive, it's hard to say that they're aesthetically or artistically "good." I played around with Photoshop filters a bunch when I was younger -- there are (or used to be) a good hand
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
Standard Chartered is the other standard example. The only significant Haskell codebases anyone mentions are Standard Chartered, Haxl, maybe Barclays, and the GHC itself. It's pretty damning.
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
Haxl is one of the standard two or three examples. I want to see a non-Haxl example.
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
This is empirically correct.
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
Yeah, there's probably something to be said for stringent limitations on the kinds of technology you can use as an antidote to ease of spending every waking moment looking at a screen. If I wasn't allowed to use Facebook, Twitter,
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
That's a lovely notion, but even the most cursory clear-eyed look around you should pretty conclusively demonstrate that it's not true.
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
I'm not defending the Soviet Union. I'm not even defending communism, nor proposing a concrete alternative to capitalism. But the fact that other systems have led to worse abuses absolutely does not absolve capitalism of its crime
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
I want to be careful here to avoid asserting that there is a system that is known to be ultimately more ethical than capitalism under current global conditions. (Social democracy may fit the bill, but I'm not prepared to argue that her
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
I admire Stallman's unworldly, unfettered commitment to his principles. It's difficult to live an ethical life, and twice as difficult to live an ethical life under capitalism. Stallman's manic devotion to assiduously followi
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
Haskell and its advocates talk a big, big game about its supposed strengths in these areas, but there are suspiciously few examples of these strengths actually manifesting in anything but toy or academic projects. I've been hearing abo
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
This question gets asked regularly, and every time Facebook's spam detection service, Standard Chartered's (never-seen) codebase, and maybe one or two other firms that no one's ever heard of get invoked. These are seemingly t
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
I hate to tell you this, dude, but "Akira" might not be a palatable future.
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
It's almost like fantasies aren't a model for real life... nah, that's crazy.
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
Perhaps my point is better illustrated by this series: http://www.mcmansionhell.com/post/150926055196/mcmansion-hel... http://www.mcmansionhell.com/post/151254239061/mcmansion-hel... ht
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
I'm not sold on this. Some of the criticisms levied seem valid, and there's /some/ sensibility to the scale -- but the whole thing smacks of a post-hoc attempt to define why McMansions are in poor taste in non-socioecono
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
This proves, once again, what a world-class, unbeatable tool Haskell is for writing toy interpreters.
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
This blue raincoat? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohk3DP5fMCg
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
The Platonic form of "too little, too late."
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
God damn these people. Regulations are pointless bullshit -- unless, of course, there are homeless people dirtying up your view.
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
This is a far better answer than mine. I appreciate the emphasis on implications beyond P?=NP -- it's good to remember that there's unpopular work that's still tremendously important.
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
I'm not a theorist, but PSPACE is a superset of NP (and therefore of P). This paper shows that there are no PSPACE problems that are not also NP problems -- intriguing, to be sure, but it doesn't seem to immediately speak to the r
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
That makes perfect sense -- my mistake; I apologize.
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
That's very fair. Most of my non-work computing tends to follow typical consumer trends, and most of my work computing isn't meaningfully compromised by running macOS over Linux (now that VMs are usable, at least) -- but I can ima
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
I wasn't here 795 days ago, so I'm not too miffed. Let the readers decide what they want to read.
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
Can you recommend a better Linux experience for someone who wants to be able to turn their programmer-brain off when trying to watch Netflix? That's not a challenge -- if there's a better distro for civilian use than Ubuntu, I&#x2

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