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by bmitc 2y ago
From the FAQ: > > Why am I being offered deferred resignation? > The federal workforce is expected to undergo significant near-term changes. As a result of these changes (or for other reasons), you may wish to depart the federal g
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by bmitc 2y ago
Is this all real? We are headed into blatant corporate fascism. This is very scary stuff. Looking this stuff up, apparently it's now being reported that Musk has taken over the Office of Personnel Management and General Services Admini
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by bmitc 2y ago
It's the Internet itself.
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It's interesting to me that one of the most popular, if not the most popular, language in the world and one that is decades old has tooling that is constantly evolving and being reinvented and now in another language than itself. Contr
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by bmitc 2y ago
When free market proponents talk about the free market, they really just mean "our market".
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It's a compiler for C, C++, and adjacent languages though.
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> I think the fact that the uv tool itself is not written in Python It's interesting that the language people choose to write systems with (Python) is basically identified as not the best language to write systems to support that la
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by bmitc 2y ago
I have never even understood the approach. The sub-budgets within an organization seem so arbitrary and become games in and of themselves, often leading to frivolous purchases just to use up the budget and not get your budget slashed. Does
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by bmitc 2y ago
> That's because most crimes "individuals" do are straightforwardly illegal and easy to prosecute, whereas the "crime if a corporation does it" are not. That's part of the point and problem because it is by
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It's not the waters that's important here. It's the debris passing through the flight path.
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> Space travel ... value-added human activities Heavily debatable. And you're equating to SpaceX dumping debris and trash in addition to their original flight path to a plane's flight path. Those are not equal things.
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Why is that anyone else's problem besides SpaceX's? Are they going to pay for it?
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Engineering led companies can also be pretty miserable as well. Look at Google, for example.
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I'd wager a guess that the friendliness, or at least the perception of such, came from not very many people using it, people being segregated into niche enthusiast groups, and people still intelligent and non-addicted enough to not mer
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by bmitc 2y ago
MIT, despite it thinking otherwise, is a slave to industry, funding, and trends.
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This is a really frustrating development, and I'm not sure I have the energy to explain why because it should be obvious and because the negative emotions of years of dealing with stuff like this. My main complaints border around: th
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by bmitc 2y ago
Have you used the asyncio logger and debug mode? https://docs.python.org/3/library/asyncio-dev.html
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by bmitc 2y ago
Could you elaborate? While I am no fan of Python's backwards approach to multi-core programming, asyncio achieves concurrency when a coroutine reaches out to the operating system for network calls. So while two tasks in asyncio are awa
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by bmitc 2y ago
> I reality no one writes from scratch with threads, processes or asyncio unless you are a library author. Is that really true in the case of asyncio? From my experience, it isn't. I am not familiar with the other three libraries yo
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by bmitc 2y ago
What options does an orca have? How is it cruel that they eat a shark? Have you ever even seen the cow, chicken, pig, etc. farms that are in use today? It's not like these animals are living in fairy-tale meadows all their life before
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by bmitc 2y ago
The shark is often killed already prior to the liver being eaten. If it isn't, then it would certainly die very soon after. The shark liver is one of the most calorie dense things in the animal kingdom and accounts for a quarter of the
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by bmitc 2y ago
> imo humans are the only hope for something better, if such a thing even makes sense. Humans are the number one cause of environmental destruction and animal and plant suffering on Earth that is completely out of whack with what it take
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It's the scale at which we do it at that is very disturbing. If you haven't, I recommend watching Samsara . Humans are pretty disturbing.
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by bmitc 2y ago
And in the context of orcas specifically, their emotional processing centers in their brain dwarf that of humans, even when taking the relative brain sizes into account. So by scientific accounting, it's likely their emotional intellig
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by bmitc 2y ago
It's such a travesty what we've done to the Southern Resident Orca population. We decimated their numbers with captures and killings, cutoff their food supply, and poisoned them via their environment and food supply. These are eff
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by bmitc 2y ago
> “Filters are delays” doesn’t imply “delays are filters”. Purely logically, no, but that's not really the practical sense we're talking about. And by introducing a digital delay, you do induce a filter on the sound. So if you
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by bmitc 2y ago
That's not exactly true. In digital signal processing, delays and filters are effectively one in the same. This is because you implement digital filters using digital delays. For example, the simplest low-pass filter is just a summatio
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The U.S. is controlled by an ever shrinking collection of people and institutions, namely corporations and extremist groups. That's how it's more and more republic-like. Sure, you could even bring a national voting system, but it
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Pretty much everything in audio processing is a filter, whether it's called a filter or not, but that's overly reductive. Synthesis is just creating audio from parts.
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And people seem to forget that the U.S. is not a pure democracy. It's a democratic republic that is becoming more and more republic-like than democratic-like.

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