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by brazzy 7mo ago
Yeah, and he didn't like the outcome. Salient quote (from a letter to Robert E. Lee): "I saw in State Rights the only availing check upon the absolutism of the sovereign will, and secession filled me with hope, not as the destruct
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by brazzy 7mo ago
> I think the belief of ordinary people most likely to dispose them to atrocity is that of prioritizing the ingroup. In my opinion, there is another tendency even more significant in that regard. Namely, the visceral desire to see "
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by brazzy 7mo ago
Acton was, by the way, an ardent supporter of the Confederacy. In his opinion, the federal government curtailing the independence of states was a more significant act of oppression than slavery.
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by brazzy 8mo ago
Doesn't matter, it's a shit user experience and Microsoft's fault for putting the onus on the user to fiddle around at that level, rather than putting a hard, very low limit on how long shell extensions can hold up the contex
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by brazzy 8mo ago
A serious Lisp/Scheme runtime needs a garbage collector. The JVM has probably the most advanced GC implementation around - for that reason alone it doesn't seem particularly strange to me.
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by brazzy 8mo ago
The problem is that the old righ-click menu is ALSO much slower on Windows 11. Shows a fucking spinner for half a second before the menu appears.
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by brazzy 8mo ago
> The correct use is to check whether a submitted identifier contains characters that visually mimic Latin letters, and if so, reject it That is a really bad and user-hostile thing to do. Many of those characters are perfectly valid char
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by brazzy 8mo ago
JVM, not Java. And there's Clojure already in that space.
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by brazzy 8mo ago
> they will (mis)use hate speech laws to censor you i.e Merz and the pensioner story You mean where the police (not the politician Merz) initiated a defamation case based on a comment on a police department's Facebook channel, whi
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by brazzy 8mo ago
I don't hate it, but I suspect that incentives this would generate would not end up producing results that strictly align with the ones you envision and desire. For one thing, you're essentially mandating data centers to be coloca
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by brazzy 8mo ago
> We can build such a society. I am not sure why you think this is never possible. Maybe we can, but it is A) a far bigger, older, and more difficult problem than how to structure a computer network, and B) fundamentally not solvable t
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by brazzy 8mo ago
How so? The second section, "Introduction to Org-Mode and Worg" explains it as well as one could possibly ask for. Are you really that completely thrown off by it being the second section rather than the first (admittedly a bad
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by brazzy 8mo ago
No, it's ASICs, but for AI.
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by brazzy 8mo ago
You can't arrest someone for the "probably" conjecture of the latter, but you can arrest them if you have tangible proof of the former.
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by brazzy 8mo ago
Former prince. And t's not purposefully vague, the article explicitly says "It comes after Thames Valley Police said they were assessing a complaint over the alleged sharing of confidential material by the former prince with lat
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by brazzy 8mo ago
You mean, someone to... drain the swamp? Splendid idea, no way that can go wrong!
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by brazzy 8mo ago
My observation is about what your assumptions say about you, and that's not a miss. Nobody really understands a job they haven't done themselves, and "arguing" that 90% of them are "bullshit" has no other possi
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by brazzy 8mo ago
Nope, the entire statement betrays a combination of ignorance and arrogance that is best explained by them seeing most everyone else as beneath them.
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by brazzy 8mo ago
First thing to come to mind when I read that claim. Pretty obvious gap in the logic to consider only monetary downsides, right before listing all thos non-monetary upsides.
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by brazzy 8mo ago
> But I already mentioned several differences between consciousness cloning and traditional reproduction in this discussion. The ethical risk is much lower. Yes, what you actually said leads to the conclusion that the ethical risk in co
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by brazzy 8mo ago
It was a reaction to the State of Clojure Survey 2018 ( https://danielcompton.net/clojure-survey-2018 ) and discussions it sparked, in which there were depands for Clojure to change to a more community-driven development proc
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by brazzy 8mo ago
You are making a bunch of unfounded assetions, not arguments.
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by brazzy 8mo ago
"Extended ASCII" is just a sloppy term for a bunch of other encodings that are not, in fact, ASCII. If your BASIC class used (or emulated) a C64 or compatible, you were using https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PET
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by brazzy 8mo ago
> The copy was brought into existence without its consent. This isn't the same as normal reproduction because babies are not born with human sapience, and as a society we collectively agree that children do not have full human right
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by brazzy 8mo ago
I think you're not even disagreeing with me, we're just using different definitions of the word "reality". I meant it to use specifically "the physical world" - which you are treating as distinct from mathemati
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by brazzy 8mo ago
YOU are being unimaginably rude (and that word is not strong enough by far) by trivializing and exploiting the suffering of actual HUMANS for the sake of an argument about glorified Markov chain, which are not , in fact, "beings"
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by brazzy 8mo ago
No. Just no. Shame on you for even trying to draw that comparison. Go away.
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by brazzy 8mo ago
Math and reality are, in general completely distinct. Some math is originally developed to model reality, but nowadays (and for a long time) that's not the typical starting point, and mathematicians pushing boundaries in academia gener
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by brazzy 8mo ago
I'm not against them in principle either. Just at this time, at this cost, at this state of development in the field.
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by brazzy 8mo ago
Given that you can do a lot more research in different fields at the same time for the amount of money the next bigger particle accellerator would cost, the answer is very likely yes.

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