canhascodez

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by canhascodez 8y ago
You may want to check out SpaceVim. I've been developing on a remote machine lately; before I was using ST2/3. I could have continued to do so using (e.g.) sshfs, but I think that I'm probably more productive this way. One of
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by canhascodez 8y ago
What do you use ESC for? It doesn't seem particularly common these days, and ^[ tends to be just as good, in my experience.
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by canhascodez 8y ago
Do you know why people say that superluminal communication is impossible?
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by canhascodez 8y ago
The problem is that you can either have FTL or causality, but not both. Also, relativity has been extremely accurate as a description of the universe, particularly on the macro level that you and I happen to inhabit. I'd say that I&#x2
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by canhascodez 8y ago
You do not get to hand-wave away the fact of evolution, regardless of the level of technology. Populations change genetically over long periods of time, because math, and the idea that gene editing will not occur in the future (near or far)
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by canhascodez 8y ago
Bullshit. I said exactly what I intended to say; the distinction between empirical observation and other forms of truth was pretty much the entire point. I mean, you did actually read what I wrote, right?
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by canhascodez 8y ago
That's irrelevant. You're not going to "roll back" a brain replacement. Future technology does not allow arbitrary reversible manipulations of molecules. Creating new individuals is much less effort than rewriting old on
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by canhascodez 8y ago
It's still a semantic argument if you repeat it.
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by canhascodez 8y ago
You're making a purely semantic argument, concerning some very common words, which I actually consider to be somewhat rude. It doesn't seem to be the case that you did not understand the intended meaning, but rather that you are d
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by canhascodez 8y ago
The distinction between "abstract" and "measurable" is not ambiguous. "Real" in this context (and most others) means "empirically observable", as in, you and I are able to make an observation or measu
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by canhascodez 8y ago
Those are abstract concepts, which are considered to not be real by definition. I think you should find another fight to pick with someone else.
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by canhascodez 8y ago
I was speaking a little loosely, but if you want to advance an argument for the empirical existence of abstract concepts, I'm sure I'd be interested.
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by canhascodez 8y ago
That would be the definition of an abstract concept, I believe.
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by canhascodez 8y ago
I probably mean more in the "human interest" relation of experiences sense than anything like a comprehensive guide to the profession. I'm not wholly ignorant of what happens to bits after they leave my router, but I know not
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by canhascodez 8y ago
OT: most developers have probably not been in network engineering for an ISP. If you've written anything about your experiences, or if you could be persuaded to, I believe that a lot of people on HN would be keenly interested (myself i
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by canhascodez 8y ago
There are quite a lot of things which people transmit as true beliefs, which we all know are false. We tell people that not only love exists, but true love, and justice, and objective truth, and honor. No one has ever touched or measured an
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by canhascodez 8y ago
Perhaps similar in theme would be Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes" by Tamim Ansary.
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by canhascodez 8y ago
> Most of our adaptations can be freely removed and replaced without harming their user. Magic does not exist, even in the future.
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by canhascodez 8y ago
No, that's not my argument.
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A difference in degree, not in kind.
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by canhascodez 8y ago
Better is not universal nor uniformly distributed, therefore evolution occurs, therefore death has adaptive value even in otherwise ideal conditions, and there is no reason to believe in truly ideal conditions even assuming arbitrarily high
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by canhascodez 8y ago
You're focusing on the error rate, which is not actually the concern. You could have a perfectly working VAX in front of you, and it would be essentially a museum piece, because technology has moved on. Suggesting that any physical pro
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by canhascodez 8y ago
Forgive me; I'm not really seeing what fundamental distinction you're trying to draw between these two categories of activity.
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by canhascodez 8y ago
It must be a prerequisite for this kind of hyperbole that the technology it describes does not exist yet. Nothing is infinitely repairable or upgradeable, and neither of those things are ever free.
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by canhascodez 8y ago
Google Scholar is a service to humanity. However, I do wonder: how comprehensive is it?
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by canhascodez 8y ago
Isn't the concept of trade not being valuable sort of contradictory? Even without the concept of individual ownership, the precondition would seem to merely be that something is valued. Trade is not (remotely) unique to humans, and I d
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by canhascodez 8y ago
James Watt was able to go around England installing steam pumps in coal mines. Why was Hero of Alexander not able to do the same thing?
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by canhascodez 8y ago
That's a very seductive argument for the individual, but most species do have a finite lifespan, and that in itself is actually an argument for its adaptive benefit. Consider that genetic code could become dated or fragile over long ti
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by canhascodez 8y ago
I have absolutely no interest in TempleOS as a codebase, and I can't imagine that many people would ever want to use it as their main OS. However, Terry Davis and TempleOS expanded my conception of the possibilities of computing. Alan
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by canhascodez 8y ago
I'm implying that multi-user systems were supplanted by web applications, because multi-user systems did not offer good value, and do not scale. Neither do I see these systems being advanced in this thread based on their utility.

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