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by carapace 3y ago
It's beyond stupid. Literally we have families and children out of love. It's the foundation of everything else in human society.
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'No normal seasons any more': seed farmers struggle amid the climate crisis(theguardian.com)
6 points by carapace 3y ago|0 comments
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by carapace 3y ago
Ah, that makes more sense, thank you. FWIW, I'm going to be using Guix on my next computer.
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by carapace 3y ago
I think you may have replied to the wrong thread? Your comment is non sequitur .
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by carapace 3y ago
Gosh this is weird. So many of the points here seem really good and important, yet many of the other points here are so distorted as to be almost unrecognizable. It reads to me like bad religion. E.g. he knows about the Aral sea and yet a
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by carapace 3y ago
We had a "reprographics" shop in high school. Printing presses, etching plates, literal cut-n-paste of pieces of paper to do layout. One day a few of us cut two classes in a row to finish a layout (so three class periods total in
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WordPress blogs can now be followed on Mastodon and other federated platforms(techcrunch.com)
77 points by carapace 3y ago|18 comments
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by carapace 3y ago
I upvoted your comment because it's true, and important to keep in mind. However, in this case, it would be very naive to think there wasn't some intentional orchestration going on. I like to bring up the recent massive intentiona
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by carapace 3y ago
Sorry, I'm just cranky this morning.
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by carapace 3y ago
Like GitHub.
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by carapace 3y ago
You went from "I find it inconvenient" to "they're masochistic cultists" pretty quickly there. Ad hominem attacks are against site policy. You've spawned a huge thread of people being incredibly self-righteo
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by carapace 3y ago
Why the ad for Amazon?
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by carapace 3y ago
> Microsoft had shifted at least $39 billion in U.S. profits to Puerto Rico, where the company’s tax consultants, KPMG, had persuaded the territory’s government to give Microsoft a tax rate of nearly 0%. Microsoft had justified this tran
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by carapace 3y ago
Just to be clear: this is a "fifth force" that's intelligent and which engenders broad-spectrum healing on physical, emotional, and mental levels (a panacea ) and nobody's interested?
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by carapace 3y ago
It took eight years for somebody to use this. We don't know when it was discovered (nor how many times by how many different people.)
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by carapace 3y ago
> why do we allow Facebook to do it? We shouldn't. They are starting to make AI personas to interact with teenagers. https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/meta-ai-chatbot-younger-users-da... This should almost certa
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by carapace 3y ago
If I may stand on your soapbox for a moment, changing economics is the whole point of computers and software. We have Turing's Universal Machine , we have transistors . Science and capitalism have delivered technology and wealth. W
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by carapace 3y ago
FWIW, I'm about to try integrating Elm and Tau Prolog (Prolog-in-JavaScript). I have a toy language that uses Elm for the interpreter and Prolog for the type inference and I want to make one of those nifty "try this language righ
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by carapace 3y ago
Absolutely insane: > Our research discovers how the rolling shutter and movable lens structures widely found in smartphone cameras modulate structure-borne sounds onto camera images, creating a point-of-view (POV) optical-acoustic side c
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by carapace 3y ago
When I try to explain this to non-programmers I often use this metaphor: Imagine that you enjoy mountain climbing, but the act of climbing the mountain causes more mountain to rise above you. That's what we see in software development
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by carapace 3y ago
Cf the work of Michael Levin et. al. https://hn.algolia.com/?q=Michael+Levin
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by carapace 3y ago
There are vast portions of the North American continent that have never been visited by any human modern or ancient.
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by carapace 3y ago
> organized religion, marriage, sexual norms, social duty, gender roles, and cultural traditions Well, most of that is highly variable and contingent, local. Ask an anthropologist, they'll tell you. Personally, I don't think o
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by carapace 3y ago
Good for you! I'm not into social media in general, but I did join Mastodon recently in an effort to make new friends. It's fantastic! With no inscrutable central entity in control of the system it's... I don't know
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by carapace 3y ago
So government is broken and therefore shipping broken software to "millions of users" is okay?
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by carapace 3y ago
Your opening paragraph seems so "farcical & ladden with over importance" that I didn't bother to read the rest of your reply. Good day.
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by carapace 3y ago
"compliance" here means working software, right? We have building codes and building inspectors and fewer buildings fall down that way.
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by carapace 3y ago
> Examples include transhumanism, Yudkowsky-style absurdly extrapolated rationalism (Basilisk etc), the simulation hypothesis, AGI salvation hopes... But those are all examples of ways to avoid spirituality.
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by carapace 3y ago
This proposal would lead (I suspect) to "enshittification" of the supply chain as people wrangled to be larger portions of the dependency/payment tree, eh? Part of what makes FOSS work at all is that the motivation is not pr
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by carapace 3y ago
Click on something else. The Internet is a mood organ . https://www.tor.com/2015/05/21/that-was-awesome-the-penfield...

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