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by carapace 2y ago
This is a common misconception. The choice isn't between a mildly worse life -or- a better life. The choice is between a mildly worse life -or- a horrible life as the planetary life-support system reconfigures itself into a radical new
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by carapace 2y ago
I'm not an expert, and I've only just skimmed the paper, but it seems to me that this is a kind of partial evaluation for Prolog, eh? (Perhaps "partial resolution" is more technically correct?) I think some Prolog sys
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by carapace 2y ago
The crazy thing is, and forgive me if you've heard this before, this insane situation is the result of a deliberate domestic propaganda campaign: "The Real Reason Jaywalking Is A Crime" (Adam Ruins Everything) https:/&#
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by carapace 2y ago
I haven't, thanks for the tip! :D
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by carapace 2y ago
As a fedora user you probably shouldn't consider FreeBSD, it's more for servers than desktop systems. E.g. I run it on my laptop even though I can't adjust the brightness of the monitor. For me being "behind on features
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by carapace 2y ago
I was at a a certain company (not for long) that did quick all-hands stand-up meetings once a week, so everyone could touch base. About 30-40 people, all standing up, took about 15 minutes. At the end of one meeting the CEO hosts a goodbye
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by carapace 2y ago
Some secrets keep themselves.
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by carapace 2y ago
I mean... > RJR Nabisco was formed in 1985 by the merger of Nabisco Brands and R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RJR_Nabisco
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by carapace 2y ago
Probably a good time to trot out "Ladle Rat Rotten Hut" again? > Wants pawn term, dare worsted ladle gull hoe lift wetter murder inner ladle cordage, honor itch offer lodge dock florist... https://annex.exploratorium
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by carapace 2y ago
(I'm about to go to sleep, so I'm not going to stick around and argue. I've been on this site for --good god-- ten years next month, you can check my comment history and judge for yourself whether you think I'm full of
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by carapace 2y ago
We have come a long <EXPLETIVE DELETED> way from ancient Greece. Here's what we should be doing: free hospitals. > Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Medical Sciences aims to provide free medical care to the sick and ailing
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by carapace 2y ago
Very good point and 'cheers!' for raising it. It's not the "walrus operator" per se that's the problem, it's the change in project governance. Python has been captured by bureaucracy and corporate intere
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by carapace 2y ago
;-)
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by carapace 2y ago
Yup. Cheers! :)
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by carapace 2y ago
It wasn't recent by Internet time but when the debate on walrus operator drove out the BDF L that was the obvious break. Python has been circling the drain ever since. A lot of motion, yes, but to what end? - - - - Oh! How could I f
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by carapace 2y ago
This. But more than being changeable they (time and money) are supra-logical or trans-rational. In other words, computers are limited to what can be modeled or calculated with the one logical operation (it has lots of names, I like "
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by carapace 2y ago
(I've got the cabin fever today I think. This is as good a time and place as any to set this down...) I believe that "we are not physical beings having spiritual experiences, we're spiritual beings having a physical experien
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by carapace 2y ago
Yeah, I think you're right. Thanks :)
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by carapace 2y ago
It doesn't matter how big the dump is, it shouldn't exist from first principles. Think about how incredibly worked out these devices are, how many brilliant people worked to design them, to figure out how to source the materials,
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by carapace 2y ago
Item: there is something there. Item: it is not electrostatic I am, for my sins, what's called a "Reiki Master Level III" (and yes I feel foolish stating that "out loud" as it were.) I am also a rational material
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by carapace 2y ago
The best book I've ever read is perhaps "cheating" because it's "The Next Whole Earth Catalog" and, as the name says, it's a catalog of (mostly) books. (You can see it for yourself in all it's glory h
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by carapace 2y ago
Desire is like fire: feeding it only makes it grow, it consumes leaving ash. One of the primary points of human life is learning the undesirability of desire itself. - - - - Jevons paradox, on the other hand, isn't metaphysical. When
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by carapace 2y ago
> The moment the road widens, more cars fill it up to the brim. Jevon's Paradox is not a law of nature. - - - - Mark Miller pointed out, "A Computer's Perspective on Moore's Law: Humans are getting more expensive at a
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by carapace 2y ago
Have you seen Carlin's bit about shell shock? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpVtJNv4ZNM We're doing abnormal things (technologically-intensified war), the effects of those things are "normal" in the se
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by carapace 2y ago
Hit the pressure release valve. Next time this happens look around and find the button or lever or old fashioned knife switch labeled "pressure release valve" or something like that and push/pull/flip/throw it. (I&
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by carapace 2y ago
> I think anything that incentivizes the rich to give to social goods is fine with me. You put your finger on the crux of the problem. "The ends justify the means."? All motivations are equal? Vanity is as good as charity as
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by carapace 2y ago
Funding a hospital is fine, A-Okay. Putting your name on it is crass. It's been the "General Hospital" for my entire life and now I'm supposed to call it "Zuckerberg General Hospital"? This from the guy that&
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by carapace 2y ago
> We're better than that. You disproved yourself.
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by carapace 2y ago
No, dude, even if you postulate FTL spaceships, the size of the Universe doesn't matter, you always eventually become an explosion. All exponential growth curves are S-shaped. At this point I'm just repeating basic physics and ma
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by carapace 2y ago
At this point we're just trading sci-fi story ideas. If we can learn to manage our population growth and/or energy consumption growth, then that's awesome! Watch the Bartlett lecture.

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