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by derrida 3y ago
Probably apple grifting for some $$$
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by derrida 3y ago
> I'm surprised you mention China positively in this regard, Apologies, I meant historically China, not china of the last 50 years. Just for context "the west" has sort of existed since renaissance only a few hundred years
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by derrida 3y ago
There's many countries that have higher productivity per hour and higher GDPs than the US that don't just do capitalism for everything : Germany, Austra, Norway etc. The market for land is created in law, it can be changed in law.
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by derrida 3y ago
"Tiny homes" I wonder how long it is until we have capitalism pushing the glories of the simple life of the park bench as housing solution hehe
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Scientists discover mysterious cosmic threads in the Milky Way(theguardian.com)
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by derrida 3y ago
What someone else thinks is their business - it's caused not by you but almost everything else that happened in the universe. Sometimes people just didn't eat breakfast, or someone beeped their horn at them on the way to work. Som
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by derrida 3y ago
1 year old
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by derrida 3y ago
It's true. People can memorize 100'000s of words of text and this ability was common place among learned people. The pali canon is an example. I found myself remembering huge amounts, having just read a text, with no intentional e
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by derrida 4y ago
> Audiophile-grade self-delusion is, fortunately, fairly rare. Oh not from where I see the world! hehe - infact I see most stem educated people of reasonably good IQ by and large living a mythology they do not even know they are living i
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by derrida 4y ago
I hope it never changes. PHP reminds me of my socially awkward uncle who is endearing and means well and caused many cringes & me and my sister to laugh with his faux pas. I love reading articles about its bugs. The Mr Bean of programmi
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by derrida 4y ago
For some reason when ever I've had to work with PHP which was last about 10 years ago I got giggles & "TNT" by ACDC would play in my head. I'm remembering why... P.H.P DYNAMITE
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by derrida 4y ago
Plus I mentioned where once on here then a whole bunch of here turned up there (berlin)
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by derrida 4y ago
It was definitely lisp before it was python - they used to talk about a rewrite - one of the earliest reddits were the lisp reddits - my question is if it was Arc by Paul Graham or a seperate program in Common Lisp
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by derrida 4y ago
I can't believe this meme still works in 2023. To those that haven't worked it out yet: Stories about UFOs act as a cover for what is a very sensible, ordinary and legitimate activity: maintaining secrecy around capabilities of s
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by derrida 4y ago
Was early reddit code the bunch of arc macros and this here (hn) originally? Was it basically a fork of pg code for this (site you are reading now)?
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by derrida 4y ago
So proud right now at least one part of our government is doing things based in reason. We are usually so conservative and backward. Its great to know at least 1 part of the gov is functioning
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by derrida 4y ago
gil scott heron (such a good song) 𝄞 "you will not be able to stay home, brother... you will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out" as u/neonnoodle said " At this point in history, what will qualify a true counte
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by derrida 4y ago
I'm curious - and no expert here - but if what you say is correct (I haven't checked the paper), I thought this is the sort of thing peer review screened for? If it's the case there was no control, why would peer review allow
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by derrida 4y ago
> they really only confirm many other studies which found that HIT (High intensity training, what is discussed in the article) training achieves the same effects as much longer endurance training at much shorter times. Show me 1 conventi
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by derrida 4y ago
> "It started with that rush known as “coming up.” Different people experienced it in different ways, but for me it was an overwhelming feeling of warmth and a glowing sensation that flooded my body. My friends had all taken it befo
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by derrida 4y ago
NICE
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by derrida 4y ago
Could it be amphetamine use?
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by derrida 4y ago
Its just doubt - in this case self doubt. - Assume its true - will these thoughts be beneficial? Assume its false - will these thoughts be beneficial? There might be other questions worth asking.
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by derrida 4y ago
Most of this I think is caused not by engineers or technology, it's caused by competitive market forces that design things not because of its technological benefit for society but because they can control and siphon value - so we have
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by derrida 4y ago
Thanks I was having a bit of a moment - one thing I noticed is I have to be very careful if I meet people from the US in a neutral country such as Europe or Asia - the reason is that we speak the same language and are culturally simular eno
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by derrida 4y ago
I'm Australian. Wait, is "dickhead" not common in American and Europe? It's extremely common here I just assumed it was Queens English.
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by derrida 4y ago
The person that wrote this needs some training in swearing as it's a bit repetitive, I suggest they visit Australia.
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by derrida 4y ago
I had the opposite... a book I was looking for on a lib gen front end a few days ago but could not find came up here (the Narada translation of Dhammapada if curious)
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by derrida 4y ago
You could get away with "I know HTML" and suits would call you a "Programmer!"
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by derrida 4y ago
Yeah really not a great name choice hey. asdf for common lisp been around for years and used by the clergy of programming basically and still widely used today

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