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   by dri_ft 6y ago

   Thanks for the recommendation.
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   by dri_ft 6y ago

   The lines on tranquility are great. I will note that Ted Kaczynski was thought by at least one forensic psychiatrist[0] to have schizoid personality disorder[1], and that this seeking after tranquility is a very schizoid trait. [0] https:&
3. 63.▲
   by dri_ft 6y ago

   Shoulda been called 'guilty pleasures'.
4. 64.▲
   by dri_ft 6y ago

   A number of commenters mentioned over the last week or so that a journalist from the NYT had contacted them for interviews regarding SSC, so I believe it's real.
5. 65.▲
   by dri_ft 6y ago

   But fashion != popularity. Indeed, the most popular thing in a field is almost definitionally unfashionable.
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   by dri_ft 6y ago

   Definitely. Yes, there are lots of modernisms. Modernism in literature really has very little in common with modernism in architecture, for instance. Even more confusing, each of these modernisms has its own postmodernism, all 'post&#x
7. 67.▲
   by dri_ft 6y ago

   I would describe Wells not as modernist but as a hangover of a certain strain of Victorian thinking: a basically rationalist, socialist worldview, optimistic about the prospect of improving the world if we could just drop all our silly prej
8. 68.▲
   by dri_ft 6y ago

   > You do have internal motivation in this scenario. You are internally motivated to impress and/or do nice things for others. 'For others' is definitionally external motivation, no?
9. 69.▲
   by dri_ft 6y ago

   How many times does a concept need to be executed badly before you can call it a bad concept?
10. 70.▲
    by dri_ft 6y ago

    And a mildly golfed true/false check: str => [...Array(26)].every((e, i) => str.indexOf(String.fromCharCode(97 + i)) >= 0) There should probably be a .toLowerCase() in there, though.
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    by dri_ft 6y ago

    Justine Tunney wrote a post on her old blog arguing for founders' 'right to rule': https://web.archive.org/web/20151128145818/http://justinetun... > I firmly believe that founders have
12. 72.▲
    by dri_ft 6y ago

    And where do you get the ground truths for the bias of the sites?
13. 73.▲
    by dri_ft 6y ago

    Fascinating rhyme scheme in this one. The vowels in each stanza rhyme ABAB, the consonants ABBA. Never seen anything like it.
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    by dri_ft 6y ago

    > I would guess that's for economic reasons rather than technical ones. I think that lispm were considered a great technical success by many people. Hey, an economic failure's a failure. The technically perfect machine that doe
15. 75.▲
    by dri_ft 7y ago

    I agree! I just don't think 'You're biased!'/'Nuh-uh, you're biased!' gets us any closer to it.
16. 76.▲
    by dri_ft 7y ago

    And the right would say it's what the left does. Your turn.
17. 77.▲
    by dri_ft 7y ago

    No, mention of NetHack.
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    by dri_ft 7y ago

    Saying 'I don't actually have that melody written down anywhere, but I easily could have , if I'd run this program' feels a bit like saying 'I don't have that melody written down anywhere, but I easily could
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    by dri_ft 7y ago

    I'm faintly appalled by the glibness of this comment. I'm not sure what kind of poetry you have in mind, but spending even a little time with the classics will reveal that they "have meaning".
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    by dri_ft 7y ago

    But it's surprising how quickly you settle into it, honestly.
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    by dri_ft 7y ago

    I don't like it any more than you do, but 'catering to the whims of the majority' seems more like an inevitable consequence of democracy than a threat to it. It's practically written into its definition.
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    by dri_ft 7y ago

    > Yes, and then there is populism, which is in many places the biggest threat to democracy. You think that a political movement defined by its emphasis on the people is a threat to the system of government whereby the government is chose
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    by dri_ft 7y ago

    I'm running Pentadactyl in Waterfox[0], which is a fork of the last good Firefox incorporating security updates from new Firefox. I can't vouch for how secure this really is in practice--perhaps the whole plan is a fool's err
24. 84.▲
    by dri_ft 7y ago

    WTA?
25. 85.▲
    by dri_ft 7y ago

    Forward and backward quote marks. Different kinds of dash - the en-dash and em-dash.
26. 86.▲
    by dri_ft 7y ago

    > Encyclopedias are well-designed software. They're loosely-coupled--entries tend to not make calls into other entries[...] Spoken like a man who has never lost an afternoon to Wikipedia.
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    by dri_ft 7y ago

    To understand the difference between stressed and unstressed, it may be useful to consider versions of words which differ only in their stress pattern, of which we have a few. Record , the verb, as in "I'll record the show&quot
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    by dri_ft 7y ago

    I'm enjoying Michael Harrison's Revelation very much so far; thanks for the tip-off. By the way, the fifths in just intonation are a 3:2 ratio, not 2:1.
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    by dri_ft 7y ago

    As others have mentioned, linux does support VST plugins, as do a number of linux DAWs. But it's worth mentioning that the ecosystem is rather thin at the moment in terms of native VSTs. One solution is to install Windows-based VSTs in
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    by dri_ft 7y ago

    I'm not sure that's ulterior.