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by driggs 5y ago
Ignoring the false equivalence of wasted candle light to stolen WiFi bandwidth, as has already been pointed out... It’s an unspoken(?) assumption that one can’t apply for a remote job unless one has access to internet. Doesn’t matter whethe
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by driggs 5y ago
Is my point nonsense, or are you unable to see past your own pedantry? Sure, if you insist on invoking Pliny The Elder, I'll grant you that magnetite was originally a bad name. And then humans discovered electromagnetism. Now geology
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by driggs 5y ago
You’ve completely missed the point. “Seuss” presumably tells you something meaningful about suessite. “Greig” presumably tells you something meaningful about greigite. “Dave Mao” doesn’t tell you anything about davemaoite.
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by driggs 5y ago
The name serves as a mnemonic, not a diagnostic criteria! My brain is overloaded with emacs keybindings, I can’t memorize any more arbitrary lists! What can you tell me about Fe₃O₄? _blank stare_ What can you tell me about Magnetite? A ha!
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by driggs 5y ago
(I already edited my response since what was intended as a joke sounded unintentionally confrontational.) The fact that there are already bad names doesn't justify creating more bad names. If nothing else, I suppose the terrible name
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by driggs 5y ago
Names are NOT just names, unless you believe that all of science should involve rote memorization of arbitrary labels. Calcite is made of calcium. Magnetite is magnetic. Andesite's type locality is The Andes. Azurite is blue (azure). S
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by driggs 5y ago
It makes me sad every time a mineral, chemical, or species is named after some arbitrary human (or worse) because the name is arbitrary, telling you nothing about the thing itself or diagnostic differences from similar things. It’s even wor
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by driggs 5y ago
As a professional software engineer of ~20 years who's dabbled in music for as long as you've dabbled in software, I'm humbled and impressed. Just wanted to say "great job!", and wish you a long, fulfilling career c
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by driggs 5y ago
Given the scope of the universe, and aided by the perspective of photos like these, many would certainly describe this idea - that life has only ever existed and will only ever exist on Earth - as "unbelievable".
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by driggs 6y ago
Wow, Tam Hunt touches on this exact idea in this podcast at ~21:00: https://mattasher.com/2020/07/19/episode-11-tam-hunt-on-cons... He pitches the idea (which I'm poorly paraphrasing) that there's a
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by driggs 6y ago
I didn't "experience nothingness"; I did not experience, full stop. My consciousness did not exist. I had no awareness of the passage of time. There was no observer. No dreams. From my perspective, I teleported from a chair t
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by driggs 6y ago
Pardon my inability to express accurately with words, but I most certainly did not experience oblivion. I am using the word "oblivion" to describe the state of absolutely no experience whatsoever. It was practically religious&#x
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by driggs 6y ago
I've long pondered the idea that consciousness is inherent to all "things" - animal, vegetable, mineral; atom, planet, solar system - in that things experience _being_, whatever that means for a given thing. A recent oral sur
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by driggs 13y ago
Always install an upstream Python in parallel to the OS X provided version if you're doing Python development. Apple custom compiles theirs, and it's always out of date. In fact, there are Mavericks specific bugs in both latest up