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by eadmund 3y ago
> Can we agree to stop raising animals >specifically< for killing and consumption? No, because we omnivores enjoy eating animals, and there are not enough which die of natural causes to go around, and many natural causes make the m
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by eadmund 3y ago
> I can live a perfectly happy, healthy life without eating animals. That’s completely false: a life without bacon is less happy than a life with bacon, and thus imperfectly happy. > So ethically, how is eating meat any different th
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by eadmund 3y ago
> But very few actually want to put on the enormous amount of work needed to improve YAML or create a new language. No need to create a new language: S-expressions have existed for longer than I’ve been alive. > IMO if there was somet
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by eadmund 3y ago
> What government policy would allow for a 2k apartment building and not a $500 apartment building? Bans on single room occupancy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_room_occupancy Requirements for parking spots.
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by eadmund 3y ago
> i honestly dont know why anyone would use Calyx when GrapheneOS exists. CalyxOS supports more models of phone than does GrapheneOS. Not a lot more, but more.
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by eadmund 3y ago
A lot of older X11 apps support -class for this. I use X window classes to differentiate between all of my Firefox instances. No idea if Wayland even supports the idea of window classes (so that I can raise the instance I need with a singl
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by eadmund 3y ago
Landlords contribute plenty to society: they provide optionality. Without landlords, folks would be forced to pay or borrow hundreds of thousands of dollars ahead of time to build or purchase homes[0]; they would be forced to incur more se
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by eadmund 3y ago
I wonder what the unintended consequences of this would be. If congressmen make less from trading stocks, where will they instead make money, or what will they do instead of make money? Full disclosure: I think that the idea of ‘insider tr
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by eadmund 3y ago
> Lisp has had decades to break out of its niche if it delivered a really advantageous solution, but somehow that never happened. I think a huge part of it is that it is not immediately obvious that one needs what Lisp offers, and by the
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by eadmund 3y ago
> >This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the J
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by eadmund 3y ago
> if you take the Justice Thomas approach that all the rules are made up Why the out-of-nowhere attack on the judge who adheres most closely to the law and the Constitution? With respect to the matter at hand, I think that your analysis
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by eadmund 3y ago
> The federal government has absolute authority and supremacy on this matter No, it really doesn’t. It has absolute authority over interstate commerce and federal property, among other powers. It has no constitutional authority to regu
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by eadmund 3y ago
> Lol I am 100% sure that the majority of lisps cannot be aot compiled. CL-USER> (defun foobar (x) (1+ x)) FOOBAR CL-USER> (disassemble #'foobar) ; disassembly for FOOBAR ; Size: 35 bytes. Origin: #x5365B
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by eadmund 3y ago
> Really what this convo is doing is underscoring for me how there really is nothing more to be learned from lisp - I had a lingering doubt that I'd missed some aspect but you guys are all repeating the same thing over and over. No,
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by eadmund 3y ago
No, it’s not: an exception unwinds the stack all the way up to where the exception is caught. By the time the enclosing Python pseudo-REPL sees the undefined function error, all the intervening stack frames have dissolved. The way it work
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by eadmund 3y ago
I think that you’re just restating the Blub point of view. You look back on the tech stacks of the past, and can see how they were worse than the ones we have today, but looking at the ones today you think that there are no more improvemen
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by eadmund 3y ago
Quicklisp doesn’t need to support TLS, but it does need to support authentication of some sort. Signing files would be good enough.
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by eadmund 3y ago
> VS Code has the remote server extensions as well, which are seamless … No other editor has this experience. Emacs has TRAMP. > it supports rich graphics Emacs supports graphics in a GUI. I view PNGs and PDFs in it all the time. &gt
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by eadmund 3y ago
> It's mainly that the core editor is Emacs What’s the problem with that? Emacs is, on balance, the best editor and ecosystem. Nothing else comes close, and time spent on anything else is ultimately wasted. > I don't think
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by eadmund 3y ago
Some might wonder if he’s been effectively working for Microsoft all along. I don’t think that’s really fair. Both PulseAudio & Systemd are trying to do something really useful and make things better than they were before … but man
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by eadmund 3y ago
> It is not hard to say “they”, “person”, “people”. Not hard, but incorrect.
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by eadmund 3y ago
> What formed your understanding? Articles like https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/05/millenn... and https://www.cato.org/commentary/american-wealth-machine-its-...
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McMaster University’s Imaginary Sex Ring(quillette.com)
1 points by eadmund 3y ago|0 comments
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by eadmund 3y ago
> Gen Z’s economic outlook is bleak That really depends on what one means by ‘outlook.’ If one means their perception of the present and future, then yeah, it’s bleak. But if one means their actual present and likely future, then my un
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by eadmund 3y ago
No, ‘they’ is never correctly used for a known single human being. In some styles of English it is acceptable for an unknown human being, for example ‘if someone enters here, ask them what they are doing.’
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by eadmund 3y ago
> Passkeys are synchronized across devices using services you already use and trust, like iCloud Keychain from Apple, Google Password Manager, and 1Password. I don’t trust any of those, and it’s weird that anyone does.
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The Fatal Conceit and Effective Altruism(graboyes.substack.com)
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by eadmund 3y ago
> the problem is that DNS providers and any intermediary that can MitM have been applying content filtering at the DNS level. It can also be used to track users to an extent. DoH is necessary to reduce the set of parties who are able to
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by eadmund 3y ago
> Like at some point we have to be like DNS being a service provided by the system to apps was mostly a historical accident or an idea for a network model that never really panned out. I think that I prefer the network model where I the
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An Alabama Kidnapping That’s Stranger Than Fiction(gardenandgun.com)
1 points by eadmund 3y ago|0 comments

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