em-bee

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by em-bee 9mo ago
my repeated fantasies are a blind person with a reinforced version of their stick, using that stick to great effect to damage cars that are parked on the sidewalk. like, when they bump into a car they take the stick an beat the car for all
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by em-bee 9mo ago
indeed. my credit card requires me to preload money from my bank account. it's like there is a second account that keeps a balance that i can spend using the credit card. whenever i use it, the balance is updated. how the credit is pai
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by em-bee 9mo ago
wasn't slack initially built on top of IRC? they had at least support for IRC clients, much like google message or however it was called at the time used to support jabber/XMPP clients. well, there is another alternative, namely t
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by em-bee 9mo ago
we need to differentiate two things here: using discord as the only way to reach a project and find documentation about it. the author mentions sending private messages right after joining. i would not have joined discord to do that, i&#x27
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by em-bee 9mo ago
i don't know if that makes sense but it could be interesting to split the views of any point into multiple segments, and then for each segment find the largest distance. next between two of these largest views find the shortest view. i
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by em-bee 9mo ago
it's possible to integrate jitsi in such a way that the chat has a function that will open a jitsi room and share the link to that. on irc this could be a bot. for people used to irc that's seamless enough. for something more conv
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by em-bee 9mo ago
what if you put a limit on it? like only a dozen views per point, and only views that are at least 100km. or only do this for peaks or points of interest. or some combination like more views for higher peaks, less for lower ones.
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by em-bee 9mo ago
not just like to follow, but are forced to follow.
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by em-bee 9mo ago
how close is this to the theoretical maximum? if we put mt. everest on a sperical cow, i mean on a planet with only ocean, how far could you see there? how far away could a second peak of the same height be, before it gets hidden by the cur
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by em-bee 9mo ago
I had noooo idea how much my interpretation of the world had been shaped by prior lived experience this is an interesting point. it's very true of course. there is probably some philosophical or biological explanation for this, somet
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by em-bee 9mo ago
does it really matter? it's a good topic either way. actually it's even better because it isn't about AI.
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by em-bee 9mo ago
yes of course, language is by nature an abstraction, so by definition it will never describe the whole world perfectly, but it can describe it as well as we understand it. and the point that matters, once we have a shared experience we can
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by em-bee 9mo ago
I don't think the lack of a durable chain of custody really provides any protection creating a fake video about a protest is going to upset those that want to hide the protest just as much.
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by em-bee 9mo ago
ok, fair point. what i am trying to say is that when we see/experience something that we can not describe we can create new words for it. we see something, we can name it. this directly contradicts the idea that language is the limit a
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by em-bee 9mo ago
the way i read the quote it felt less like building an abstraction and more like destroying the richness. but abstractions are mere shortcuts. but everything is an abstraction. to counter wittgenstein, language is not actually limited. we c
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by em-bee 9mo ago
funny, i feel the same about most pop music from the last few decades. human created repetitive junk without originality.
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by em-bee 9mo ago
can you explain that please? as far as i can tell trump is all about not trusting people but aggressively enforcing arbitrary rules no matter the cost. exactly what i am criticizing.
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by em-bee 9mo ago
telling the AI what kind of music i want is not a story? what if i write the lyrics and use AI to add music? or if i use AI to create a song but then play and sing the song with my own instruments and voice? is reciting music not also art?
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by em-bee 9mo ago
and what is this quote supposed to explain? that language prevents a child from learning nuance? sounds like nonsense to me. a child first learns broad categories. for example some children as they learn to speak think every male person is
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by em-bee 9mo ago
to aggressively detect and interdict fraud is fascistic, because being aggressive hurts those that want to do it right but are not trusted. an aspect of fascism is to not trust its own people.
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by em-bee 9mo ago
citizens have a right to be heard by their government.
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by em-bee 9mo ago
i am not necessarily agreeing with any of the opinions shared above. when someone jumps into a thread like i did this can easily be missed. so please forget all of that discussion, as it is not relevant to my argument. i am a different comm
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by em-bee 9mo ago
Ask the capitalists for even more money? yes, all that profit they are making should be invested into the future of our society. globally. poor people don't send their kids to school because school costs money, which they don't
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by em-bee 9mo ago
grep with equivalent performance? i highly doubt that. my mailbox has 2.6M emails: running grep through millions of files if you use maildir or a similar format takes forever. likewise running grep on a 7.6GB large mbox file takes more than
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by em-bee 9mo ago
how much swap do you have? i have 16GB now, and 16GB ram. i had a machine before with 48GB ram. obviously having more ram and no swap should perform better than the same amount of memory split into ram and swap.
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by em-bee 9mo ago
this. i don't even want swap for my apps. they allocate to much memory as it is. i'd rather they be killed when the memory runs out or simply be prevented from allocating memory that's not there. the kind of apps that can be
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by em-bee 9mo ago
the original pull request was an email to the upstream developer to run "git pull your-repo your-branch". the concept is at least as old as git itself, possibly even older. github just created a webinterface for it.
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by em-bee 9mo ago
small markets are less interesting/valuable. it makes a difference if i can sell my product to 10 million people vs 100 million. so working together makes the whole area more attractive.
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by em-bee 9mo ago
but making it not simple raises the cost and thus reduces the value. evaluation of projects is probably more expensive than the tax income lost from projects that should not be considered of public benefit.
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by em-bee 9mo ago
the problem here is where to draw the line. the thing is though, a perfect line can't be drawn. i can still read your code, and learn something from it. so there is some benefit. the question is how do we measure benefit? you could als

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