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by enasterosophes 3y ago
It wasn't obvious to me until I read God-Emperor. God-Emperor is the key to understanding exactly what Dune is about. These days when I re-read all six books (as I do maybe every five years or so), the original trilogy just ends up fee
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by enasterosophes 3y ago
"Tech journalists writing about technology is interesting, reports tech journalist."
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I'm interested to see what it looks like once you do piece your thoughts together. Then again, by that point, you may have decided to stop sharing your thoughts altogether, so maybe I'm in the goldilocks zone of everything you wil
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by enasterosophes 3y ago
You're just running into the fact that people often spurt jargon as a shorthand because they're trying to quickly get a point across to other people who have encountered the same jargon before. Everyone in the industry knows that
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by enasterosophes 3y ago
I wonder if you're posting about our "real" identities, as they're understood by our immediate family, in-person friends, colleagues, banks, and governments; or online interactions in general, even when some form of anon
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by enasterosophes 3y ago
I remember about 15 years ago I found myself feeling weird because I wanted everything dark, and the consensus was that everything should be kept light. Sometime in the period 2010-2020 that swung around in the other direction. I don't
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by enasterosophes 3y ago
Thanks, nice link. I recall hearing or reading somewhere that Einstein leaned heavily on Caratheodory for the more difficult math, and I had a strong hunch that something like general relativity would have emerged within the next decade fro
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by enasterosophes 3y ago
Interesting, thanks for the nuanced explanation. Based on various things I saw over the last few years I thought it must be cut-and-dry, but no doubt the reporting erred on the sensational side.
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by enasterosophes 3y ago
yeah, I understand that bias from the general population who don't read scifi :) When I was a kid I liked Asimov's Child of Time .
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So you think the odds are against it? I think that seems like a strong take, but I'm not an expert in the field. In as much as I can see why "no significant intelligence" is the null hypothesis, I'd still be inclined to
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by enasterosophes 3y ago
I thought it was already well established that neanderthals were cognitively on par with modern humans, and may even have been more intelligent? While it's not uninteresting that we now have evidence for them making complex adhesives,
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by enasterosophes 3y ago
Sounds like an XY problem. You have a problem with the place where you work (Y), and you ask for help regarding good feelings about managers (X). Do you really think developing good feelings towards your managers is the secret to job sati
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by enasterosophes 3y ago
I have a look at the contract to see what extras they want from my time not covered by normal work hours. Treat it like an options contract: if they want to option my future time, for example expecting me to do things (or not do things) aft
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by enasterosophes 3y ago
aha, thanks! Now that I know what to look for, I realize I could have found it by switching to the Bills & Legislation tab in the aph search results, which prunes out a few of the false-positives.
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by enasterosophes 3y ago
I'm having trouble finding any primary sources for the change itself. I don't think everyone is talking about the 2023 Closing Loopholes act? https://www.legislation.gov.au/C2023A00120/latest/text I also
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by enasterosophes 3y ago
More accurate title: Advertisement for a book I wrote in which I give homework to the readers, framed as an observation that books don't work for accurately and reliably imprinting large amounts of data into human long-term memory.
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by enasterosophes 3y ago
Me too! I have a feeling that maybe Anathem appeals to the kind of people who themselves would be pushed into a math at a young age, like Barb. If I was on Arbre, there is no way I would have been tolerated in Sæcular society beyond my 11
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by enasterosophes 3y ago
Although a lot of the hype around LLMs right now will prove to be premature, there is one uncontroversial "killer app" for GPT-alikes: semantic compression . Input a bunch of text, output summaries and answer queries about it. On
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by enasterosophes 3y ago
Interesting that they included Cryptonomicon , which is arguably more about IT than mathematics, but they failed to include Stephenson's Anathem [1]: a book about people who live in monasteries called "maths" [2], who spen
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by enasterosophes 3y ago
That's not a new release of authelia. Authelia's releases are at https://github.com/authelia/authelia/releases The updates to the AUR package were not about new releases since 2022: aur/authelia
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by enasterosophes 3y ago
Why wouldn't it be for real? Given the context of the post, the uid info is likely populated from a central source. I log into one box anywhere in their infrastructure and see who has what uids, it is evidence about who is permitted to
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by enasterosophes 3y ago
Since we're a puppet shop, the user account definitions are largely (albeit not exclusively) kept in hiera (i.e. yaml), tracked in Git. We haven't used this for the purpose of writing epitaphs, but we could . In fact, since such
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by enasterosophes 3y ago
I'm curious about opinions that this is part of a trope or pattern I sometimes notice in English: we can interpret "The Tortured Poets Department" as kind of a more euphonious way of writing "The Department of Tortured P
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by enasterosophes 3y ago
Speedbumps have been appearing everywhere around my neighborhood. What's unfathomable to me is that in a 40 zone I am expected to regularly waste fuel braking down to 10 so that I can get over the speedbumps.
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by enasterosophes 3y ago
For anyone looking at this, I recommend following the links through the whole email thread, I wasn't disappointed :)
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by enasterosophes 3y ago
Hmm, I see. I think those problems of fraily often accrue from causes other than age, so it's not how I would have framed it, but it's possible you're right. Thanks for the extra perspective compared to my assumptions.
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by enasterosophes 3y ago
"Fear begins when you realize you can die. Fear ends when you accept that you will die." Something else I ponder, which helps, is that since life is not well-defined, then neither is death. We perceive a difference, but it is fu
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by enasterosophes 3y ago
As someone in an English-speaking country, I expect my colleagues to have good English. We operate a helpdesk where clear communication is essential. Internally, we need to be able to quickly coordinate with each other on highly technical p
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by enasterosophes 3y ago
When I learned graph theory, the prevailing understanding was that graphs are mathematical abstractions of networks. Most people have an intuitive understanding that there is some underlying principle of connectivity which make "comput
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by enasterosophes 3y ago
I saw something else pass through hacker news today which looks relevant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39170399 "A Unified Theory of Fucks." The conclusion is that when you find you've stopped caring,

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