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by fsloth 3y ago
That’s quite demanding. If one is in a dark place then one surely must first light one’s own path before reaching out? Augh, sorry about the horrible poetics. What I meant to say there is IMO nothing wrong in utilizing meditative practice f
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by fsloth 3y ago
The perfect Skinner box.
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by fsloth 3y ago
That’s a Russian invented lie. The conflict is not a civil war.
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by fsloth 3y ago
Apple TV is excellent? Is there a better device? (If you don’t want to use the apps bundled with tv).
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by fsloth 3y ago
A high end VR/XR display like Varjo does feel like a new ux paradigm if the device has low latency and high resolution and good software. Given how long Apple has been at this I would bet they’ve come up with something that is of exp
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by fsloth 3y ago
The war in Ukraine is pretty clear cut for a modern conflict. It's colonial war with a disturbingly high component of genocidal intent of eradicating Ukrainian culture and identity. It's as black and white as wars get.
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by fsloth 3y ago
Happy this helps!
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by fsloth 3y ago
1. Download lua sources https://www.lua.org/download.html 2. Define your build for the sources (just compile them! No dependencies! Brilliant!) (don't compile lua.c and luac.c if you provide your own main) 3. Integrate
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by fsloth 3y ago
I can warmly recommend Tom Holland's captivating "Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World" for the history of how christianity diverged from judaism and became the dominant religion in the west.
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by fsloth 3y ago
"The thing is, that you don't want such things, at least for higher speeds..." Verge cycle has a wheel mounted engine and from what I can tell it's not exactly "slow": https://www.vergemotorcycles.co
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by fsloth 3y ago
"Intellectually demanding" was a poor choice of word. I meant to say something along the lines "does not require to invent anything new" - which a railroad engineer does not need to do. That does not mean work they do is
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by fsloth 3y ago
Exactly.
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by fsloth 3y ago
The person who shoveled coal to a steam locomotive was called a railroad engineer. I guess the distinguishing feature here is how much capital is tied to the process and how much value it creates - not how intellectually demanding it is a
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by fsloth 3y ago
This. You can start at any age and it's not about accomplishing something, just offering your body a specific amount of aerobic and resistance training workload. You don't owe this to anyone and you don't need to measure up t
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by fsloth 4y ago
IMO there is nothing “natural” in interpreting complex numbers as a vector. The fact you get a thing out of them that looks a lot like a vector is one of the stupefying ‘mysteries’ of math which make the discipline so cool. Complex numbers
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Kim Dotcom trying to silence a critic(twitter.com)
5 points by fsloth 4y ago|3 comments
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by fsloth 4y ago
An interesting topic from the point of view of Mr. Musk trying to position Twitter as a "freedom of speech" platform. Mr. Kallioniemi has had a long thread of threads in Twitter higlighting parties spreading pro-Kremlin propaganda
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by fsloth 4y ago
For expanding humanitys footprint to non-terrestrial areas. In a sustainable way. The only way to do that is learn bit by bit what works and what not. It's too complex problem to completely tackle by preplanning (unless we reach singu
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by fsloth 4y ago
A plamipsest diatribe drenched in nihilistic snobbery, but very, very entertaining one.
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by fsloth 4y ago
As a programmer I’m happy to use a locked in box in my free time that does with a push of a button exactly the thing a vendor promised. It sounds like you imagine all compute devices should be generalized compute platforms. Which IMO is as
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by fsloth 4y ago
Many choose Apple exactly because of the tight platform integration. There is no one true method of general computing.
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by fsloth 4y ago
This sounds like a false dichtomy. If the protagonist is adding value, letting them use chat-gpt should be viewed as increasing their value output x-fold. Chat-gpt makes mistakes and hallucinates. You will still need a human in an editorial
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by fsloth 4y ago
I don’t think customization is the right way to think about this. I was thinking about structures such as facades for multi-storey multitenant buildings. I don’t think consumers will want to 3d print their porches. On the other hand, if eco
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by fsloth 4y ago
Advanced manufacturing and digital design technologies the very least will increase the range of styles that are economical to implement.
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by fsloth 4y ago
"..all the operations are specified to deterministically produce the same bit-exact results on all hardware..." You have to block floating point calculations as well if that is your intent.
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by fsloth 4y ago
The difference between the king of Thailand and Xi Jinping is that the former is basically a cultural institution, while the latter is a political figure who uses repression and censorship to consolidate power. Xi's power grab is not p
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by fsloth 4y ago
Being offended, and censoring are two different things. Free speech should allow speech that offends people.
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by fsloth 4y ago
Thanks for adding more context, but I think your framing of the motivation makes the situation far worse. "...That’s all there is to it." Regardless of motivation, bowing to authoritarian control is still bowing to authoritarian c
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by fsloth 4y ago
Raspberry Pi could include that with Mathematica in their default OS install :) I guess they are still a bit too heavy for small ARM boards but they are probably implemented in a way that is amenable to lots of systems engineering / de
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by fsloth 4y ago
<<Plays South Park episode "Banned in China".>> It turns out authoritarian power and capital markets can be scary effective. I don't think authoritarian systems are as dynamic and innovative as democratic ones, bu

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