garyrob

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by garyrob 2y ago
OK, I'll bite. But this is the last time. With regard to the first thing you quoted, I was pointing out that you believe that scientists who are on an extreme of disagreeing with what you want to hear should make a statement saying the
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by garyrob 2y ago
Uh-huh.
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by garyrob 2y ago
> For example, James Hansen predicted the west side highway in NY would be underwater by 2008. I don't want Hansen stripped of any credentials or anything like that. But it's reasonable for me to ask that he make a public state
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by garyrob 2y ago
Sorry, but I reflect a LOT. I'm well aware of the media's limitations the limitations of scientists and that, for example, the CDC is wrong at times. But the situation being discussed is not comparable. I understand however, that
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by garyrob 2y ago
I understand that people on the right believe that to be true. But, in fact, things like anthropogenic climate change that the right refused to acknowledge, and believed that the media was lying to them about, are true. It matters what is a
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by garyrob 2y ago
I understand. But what I'm hoping for feedback about is: would I lose a lot of potential users of my utility if I write it in Python and require them to have uv, pipx, etc.? Because I could write it in Rust and just provide it as an ex
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by garyrob 2y ago
Feedback requested: while I see that there is a bit of controversy about the author's using uv, I am wondering how much of a barrier that really is. Suppose someone were to write a Python terminal app such that the docs required uv OR
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by garyrob 2y ago
Just gotta say that's an excellent quote from dang, who I never heard of before.
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by garyrob 2y ago
Same here
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by garyrob 2y ago
One of my all-time favorite movies.
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by garyrob 2y ago
> For a long time I've been thinking about building one based on relays. When I was in 7th grade, around 55 years ago, I used a relay to make what was, both literally and figuratively, a 2-bit computer. Got an A+ on the math class p
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by garyrob 2y ago
Er... the Onion is satire. Satire is not defamation because no one with any sense thinks it's true. InfoWars was not satire. Rather, it constantly lied.
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by garyrob 2y ago
Interesting. I have found occasion to use it for pretty much every Mac I've owned since the 1980s! I'm not sure how much money it's saved compared to just paying for repairs when needed, but I suspect it may come out to: 1) a
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by garyrob 2y ago
Yeah, I always have AppleCare. I view it as part of the cost of a mac (or iPhone). And yeah, this incident reminded me of why it's important to back up as close to daily as you can, or even more often during periods when you're do
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by garyrob 2y ago
"I've had this laptop since release in 2020 and I have nearly 0 complaints with it." Me too. Only one complaint. After I accidentally spilled a cup of water into it on an airplane, it didn't work. (However AppleCare fixe
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by garyrob 2y ago
If you don't love js/ts maybe you'd like Civet, which transpiles to js/ts and has Astro integration. (No relationship, I've just been looking at it myself.) https://civet.dev
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by garyrob 2y ago
But do they like an arrow?
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by garyrob 2y ago
"Spectical sounds like an improvement over skeptical since it implies that you keep looking and don't just dismiss. If this was a typo we should consider a coinage and run with it." I love it! I seriously may use it.
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by garyrob 2y ago
No, they weren't local. I have no idea where they came from. I couldn't even delete them, but when I added the Google servers, they autofilled ones were automatically deleted.
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by garyrob 2y ago
After upgrading to Sequoia, I could not browse with Safari or Mozilla. What fixed it for me was to go to the DNS settings for my Wi-Fi connection, and add Google's DNS servers (8.8.8.8. and 8.8.4.4). They replaced the autofilled DNS se
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by garyrob 2y ago
I see a comment saying it used "basic React state code". So its output is based on React as well as Supabase? Or might it uses different base technologies depending on what it thinks is best for what it's building?
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by garyrob 2y ago
" This is PalmOS, a solution that is too early to the market." But Apple has the resources to keep supporting and evolving it in response to user feedback until it can be cheap enough for mass use, at which point, if they don&#x27
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by garyrob 2y ago
Thanks for all this info! I appreciate it.
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by garyrob 2y ago
How small can a .NET binary for a CLI application be using .NET? Any special instructions for compiling one? (Sorry that this is offtopic but I had the impression that .NET binaries were big so I thought I'd take this opportunity to as
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by garyrob 2y ago
Yeah. That's similar to my thoughts. But only 2 contributors and no update in 3 months. And there are a number of open issues with zero responses. I'm not in a position to contribute myself. I don't know enough about compilin
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by garyrob 2y ago
Borgo is an interesting attempt to address some of these issues. I would love it to get real traction. https://github.com/borgo-lang/borgo
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An AI that unexpectedly modified its own source code(arstechnica.com)
25 points by garyrob 2y ago|21 comments
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by garyrob 2y ago
Maybe this could be used with the Evolutionary Algorithm subset known as Genetic Programming, originally popularized by John Koza in the 80s?
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Previously unknown source of oxygen found; implications for life origins?(theguardian.com)
5 points by garyrob 2y ago|1 comments
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by garyrob 2y ago
I read What Is Life many years ago. Had a major effect on how I see life, including the nature of consciousness (at least as hypothesis). And it's a relatively short, enjoyable read as well. Highly recommended.

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