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by ggm 2mo ago
Is this a analogous to idempotent behaviour? Of reproducible compilation? If the inputs and outputs aren't sufficient to reproduce one from the other, what is a minimally satisfying description of the middle third, the missing part? Th
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by ggm 3mo ago
Australian ABC iView streaming of "live" news is on significant "anything but live" delay. I can't watch ABC 7:00pm news until 8:00pm because of how the ABC populate their CDN. If this mechanism provided at broadcas
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by ggm 3mo ago
I used one casually at "Systime", a UK DEC OEM. The research department where I had a desk was run by John Bondi, the son of Herman Bondi, a genius Astrophyicist who backed the wrong horse in "steady state" universe theo
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by ggm 3mo ago
> This event, known as the “Great Oxidation Event,” occurred sometime between 2.4 – 2.1 billion years ago. As a passing non sequiteur, I love how we can wind up introducing fractional accuracy to measurements into deep time like this.
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by ggm 3mo ago
There are many paths out from this observation. My principal fear is the ones taken will favour capture by authority models which are not community led, but are impositions of "we badge this acceptable" from above. Badging as acce
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by ggm 3mo ago
I think this is a slow version of the quandry behind Quantum Computing: how do you distinguish events from the noise floor? It happens in the quantum context and it would happen in the millenial timeframe completing "operations" w
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by ggm 3mo ago
So you subscribe to the belief we won't in future find mentalism in other galaxies or solar systems which operate on mechanisms we don't understand and think v e r y s l o w w w w w w w l y ? (note. I am not a believer in AGI) &qu
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by ggm 3mo ago
I can't find any of them now but there was a satirical series of posts on (I suspect usenet before) reddit about life on-board a nuclear submarine as an ordinary sailor. That kind of humour often encodes realities of lived experience.
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by ggm 3mo ago
He put twitching (bird watching) on the map.
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by ggm 3mo ago
I used awk and eqn and t/roff to make a university phone book in the late 80s and early 90s. I was set the task of mimicing the hand-set phototypsetter version from a printout listing. I needed EQN to make giant ellipsis across groups
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by ggm 3mo ago
Put the same energy into championing regulation then. Don't walk away from a mess you claim to have helped create. (which the OP may indeed be doing, but it isn't clear they are, hence the chiding)
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by ggm 3mo ago
Why people do things and what people say decided what they do often differ. I think it very likely reddit want login to old reddit for lots of reasons and the post fact rationalisation to badge it security is the least important one. Money
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by ggm 3mo ago
Sell shovels to Gold diggers
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by ggm 3mo ago
Is this "mechanical"?
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by ggm 3mo ago
I like couching this as "technical debt" into the future. Feels like something which has to be reviewed, the question being "when" not "if"
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by ggm 3mo ago
One of the "made in EU" -This is not a singular codespace.
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by ggm 3mo ago
Reminded me of a VRML demonstrator inside Notre Dame from decades ago. Different approach, similar outcome. (it used surface texture mapping inside a game engine from my memory) A lot more architecture would benefit from being available lik
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by ggm 3mo ago
A reminder any comment about risk FROM china, invites a "Tu Qoque" facing the other way. The paranoia here is probably fully symmetrical. I see massive risks in belief the inferences drawn from strategic information cannot be seen
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by ggm 3mo ago
The prior has a point because 98.89% of the time I type xargs -n 1 -0 and we are deep in the useless pipe argument which Rob Pike amongst others has rehearsed well. I do it because I do it, just like why I use egrep and sed in pipes along w
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by ggm 3mo ago
BSD vs linux with a standards committee inbetween.
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by ggm 3mo ago
Randi was very good at debunking other tricksters. That bootstrapped a lot of respect.
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by ggm 3mo ago
I've never really had crowd fear, but after a crush event at an agricultural fair underpass, I acquired it. Shinjuku just before rush-hour brought it back on, and I basically ran away and sat under a tree for an hour or so. I've b
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by ggm 3mo ago
This kind of furore happens more than you would think amongst nominatively deterministic rationalist groups. Randi broke with people and re-formed, Dawkins has unbelievably heated arguments over frankly nothing . Maybe some of it is inform
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by ggm 3mo ago
find -print0 | xargs -0 -I {} "the {} iterated command"
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by ggm 3mo ago
Under the Australian Torrens title system, paper is no longer authoritative and if you bring a deceased estate title document to the registry they keep it after updating the titles registry database, unless you ask to get it back and it&#x2
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by ggm 3mo ago
Not Artificial Insemination as far as I can see. A single fertilised egg split into 4 viable foetus.
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by ggm 3mo ago
It is commonly held on reddit that the whales on polymarket and kalshi are what in times past would have been called "inside traders" and suffered accordingly. Is this even remotely true? Or just over-stated? Or.. completely un-tr
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by ggm 3mo ago
The Fuji Half-frame digital. It's in the space of the Olympus Trip-35, emulating a half-frame effect, so you get 72 shots on a 36 reel. Obviously this is synthetically overlaid on the digital reality but it has some very fundamental qu
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by ggm 3mo ago
Does this not present an asymmetry which can be exploited in play by play betting or do they build in enough hysteresis to make "The Sting" impossible? 30 seconds is a lifetime.
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by ggm 3mo ago
I would suggest the line from Disney "wargames" (1983) is the apposite one: * The only Winning Move is Not to Play *

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