growlNark

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by growlNark 1y ago
Equally, I would argue the Louis Vuitton set is not worth mentioning. One of the benefits of living in modern society is not having to look to the rich for signals of taste.
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by growlNark 1y ago
> Shaves seconds off the time it takes you to write an address? Presumably it'd be pretty nice if you lost touch with someone.
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by growlNark 1y ago
> empiricism is useless if you need a galaxy-scale particle accelerator. I would say it's just not available more than that it's useless—albeit, only not available in theory .
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by growlNark 1y ago
I think with the linguistic turn the idea of a "correct opinion" feels a bit archaic. Sure, if you can truly glean the semantics and connotations of the language, you can feel confident their view is coherent, that they cohere w
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by growlNark 1y ago
Yup. "Platforms" are a very shallow expression of the internet's social and economic potential. Unfortunately, I don't see a great way to reverse this dynamic. Thoughtful, meaningful content tends to contradict the tenet
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by growlNark 1y ago
> The internet’s shift toward tribal, memetic behavior I don't actually see the internet as very tribal at all compared to meatspace; in fact, I see it as one of the, if not the most , anti-tribalist force to have ever existed as a
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by growlNark 1y ago
Does this affect CMD-TAB functionality? That's the only thing I really use the dock for.
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by growlNark 1y ago
Sure, but what are you comparing it against? C is certainly more straightforward to internalize than the semantics of C++, or Python. Many of the corners of C understanding come with inherently abstruse backgrounds: say, accessing fenced me
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by growlNark 1y ago
> I'm comfortable saying if a foreign nation rolls military vehicles across a border and starts shelling apartment buildings, those buildings' residents have every right to assert their existence with violence. Of course, I hav
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by growlNark 1y ago
Only because the state asserts their existence with violence. We certainly have little-to-no say in how the states in which we live behave, but we're all subject to their whims. Personally, I have little patience for the pretense that
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by growlNark 1y ago
No disagreement here; I also fundamentally question the cardinal indexing and conflation between table and array. But it's at least internally consistent and certainly makes more sense than mandatorily indexing arrays with floating poi
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by growlNark 1y ago
I don't think this is about in-group, out-group behavior. This is about how well you can look up claims on the internet and what recourse you have to evaluate these claims when there's conflict. Anyway, how much do Afrikaners real
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by growlNark 1y ago
Having a favorite language is weird (to me). They're tools, and some are more effective and usable than others, and some are better suited to some tasks than others. But, equivalently, of course I'm going to criticize a hammer if
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by growlNark 1y ago
> no one would complain about a US bank not doing money exchange business with entities in the Ukraine or Belarus Frankly, it's none of my state's damn business who I exchange money with. Their beef with other states is their p
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by growlNark 1y ago
Whatever happened to just vibing in the moment without a thought in the world? Just let it happen.
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by growlNark 1y ago
> Every language has warts. Yea, and then there's javascript (or typescript if you prefer), the C++ of scripting languages. It's sometimes difficult to see any value through the warts. (Unless you're paid to, of course.)
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by growlNark 1y ago
Sure, if you compare via semantics Lua and Javascript make sense to liken. But in terms of complexity, Lua is far more like C. There's no unfucking all the horrible decisions baked into javascript and I wouldn't touch it with a ni
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by growlNark 1y ago
Yes, I agree completely. I think the apriori/aposteriori distinction is always worth making though. This really does matter a lot more when floating signifiers get involved; I'm not actually contesting that our models of electrica
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by growlNark 1y ago
> I think this too easily skips over the fact that the abstractions are based on a knowledge of how things actually work - known with certainty. models ≠ knowledge, and a high degree of certainty is not certainty. This is tiring.
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by growlNark 1y ago
> but imagining that people are going to pay full price for news is unrealistic. Imagining that people use their brains is also unrealistic. Presumably I'm talking to the remaining people in the room. If paying full-price for the ne
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by growlNark 1y ago
> Does AI finally enable truly humane interfaces? Perhaps, but I don't think we're going to see evidence of this for quite a while. It would be really cool if the computer adapted to how you naturally want to use it, though, wi
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by growlNark 1y ago
> Super and hyper are roughly synonyms Perhaps you're right in terms of how they're leveraged in today's society. I'll drop my pedantry.
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by growlNark 1y ago
I'm surprised they only demanded $20M. Surely that customer data is potentially worth, like, potentially orders-of-magnitude more. Correspondingly I'd assume either a) paying the ransom doesn't take it off the market or b) th
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by growlNark 1y ago
Substack? Independent journalism? Pay-what-you-want? Donation-funded publications? I'm not saying I have a solution, just that that's "ads" are bad place to start. I certainly read plenty of non-advertisement-based cover
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by growlNark 1y ago
Sure, but "hyper"? Is there any reason other than that it sounds cooler than "super"? What are we going to do when we hit mach 11, start talking about "hyperhypersonic"? "superhypersonic"?
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by growlNark 1y ago
Ads fundamentally contradict the role of news. You don't want to get your news from an organization that has two customer bases.
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by growlNark 1y ago
> hypersonic This is a meaningless term. There's just varying degrees supersonic. "hyper" implies a completely different thing. EDIT: apparently the military has bastardized the term
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by growlNark 1y ago
> Netflix should try out a free tier which is entirely monetised by ads. Even if it only contains a subset of their library. Wait, people are paying to be advertised to ? It's like we learned nothing from newspapers.
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by growlNark 1y ago
I've not had netflix for years, and I can't say I miss it at all.
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by growlNark 1y ago
> This is why we should have laws If you can figure out a way to make congress to do anything but waste space and time, let us all know. Maybe states (e.g. California, not the normal sense of the term) can regulate some sanity into Tesla

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