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by hprotagonist 2y ago
it helps. That's a subsidiarity thing, too -- pastorates that are too long will create personality cults, but "too long" is a joint decision that is largely made by the local community and its leadership -- and in situations
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by hprotagonist 2y ago
An episcopate really is a good governance structure. It’s got enough form to be able to do stuff, but not so much that the subsidiarity of local concerns is abandoned. You see things like it arise in a variety of guises and in a variety of
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by hprotagonist 2y ago
secureshellfish or blink.sh; remote to a real computer, treat your ipad as a thin client.
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by hprotagonist 2y ago
in ~2009 or so -- right after the housing crash -- i remember reading about people who were collecting all-copper pennies and storing them in anticipation of when the penny becomes deprecated and the metal becomes salable. Guess they'r
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by hprotagonist 2y ago
It’s like going to a liquor store and being able to choose between cask strength scotch, cask strength bourbon, ovenproof rum, and everclear. And prebottled mocktails. Shit man, sometimes i just want a beer…
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by hprotagonist 2y ago
yt-dlp audio only, and stuff that into whisper: video to text in ~30 seconds.
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by hprotagonist 2y ago
i self host fressrss, and use reeder on ios and the browser elsewhere.
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by hprotagonist 2y ago
Strawberry? With two “r”s?
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by hprotagonist 2y ago
Lots of people say this. Then they come to fighter practice, and when they can walk again, they tend to rethink their position. The overall fitness level of reenactors isn't great! Granted freely! but: skill does mean something. Most
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by hprotagonist 2y ago
"ground the spear and receive a charge" is spear knowledge 101 in HEMA communities. A butt-spike helps. It works so well that you're generally not allowed to do it in the full contact rulesets, because it's counterproduc
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by hprotagonist 2y ago
Reminds me somewhat of capabilities: http://habitatchronicles.com/2017/05/what-are-capabilities/
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by hprotagonist 2y ago
I had a conversation with my advisor some years ago, who did his doctorate at MIT in the early 70s. I opined that MIT was now trading on their name harder, standards were slipping, people weren’t as hot shit now as they obviously were in hi
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by hprotagonist 2y ago
The second thing is, I think, the problem of personality defects. Now I'll cite a fellow whom I met out in Irvine. He had been the head of a computing center and he was temporarily on assignment as a special assistant to the president
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by hprotagonist 2y ago
I like these aliases best: https://magit.vc/manual/magit-refcard.pdf
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by hprotagonist 2y ago
but, i have org-mode already!
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by hprotagonist 2y ago
there’s a semi famous tumblr post on this, involving words for mentally disabled students in high schools. i can’t find it offhand though, but the idea’s the same.
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by hprotagonist 2y ago
you can write the grammars in swift now, not javascript.
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by hprotagonist 2y ago
and the circle is complete: https://fennel-lang.org
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by hprotagonist 2y ago
> I believe that all infrastructure built on Torch is just a huge pile of technical debt, that will haunt the field for a long, long time. ... from the company that pioneered the approach with tensorflow. I've worked with worse ML
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by hprotagonist 2y ago
1.6 million km/h is 0.001483c, or roughly 0.1%. Which is pretty darn quick for something that, if it's something like a brown dwarf, weighs between 10 - 80 times as much as Jupiter.
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by hprotagonist 2y ago
The bit on test coverage is particularly good: https://corecursive.com/066-sqlite-with-richard-hipp/#testin... : Let’s not dwell on the details, but I had this idea, I’m going to write tests to bring SQLite up to the
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by hprotagonist 2y ago
only in sector C
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by hprotagonist 2y ago
and the oft-forgotten third clause: “…and speed is the efficiency of motion.” Move only what needs to be moved, and you save a lot of gas. Or as a mentor of mine is fond of saying, “slow down! we’re in a hurry here!”
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by hprotagonist 2y ago
Mr. C. reminds me rather a lot of a current candidate for vice president.
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Who Goes Nazi? (1941)(harpers.org)
67 points by hprotagonist 2y ago|29 comments
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I met a traveller from an antique land, Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert...
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by hprotagonist 2y ago
I liked the anagram map. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Underground_anagram_map finding a high quality SVG version in 2006 before it got taken down was a point of some pride for me at the time. I probably have
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by hprotagonist 2y ago
the -er shortening ending is one of several in UK english. (see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_%22-er%22 ) "tradie" is the variant i encounter more often, though.
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by hprotagonist 2y ago
i’m not saying that.
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by hprotagonist 2y ago
I’m saying this: if you reduce persons to the status of things, you are going to get people treated like things. And every single time that’s a recipe for disaster.

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