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901.
by ithkuil 3y ago
It was my biggest concern about the topic in this thread, which I thought was "how dangerous the left can be" to switch I wanted to reply basically "the left poses no danger except to itself" which honestly was never con
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by ithkuil 3y ago
That explains why there is a perception that experts are disconnected from the reality. But that doesn't explain how people can think they can just trash all expertise and think the good parts of the world will keep working just fine.
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by ithkuil 3y ago
This sentiment taps in a generic meme that has infected society of late. Starting from the fact that many professionals made many mistakes over time, the meme trips you into concluding that if there were no people in that category of &quot
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by ithkuil 3y ago
The smaller the pieces get, the more of them (for the same mass). So a title like this makes it hard to gauge of that's a lot of plastic or the problem is that the pieces are very small and whether that's the reason it's a pr
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by ithkuil 3y ago
For reference: " The Australian BHP Iron Ore is the longest train ever recorded in history at approximately 4.6 miles (7.353 km). In the Pilbara region of Western Australia, BHP owns and runs the Mount Newman railway. This is a private
906.
by ithkuil 3y ago
No I think you missed my point. Probably I'm just making a bad job of explaining what I mean. But I also suspect you're been primed to be on the defensive given how many people are attacking liberal values. My point is this: There
907.
by ithkuil 3y ago
Because Occam's razor works but has to work with the actual mechanics of how stuff is formed and processes evolve and not necessarily just by observing the end result
908.
by ithkuil 3y ago
I'm not blaming anti-fascists. We need more anti-fascist people in the world not less. I'm blaming lunatics who happen to also be anti-fascists (or claim to be) that are turning non-fascist people fascists.
909.
by ithkuil 3y ago
The ultimate language will be TPL (the programming language)
910.
by ithkuil 3y ago
Dew
911.
by ithkuil 3y ago
So far the biggest concern I have with the far left is the effect it has in energizing and polarizing and uniting the whole right of center
912.
by ithkuil 3y ago
> function exponents Including negative exponents, namely automated computation of the inverse function!
913.
by ithkuil 3y ago
Yeah I was talking about an API that would expose the file descriptors so you could use sendfile.
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by ithkuil 3y ago
Doesn't chrome remove the user info (or at least the password part) from the URL? (On mobile now cannot check) EDIT: check: it does it only after successful access. If the browser still presents the basic auth window because the backen
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by ithkuil 3y ago
I agree. But on the flip side if you only use functions you can't use them in xargs, parallel etc. So I often so use my own wrapper scripts in a dir in front of PATH and I pay the price of occasionally sharing bad scripts with my cowor
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by ithkuil 3y ago
Except Bald Eagles.
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by ithkuil 3y ago
All you said is true and useful. Just to chime in on a detail: often the "zero-copy" term is used in the context of data "forwarding" use cases (serving data loaded from disks or passed through a proxy etc). The idea the
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by ithkuil 3y ago
I personally don't feel ashamed; I personally just feel annoyed but that's not why I'm complaining. I personally know people who do feel that kind of rhetoric to be a personal attack on their tribe. I don't personally be
919.
by ithkuil 3y ago
> compose and edit the whole text in your mind before writing it down yeah; doesn't that basically mean you have to have "inner speech"?
920.
by ithkuil 3y ago
I'm confused. Are Sumerians, Akkadians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Egyptians, Phoenicians" now suddenly "europeans" just because they are part of the school curriculum that europeans teach to their kids? Most of the "f
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by ithkuil 3y ago
It depends on the amount of severance and the person. Not sure if everybody would prefer to get a couple months worth of severance but have to go through the stress of quickly finding a new job. I find that stressful even if I live in a cou
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by ithkuil 3y ago
Luckily the text editor has been invented giving you the possibility of endlessly editing your sentence until it makes some sense. Only half joking. I'm always impressed by those ancient people who could write long letters by hand in b
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by ithkuil 3y ago
Reminds me of the Laurie and Fry sketch "Your name, sir?" https://youtu.be/hNoS2BU6bbQ?si=YQHAo8mOz1jamSvG
924.
by ithkuil 3y ago
But it only works for numbers 1 and 2 and goes away for bigger numbers. Probably a remnant of the dual case of Proto Indo European
925.
by ithkuil 3y ago
It's pronounced "Go" and written "Go" in prose. It's searched as "Golang" and thus written as "Golang" in places necessary to make search work (titles, keywords, ....) Not all that different
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by ithkuil 3y ago
I don't think we are using the same meaning for the word "jurisdiction". Or has the US declared war on Iran?
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by ithkuil 3y ago
In Croatian (and possibly other related languages) the number two (dva), like one (jedan), declines according to gender and case Jedan prozor, jedna jabuka Dva prozora, dvije jabuke Another unrelated quirk in Croatian (and I don't whic
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by ithkuil 3y ago
They should have allowed a non-us ship to transfer the oil and send it to Iran or whatever. After all it wasn't Iran's fault that the company that moved the oil around was not abiding by the laws of the country they were incorpora
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by ithkuil 3y ago
Was the oil owned by that Greek company or did it actually belong to Iran? If I send a package via DHL and DHL is found guilty of something and the package is confiscated by the US government in the process, can the US government just sell
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by ithkuil 3y ago
Reminds me of Martha Wells' sci-fi novel series Murderbot Diaries, and the corporations in the Corporation Rim

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