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by javajosh 4y ago
David Hume identified the useful distinction between is and ought. For most of my life I've adhered to this idea - however I've come to believe, against my own protests, that the universe does, in fact, embed something like a mora
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by javajosh 4y ago
Stale is bad. Asymptotically approaching stale is great.
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by javajosh 4y ago
In the event of a collapse of course the depositors will be made whole, especially after they've showed such courage.
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by javajosh 4y ago
This is a pretty big win for Graphene - nice work. That link mentioned 3/20 as the date Google will release a patch.
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by javajosh 4y ago
Totally agree. Either that or they should be forced to change the wording from "buy" to "conditionally gain access subject to revocation at any time for any reason without recourse".
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by javajosh 4y ago
This is valuable. But the value is hidden because the "key" is at the bottom, not at the top. This page's value is that it shows you what device fonts are available (and in use), but that's not clear (enough). (And this
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by javajosh 4y ago
As an aside, I wonder when making allegations without proof based on speculation and partisan hate will fall out of fashion? I speculate that it continues to happen because people don't have a killfile anymore, and so trolls always hav
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by javajosh 4y ago
>I don't want to live in Red Hat's world, with their tooling that they can just lock out of other platforms once they feel like it Explain please. This sounds like you're accusing RH of sabotaging Docker, or planning to.
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by javajosh 4y ago
I do something similar, but not as precisely specified as this. But I like it. It's similar to my own rule about when to add a tool. I wait until I'm doing something else and I feel the lack of that specific tool. The first time
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by javajosh 4y ago
We are about to test the tests, so to speak, and discover whether an agent that aces a test is capable of doing "real work". Meaning information work you would normally pay a human to do. Paperwork stuff, managing accounts, but al
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by javajosh 4y ago
Love "There Will be Blood" (and PTA), but I don't see how it fits. Plainview as a villain was great because his extraordinary, single-minded ambition motivated him to attempt kill his own humanity. But Plainview failed. His h
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by javajosh 4y ago
It sounds interesting to me, and worth trying, but I'd be worried that such a villain would be uninteresting to watch on film. No cackle? No monologuing? They would be pure self-interest, executed calmly and without pity (including sel
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by javajosh 4y ago
>If two people have knives to each others throats you don't win by just not being the first to cut, you win by putting the knives down. Strictly speaking there are 4 outcomes, according to John Nash. The cooperate outcome is globa
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by javajosh 4y ago
That was true last week . https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/bond/tmubmusd06m?count...
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by javajosh 4y ago
Thanks for that, but after thinking about it a bit I don't think I have much to offer. Perhaps if we were in a pub and I could understand where you're coming from. The thing about models is that they can be used in a lot of differ
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by javajosh 4y ago
DSLRs are insane value right now as everyone jumps to mirrorless. Which is just silly fashion, IMHO. (Or, if you're like me and prefer optical viewfinders, kind of important). I'm jazzed that people are abandoning things like cd
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by javajosh 4y ago
They are realizing that these things are all toys and fashion so you might as well save money and just buy old stuff and above all take photos . I think it's great. It's the exact opposite of the person who spends all their tim
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by javajosh 4y ago
Yes, it strikes me as perverse that if your business is debt, then a debt-free world is a very bad world. It's perverse in the same way it is perverse for a doctor to be sad when fewer people get sick. So, I empathize. Be that as it ma
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by javajosh 4y ago
Not an expert, but was having some thoughts. Let debt be a graph where the nodes are people (with ledgers) and the edges are all of the form "alice rents $x from bob for y% APR". Actions that resolve/relax graph are payments
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by javajosh 4y ago
Thanks for explaining. I had no idea the issue was so simple.
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by javajosh 4y ago
Do you have an example? There is no unambiguous way to define "web server"! Consider all the ways you can rent a host in virtually every state between disassembled parts on a table (Newegg) to renting DC for your own hardware (Het
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by javajosh 4y ago
Adobe Flash (the player and authoring tool) was so good for the indie game scene! I'm pretty sure it was horrible for every other use-case, but back in the day Kongregate had some of the most interesting, inventive and well-done games
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by javajosh 4y ago
>My own site is hosted from a recycled laptop and weights a few kb per page It would be cool if such sites joined a web ring and helped promote each other that way. (If high-waisted jeans can come back, why not web rings?)
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by javajosh 4y ago
>We should make it easier for end users to learn how to build their own sites and host them, even if just as static pages. Its definitely not easy. I recently spun up a public bespoke web server on a $5 VPS. I was surprised by the imme
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by javajosh 4y ago
It's interesting to consider this genre, the "community website". The primary functions are chat, forums, maybe a wiki or a blog. So a "community website" is a union of all the modes people use to communicate on th
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by javajosh 4y ago
>it's basically every company that's doing this It's useful to distinguish between ideas, decisions, and actions. Every idea, no matter how good/bad, far-fetched, that would make your company money has been consider
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by javajosh 4y ago
>abstraction is the only weapon we have against complexity I don't agree with this. We also have stinginess and stubborness as potent weapons against complexity. If we are stingy with our time and effort then we insist on getting
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by javajosh 4y ago
Have you tried buying an RPi lately? They are impossible to find. And it may be that compute devices will get harder to find over time. That poor kid may not have another choice.
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by javajosh 4y ago
> it is surprisingly easy for even a well-intentioned skipper to drift out of a legal fishing zone while tending to everything else happening on the boat Skippers do have a lot to deal with, but I don't think it's asking too
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by javajosh 4y ago
It would be pretty cool to be able to program my Roku to do anything I want, rather than be limited to whatever they want. In theory I can connect another device to the TV and use it as a display, but even in that case the Roku software is

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