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by jdoliner 9y ago
Sorry if my previous comment came off as yet another job about Cockroach's name, I'm sure those get old. Thanks for your work on both projects. I've been a long time GIMP user, haven't had a use for Cockroach yet but som
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by jdoliner 9y ago
Cool, thanks for that. I googled around and even got to that Wiki page but somehow didn't quite cross-reference the names.
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by jdoliner 9y ago
Is the Cockroach Labs team actually made up of the creators of The GIMP? I checked the team page for GIMP and there don't seem to be any overlaps. Maybe this is just a joke about both having off-putting names that's going over my
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by jdoliner 9y ago
> We have been getting shipments of money. It's kinda weird to think that at a time when there are huge shortages of basically everything it makes sense to use shipping space on something whose value is purely symbolic. I do get tha
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by jdoliner 9y ago
I think "never looked back" is more a turn of phrase than anything here. Obviously the author has looked back, otherwise he wouldn't be writing this article.
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by jdoliner 9y ago
Should Spain take this to heart and integrate with Catalan?
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There's nothing from a readers perspective that you can accomplish with Pollen that couldn't be accomplished in some other way. But if it makes author's lives easier they'll publish more which improves the reader's
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by jdoliner 9y ago
I have not used it at all. I posted it moments after learning about it. I've been looking for something like this though so I will likely being playing around with it in the near future.
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Pollen: the book is a program(docs.racket-lang.org)
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Oh god mods, please add the word "magic" to the title, it's painful to read.
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by jdoliner 9y ago
Urbit's test network has been up for a year, this post is about bringing online a more hardened version using Ethereum.
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by jdoliner 9y ago
So if I write Go in vim does that mean I'm insta-hired? :P
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by jdoliner 9y ago
Well who you pray to affects who pray with, which in turn affects who you vote for. Doesn't it?
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What if who you pray to affects who you vote for?
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by jdoliner 9y ago
It's the same reason that posts on Gab are hatespeech while similar content on Twitter isn't.
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by jdoliner 9y ago
Why isn't it a competition question? Gab is pretty clearly competitive with G+ and Youtube.
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It's very tricky to pinpoint what "the underlying science is." For example my phone is a piece of technology, you could argue it provides experimental evidence for any number of scientific theories. However, the hallmark of a
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by jdoliner 9y ago
This is wrong in a few levels. Much of modern technology is built on modern scientific findings but few modern scientific findings have technologies built on them. There are entire fields, such as social sciences, which couldn't really
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by jdoliner 9y ago
As someone who works in science what do you think is the underlying cause of this shift?
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More likely they'll be branded as "not believing in science" and unpersoned. But yes, this comment is spot on.
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To wit, it shouldn't be too surprising that the "scientist" who tells people that belief in his work is non-optional is the one who didn't bother to check if it's actually true.
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> Belief should not be optional What does that mean in real terms? What do you propose doing to those people who take the option of not believing? If the answer is nothing then belief is indeed optional.
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I cringe reading "belief in well-supported scientific conclusions is not optional." Belief is always optional, if you want people to believe you have to get them to opt-in to believing. Telling them they must believe rarely accomp
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by jdoliner 9y ago
My mistake, I haven't seen either show, I was just going by the Youtube comments... which I should have known wasn't a reliable source.
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by jdoliner 9y ago
There's a famous quote on the dialectic: > You may not be interested in the dialectic, but the dialectic is interested in you. It is often mistranslated with "war" in place of "the dialectic" and is often misattr
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I think it used to. It doesn't appear to now.
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> A multi-process design means using a bit more memory up front. Each process has a fixed additional cost. But over time it will mean LESS MEMORY BLOAT. Unfortunately, it hasn't quite worked out that way.
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Maybe it was: if I touch my Apple watch it's a slider, if I touch my Android watch it's a fast ball. The article seemed fairly confident they were using the Apple watch for something.
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Mathematicians, despite the fact that the field is called "Computer Science"
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by jdoliner 9y ago
Lol, thank you for this.

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