jes5199

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   by jes5199 7y ago

   This blame-the-victim mentality is not helpful. An employee shouldn't have to be vigilant against their bosses spying on them! Basic human norms don't disappear just because there's fine print in a contract. The idea that &qu
2. 632.▲
   by jes5199 7y ago

   well, who does the secretarial jobs now that we eliminated the secretarial class?
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   by jes5199 7y ago

   I don't remember where I heard this but: digitization is the art of deciding what to forget
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   by jes5199 7y ago

   I think you have a bug - the rotation is supposed to be in the opposite direction if the red-green value is below zero. The paper doesn't make that very clear.
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   by jes5199 7y ago

   there’s plenty of other comments that explain it, but, CP/M, VAX, teletypewriters, punch cards - all used in-band control characters rather than an external signal
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   by jes5199 7y ago

   yeah, this author doesn’t know the history. Unix I/O was defined in opposition to practices in other OSes, that no longer exist
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   by jes5199 7y ago

   a brand isn’t meaningless, tho. the brand defines the entity that a relationship is with. for example, a name brand toaster is safer because there’s a company that manages safety recalls.
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   by jes5199 7y ago

   the thing that's odd to me is that you could write this exact same post about other languages - a person who learns Haskell ends up writing that exact same range/reduce/plus statement. Modern lisps like Racket or Clojure take
9. 639.▲
   by jes5199 7y ago

   yeah but you could make this argument about anything. For example: Bacteria can cause disease. Disease is metaphysical. Disease does not exist. these are not generally considered to all be equally plausible!
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    by jes5199 7y ago

    sure... but that means the three options are: "free will exists in atomic physics" "free will doesn't exist" "free will exists but cannot be studied". I find only one of these to be an acceptable answer.
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    by jes5199 7y ago

    My favorite thing about Dyson was that, in the middle of doing atomic research, he plotted a graph of the total number of nuclear tests done every year, and saw that it was increasing exponentially - which caused him to reverse his position
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    by jes5199 7y ago

    I think Dyson was misunderstood in his criticism of climate science - he admitted that he didn't study the science itself, but he was concerned about how the scientific culture in the field seemed to be working
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    by jes5199 7y ago

    if I remember correctly, this paper specifically tries to prove that those are the same
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    by jes5199 7y ago

    I don't know where I first heard that view, but I've long thought it was the only one that was plausible - where else could free will come from? is it supposed to sneak into physics somehow at a higher level?
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    by jes5199 7y ago

    you have missed the point of my question
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    by jes5199 7y ago

    adding more engineers makes development go more slowly -- does that work in reverse??
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    by jes5199 7y ago

    I’m convinced that the reason RSI is so common is that the standard advice for how to type and how to hold your body is actually making things worse
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    by jes5199 7y ago

    okay, so programmatic behaviors in the game are specified with a graph of virtual wires between “gadgets”. It seems like this is the always the metaphor that gets chosen to replace coding in text - but I don’t think it’s exactly good! How d
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    by jes5199 7y ago

    huh, I guess I’m going to have to try it because I just realized that I had a hidden assumption that code was definitionally the lightest way to describe a problem
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    by jes5199 7y ago

    Tesla offers car insurance for Teslas, probably trying to get ahead of this
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    by jes5199 7y ago

    I’ve gotten used to LEDs but I recently picked up an incandescent night light bulb- 25 watts for a dim glow. It gets really warm! 25 watts is an absurd amount of power. And people light rooms with multiple 60s! That’s bonkers
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    by jes5199 7y ago

    correct!
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    by jes5199 7y ago

    ayahuasca is the traditional extended DMT experience
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    by jes5199 7y ago

    no. Salvia is considered to uniquely unpleasant. Other psychedelics (usually) bring various good feelings along- the sensations of insight or of love or unity or any of a bunch others
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    by jes5199 7y ago

    pretty sure you’re describing regular DMT (the stuff in ayahuasca) not 5-MeO-DMT (the frog venom). They’re both short and otherworldly, but DMT is more about the amazing experiences while 5-MeO-DMT is more about the amazing non-experiences.
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    by jes5199 7y ago

    I think you’re confusing two different drugs. And the relevant plant is not sassafras.
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    by jes5199 7y ago

    here’s the official list of sites: https://scroll.com/sites and we’ll be adding more soon I’m not sure that our user count is public information right now - but we just came out of private beta last week and it’s growing fa
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    by jes5199 7y ago

    there are a few competitors in this space, yes. We also get compared to Brave’s attention coin system. We’re differentiated in that we parter with major news-media sites - newspapers and magazines, mostly, so far.
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    by jes5199 7y ago

    it can be made to work, it is mostly not literally broken.
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    by jes5199 7y ago

    well, last I looked: 1) you could eavesdrop on events from instruments and you could publish midi events, but you could not actually register the browser as an instrument or an output that could be seen by the rest of the midi ecosystem 2)