jgallag8

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by jgallag8 6y ago
Thanks for posting this, it was fascinating! I had to implement a hex grid recently, so when I started reading through this page and seeing some of the same things I had thought about, I thought I wouldn't find much that was new. I cou
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by jgallag8 10y ago
I think its fairly common for people to believe both that the US is the greatest, and it isn't what it used to be. There's obviously some tension between those ideas, noted humorously by Stephen Colbert's book entitled '
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by jgallag8 10y ago
Hoogle could help with the searching problem: https://www.haskell.org/hoogle/
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by jgallag8 12y ago
What does it mean for something to be 'a higher form of truth'? More valuable, according to some appropriate standard? More useful, according to some appropriate standard?
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by jgallag8 12y ago
Even if something is effective at promoting a good cause, it isn't necessarily an unqualified good, even if one takes a utilitarian view of things. I don't disagree with the use of social pressure in general. Many people have ment
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by jgallag8 12y ago
I would prefer to live in a world where, as much as possible, rationality guides decisions instead of emotivist social pressure.
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by jgallag8 12y ago
At my university everyone in ROTC had full tuition as well as room and board paid for for all 4 years. And they received the stipend on top of that. They did have to commit after the end of the first year though.
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by jgallag8 12y ago
Rust uses LLVM, I believe, and LLVM does as good a job optimizing as just about anything else out there.
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by jgallag8 12y ago
Didn't know you could just use '!g'. Very cool!
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by jgallag8 12y ago
I use duckduckgo mainly, because I like what they are doing. From time to time I will get search results that aren't very relevant. In these cases, I just prepend '!google' to my search.
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by jgallag8 12y ago
The reason there is no hope for those in Dante's hell is because they are in death as they were in life. They are not so much being punished as they are simply extending the less than ideal life they lived before. In this sense, there
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by jgallag8 12y ago
Just like to point out that this has been debated much over many, many years, and that this view is not the consensus (there being no consensus). See the following for a good summary of a slightly stronger version of the claim (omniscience
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by jgallag8 12y ago
The author seems to be saying that the main reason physicists should pay attention to philosophers is that philosophy can be useful in the study of physics. I think he could have made his point better by noting that pretty much any thinking