jibal

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by jibal 9mo ago
You're the one claiming "Last I heard" so you're the one who owes a link.
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by jibal 9mo ago
He's talking (nonsensically) about New Yorkers voting for Mamdani.
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by jibal 9mo ago
I once posted in rec.bicycles.misc that I had just completed a 6 week solo bike tour of France. Someone asked me a series of questions about riding and camping in France and I spent about 10 minutes writing a response. Francophile Sheldon B
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by jibal 9mo ago
Many people are shallow thinkers with no intellectual integrity who have never learned much of anything and say the most incredibly foolish, ignorant, and dishonest things.
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by jibal 9mo ago
Asimov's review says it's a satire of the Russian Revolution, not of fascism. (Just pointing out the fact, not at all agreeing with the vile accusation against you.)
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by jibal 9mo ago
> I don't think of base 10 being meaningful in binary computers. First, you implicitly assumed a decimal number base in your comment. Second: Of course its meaningful . It's also relevant since humans use binary computers an
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by jibal 9mo ago
There's no evidence of an LLM being involved.
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by jibal 9mo ago
None of your criticisms--which start with an absurd and meaningless ad hominem --apply to the actual content of the article. Elsewhere you write > They are definitely denying the importance of 2-fold partitioning in computing architectu
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by jibal 9mo ago
That is only "known" to intellectually dishonest ideologues.
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by jibal 9mo ago
China is still communist. Again communism has worked for some definition of "worked" . This is an objective statement, not an endorsement of Chinese communism.
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by jibal 9mo ago
Then apparently you have a very limited ability to be objective.
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by jibal 9mo ago
Provide evidence for any of these (radically false) claims.
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by jibal 9mo ago
There's no timeline for 1.0 You might find this interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3hOiOcbgeA
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by jibal 9mo ago
This is a bad comment in so many ways. Walter's short limited comment was quite relevant.
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by jibal 9mo ago
The influence of 80 column punch cards remains pervasive.
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by jibal 9mo ago
I just learned about amathia ( https://modernstoicism.com/there-is-nothing-banal-about-phil... ), which seems to apply here.
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by jibal 9mo ago
That was Stalinism, not communism. And there are many ways to implement communism, some of which are better than others.
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by jibal 9mo ago
Communism worked in China, for some definition of "worked". Stalinism eventually failed in the USSR and elsewhere. An extensive literature explains these things, as well as explaining different forms and varieties of "communi
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by jibal 9mo ago
No, that wasn't their point ... that's a different wrong notion.
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by jibal 9mo ago
See https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/48/Apple_1_...
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by jibal 9mo ago
Yes. Numerous typos were introduced, Even misspelling "Palo Alto".
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by jibal 9mo ago
> a lot of 70s and 80s "Unixes" don't exactly resemble what we think of as "Unix" anyway. As someone who was a UNIX developer (both kernel and userland) working for a UNIX support shop (Interactive Systems Corpor
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by jibal 9mo ago
Looking at their other comments (e.g., "h1b invasion" and lots of misinformation about COVID) it's probably not in your interest to engage with them.
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by jibal 9mo ago
There are over 100,000 subreddits and the vast majority of them (and all of the ones I follow) fall into their last paragraph ... it's not at all "so few". And even if it were, "representative sample" isn't rea
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by jibal 9mo ago
Ironically, Finland is where it started because of Nokia.
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by jibal 9mo ago
Similar? It is in fact a typewriter ribbon: https://www.amazon.com/Olympia-Typewriter-Ribbon-Black-Red/d...
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by jibal 9mo ago
Which is why there should be active policy to counteract it.
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by jibal 9mo ago
> I'm mostly trying to make sense of the world By completely ignoring the facts about it. > So in regards to this economic issue, it seems that human personality traits that lead to disproportionate power/influence/mone
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by jibal 9mo ago
That there is more wealth now than in the past does not even remotely imply that there is infinite wealth. > Making a company and having it valued at whatever value, does not remove that amount of wealth from other people. This is a stra
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by jibal 9mo ago
> One argument could be that maybe entrepreneurial personality traits aren't normally distributed That's not an argument, it's a completely counterfactual assertion ... or rather, the assertion that this is the cause of un

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