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by jl6 3y ago
It’s been 25 years since I first flew over the Amazon at night. I remember wondering what those ragged orange arcs on the ground were. At first I thought they were the lights of coastal settlements, but the map showed us hundreds of miles i
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by jl6 3y ago
Arguably climate change risk comes under #1 (not making enough money), because in the most likely climate change scenario, people above a certain wealth threshold will probably survive. Not saying this will be a pleasant experience. Billion
903.
by jl6 3y ago
What I would dearly love is for Microsoft and Sony to recognize that nobody wants to release platform-exclusive titles that cut the audience in half, and pivot the console industry away from being mutually-incompatible bespoke devices and t
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by jl6 3y ago
> and other non-portable costs OK, but there are a lot of these.
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by jl6 3y ago
Redefining words is what a lot of the last ~10 years of polarization boils down to.
906.
by jl6 3y ago
If only output redirection syntax was w> instead of >w. Then you could write pipelines with compelling HTML-esque symmetry: <x Y | Z w>
907.
by jl6 3y ago
Rebellion can mean a lot of different things. Mostly it amounts to opposition in a fairly superficial sense. Different clothes, different haircut, different music, maybe some intentional bad choices... But although these things are high-vis
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by jl6 3y ago
> It seems as though they are looking, hard, for identity, for validation… I think the word the author is searching for is anomie. Kids used to develop their personalities via the strictures of a dominant culture, or in opposition to one
909.
by jl6 3y ago
I always thought Dune’s Butlerian Jihad was one of the more fantastical elements of the story, but now it’s probably one of the more realistic.
910.
by jl6 3y ago
The map shows a concentration of stones in the UK, particularly in Scotland. Is that representative of the stonelifting community? Or maybe just an artefact of it being an English-language website?
911.
by jl6 3y ago
It could be insane and endearing!
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by jl6 3y ago
Nerding out on computers is something that can be done from a very early age. You don’t get a lot of law or medicine child prodigies, but math and compsci is very conducive to an early start, particularly for the neuro-atypical. You can enr
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by jl6 3y ago
“I’m a mathematician, not an arithmetician!”
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by jl6 3y ago
I first played Lemmings on a Mac IIsi, and later on an Amiga 1200. I remember the pixel-perfect timing being brutally difficult with the low-quality Amiga ball mouse, but I played it enough that I can still hum all the tunes.
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by jl6 3y ago
I think the $5000 price tag could make sense if it was genuinely good enough to replace a high-quality large external monitor (or several such displays). But as far as I can tell, it is not. Until then, there are cheaper ways to wear a st
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by jl6 3y ago
You can play it in many different ways. One advanced playstyle is to use combinators heavily, but you don't need to. A lot of people get hooked on optimizing their factories, which leads down a rabbit hole of ratio calculation, but tha
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by jl6 3y ago
I believe you are referring to https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/-/issues/1157 - an incredibly longstanding issue that has been raised and re-raised by dozens if not hundreds of users over the year
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by jl6 3y ago
Just as long as it pays its taxes, we’re cool.
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by jl6 3y ago
Depends what you mean by incorrect. If the goal is to predict planetary movement, then epicycles might be a useful tool, just like an ocean-bearing moon model might be useful for predicting the wobble of Mimas. But as an explanation of what
920.
by jl6 3y ago
> Are there any examples of this kind of assertion turning out to be incorrect? Yes - for example, Ptolemaic epicycles. A model that explained the observed motion, but turned out not to be reality based.
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by jl6 3y ago
That would traditionally be the case, but the merchandising is bombing too, and (anecdata time) I can confirm this through personal observation: 80%-off sales of Star Wars merchandise in a local toy store, and my kids and their circle havin
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by jl6 3y ago
When reading this prompt, I’m hearing an unspoken “Yes Master” after every line.
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by jl6 3y ago
I understand why they went with the combative “admit” phrasing in the title. Subtextually, this is a shot fired against unsavory opinions that claim a basis in strict genetic determinism. However, that strict interpretation is an extreme fr
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by jl6 3y ago
The #1 reason by far for buying a mainframe is that you already have mainframe-based applications that you need to keep running. I’m not sure what kind of orgs (if any) are buying mainframes today as new customers, but I imagine it would ha
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by jl6 3y ago
> Watch a 10-year veteran insurance employee use a green screen. Yes! I knew an Insurance customer service op who self-described as having no computer skills, but when I saw her using Reflection it was like watching a speedcuber savant.
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by jl6 3y ago
"In court, Mann has argued he lost funding and research opportunities" Seems like there is a strong potential for a chilling effect on scientific enquiry if publishing scientific papers leads to this kind of political vilification
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by jl6 3y ago
> I hope my children will see the day when these kinds of software vulnerabilities only exist in "legacy" software. The good news: the day will come when this kind of software vulnerability will only exist in legacy software. T
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by jl6 3y ago
I am reminded of Mochizuki’s claimed proof of the abc conjecture: an impenetrable paper, building on other work of the same author, building on work in an already complex and abstract subject. It was said that the only people who had done e
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by jl6 3y ago
PDF is a fabulous format. I mean, it’s an awful format in so many ways, technically speaking, but the net effect of having a self-contained static file in your custody stands in blissful contrast to the user-hostile dynamic/SaaS webs
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by jl6 3y ago
Whatever the most deadly one is, that’s definitely the one to use to run Doom.

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