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by kortex 3y ago
And cars have multiple cameras simultaneously in 360° overlapping coverage. Plus you have motion parallax.
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by kortex 3y ago
I think largely because the prerogative is on the code author to reveal as little or as much about themselves, and the prerogative of library users is to sufficiently vet a package. If folks want to publish code pseudonymously, and folks wa
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by kortex 3y ago
Actually, hygiene hypothesis primarily applies to parasites and benign bacteria. Exposure to a wide variety of those reduces type II hypersensitivity (allergies and asthma) and digestive disorders. Data point of 1, I massively improved my a
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by kortex 3y ago
There's nothing stopping you from adding to go.mod though, you just have to update the sumfile, no different than using pyproject.toml directly vs adding with CLI.
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by kortex 3y ago
Reminds me of Aksak rhythms in Middle Eastern / Mediterranean traditions. If you try to translate it to Western schemas, it is roughly 9/8. But that's not really correct, as that would imply 9 evenly spaced notes, with an emp
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by kortex 3y ago
I see $GOPATH is no longer strictly needed, which is nice. But what's the deal with $GOROOT? I seem to always need it set but I don't know if that's just my workflow or force of habit.
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by kortex 3y ago
What's "most modern languages"? Go is better than Python's native tooling (only Poetry and other similar 3rd party tools compare). Javascript I find unruly and fragmented. "Modern" C++ is still a nightmare. Jav
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by kortex 3y ago
Fluency in Ithkuil is probably impossible practically speaking. John Quijada himself doesn't consider himself fluent. I actually think LLMs trained on conlangs is a super cool idea, but you'd need a huge corpus to do that. Kind of
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by kortex 3y ago
If a concept can be expressed as a sequence of tokens, then bam, we're done. If a concept can't be expressed as a sequence of tokens, then it doesn't really matter, because no language can, since some concepts exist which are
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by kortex 3y ago
I fucking love ithkuil, in the same way I love marble machines and Rube Goldberg devices. Like as a concept, in practice, how it sounds actually spoken, the writing system. Every thing about it is just so extra . It has its goals and desig
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by kortex 3y ago
Precisely. Languages have more or less information density ("bits per symbol"), but when you look at information rate per unit time, it all works out to pretty similar. Kind of like how QAM256 can convey more bits per symbol than
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by kortex 3y ago
English (or any human language with the possible exception of Pirahã) is not a formal grammar, but if it was, it would behave like a recursively enumerable one, at the top of the Chomsky hierarchy. Given enough time and enough text, you can
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by kortex 3y ago
As someone who tinkers with conlangs as a hobby and has been working on a similarly highly-engineered language not unlike ithkuil in features, this is one of the main things I struggle with. Actual natural language is very fluid. Spelling,
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by kortex 3y ago
Even if towns had the infra money and political will (they usually don't), where's all this hypothetical infrastructure gonna go? Where I live, there's a main drag which is the ideal location for pedestrian infra, has all the
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by kortex 3y ago
I think the blind spot and empath gap gp is referring to is the attitude of the anti-car crowd. I had this just yesterday in another thread. The attitude of many city folks toward suburbanites is basically "have you considered radica
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by kortex 3y ago
Where exactly would that bike infra go? There's literally nowhere to put a bike lane on 90% of the "strodes" in my town which would actually benefit from one. It's not just a political or environmental problem, it's
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by kortex 3y ago
Exactly, and team less-cars is not gonna win folks over with the "well just change your whole lifestyle you've lived for 30+ years and/or change the entire topology of the town" rhetoric. I don't even think if the e
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by kortex 3y ago
They absolutely aren't insanely cheap. Folks have been pushing my town for bike lanes for years and it usually gets nowhere. We have like a handful of shitty bike paths and sidewalks that don't actually connect to the important ce
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by kortex 3y ago
I actually have it worse, I live directly on a 35mph (where people regularly do 50+) semi-main "stroad". The only nice thing is the fire department is also on this road, so it gets priority plowing. We get semi-trailers and dump t
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by kortex 3y ago
> Basically you could only give up your car if you could live exactly as before. You are basically saying, "Why don't you just radically change your lifestyle?" E.g. I need to drive my dogs and partner to my parent's
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by kortex 3y ago
I skimmed the article and I feel like nothing really answers the question to "How to quit cars", aside from pricing parking better. Personally, I'd love to be able to rely on cars less. They are kind of the epitome of tragedy
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by kortex 3y ago
As a (former) mall rat in the lovely upstate NY, malls are great. You could go there and hang out with friends, maybe shop but usually not, socialize, people-watch, get a bite to eat. They are basically the "walkable town center"
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by kortex 3y ago
And the difference between "technically correct" and "how things actually work in practice" is what keeps the world turning in the face of slight mismatches. See for example the URI/URL naming war. "URL" i
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by kortex 3y ago
This feels like quite the large strawman in TFA. Most of the folks I've talked to in longtermist-adjacent circles (futurists, effective altruists, etc., that crowd) see climate change as a very real existential risk, for the same reaso
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by kortex 3y ago
Wow they really bury the lede on what fuel they run on. They say "dual fuel" but don't say which those fuel are, but external searching suggests natural gas or low-sulfur heavy fuel oil. Not sulfur-free, so I'm sure thes
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by kortex 3y ago
I hate this pattern, even if it's not monopolistic. If I want to open a link, I want it to go to my browser, not some embedded pane. It completely breaks my workflow. I can't bookmark, use password managers, any of my extensions
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by kortex 3y ago
What do you mean by "doesn't even allow a choice?" Like there's no option for non-secure? Also I would not be too hasty to expect the death of any widely used protocol. You can still access gopher sites.
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by kortex 3y ago
Are you open to full-remote?
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by kortex 3y ago
Hi, I'm Mike! I'm an engineer and scientist with tons of breadth as well as depth, with a background in the hard sciences and a penchant for reproducible machine learning systems. I love to build stuff and have a fierce tenacity w
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by kortex 3y ago
I concur. Good, ethical breeders will track COI (coefficient of inbreeding), pull any breeding dames/sires that show issues themselves or in their offspring, mix up the germ lines, and even go so far as to get mail-order sperm from aro

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