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by lisper 2y ago
> pre-planned plans Isn't that cheating? Shouldn't a properly self-reliant human be able to come up with the plans too?
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Loader's Number(googology.fandom.com)
63 points by lisper 2y ago|10 comments
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by lisper 2y ago
Fair enough. Thanks for the feedback.
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by lisper 2y ago
It certainly doesn't compare to the scale of Kristallnacht (hence "writ small"). And Kristallnacht was just government-sponsored vandalism whereas in this case people were also arrested, so in that respect this was actuall
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by lisper 2y ago
Kristallnacht writ small.
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Cardiff Giant(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by lisper 2y ago|0 comments
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by lisper 2y ago
> An advantage of the cultural method is flexibility - it can be changed today And it can be changed deliberately . Biological evolution is inherently a random search guided by a fixed quality metric -- reproductive fitness. That is n
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Programs with Common Sense by John McCarthy (1959) [pdf](jmc.stanford.edu)
2 points by lisper 2y ago|0 comments
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by lisper 2y ago
> There are some factual "gaps" there about how good Snow Leopard was Here are some data points I collected at the time: https://blog.rongarret.info/2009/08/snow-leopard-is-disaster... https:/&#
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by lisper 2y ago
Past service can't be an asset. You can convert your present service into assets (i.e. you can save instead of spend) but the compensation for the service itself can only be done at the time it's rendered, even if the payment t
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by lisper 2y ago
> with knowledge work, you may not need to do anything until you are needed That can be true for physical labor as well. Fire fighters. Ambulance drivers. Soldiers. All get paid to be on-call.
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Chunking Attacks on Tarsnap (and Others)(daemonology.net)
3 points by lisper 2y ago|1 comments
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by lisper 2y ago
> turning yourself into an asset How is that any different from any other skilled labor? Recall the old joke about the plumber who charged $1 for banging on the pipe and $1000 for knowing where to bang. Even purely physical labor like
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by lisper 2y ago
At the bottom of the screen you will find a pulldown that lets you show up to 5000 entries.
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by lisper 2y ago
Of course. But the problem is that the more complicated you make your filtering logic, the harder it becomes to maintain. I was constantly discovering new exceptions to my ever-more-complicated rules, which is why I eventually gave up on
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by lisper 2y ago
That's a good idea. I was using an off-the-shelf greylister that didn't work that way, but I might implement that strategy now that I'm doing everything myself.
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by lisper 2y ago
A mail service run by an advertising company fails to filter out advertising emails? I'm shocked. Shocked!
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by lisper 2y ago
I tried that a long time ago and the problem with it was that it produced a lot of false positives for me because I subscribe to a lot of Google Groups.
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by lisper 2y ago
The problem with greylisting is that it delays subscription confirmation emails when you sign up for a new service. I found that to be more trouble than it was worth. YMMV.
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by lisper 2y ago
I've been running my own spam filter for many years now based on this super-simple heuristic: My filter looks at my outgoing mail, and any mail received from an address I've sent mail to, or with a subject that has appeared in my
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by lisper 2y ago
Here is a little code snippet for CCL that changes the compiler to accept a Scheme-like ((...) ...) syntax. https://flownet.com/ron/lisp/combination-hook.lisp
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by lisper 2y ago
> as long as you include information the user can use to dedupe manually There is an existing standard for this in the form of the message-id header.
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by lisper 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zermelo%E2%80%93Fraenkel_set_t...
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by lisper 2y ago
> who was writing the most code There's yer problem right there. Code quantity is not correlated with value. In fact, it can be negatively correlated with value if it's buggy and laden with technical debt. Measuring produc
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Frink(frinklang.org)
236 points by lisper 2y ago|40 comments
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by lisper 2y ago
If you think Trader Joe's and Whole Foods are normal grocery stores, then you live a much more privileged life than you realize.
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by lisper 2y ago
Sure, you could say the same thing about most religious leaders. That doesn't necessarily mean that they don't sincerely believe what they're preaching. Flat-earth doesn't seem to me to be a particularly lucrative scam
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by lisper 2y ago
Here is my take on explaining this, written seven years ago: https://blog.rongarret.info/2018/05/a-quantum-mechanics-puzz... https://blog.rongarret.info/2018/05/a-quantum-mechanics-puzz..
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Cognitive security is now as important as basic literacy(twitter.com)
18 points by lisper 2y ago|4 comments
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by lisper 2y ago
It's a little more nuanced than that. The flat earth movement originated with Samuel Rowbotham who actually conducted an experiment in 1838 whose results (he claimed) demonstrated that the earth was flat [1]. I think it's arguab

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