manifestsilence

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by manifestsilence 7y ago
Then the problem instead becomes what is a valid comment, and a valid commenter (identity). Otherwise the vast majority of comments will be: WaNt A BiGgEr SoMeThInG? Go tO wWw.S0mEgR0$$sItE.cOm
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by manifestsilence 7y ago
This is interesting and compelling. I wonder about spambots though, when authorizing a service exposed to the web. Doesn't it get expensive pretty quickly when a bot decides to scan the site and floods it with requests that all excepti
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by manifestsilence 7y ago
Interesting, but it seems like if an attacker could guess the target quasar and time (a much smaller search space perhaps than the general space of random strings), they could use their own database of quasar blips to crack the one-time pad
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by manifestsilence 7y ago
Agreed. Fantastic book. The movie is decent as well, for those with less time.
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by manifestsilence 7y ago
That's actually a pretty cool thought. I've always scoffed at philosophies along the lines of, "what if it's all a dream/simulation" because if it's perfect, and you only escape it through death, what&#x27
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by manifestsilence 7y ago
Very cool, but I'd like to point out that unless/until this gets very popular to where Google changes their practices, it wrecks certain SEO perks (though so do a lot of fancy practices). Google still really likes plain old HTML p
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by manifestsilence 7y ago
Yikes, yeah. The War of the Worlds broadcast panic was an accident, too. Imagine an engineered panic on that scale. Especially if it was released through a trusted news source, by either hackery or social engineering.
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by manifestsilence 7y ago
Ayn rand herself actually had a pretty good explanation of why this may be. She differentiated between a writer's technical skill and their "sense of life", and said that one could appreciate a writer's skill but hate wh
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by manifestsilence 7y ago
Yeah, but that's after, right? I'm talking about that she didn't give a sign of prior consent to him, which would affect the moral and legal status of that action.
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by manifestsilence 7y ago
Roark rapes his future lover (but it's apparently ok because she liked it, though she gave no sign of such at the time). He blows up a building that he doesn't own. He tells his colleague who wanted to be a painter that it's
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by manifestsilence 7y ago
I think the big sell with Ayn Rand is that she promises freedom from the persistent guilt that many have been raised with through religion, family pressures, traditions, etc. People are encouraged to conflate their personal emotional freedo
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by manifestsilence 7y ago
I mean to say that current levels of application as actually practiced are too high and cause damage. It seemingly hasn't been proven, but many people blame it for oak tatters: https://hortnews.extension.iastate.edu/oak
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by manifestsilence 7y ago
Yeah, pretty much, though really the colors are based on how long it takes a point to "escape" the set, if it does, with the blackness being ones that never do (to whatever level of diligence you have time to compute "never&q
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by manifestsilence 7y ago
I've done both chemical and manual removal of thistle in 100 degree weather, and I hear your pain. I don't think herbicide should be outright banned, but think it needs to be more carefully controlled and used more judiciously. I&
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by manifestsilence 7y ago
The problem with the glyphosate-resistant varieties is that they allow for liberal and injudicious use of the chemical. I'm sure it makes economic sense to be able to carpet spray your crop instead of having to spot spray or use carefu
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by manifestsilence 7y ago
That would be pretty cool. I've seen some early prototypes in the news, so perhaps we'll get there in the not-too-distant future. It seems to me that chief challenges would be the AI of course, but also energy and mobility across
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by manifestsilence 7y ago
Sure, I agree the organic standard is far from perfect and has many loopholes, but it's a starting point. If there were a standard out there that instead embraced a systems-thinking view on safe practices - both chemical use and genera
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by manifestsilence 7y ago
I will try to listen to this later, but until then I don't know if they address this: One concern I've read is that safety testing is done in isolation, and glyphosate is actually used with a surfactant, designed to make it able t
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by manifestsilence 7y ago
Yup, I hear you. I try to put my faith on the in-between folks, who say, "we can't prove in a court of law that this is harmful, but in this case there is a plausible mechanism and the risks don't seem justified. In this othe
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by manifestsilence 7y ago
Here is the paper that made me start to take organic food seriously a few years ago: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3945755/ I don't have the skills to evaluate it in depth but it seems to
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by manifestsilence 7y ago
f.lux is super helpful. I'd rather look at black text on a configurably-dark red-tinted background than have to invert everything. Especially because I don't only look at a text editor all day. Not every program has dark mode for
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by manifestsilence 7y ago
I sometimes go on 8 hour car rides and don't require entertainment. Maybe it's just my personality, but the key is to foster interests that can live in your head. It's possible to spend 8 hours thinking about musical temperam
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by manifestsilence 7y ago
It gives me warm fuzzies being surrounded by fellow Mandelbrot lovers on this thread. I've been enchanted by fractals ever since seeing IFS ferns that someone made in BASIC on a green monochrome screen. I've wanted for a long time
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by manifestsilence 7y ago
Playing with Fractint and reading Chaos shaped my world view more than most things in my youth. It formed the basis for what passes for spirituality in me.
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by manifestsilence 7y ago
Me too! I think I used a TI85 or 89 but yup! It was awesome learning how to make them after years of playing with them on Fractint, just zooming around.
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by manifestsilence 7y ago
I used to work in a proprietary concatenative/stack language that was used for the GUI front-end for medical software. I wrote a Mandelbrot in it that used zero variable names, just two functions with a recursive call. It was beautiful
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by manifestsilence 7y ago
very cool!
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by manifestsilence 7y ago
Thanks for the clarification. Skimming through headlines, this one conjured up Ayn Rand-ian anti-cathedral sentiments. "The cathedral rose over it in lace splendor, a fragile defense against two great enemies: light and
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by manifestsilence 7y ago
Agreed. Comments aren't about important vs. unimportant, they're about words that are executed vs. words that are documentation. Even commented out code, in the rare cases when it's a good idea to leave around, is a form of d
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by manifestsilence 7y ago
I use firefox on Android. I think it's gotten better lately.

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