markburns

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by markburns 3y ago
Memory is the current spacetime location's fuzzy view when looking towards the past. Imagination is the fuzzy view when looking forwards to the future or with the many-worlds view, imagination is the looking out(?) towards multiple out
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by markburns 3y ago
Surely that's what it is though. As well as being literal.
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by markburns 4y ago
This has always baffled me about these projects. I think the only thing I heard of that sounded like it may be feasible was Golem [0], as that's about renting out real world hardware. And I've no idea if it is, but I can imagine i
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by markburns 4y ago
I wonder if this could be used as a step towards explaining innate abilities. You're born with a human brain capable or language. A giraffe is born with a brain capable of walking. There's just some predefined wiring that is a goo
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by markburns 4y ago
Perhaps every single utterance/communication of any intersubjective phenomena is already ship-of-theseus-sed by the time it leaves the mouth of the speaker. Probably by the time the brain of the speaker has processed the thought. The m
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by markburns 4y ago
The vast majority of our waking hours are spent pondering things that are not in the least bit real like this. Just memes that only humans are aware of and believe in. This airport is as real as a song, as santa, as a country, a law, the va
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by markburns 4y ago
Just working more to afford necessities isn't the same thing as putting money back into the economy. Less disposable income across society means lower economic activity.
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by markburns 4y ago
Low wages, high inflation, general financialization of everything resulting in more people working or working multiple jobs to keep their heads above water. Much less expendable income means economic contraction.
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by markburns 4y ago
The thinking behind it is based on the halving of rewards and the stock to flow model. https://bitblogger.org/demystifying-bitcoins-remarkably-accu... If you follow that reason then it's rational that there are crashes
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by markburns 4y ago
With libraries that alter your path at runtime. I've encountered comments on issues that implied that this wasn't a complete hack. I have had the impression that this is all just overhead in getting an environment up and running,
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by markburns 4y ago
The UK. Maybe you stress them out :)
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by markburns 4y ago
Completely anecdotal but I seem to remember flies banging their heads on windows a lot more when I was younger. Now they seem to be able to navigate their way out with comparative ease. Open a door or window and waft them in the general dir
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by markburns 5y ago
Couldn't agree more. Maybe one slight variation, that I think still agrees in principle, is considering 'the cost of doing this now vs cost of doing it later'. Sometimes technical debt is isolated and handling it can wait unt
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by markburns 5y ago
Was it this one? https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/js/unta... I went and found this game again relatively recently. It reminds me so much of decoupling and refactoring software or vice vers
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by markburns 5y ago
But surely the orders of magnitude thing factors in when you can have orders of magnitude more clients than servers? I think you'd need to run more specific numbers to lean either way on this.
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by markburns 5y ago
I might be missing something, but wouldn't the point be that it's not the log writer's responsibility to do this, but rather some other service that consumes the unparsed output and sends the notification?
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by markburns 5y ago
As far as I can recall, I had never encountered this kind of usage of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaeresis_(diacritic) in the word cooperative. I was going to ask you about it but Wikipedia gave a sufficient explana
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by markburns 5y ago
There are a significant number (probably a slight majority by now) of British people who are as saddened by this as you are. And not just the predictable econmoic fallout. I very much enjoyed the multiculturalism and there are plenty like m
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by markburns 5y ago
Could be random. I've seen this behaviour when enabling puma and using non thread-safe code. Just entirely depends on the timing of the requests. I suppose that maybe comes down to your definition of what 'random' is.
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by markburns 5y ago
I’ve had some success with non technical people and a warehouse metaphor. Can you keep shipping products if you never tidy up? Yes it’s possible but eventually it catches up to you. There’s no specific point in time at which tidying up a wa
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by markburns 6y ago
It’s getting closer to its true value. Volatility gradually decreases the higher its value. If you filter out the crashes of early adopters cashing out. Once the final cycle of 10-100x followed by a crash has complete then I think a more in
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by markburns 6y ago
I had the same reading. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden-path_sentence
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by markburns 6y ago
It's the annoyances section. I checked all of these and haven't been bothered since.
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by markburns 6y ago
ublock origin has a setting that rejects cookies in the GDPR notices instead of accepting them
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by markburns 6y ago
Well perhaps we’re 10 years since ARPANET. And the World Wide Web hasn’t been invented just yet.
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by markburns 6y ago
What you tend to see, is the difficulty of crossing these network boundaries (which happens anyway) _and_ all the coupling and complexity of a distributed ball of mud. Getting engineers who don't intuitively understand or maybe even ca
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by markburns 6y ago
As a layperson I read “prevent” to mean a 100% reduction. Not sure if there’s a slightly different interpretation than that but I’d presume that’s what they mean?
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by markburns 6y ago
I’d imagine that the number of charging points would increase somewhat to accommodate that. Presumably the number of pumps at a station is a function of required throughput. I also think there will be a lot more roadside individual charging
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by markburns 6y ago
I’ve used it quite a bit and you make a valid point. The appeal it had to me was watching one of the videos in which he talks about inherent versus accidental complexity. I’d say eliminating all the extraneous accidental complexity you see
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by markburns 6y ago
I agree, I just think capital feels more tangible and riskier to lose than opportunity cost. Also easier to put a specific number to so easier to quantify the risk.

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