markhahn

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by markhahn 5y ago
suggesting that this is a function of some aspect of personality.
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by markhahn 5y ago
this is good. routine, easy-to-ignore, regular noise as a mechanism to relatively suppress distracting, oddball noises.
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by markhahn 5y ago
I think that's contrary to this field's worldview. They seem more like librarians: more or less the end of the data lifecycle. (Unless it's the kind of data that gets retrieved, as if from a library, and used for further an
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by markhahn 5y ago
Surprise: there's a whole bunch of different reality under your the convenient illusions of your "high level" programming language. Hardware is the reality. It's not very much like the Java or Python programming model.
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by markhahn 5y ago
you might be right - there's certainly a cultural thread that the 666-worriers are just being triggered by. it's really a belief that the state is malign - and the further away (ie, federal), the worse. which is ironic because fe
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by markhahn 5y ago
and the best (worst) part is that those more-local governments are uniformly less accountable.
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by markhahn 5y ago
America isn't a nation of religious fundamentalists - they're a minority but just incredibly loud.
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by markhahn 5y ago
the topic here is a national mechanism, and states could (asininely) allow lesser forms, even exclude the national one.
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by markhahn 5y ago
Because even a Paramount Leader needs a little programming side-project on slow weekend.
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by markhahn 5y ago
quite an accomplishment of html cruelty.
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by markhahn 5y ago
Not just farmers and tractors eh? Perhaps we should push beyond merely protecting the right to repair, but figuring out how to incentivize standardization and open protocols.
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by markhahn 5y ago
There's a huge difference: ransomware "attacks" are due to sloppy security by the victim. That's not the case for terrorism.
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by markhahn 5y ago
Can we just call tcl a fetish programming language?
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by markhahn 5y ago
Definitions are everything. Consider someone for whom "white supremacy" means "it is right and appropriate to act deliberately to create and preserve white dominance of other races". Versus someone for whom it means &qu
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by markhahn 6y ago
It's hard to imagine that Apple thinks they're winning much by having a weird and iconoclastic mach+bsd+extra system. It's a fairly big technical debt to carry alone, and is it giving them any differential advantage? Imagine
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by markhahn 6y ago
there's no reason to think that case0 originated in Wuhan, so the lab coincidence is pretty weak. Wuhan is a big city with lots of travelers. It would be nice to have a well-documented index case, but also quite unreasonable given wha
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by markhahn 6y ago
Yes, but is the company still delivering profits to investors? After all, our civilization depends on continuity of klepto-capitalism...
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by markhahn 6y ago
"Non-backdoored communication, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to strong encryption, shall not be infringed."
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by markhahn 6y ago
It is a test, and it is used on humans. It isn't a qualification for human-ness, any more than "breathing" is. Theory of Mind is much more a test of human-ness - a stage person-ness really. And yes, quite a few animals qual
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by markhahn 6y ago
Linux wasn't shocking or daring back then. Literally everyone could see that proprietary unixes (and their locked-in hardware) were doomed. "Attack of the killer micros" had already succeeded. Exactly which micro was still
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by markhahn 6y ago
I'm not sure most NA houses are so different. For instance, cheap floor treatments, drywall + stickbuilt, multipane windows that leak after a decade or two.
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by markhahn 6y ago
The article is about "Tiny Homes ALONE Won't fix the Housing Crisis". Of course, trivialized solutions don't fix any realworld problems, so this article doesn't provide much light...
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by markhahn 6y ago
you lost me at JVM. what a tragedy of the 90s...
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by markhahn 6y ago
He's such a moron that he's a Useful Idiot.
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by markhahn 6y ago
No, there is evidence that there are corroboratable bits scattered throughout. That doesn't in any way corroborate the whole.
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by markhahn 6y ago
I like an underdog, but Greenwald is not behaving reasonably. If you read the article that the Intercept refused to publish, it's pretty awful. He's not skeptical about his own story, and surely that is the prime commandment of
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by markhahn 6y ago
bleah. solving made-up problems.
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by markhahn 6y ago
how much property crime is worth prosecuting? it's not as if we can't do it all.
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by markhahn 6y ago
panpsychism is the flying spaghetti monster. with added pretense.
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by markhahn 7y ago
self >> java

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