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by mbivert 3y ago
> I decided that Achilles is a bloodthirsty assshole and fuck him and his μήνις In the French translation I have, the translator mentions that "wrath" is used once or so in the book, only to describe Zeus's behavior. I bel
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by mbivert 3y ago
> It's worth noting that the classical greeks (including Plato) were sure it was gay: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achilles_and_Patroclus I'm not sure this is correct; the links cited by Wikipedia come fr
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by mbivert 3y ago
I agree that we can't assume that their head is a calm place. It's probably still safe to argue that the range/intensity of emotions/feelings they have is noticeably below those adults (e.g. lust). If you agree, then I&#
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by mbivert 3y ago
> I'm suspicious of this definition and doesn't match how I use the word "thinking". But I see that if you have this definition then tautologically newborns don't do it. Let me rephrase the argument then: if you&
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by mbivert 3y ago
I was half-joking (hence the "more seriously"). Nonetheless, the serious half is to be understood with a contextually reasonable definition of "thinking": "the thoughts running through the mind of an adult [when he
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by mbivert 3y ago
Well, it's surprisingly trivial for newborns! More seriously, I can't think of a single reason as to why it could not be at least trained; there must be ways. Not that I disagree with you, far from it.
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by mbivert 3y ago
Not a user, but I've decided at some point to use it to write a `.tex` report. Insightful experience: (i) fixing mistakes is costly: one needs to think more/be more cautious; (ii) one needs to grow a "mental image" of th
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by mbivert 3y ago
"Philosophy" etymologically, is the "love of wisdom". It's very remote from what people commonly understand philosophy to be nowadays (and that you seem to be alluding to!).
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by mbivert 3y ago
> Flowers aren't beautiful. We experience flowers as triggering a subjective sensation we label beauty. Which is not the same thing. By that logic, isn't everything subjective? I mean, everything we experience triggers a subjec
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by mbivert 3y ago
A tricky thing with raising kids is that, in the same situation, different kids may react differently: a "incidental" challenge will be detrimental here, but in the long run (decade/s) beneficial there. I'm not sure that
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by mbivert 3y ago
Here's a glimpse at the (fascinating) production process, in medieval conditions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwVEInhJu0Q
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by mbivert 3y ago
I don't think it's peculiar to China: parents towards young children naturally act authoritatively, in part because of the nature of young children. This nature somehow perseveres in adulthood, albeit altered: consider for example
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by mbivert 3y ago
There's something pleasant to hand-made tools, dishes, etc. Taking the time to enjoy using, observing something as mundane as a mug or a comb on a regular basis, instead of rushing mindlessly through the day, surrounded by cheap, mass-
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by mbivert 3y ago
Rewriting standard list functions (map, fold, sum, etc.) is a good entry-level exercise. A λ-calculus interpreter can be used as an intermediate level exercise. It is in particularly valuable in the context of solidifying one's underst
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by mbivert 3y ago
Fair enough. It's amusing given the context: I think you're using a precise definition of "perpetual (motion) machine", while I'm relying more on the one of an average human.
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by mbivert 3y ago
Of course, for most intents and purposes, it's "absolutely" true to say that there is no perpetual motion machines. But if we want to be precise, I don't think we can escape the fact that this truth is "merely"
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by mbivert 3y ago
> No prehistoric levitation of massive stones. Throughout history, there's always been wrong-yet-standard "scientific" statements that have been later corrected, from Aristotle's laws of motion, to discussions about t
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by mbivert 3y ago
> but does not use them as exceptions are used in other languages IIRC, the Go lexer/parser itself relies on panic/recover to handle errors[0], in an exception-like fashion. Granted, it's one unusual case, where the code i
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by mbivert 3y ago
> Every little thing in that photo is incomprehensibly large. And that's just a small portion of what we can perceive , as humans. It's mindblowing; daily concerns are so trivial in comparison. It's so sad we can't s
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by mbivert 3y ago
Thanks, I didn't knew about it
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by mbivert 3y ago
> Maybe there should be a new form of digital translation, just like hovering texts on Duolingo and it will display all the possible meanings of the word/expression. If anyone's interested, I've already self-promoted on a
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by mbivert 3y ago
It's often best not to think too much about "aesthetic", or performance, at first, and to focus instead on getting something that works. FWIW, The Mythical Man-Month [0] recommends to start with a few throw-away prototypes,
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by mbivert 3y ago
In case no one familiar with the internals shows up, here are some pointers if you want to dig: the configuration man page[0] has a prefork option, and nothing thread-related: prefork number When using relays, run the specified nu
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by mbivert 3y ago
One can only "dream" what would happen in a few decades, if instead of having kids memorizing multiplication tables, we would have them memorize such facts about the history of science. Fascinating.
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by mbivert 3y ago
Adding to this list of unorthodox approaches, by modern standards: I've heard in some French conferences of Etienne Klein (I'm not sure how romanticized this is though) that Einstein had some breakthrough while being in a half-asl
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by mbivert 3y ago
FWIW, I've wrote a tool to help translate from Chinese on a per-word basis using open ressources (dictionaries, decomposition table, etc.). In particular, it helps to recover some of the information lost when translating from Chinese.
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by mbivert 3y ago
Ah, I probably wasn't clear enough: my point was that the core of the feature (i.e. omitting non-tech users) can be implemented so cheaply that it seems a bit superfluous to require a built-in implementation. However, Fossil's doc
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by mbivert 3y ago
Versioning/distributing tickets is indeed useful; but can't this be "implemented" in git already, by defining a file-based format (think, issue/$YYYYMMDDHHMMSS-$title.md, but the variants are endless), and versionin
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by mbivert 3y ago
As far as I know, the OpenBSD team ensures that the base installation is useful already, so that their "secure by default" claim has some intrinsic value. As a result, even without installing extra packages, you get an usable syst
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by mbivert 3y ago
I think you're right in saying that it's not as versatile than Linux, but if your needs are focused, then it's actually a feature. For example, for small web servers: an OpenBSD base install comes with httpd(8), relayd(8), ss

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