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by memling 7y ago
> There are no rational arguments for my cause if it involves whether I should exist or have rights. I want rights because I want them. How would a rational argument even work? This is a pretty important question, although I don't k
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by memling 7y ago
What I mean is that how one <i>feels</i> about his existence has no bearing on how one came to exist. That is why it is a non-sequitur. (One is reminded that the rose is not special because it is rare.) Now the question o
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by memling 7y ago
> Any life form that has reached the cognitive capability to reason about itself will be amazed by the sheer "coincidence" of their habitat. "wow, isn't it amazing that our planet's atmosphere is composed of the
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by memling 7y ago
> In theory, the best way to conduct a church-of-interruption exchange of ideas is big-endian: you begin by summarising your idea and only then flesh out the details. That way if your conclusion is understood you find out as quickly as p
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by memling 7y ago
Might compare capacity?
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by memling 7y ago
One of the barriers for my adoption might be addressed here: > * Make the language constructs more generic > In many ways, the current Racket language and libraries encourage the use of concrete data structures instead of abstract da
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by memling 7y ago
> This is in contrast with fluorine-based oxidants like ClF3, which is hypergolic with sand, asbestos, or water. Speaking of things that 'splode, there's a lovely article that makes the rounds here every so often by Dr. Derek L
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by memling 7y ago
No movement of the fingers off the homerow. It's really actually very useful if you get a good one, though having no middle mouse button (I'm looking at you HP Elitebook I have to use for work) is a horrible mistake.
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by memling 7y ago
> Why make yourself less happy with the tools you need to use if doing so is for no other benefit? Ignorance can be bliss. It teaches you how to think about problems in your specific domain more critically, and perhaps more effectively,
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by memling 7y ago
> It’s “don’t be evil”, not “do no evil”. There’s a subtle but important difference. So, too, the difference between "don't be evil" and "be good."
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by memling 7y ago
> In college I took a great "Philosophy of Physics" class, where on the first day the professor asked everyone to write one page on whether the Earth revolves around the sun, and the final project was another paper on the same
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by memling 7y ago
At first blush, I don't think this would work quite right because the last ten bytes of the sector would have some content (e.g., zero bytes or some other data from the original sector).
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by memling 7y ago
> Often wondered why deathism is so popular and I have come to conclusion it is a protective mechanism against disappointment. People really don’t want to age, but they don’t think anything can be done so they come up with all sorts of r
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by memling 7y ago
> The macro system To add a little more detail to a spare but correct (I think) comment: Outside of Beautiful Racket, some other helpful reading I've found in the past that covers macros: > Creating Languages in Racket (Matt Flat
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by memling 7y ago
> Release your book as an EPUB rather than a PDF. PDF has the reputation of being view-able "everywhere", but it's not exactly pleasant to read on anything other than a computer screen or a large tablet. One compromise is
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by memling 7y ago
> No, since a proof is finite. When you enumerate Turing machines to generate a proof you execute the first n machines for n steps. At some point some machine must decide something, so some n is the bound. Thanks. It's been awhile
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by memling 7y ago
> For any formalized problem Q in NP, you can always simply enumerate algorithms A and candidate proofs P until you stumble on a pair (A, P) where P is a proof that A answers Q in polynomial time. I'm curious: does this run afoul of
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by memling 8y ago
> IMHO plotting the distribution should be the first step before trying to compute its statistics. If you know the shape, you can understand the values - otherwise it's guesswork. My manager's dictum is histogram and time serie
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by memling 8y ago
> Pretty much every initial technological advancement in human history was likely driven by an irrational thought completely unrelated to what would be achieved in the end before the scientific method was developed. This strikes me as hi
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by memling 8y ago
> Occam's Razor This seems like an objectively bad idea to me. I'm not a Tesla or Musk fan, and it seems plausible he could try to destroy a whistleblower. Even so, "innocent until proven guilty" is the better standa
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by memling 8y ago
Ten minutes in the car on a 240-day work year is one work week. While commuting has some benefits, like decompression time and work life separation, even a short commute has an impact on your free time. Remoting has hazards that one ought n
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by memling 8y ago
> I saw it again and again: Users memorize hard-coded paths to certain functions - simply changing the name, appearance or position of certain elements along that path was enough to throw them completely off the track. It seems like that
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by memling 8y ago
I would guess that a lot of your cell data are processed by code generators that use the lex/yacc toolchain. While perhaps they're not commonly used in implementations, they have a large number of deployments.
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by memling 8y ago
Relevant: https://www.amazon.com/Haribo-SUGAR-Classic-Gummi-Bears/prod...
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by memling 8y ago
I would be leery of upending representative systems that at least theoretically have an anti-majoritarian bias. Even if I'm in the majority today, there's no guarantee that I will be tomorrow, and a system that helps to preserve
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by memling 8y ago
You know, I built an irony detector once...but it detected everything BUT irony.
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by memling 8y ago
> Market forces: if you have a universal basic income in place (so people don't have to work to avoid starvation), coupled with ever-increasing automation, then there's going to be fewer and fewer pointless bullshit jobs. &quot
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by memling 8y ago
> IMO, what we really need is more automation, plus a Basic Income so that people forced out of work by the automation can still enjoy the fruits of society's success without having to toil in some pointless bullshit job, and perhap
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by memling 8y ago
You have an absolutely terrible assessment of the Internet.
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by memling 8y ago
A bit of a pain, but you can do this by inserting the table, modifying the settings, and using the long table. The formatting is a bit different, but I believe it will split the table across pages while supporting headers, footers, captions

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