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by morelisp 3y ago
> Emoji... builds on top of the same primitives like Chinese characters It does not, and if you think it does it's obvious you didn't read UAX 29. GB11 is the most complex rule and only applies to emoji (well, and other Extende
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by morelisp 3y ago
I don't understand the point of this comment. What didn't Go learn this time?
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by morelisp 3y ago
A markup language, or named entities, some length-prefixed blob, just generally something that doesn't require making UAX 29 more difficult. I understand why emoji is as complicated as it is. I don't think it was a good idea to ba
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by morelisp 3y ago
> Nobody invented weird nonsense to make your life harder in Unicode The current state of emoji, unfortunately, makes this no longer true. (That being said, it's also designed in a way that's mostly ignorable if you don't
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by morelisp 3y ago
> At the expense of O(n) index access. Ah yes, that feature which means we must have 2x memory overhead and/or dynamic dispatch, yet is also totally useless in practice.
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by morelisp 3y ago
I guess I'll be happy to see this, but > Specify UTF-8 as the default charset without providing any means to change it — The compatibility impact of this change would be too high. Nah, nobody is getting this correct right now. You s
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by morelisp 3y ago
... is not really applicable in this case as the physician's left hand continues to stab the patient while the right hand dithers about appropriate treatment.
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by morelisp 3y ago
While unfortunate, it still seems like ultimately a net positive (in at least several major moral calculi) even for the smallest ratchet down of the projections?
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by morelisp 3y ago
I don't think it's a good solution, it's just insane to me that we're going to do massive experimental geo-engineering before trying it.
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by morelisp 3y ago
Alternative hail mary solutions with fewer systemic downsides, like assassinating fossil fuel lobbyists, seems preferable to sulfides in the stratosphere for now.
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by morelisp 3y ago
> Intelligence has a pretty clear meaning. Come on. We did this already, almost certainly long before you were born. Even the instrumentalists don't like it! This should begin with definitions of the meaning of the terms ‘machine’
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by morelisp 3y ago
Somehow the rationalist community started at empty platitudes like "correlation is not causation" yet has ended up at substantive yet amazingly wrong conclusions like "correlation is identity", amazing turn, I gotta say
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by morelisp 3y ago
At this point, an economist would tend to usher in the argument made by Thorstein Veblen... Yet in a couple of ways, Birkins do not look like classic Veblen goods.
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by morelisp 3y ago
You probably can't pick obscenity in the US but otherwise anything goes. (Semantically/phonetically at least - orthography is a bit more limited.) That most European countries have a whitelist of names was one of the more shocking
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by morelisp 3y ago
Raph Koster claims parallel invention of the term "shard" for separate worlds in MMOs. https://www.raphkoster.com/2009/01/08/database-sharding-came...
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by morelisp 3y ago
Congratulations! You are a total victim of this Spartan myth that the article author has often debunked.
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by morelisp 3y ago
> their whole society participated in the war effort Right, and this is untrue of Sparta.
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by morelisp 3y ago
You were assigned windbag at birth? I’m so sorry.
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by morelisp 3y ago
Most people would do well to learn more than they have, but also most things could be a lot simpler than they are. Honestly, the best way to achieve the latter is probably to encourage the former. (Which will never happen as long as compa
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by morelisp 3y ago
Nah, still plenty of space for it - if you're a tall man with western European ancestry.
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by morelisp 3y ago
If you draw this distinction it doesn't apply to Sparta either.
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by morelisp 3y ago
These CDOs are, sorry, dumb as bricks. They were hired so the real executives didn't have to hear complaints anymore; the whole existence of the position is a blatant attempt to reabsorb and deflect any material changes back into the s
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by morelisp 3y ago
Is this a joke?
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by morelisp 3y ago
Here's a good article by a classical military scholar which covers many of the same topics: https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/07/22/sparta-popular-culture-...
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by morelisp 3y ago
> The Spartans were paranoid and insular. Which also suggests they kind of sucked.
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by morelisp 3y ago
Just like we look to Somalia and Uganda today for the highest calibre soldiers.
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by morelisp 3y ago
There's some potentially good points in here, but > the once slightly rundown Berlin Ku’damm feels more and more like the manicured Avenue Montaigne in Paris lol what, when was Ku'damm "slightly rundown", have you bee
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by morelisp 3y ago
> The Spartans left no written record and hardly any archeology. Which also suggests they kind of sucked.
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by morelisp 3y ago
It's not been recommended in decades.
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by morelisp 3y ago
Ah, finally a neoliberal version of AI ethics.

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