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by mst 4y ago
It is notable that the piece's primary author (as noted at the end) wrote a two volume biography of Whitlam. I'm not going to pretend to be informed enough about the overall events and motivations to have an opinion, but it does s
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by mst 4y ago
I think having a nominal monarch for people to form parasocial relationships with rather than getting overly attached to any given politician has its advantages. But (note, UK person here, add salt accordingly) it seems like you could retai
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by mst 4y ago
Thank you! Added to my /lisp/ directory for when I inevitably realise I've forgotten where I saw it :D
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by mst 4y ago
http://trout.me.uk/lisp/ and http://trout.me.uk/gc/ are both "selected stuff I knew I'd have trouble finding again later" and I wish you great joy of them. Still sad that John Shutt
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by mst 4y ago
trout.me.uk/lisp/ and trout.me.uk/gc/ are both basically archives of "stuff I knew I'd suffer that problem with" and it's a pleasure every time the contents come in handy for people who aren't me
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by mst 4y ago
Recycler. To be clear, http://trout.me.uk/gc/recycler-overview.pdf There's also a paper with the full algorithm in that directory. It's how Nim's ORC collector works. (note that yes, I know, this is for
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by mst 4y ago
http://trout.me.uk/lisp/vlist.pdf
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by mst 4y ago
cons cells are a local maximum. often they're sufficiently maximal.
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by mst 4y ago
The VList paper - which I archived at http://trout.me.uk/lisp/vlist.pdf to avoid having to google the bloody thing every time - is an interesting hybrid.
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by mst 4y ago
Having seen quite a lot about the language, I do rather wonder whether Ada would've been a better choice of implementation platform, just with a modern-ish processor underneath it. (I would not describe myself as competent at either Ad
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by mst 4y ago
Reminds me of the UK Type 440 destroyer class, which (I'm going from memory here, if somebody fact checks me I expect them to be right, not me) was designed to fire missiles at incoming USSR aircraft ... with an average time from initi
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by mst 4y ago
I had one of those! Very cool piece of kit for its time.
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by mst 4y ago
I've never actually -written- any Smalltalk and can read that code just fine.
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by mst 4y ago
Re (1) how feasible would it be to basically teach the PHP VM the equivalent of fork() so you can do all the booting once but still have a fresh copy of the end result on each request? I mean, it's not going to be as cheap as getting t
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by mst 4y ago
That's true of pretty much everything though. The monetary value of a thing is definitionally how much money you can sell it for.
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by mst 4y ago
Virtue ethics is very fuzzy, yes. If I can ground why I find it useful at all, it would be in the intuition (and N=1 anecdata) that a heuristic of 'following the rules most of the time will, in fact, produce decent consequences overall
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by mst 4y ago
I regard EA as a means to operationalise an already chosen ethical foundation - and Yudkowsky's article as explaining how to do that while still being human. I don't find 'grounding ethics' to be a particularly fruitful
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by mst 4y ago
I ... ok, so the late reply is because I know inside my head what I mean, but expressing it is hard (sorry about that, hopefully you'll see this anyway.) Virtue ethics is ... about trying to reach for the Good. People of faith regularl
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by mst 4y ago
Eliezer Yudkowsky wrote an article about this called 'purchase fuzzies and utilons separately' that I think both explains and dissolves the apparent contradiction. https://www.readthesequences.com/Purchase-Fuzzies-
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by mst 4y ago
My view tends towards not finding the philosophy of EA particularly convincing in and of itself, but the money raised for causes I appreciate highly laudable. (yes, some of that money goes to thinks I consider complete kookery, but that&#x2
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by mst 4y ago
I find the Big 5 useful for self awareness in the large. For self awareness in the small (i.e. surfacing my subconscious view of a specific situation) I've always been fond of rune casting, or in a pinch a dice roll or coin flip. In th
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by mst 4y ago
Being agnostic and having grown up in England, I regard myself as Secular Anglican and I think so do many of my countrymen (many people I've discussed it with wouldn't use those exact words in self-description but immediately reco
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by mst 4y ago
A reasonable short (so necessarily lossy) version of what I've ended up believing is: - policy decisions should be made on a consequentialist basis (which can involve utiliarianism like calculations but is to me most about considering
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by mst 4y ago
I tend to not salt things full stop. Many years ago, I made pasta (I forget what with) for a girlfriend and I for dinner, and she was deeply unimpressed I hadn't salted it. The next time I made it, I made sure to have a giant jar of sa
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by mst 4y ago
This comment and the parent between them strongly suggest to me I'm going to end up with salmon jerky at least once but I should seriously consider trying it anyway.
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by mst 4y ago
I've always regarded Slack as "IRC, but non-geeks will use it as well." This model is not by any means entirely accurate but it's been an extremely effective heuristic.
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by mst 4y ago
I have pretty much always been in the "log in on console, then startx" camp but I suspect you and I are a vanishingly small minority these days.
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by mst 4y ago
Feels a bit like lxc plus distroless. (need to think more about what you said, mind, that's just a random first thought, no warranty express or implied)
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by mst 4y ago
What do you have in mind when you talk about LSB for Docker?
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by mst 4y ago
This is a wild-ass guess but ... I don't use IDEs. In fact I use original Bill Joy vi. I suspect for most of the people we're talking to 'I<tab>' will say Int and 'S<tab>' will sat String and that&#

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