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by mwattsun 4y ago
I used to argue in semantic disputes, but they're really only meaningful in a court of law. Outside of that, it's mostly opinion (a waste of time imho) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_dispute
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by mwattsun 4y ago
In general, I agree with you, but I'm referring to speech in the context of a social network. 4chan is a niche community because it is too rough for most people. Unless Musk wants to turn Twitter into 4chan, he's going to have to
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by mwattsun 4y ago
tbh, I posted this hoping someone would make a better one
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by mwattsun 4y ago
I'll take this as a joke because Faulkner's novels were set in a fictional place: "William Cuthbert Faulkner was an American writer known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County. I like the
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Find books set in your hometown(lithub.com)
56 points by mwattsun 4y ago|35 comments
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by mwattsun 4y ago
4chan gets me out of my bubble. It always surprises me how some people look at the world, kind of like how Terry Davis and his Temple OS was interesting.
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by mwattsun 4y ago
Even 4chan is moderated so I think it will be interesting to see how Musk thinks he's solved the moderation problem. I'm confident he would have listened to counsel and not waded into that cesspool without having some sort of new
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by mwattsun 4y ago
Again, it's not that way in general or I would have heard about it. Frankly, I'm appalled that an officer would tolerate and engage in this kind of behavior. Maybe it's a fast attack thing. In that case, I'm very glad I
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by mwattsun 4y ago
I was based out of Holy Loch, New London and eventually the yard at Newport News. Never heard it, so maybe it was a WestPac saying
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by mwattsun 4y ago
> Law of Conservation of Happiness: Once you're submerged, happiness can be neither created nor destroyed This is an example of the weirdness you were referring to because this is something your crew came up with to cope. Every crew
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by mwattsun 4y ago
I agree with everything you said here. I'm not saying we should stick to bare metal programming even if we aren't doing embedded. There may be a problem that could be solved easily with inline assembly or there may be a bug that c
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by mwattsun 4y ago
I feel very lucky I learned on the 68000 in the original Mac. If a CPU could ever be considered a work of art, it was the 68000
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by mwattsun 4y ago
I can't imagine being a programmer without starting out by becoming proficient in assembler. It takes a lot of mystery out of programming languages because you know whatever the syntax is it all ends up as branches, calls, stacks, regi
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by mwattsun 4y ago
https://archive.ph/l1iqx Hovering in the sky above Ukraine are hundreds of small drones from U.S. startups, searching for survivors in war-pummeled cities and Russian hide-outs in the scarred landscape. Those startups, i
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by mwattsun 4y ago
> Lots of people used LSD in the 60s and 70s and as far as I can tell they didn't usher in a new age of love, peace, and tolerance. I would argue that LSD helped end the war in Vietnam. It's also not a fair criticism because go
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by mwattsun 4y ago
I've promoted this comment of mine since some are saying the article is incoherent. I posted it because: I took the author to be asking a couple of important questions: 1) Do we want the "Codes of Conduct" and "Mission S
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by mwattsun 4y ago
I'm guilty as charged as I sometimes moralize on Twitter, but I disagree that the Twitter "tool" hasn't shaped Elon Musk. I think it's become part of who he is.
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When your “public square” is a private company, any sulky billionaire can buy it(lithub.com)
58 points by mwattsun 4y ago|108 comments
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by mwattsun 4y ago
They not only have ship escorts, they have submarine escorts. But no fence around a carrier is perfect. An attacking submarine doesn't have to chase a carrier, they can lie in wait in ship lanes. A new development since I was in the su
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by mwattsun 4y ago
The joke on our submarine was that aircraft carriers should more properly be called "targets." Sweden has a super quiet submarine design using Sterling engines: A Stirling engine is particularly well suited for a submarine becaus
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by mwattsun 5y ago
It's often the little things that determine the course of a relationship. For example, I took my bike into a shop I hadn't used before. They fixed the back tire, but failed to place the cap on the tube. I may seem like a little th
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by mwattsun 5y ago
Sometimes I like to take a step back and imagine a world with nearly free energy. Converting sea water to fresh water to irrigate the deserts is always the first thing that comes to mind, but that's mundane compared to the changes near
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Military METAVERSE: An empty buzzword or a virtual resource for The Pentagon?(breakingdefense.com)
1 points by mwattsun 5y ago|0 comments
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by mwattsun 5y ago
> Patients with depression are warned not to take psilocybin on their own. I understand this is a standard disclaimer, but I thought I'd throw in that the drug depressed persons should really avoid taking alone is alcohol, especiall
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by mwattsun 5y ago
It really is. They just released a new one last month. It helped me a lot to look at a topographical map and river networks of India to understand what was happening. 14. Vijayanagara - The Last Emperors of South India https://ww
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by mwattsun 5y ago
I clipped this from Fall of Civilizations - The Sumerians - Fall of the First Cities. I'm not sure if they got it right, but it sounds good. (not monetizing, so not promoting) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuIevAo8yDw
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by mwattsun 5y ago
I watched the beginnings of the Iraqi insurgency develop in 2003... At first the improvised explosive devices we saw were relatively unsophisticated: short-range electronic devices using cordless phones, wireless doorbells, and car alarms.
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Of Roadside Bombs and Drones: Putin’s Looming Insurgency Problem(warontherocks.com)
20 points by mwattsun 5y ago|1 comments
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by mwattsun 5y ago
Reads to me like Musk and the US government are already working together.
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by mwattsun 5y ago
Kerouac and Watts were never in "recovery" for alcoholism, so the idea that Zen Buddhism can help maintain recovery doesn't apply to them.

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