mxkopy

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by mxkopy 4y ago
Okay, let's rephrase - if you think all drugs have the same mental effects, then I suggest you stop talking about what you don't know
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by mxkopy 4y ago
I don't find that insulting. It's wonderful for you. What I find insulting is saying that calling GEB trippy is an insult. It's genuinely trippy and there's nothing wrong with that.
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by mxkopy 4y ago
I took a lot of psychedelics in my life, and in that period I also read GEB quite religiously. And in my experience, I think it could have taken me a lot longer to empathize with the book than if I weren't taking psychedelics; not beca
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by mxkopy 4y ago
Do you think that you feel better than others for not taking drugs, and that this superiority is assailed when people who take drugs find common ground with one of your favorite thinkers? Because that's the only explanation I can think
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by mxkopy 4y ago
Note that I said "profound change" not "arbitrary change". What a faithful argument you've blessed us with. If you think drinking alcohol or taking cocaine has the same mental effects as psychedelics, then, I guess
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by mxkopy 4y ago
It's not an insult. Psychedelics can profoundly change how someone perceives things. GEB has that sort profound shift in POV that many would associate with psychedelics.
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by mxkopy 4y ago
Your past doesn't qualify you more than other people to talk about suicide. We can play the "who's had more experience" game to prove my point but I'm just going to leave it at if someone made fun of my brother&#x27
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by mxkopy 4y ago
Julia was made by academicians, and there's a reason we distinguish between academia and industry. In academia code is the means to an end, which is usually a paper. This means that the experience of writing the code, making sure it&#x
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by mxkopy 4y ago
Being humorous about someone's suicide is kind of fucked up IMO Edit am illiterate, finna an heroize
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by mxkopy 4y ago
Of the proposed solutions, this one is my favorite: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiotrophic_fungus I'd like to think that in this universe the best spacecraft asymptotically approach being a mushroom
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by mxkopy 4y ago
> I also like the idea of a global decision that forces servers open to "the public" to have an enforced global standard of behavior. A decision made by a bunch of suits; a standard of behavior informed by corporate office spac
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by mxkopy 4y ago
Cackling maniacally, foaming at the mouth, thrashing against the restraints as though welcoming broken flesh, screaming in profane mirth - "HOW CAN FOSSILS DIE IF THEY'RE ALREADY SKELETONS"
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by mxkopy 4y ago
When I was college shopping, Georgia Tech was near the top of the list for CS. I think it was actually at the top for robotics.
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by mxkopy 4y ago
I don't like this take. On one hand I feel naive for thinking we don't have to play prisoner's dilemma. On the other, this feels depressingly fatalistic. Not saying it's wrong. It just feels bad.
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by mxkopy 4y ago
I'm reminded of the fisherman story. Money is just a means to an end. Take some time, decide if you have a particular end in mind, and if you really need boatloads of money to achieve it. Otherwise, enjoy your freedom! Fisherman story
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by mxkopy 4y ago
In Julia's defense, its ecosystem is nascent and it's not designed with a focus on guarding undefined behavior. So far the community has been really good at cataloging & fixing interop issues between packages. As time goes on
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by mxkopy 4y ago
At the end of the day language is a carrier for meaning, that's all it is. Its history doesn't matter unless it confers meaning in some way (which it often does). In my opinion saying 'architecting' is meaningfully diffe
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by mxkopy 4y ago
Not only are you nitpicking, you are also wrong. https://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2013/07/architectural-cri... We should add that the use of “architect” as a verb isn’t a recent phenomenon. The Oxford Engl
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by mxkopy 4y ago
Such a strange gripe to have. Architecture as a default comparison makes sense on many levels. You don't make blueprints for pottery. The level of 'coincidental' design is much lower in architecture than it is in painting. Th
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by mxkopy 4y ago
That feels like blackmail though. They wouldn't have as much incentive to drop the charges if their reputation wasn't also on the line. Ugh
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by mxkopy 4y ago
That's insane. The robbers should be in jail. Imagine being an average Joe, robbing your local liquor store, and getting out fine with a public apology.
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by mxkopy 4y ago
I don't really have a stance on 'abolish all advertising'. I'm just pointing out that in practice, "promoting a product" is rarely the only effect of an advertisement, and having discussions about ads in the co
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by mxkopy 4y ago
Seems like you can't read. > Granted this might be different from ads that do just make you aware of a product. But this reasoning is looking more and more like justification rather than purpose. I have no problem with promoting a p
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by mxkopy 4y ago
The other day in the middle of reading an article a green border popped up around the entire page, blocking the beginning and ending of most sentences. At the bottom of the page was an advertisement for a Sonic burger. I felt assaulted. The
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by mxkopy 4y ago
Which comes first, x/2 < x or x < 2x ? I think mathematical statements don't have causes but constraints. Could be that the universe is somehow constrained to exist because of some incredibly abstract truth.
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by mxkopy 4y ago
John Wheeler popularized the term "it from bit" and the idea of a participatory universe. The limits of human observation aside, it could be that the universe itself doesn't really know how it began. If a superheated plasma i
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by mxkopy 4y ago
There's enthusiasm, and then there's this > a lot of very experienced engineers encountering Rust, going "holy shit", and trying to preach about it from the rooftops Preaching is like a religious thing. Why are people
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by mxkopy 4y ago
Well there you go, if it's genuinely better it will speak for itself. See when I'm being an apologist I say shit like "Python-like syntax but it compiles to assembly" "You can mess with the AST like in LISP, to make
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by mxkopy 4y ago
No, the culty feeling is this paragraph long explanation about how Rust is objectively good, paired with the downvotes I got from saying I feel like Rust is culty. Pretty sure most experienced devs will say "use whatever works, there&#
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by mxkopy 4y ago
Thank you for pointing this out. Lately I've been getting a culty feeling around Rust which has been turning me off to learning it.

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