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by namuol 3y ago
What’s the big trade off then? As I understand it there’s more funding in tokamak research.
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by namuol 3y ago
Absolutely. One example for anyone who isn’t familiar: He dedicates several pages to an oak tree he cut down for firewood after a lightning strike destroyed it, and his tribute to its sacrifice left me in tears.
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“There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot. These essays are the delights and dilemmas of one who cannot. Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them. Now w
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by namuol 3y ago
Care to debate the theory behind this particular policy proposal? What problem is it aiming to solve? Is this problem really so bad? Why or why won’t it be effective at solving said problem? Etc. Structuring tax policy to incentivize behavi
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by namuol 3y ago
I’m probably the only person alive who pretty much only falls asleep to things they find interesting. I think I can at least partly explain it as a distraction from whatever anxiety inducing thoughts I might otherwise be running in my head.
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by namuol 3y ago
The subtitle is pretty instructive: > If you tax blight, will you get less of it? I think the theory is that it will prevent “hoarding” by forcing land owners to make efficient use of their property, or sell it, thereby lowering the over
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by namuol 3y ago
> My experience is that 99% of the people who are agasinst Roundup haven't ever done a day's farming. Sounds about right[0]. > Direct on-farm employment accounted for about 2.6 million of these jobs, or 1.3 percent of U.S. e
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by namuol 3y ago
This could well be a regional thing, but where I’m from most who decry industrial cattle farming do so along with industrial agriculture. The thinking is that a disproportionate amount of industrial agriculture is done in support of cattle
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by namuol 3y ago
My advice is to accept that few people — especially those who believe they know more than you do — enjoy being told what to do. The trick is to seek out high value opportunities from your best and most knowledgeable (i.e. influential) repor
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by namuol 3y ago
“Getting things done” is good under only very specific and hard to obtain conditions. Ask anyone who has ever hired a hard-working fool.
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by namuol 3y ago
Yeah I was mostly being tongue in cheek; I probably learned more and played more songs than if I hadn’t made the app. I just don’t have the sort of patience or discipline required to really advance beyond a few basic tunes. I learned about
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by namuol 3y ago
“Markdown for X” is a grossly underutilized technique for software creation/interfaces. This is such a great application for it! Not technically markdown but https://sketch.systems is somewhat similar to a decision tree in
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by namuol 3y ago
Can we include projects with no intention to finish or support long term or frankly even share to an audience other than myself until now for some reason? If so, I made this little app to help me quickly learn ukulele song chords nearly a d
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by namuol 3y ago
They didn’t spend a billion for the tech, they spent it for the huge userbase already full of fledgling enterprise leads. It’s a lead generation acquisition. I do hope they don’t ruin the product, though.
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At an early stage startup it’s absolutely critical.
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I strongly prefer this more flexible/future proof proposal: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/7561#issuecomment...
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by namuol 3y ago
Back in high school, I used to go “war driving” on my bike around my neighborhood with DS Linux running on an M3 cart. Almost forgot this existed; thanks for sharing, this was a fun memory to dig up. I still have my DS and my M3 cart but th
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by namuol 3y ago
My dad’s first big rock concert was Lou Reed and he tells of the show exactly as you have. Funnily enough he also was very disappointed by the Stones, and how they seemed so cocky on stage and that they didn’t care to sing half the lyrics a
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by namuol 3y ago
Many years ago I bought Sublime Text minutes after using the plugin system to install some support for the languages I use. This was a decade before VSCode took over, and at the time I was a Vim user for most of my career. It was a breath o
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by namuol 3y ago
I’m implying that the off-handed prejudicial confidence from certain so-called skeptics is also “bad science” if we’re also willing to lambast the public for engaging with science without the requisite rigor.
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by namuol 3y ago
There’s a way to be skeptical without being “negative” but I definitely get it. People will sometimes latch on to things to the point that their identity is threatened by the possibility that they are wrong. I try to ignore this and just h
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by namuol 3y ago
I find it amusing how so many so-called skeptics seem to be unaware of the phenomenon of hindsight bias.
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by namuol 3y ago
Some things really are cults. I don’t think that’s what’s going on here. Maybe there’s some foul play in “prediction markets” and that kind of crap, but what you’re suggesting with these comparisons is that this entire phenomenon is some de
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by namuol 3y ago
There’s a real kernel of truth to what you’re saying but don’t you think calling something a “cult” is a bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy? You’re turning this into an “us vs them” thing when it never should have been one, by your own asses
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by namuol 3y ago
So much speculation but I don’t see anyone asking this: Who has access to samples from the original lab? If synthesis hasn’t been cracked yet, wouldn’t the next-best thing be independent validation of the original samples?
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I can’t see how we’d expect the same model to be any better…
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This could work really well if it replaced GPT-X-judged performance ranking with human-in-the-loop ranking of prompts, but that’s not as exciting, I guess.
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by namuol 3y ago
I tried to improve the type coverage of the JS package and I came to a lot of the same conclusions. It feels like a lot of unnecessary and poorly conceived indirection and abstraction. There’s basically just a lot more to learn especially i
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by namuol 3y ago
Kind of annoying to see tailwind mentioned practically as a footnote when it clearly enables a huge amount of productivity for a system like like this. Styling is easily half of the work for most web development, even for the simplest websi
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by namuol 3y ago
Came here to suggest renaming this feature for the reasons described here. Ideas are cheap, and naming is hard, but I like Zig’s “comptime” term, which is closer to this than “macro”. “comptime” distinguishes it from C preprocessor stuff, b

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