ngvrnd

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by ngvrnd 2mo ago
Sure, but it's only disingenuous until someone does it. Maybe this isn't it, ok. Better to criticize it on specific grounds of failure.
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by ngvrnd 2mo ago
the basins merge
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by ngvrnd 2mo ago
„Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muss man schweigen“ but if the thing can be interacted with, it can usually be mapped and defined and then named. But there will always be things which do not have names, at least in mathematics -- t
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by ngvrnd 3mo ago
Meatbags can still be employed in this limited capacity, surely.
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by ngvrnd 3mo ago
"prepare founders" ... lol. founders prepare themselves.
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by ngvrnd 3mo ago
nth mover advantage.
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by ngvrnd 3mo ago
user interfaces are for users. people who deal with words may prefer an advanced TUI. Others may find graphical interfaces more useful. describe, don't prescribe. let a thousand flowers bloom.
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by ngvrnd 3mo ago
OK.
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by ngvrnd 3mo ago
So is The Pedestrian...
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by ngvrnd 3mo ago
I know what the author means, but I don't share the experience.
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by ngvrnd 4mo ago
Hey whatever happened to Factor? That was an amazingly professional offering in a weird and dusty corner of the programming languages.
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by ngvrnd 4mo ago
ah the packbot. I remember working on that.
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by ngvrnd 4mo ago
First job out of college in 1986 was at Teradyne, working in BLISS.
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by ngvrnd 4mo ago
this is so true. There's huge variability in competence. and many doctors have fled to boutique medical care, or whatever it's called, since the recent changes in healthcare.
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by ngvrnd 4mo ago
cf. paracelsus on the dose and the toxin
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by ngvrnd 4mo ago
the internet i grew up with didn't exist yet
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by ngvrnd 6mo ago
This feels to me like a transitional problem. People will learn not to do this. I hope.
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by ngvrnd 6mo ago
The stuff by Peter Watts, Blindsight and so on, is fun.
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by ngvrnd 6mo ago
it should apply to all public sector unions, they're a disaster. That's the real problem. Should never have been allowed.
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by ngvrnd 6mo ago
I sense a great disturbance in the force.
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by ngvrnd 7mo ago
I worked with a woman who kept isopods as pets. She had a little terrarium at work with all sorts of breeds of isopods. That's where I learned you could buy isopods online.
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by ngvrnd 8mo ago
Except for Keith Moon. All the stories about him are true and if anything underplay the truth. :-)
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by ngvrnd 8mo ago
Is it possible to reset the source once you've started modifying it?
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by ngvrnd 8mo ago
General class in USA, not currently active. More interested in tech/building than conversation/contesting although POTA and SOTA hold some interest, as does field day. Perhaps when I retire those might become a thing I do.
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by ngvrnd 9mo ago
Seymour Cray down in the tunnels, communing with the Machine Elves.
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by ngvrnd 2y ago
The City Fathers from cities in flight
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by ngvrnd 3y ago
While I think it is true that mistakes cannot be undone, it's also the case that most mistakes (even fairly bad ones) are not a sentence of doom. There are still choices to be made in the future (if you think there are choices) and yo
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by ngvrnd 3y ago
what were the conclusions? I skimmed it but did not see any.
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by ngvrnd 3y ago
No, the high school project is talking about this.
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by ngvrnd 3y ago
There is no "why" -- it happened and was not selected against; it may have been adaptive and that is a kind of why, I guess. I think it would be better to be clear about this in science communication.

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