nsomaru

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by nsomaru 8y ago
Technically gravity has more of an impact on something already on the ground, r being smaller
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by nsomaru 8y ago
This is something i noticed; a human initiator would get counter initiated almost instantly, every single time by OpenAI. The blink dagger is much less effective. Pro humans do this too, but not every single time with perfect timing. Humans
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by nsomaru 8y ago
blog "Read more" is broken
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by nsomaru 8y ago
> Fair point, although it’s hard to see what value the smart contract is really adding in this case. In the 99% case, it allows us to transact whilst protected by contracts which pay out later as you mentioned. > I’m not sure that the
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by nsomaru 8y ago
Happened in South Africa. Opposition parties were all united against apparently errant president Jacob Zuma of the ruling ANC. His fall removed the common enemy, and the discourse devolved to identity/race/class politics as the co
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by nsomaru 8y ago
Oracles seem to be a good solution. A lot of the time people just need some boilerplate to conduct a transaction and will need to refer back to the contract in the case of a dispute only. Contract as code allows us to naturally standardise
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by nsomaru 8y ago
That seems to imply we need two pieces of code for "perfect laws as code": 1) that which writes/defines the laws and 2) that which interprets the prevailing milieu and determines the application of law. Since we're specu
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by nsomaru 8y ago
How do you implement idempotency? Are any of your scripts open source?
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by nsomaru 8y ago
Tried to convert some non-techie business types to using Zulip. Was really difficult to get them to understand streams and threading. Perhaps the project just needed more political will and buy-in, but ultimately the instance on DO ended up
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by nsomaru 8y ago
sometimes people in a social context will share my laptop to change the spotify song or settle a google-able debate.
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Privacy Tools – Encryption Against Global Mass Surveillance(privacytools.io)
1 points by nsomaru 8y ago|0 comments
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by nsomaru 8y ago
I have fond memories of holding a printed out gentoo install manual and watching windows getting wiped from my box as a kid. Then the terror of getting the modem to dial from a terminal, using lynx to get some browsing going so i could figu
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by nsomaru 8y ago
Vim has a limited number of "modes" -- insert, normal, command and visual. These are not analogous to Emacs modes AFAICT. A vim package/plugin typically modifies/enhances behaviour in these modes. Where they can, useful
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by nsomaru 8y ago
Any resources for meal planning for a time-strapped bachelor-vegetarian? :D
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by nsomaru 8y ago
The main difference I've identified between Eastern (Indian, Vedantic) thought and the Western paradigm is as follows: The western minds starts with a body/brain existing before a mind/consciousness and his enquiry is conditi
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by nsomaru 8y ago
'The Fall of the Human Intellect' Study it critically: https://www.amazon.com/Fall-Human-Intellect-Parthasarathy/dp...
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by nsomaru 8y ago
I've lived there a few years. Move around more now.
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by nsomaru 8y ago
For Django there's django-fsm[0] and django-viewflow[1]. I've used the former to implement some flow for an ecommerce website. [0] https://github.com/kmmbvnr/django-fsm/ [1] https://github.com
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by nsomaru 8y ago
People here are commenting that NYC is quite an expensive place to live off donations. I'm not sure what advantages that the location brings when working on a programming language (networking?), but I can suggest moving to South Africa
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by nsomaru 8y ago
"Boy", collection of short stories including "Henry Sugar"
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by nsomaru 8y ago
There was an issue with the Gogs maintainer going AWOL for long periods of time. An earlier fork was merged back in when he returned, but a subsequent incident resulted in a permanent fork. Also there were some governance issues IIRC.
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Diamonds Suck (2006)(diamondssuck.com)
392 points by nsomaru 8y ago|215 comments
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by nsomaru 8y ago
looking to do this at an intermediate level. any commands you can recommend?
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by nsomaru 8y ago
It's not always about typing speed. When typing you are articulating a thought process to the computer, and the faster you can articulate the current thought, the quicker you're on to the next one (although that may involve ponder
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by nsomaru 8y ago
Are you referring to the earlier W. or the later W.?
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by nsomaru 8y ago
Schopenhauer contends that works of genius will scarcely be recognised by the creator's contemporaries simply because understanding genius takes significant intellect, with which the majority of 'living' humanity is not endow
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by nsomaru 8y ago
Erm, this is not about whether the internet is regulated or not. In fact, there might even be 'pro net neutrality' regulation. Imagine you paid more for electricity when using your geyser.
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by nsomaru 8y ago
Read in this order: 1. The Fall of the Human Intellect 2. The Holocaust of Attachment 3. The Vedanta Treatise The author for them all is 'A. Parthasarathy.' The books are meant as a course of study, coupled with reflection in the
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by nsomaru 8y ago
s/condiments/confections Why buy them out though? Implementing a subscription on top of an existing service isn't that hard, is it?
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by nsomaru 8y ago
How deep does your stats knowledge need to be to understand this?

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