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by patcon 2y ago
Judgement aside, I've gotta respect the humane way this org does layoffs. There's some slags in here about founder being "sociopath", but I'm just seeing a really humane founder with maybe some control issues. Trump
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The Japanese tradition of raising and eating wasps https://www.splendidtable.org/story/2019/02/08/the-japanese-...
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by patcon 2y ago
YES to the nature analogy. We are not guaranteed a world pliable to our human understanding. The fact that we feel entitled to such things is just a product of our current brief moment in the information-theoretic landscape, where humans ha
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by patcon 2y ago
I love Liberapay. I wish more people in the EU used it or contributed to it (it's FOSS) instead of using Patreon or GitHub Sponsors.
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by patcon 2y ago
Nothing anyone can do to Twitter or Boring Company matters. Cars are high-priced consumer objects that sit in public. They are high impact objects. And cars have always been symbolic identity objects in western culture. It's totally ra
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by patcon 2y ago
No one else can solve the system of equation for you, but there are likely creative solutions that don't require any large action on your part. Maybe put a sticker on your car to reason with your fellow citizens who expect more of you
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by patcon 2y ago
As a Canadian, I feel quite exasperated and angry about how you frame this. Sounds very cowardly-American when your country is crumbling beneath you, taking the world down with it
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by patcon 2y ago
I think it's maybe not as you understand. It's not a political movement -- they don't need your support. The goal is economic logic. It's trying to do economic damage to Tesla. No one needs to care if someone feels warm
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by patcon 2y ago
> The paper[0] is paywalled For those in unblocked jurisdictions: https://sci-hub.st/10.1038/nature16059
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by patcon 2y ago
Yeah, it seems like a pretty contrived example and theory. I think what the OP is trying to articulate is that they are aware of more genres now? Maybe AI makes exploration of niche genres more exciting and participatory for them. They are
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by patcon 2y ago
> But if someone gifted me an AI generated song I would ask why they didn't pay a few dollars -- honestly not much more -- to a real artist to do the same. I literally made a Mountain Goats song about them playing a fantasy video ga
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by patcon 2y ago
Missing screenshots: https://github.com/Fimeg/NetworkChronicles/tree/main/docs/pi...
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by patcon 2y ago
https://github.com/Fimeg/NetworkChronicles/tree/main/docs/pi...
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by patcon 2y ago
Maybe this is the pace of research/work when the researchers can augment themselves with AI. You're feeling the exponential launch in the first place we're likely to feel it.
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by patcon 2y ago
I made little gift songs for friends for awhile. It was nice and fun. Making a roadtrip theme song for friends on a vacation is way fun, and kinda locks in the moment I also used it when I was living in New Orleans to help a friend come up
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by patcon 2y ago
Reducing what? Reducing why? Reducing where? The choices have meaning, and your neglecting to address that show your wilful ignorance. My insisting you lose weight in your GUT is not the same as losing weight in your SKULL. Where, when, how
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GSA Eliminates 18F(nextgov.com)
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by patcon 2y ago
A thought occurred to me, as someone involved in some projects trying to recalibrate invectives for science funding: Good grad students are usually more intersectional across fields (compared to supervisors) and just more receptive to outsi
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by patcon 2y ago
I thought of an analogy later, which perhaps colors my experience -- writing democracy software in Clojure felt disappointing, loaded with a power dynamic kinda like the Catholic bible and service being conducted in Latin before the 1960s.
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by patcon 2y ago
Very true. Thanks for noting that. The codebase was democracy-related civic tech software. I was a bit biased against Clojure because I wished for the world to show up in the codebase, but it was written in an uncommon language that scared
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by patcon 2y ago
> A negative framing might be that there's a sort of elitism. A more positive framing might be that it simply reflects a tension between different, valid views of how to build software which are sometimes (but not always) in tension
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by patcon 2y ago
aw hey thanks. haha yeah, "feelings" are maybe just the subjective experience of a mind interpreting high-dimensional data. so I guess I'm arguing for using "feelings" as a dowsing rod for a truer dimension hidden b
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by patcon 2y ago
I've worked around an open source Clojure codebase for a few years. I've grown to dislike Clojure by virtue of the culture it apparently fosters. As a community organizer in some vibrant decentralized spaces, reading articles from
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by patcon 2y ago
I always think of it as learning to see hidden dimensions, and once seen, investigate deeper or just imagine transformations of that dimension -- extrapolation, inversion, etc. Once found, you can drag around these hidden dimensions from on
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by patcon 2y ago
Thank you for your words on this, and energy on everything else!
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by patcon 2y ago
Anyone who likes a story for its own sake
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by patcon 2y ago
Ah I'm crying. Thank you both, for your honesty. These little bits of stories feel like reserves I hope I never need so badly, but I likely will, and so I'm grateful.
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by patcon 2y ago
Amen
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I suspect you mental model of the past is maybe overindexed on Industrial Revolution stories where industry was utterly off-the-rails
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by patcon 2y ago
<3 I sometimes post snarky comments and a tiny version of dang that sits on my shoulder scolds me into editing it. That's both strange and a testament to your work.

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