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by patrec 5y ago
Because modal editing is better and vimscript is worse.
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by patrec 5y ago
If you like, to stick just to Japanese, this: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/ba/JIS_and_... better than unicode, you can't be helped. Not that I like unicode much either -- amongst
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by patrec 5y ago
> Is there something special about CL as compared to other Lisp dialects? It has by far the best interactive development experience.
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by patrec 5y ago
Genuine question: what is Sam Altman's reputation based on? I'm aware that Paul Graham had a serious mancrush on him, and that he somehow managed to turn a failed startup into a $40M acquihire, which is nothing to scoff at -- but
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by patrec 5y ago
> but what is the analogy to being eaten by sharks here? https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/sep/27/senior-cia-off...
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by patrec 5y ago
You know, if by all appearances you as an industry heavyweight are a driving decision maker in a project to the extent Baldwin has been in this, spend significant time on set and there's plain evidence of corner cutting leading to seve
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by patrec 5y ago
> Have you ever considered that there's a huge amount of users that don't care about "graphics programming and usable UI/UX tooling"? Have you ever considered that this "huge amount of users" might not
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by patrec 5y ago
Haha, thanks!
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by patrec 5y ago
Sorry to be a pendant, but disclosure, not disclaimer.
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by patrec 5y ago
> 4. Baldwin was told he had a "cold gun", which was clearly wrong. This had happened earlier on the set, and nothing was done to correct the problem. That makes it sound like Baldwin was a victim of others' negligence. Bu
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by patrec 5y ago
> As I said, if this were really true, there would be evidence of people using it to express thoughts that are too hard to express by other means. Like Arthur Whitney you mean?
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by patrec 5y ago
I'm surprised that no one mentioned that twitter at least qualifies as bad hypertext whereas the web (and thus blogs) don't. In particular twitter has (primitive) transclusions: by manually breaking up your writing into awkward ≤
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by patrec 5y ago
Wonder how his wife and children are feeling about him severely burning himself out on a quixotic mission to "save" a company with a CEO whom he paints in the most damning light. On a precarious freelance contract, after 85% of e
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by patrec 5y ago
What do you see as significant advantages of Dis over WASM? [edit: my guess would be channel support, but it would be interesting to hear more about that]
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by patrec 5y ago
Two questions: Is there a strong relationship between agreeableness and curiosity? Any data on trait curiosity for elite scientists or inventors (e.g. Nobel laurates) compared to not-quite-so-elite scientists with similar IQ range?
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by patrec 5y ago
My bet would be that Zuckerberg would be more than happy to endorse your "real takeaway", because unlike some of his detractors he can actually see beyond the end of his nose. Yes, in the short term you can and should take steps t
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by patrec 5y ago
Grifters is probably still on the euphemistic side -- one wonders what happened to those unable to meet "tax" bills. In the early 2010s present day Bedouins in the Sinai were widely reported to supplement their incomes by torturin
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by patrec 5y ago
> it could be easy to think you won't get it for another 16+. And the relevance of 16 months would be? At this point it's pretty much a given that covid will become endemic. Due to general idiocy we've missed our chance o
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by patrec 5y ago
> I have not gotten the vaccine as I prefer the known, extremely low risk of contacting COVID Your risk of getting Covid if not vaccinated (and leading a remotely normal lifestyle) is close to 100%. With an R0 of 6 you can't just fr
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by patrec 5y ago
Back in reality, the majority of society was opposed to the Apollo program (even after the successful landing support was only lukewarm) and I have no difficulty thinking of difficult problems with enormous societal buy-in and vast funding
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by patrec 5y ago
It's delusional to think you have an absolute choice in this matter. Of course at any one point in time you can always chose to pick options that make a slightly different trade-off between convenience and freedom than the mainstream.
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by patrec 5y ago
> I'm not convinced a low-trust society is inherently bad. The term "low-trust society" is generally not used to distinguish societies where people put enough emphasis into seeing what the quality of the data is and how mu
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by patrec 5y ago
I know this is a forum for nerds, but I struggle to understand how anyone could seriously believe that being surrounded by people who are either psychopathic or paranoid is probably A-OK, as long as they are all competent statisticians.
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by patrec 5y ago
> A modern SSD can deliver ~500MB/s write speed. More like ~5GB/s.
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by patrec 5y ago
> the central issue of scalability is "canonical state" Exactly. I've written a reasonable amount of Erlang, and yeah, from a purely technical perspective you'd be much better off handling concurrent requests with som
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by patrec 5y ago
Do you also expect a discount at the super market because you inherently have a higher daily caloric need than someone petite?
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by patrec 5y ago
> Who's "some"? Charles H. Moore, e.g. -- the 25% pulls its weight.
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by patrec 5y ago
Probably because few would consider Sparc promising, since, unlike Power and certainly Risc-V, it's pretty much dead?
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by patrec 5y ago
To a first approximation, white pepper is simply "peeled" black pepper (the peppercorns that are used to make white pepper are also harvested later, but apart from this, as far as I'm aware, the main difference is that white
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by patrec 5y ago
You mean all those companies that grew and educated their employees in test tubes on Mars from whence they telecommute using their own inter-planetary network infrastructure?

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