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by peatmoss 6y ago
> Zamenhof’s optimism isn’t as universally admired as you suggest. Where did I say say his optimism was universally admired? I think I made it clear that I admire his optimism, and think it worthy of admiration :-) > some of Zamenhof’
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For me, what I love most about Esperanto is its unabashed affirmative optimism. The name itself means “one who hopes.” For me it’s a microcosm of competing epistemologies in society. I’ll be a little casual with definitions here, but if we
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Bingo! That’s exactly what I was thinking. Glad to see it still exists somewhere. Hmm... nostalgia might force me to do this. Wonder how they’ll look on my 4k flatscreen.
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> If you want to go full 90’s, and submit a version suitable for tiled backgrounds, just let us know :). I had entirely forgotten about tiled wallpapers. There used to be a website with tons of melty textured tile wallpapers. Does anyone
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I wonder if there’ll eventually be enough demand for new CRTs, and if manufacturing technology has improved enough to make a CRT that is less of an ecological menace. If cost were only partly a constraint, how good could we build a CRT toda
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I think I’m a little younger than you, but I too remember when being “into computers” was the sort of thing that got you bullied and made your family question whether you’d amount to anything in life.
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Exactly. I use these for woodworking or any other project where I might otherwise be breathing harmful dust. They are nice when forest fires start smoking up the place too. Hell, I’ve used them during peak allergy season as a surefire drug-
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by peatmoss 6y ago
Some of the replies to you are focused on “nanny state” objections. So, how about a private sector solution here? Offer people a significant reduction in insurance for installing a speed governor that limits speeds to legal limits? I don’t
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I don’t see anything intrinsic to Julia that makes it more difficult than Python. Personally, I find the language a bit more consistent. Python is better for library users in the sense that Python has more libraries, but I remember not many
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I’ve often thought I’d like to spend some days writing ncurses interfaces in Guile. http://www.gnu.org/software/guile-ncurses/ The documentation always inspired confidence. Sadly haven’t written anything more than
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And if you’re a Bayesian, you can choose a stopping criterion based on your desired degree of certainty. This can have practical benefits of not having to run an experiment to its end. A family member was part of the control group for a can
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Saying the GP is advocating genocide is bad faith hyperbole. They are not advocating killing speakers of another language, nor did they advocate forcibly preventing people from speaking a language. It’s enough to disagree with an opinion (a
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I am reminded also of the Cello web browser which I remember briefly using in the early days of the web. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cello_(web_browser)
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I keep wondering how I can Man-in-the-High-Castle my way back to the timeline where Scheme replaces HTML, Javascript, and CSS. Also where Al Gore wins the 2000 election.
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I also know people who do the periodic track day in their performance cars, and then dial it back on city streets. It's another way to get your thrill on while still minimizing risks to others. It's apparently a blast—I'm not
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by peatmoss 6y ago
> I drive 'spiritedly' My recommendation is to consider getting into motorcycles (seriously!). People who push things in their car are largely externalizing risk to other people. Motorcycles largely internalize their risk. You
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Those that you’re thinking of were likely “rotaries” which have some major design, functional, and qualitative differences as compared to roundabouts. Size, travel speed, and enforeced entry angle are the main differences between rotaries a
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I know for me the documentation and general process of using PackageCompiler.jl is a little daunting for me in a way that other parts of the ecosystem and docs haven’t been. I was just trying to do a quick test app the other day to see if I
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Reminds me of motorcycle helmet standards in the United States, where “DOT” is the minimum legal requirement. For people who want to live, ECE, Snell, or the new FIM standards are a must.
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I think the idea is that downvotes require a minimum level of karma (and thus ideally habituation to Hacker News norms around not simply downvoting content that you disagree with). But... I don’t always see that being applied. I regularly u
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I think there is a schism in people holding left-of-center (US context) views. I see liberals as placing a higher value on a consistent application of values and less emphasis on outcomes. I see progressives as more focused on outcomes than
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I poked around on an old Indy at a vintage computer show a couple years back, and the main takeaway I had was, “holy crap the UI elements feel instantaneous.” I know it’s been posted here many times about how computers have become perceptua
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I love this kind of software meta-analysis. I have idly dreamed of setting up a site that essentially did literature review of existing solutions and approaches. I thought it would be a good contribution for a language with strong academic
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I’ve wanted Scheme / Racket to make a showing in places where R and Python have dominated the data science and numerical computing spaces (for those of us not writing C/C++/Fortran). But, I think Julia is the closest thing to
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> But as I used Julia over time, I regularly encountered situations in which it was really frustrating and enacted a mental tax. The opposite never happens. The opposite would be true for a large swath of people coming from scientific co
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> str.parse(Int).abs is more readable than abs(parse(Int, str)). Oof, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I appreciate the regularity of abs(parse(Int, str)) rather than remember what to call as a function, and what must be called as a
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> Didn't numerous specialized covid hospitals close in Washington without ever seeing a patient? The Army field hospital, which was set up to treat non-Covid cases shut down because our medical system wasn't overwhelmed as it w
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This seems pretty remarkable for a US governor to reach out directly to another nation’s leader. Regardless of one’s political beliefs, it is a sad situation when state governors feel the need to go it alone in absence of coherent national
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Re GPU: Running a desktop with a shiny new AMD 5700-xt, and it has been pretty excellent. Only nit to pick is that I had to add a small bit of configuration to enable FreeSync support with my monitor. Performance in various Steam games (nat
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by peatmoss 6y ago
> RF enabling cars to be remotely interrogated, and encoding driver qualifications is well within our reach. Half the country wants a government so small it can be drowned in a bathtub or be unable to respond competently to a public heal

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