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by pmarreck 2y ago
Based on that description (which is all hearsay btw), no. Not a saint. But also no different from someone who grew up in a country that was infused with a certain narrative. > This guy is not a Buddhist. Literally counter to what he clai
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by pmarreck 2y ago
We agree inasmuch as I eventually learned to appreciate nice-but-dim people over intelligent-but-needlessly-arrogant people. But that ends as soon as there are stakes and the resolution depends on intelligent recognition of data or argument
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by pmarreck 2y ago
I'm confused, because the person depicted by that tweet does not AT ALL resemble the person being interviewed here a year ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grj328-hlhA Please at least watch this and see if you see h
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by pmarreck 2y ago
If you think rationality is a lobotomy, maybe your emotions are running a dictatorship? Being right doesn’t make you an asshat. Refusing to correct yourself when proven wrong does. > I don’t think being more right is a noble goal. That’s
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by pmarreck 2y ago
Fortunately for you, there is no good argument that homosexuality is wrong. But honestly, it does take a certain nontrivial amount of understanding to realize that- an understanding of things like: the list of the most common informal logic
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by pmarreck 2y ago
> The entire left wing rhetoric against billionaires is that they are not in fact successful on the merits of work that everyone else is doing, they are successful in cheating the system and exploiting others Yes. And that is false. If y
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by pmarreck 2y ago
I have slipped to the right enough to be almost like a "translator" between leftwing and rightwing viewpoints. Put it this way, I can laugh at parodies of both of them... I see some error patterns that both sides seem to uniquely
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by pmarreck 2y ago
I don't completely agree. (I know... How meta.) I have worked to be as rational as I will personally tolerate, and it has been difficult, but I've achieved some success. The key is to divorce your identity from your beliefs about
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by pmarreck 2y ago
> “What sort of information would make it likely you could see this in a different way?” That's the argument to falsifiability, put in human terms.
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by pmarreck 2y ago
That first link is about Khalil. The original post is about Mahdawi, an entirely different person. Mahdawi was actually interviewed by 60 Minutes a year ago. This is hardly a Mahmoud Khalil clone: https://www.youtube.com/wat
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by pmarreck 2y ago
I was mainly devils'-advocating, up until this guy. With this guy, I can find no fault. If you watch his 60 Minutes interview, it seems heartfelt and authentic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grj328-hlhA Plus, if he w
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by pmarreck 2y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grj328-hlhA Um, no. Watch this please. This is the same guy you're talking about. You won't be able to pull a "these people" after watching this. > The petition describ
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by pmarreck 2y ago
I was mainly devils'-advocating, up until this guy. With this guy, I can find no fault. If you watch his 60 Minutes interview, it seems heartfelt and authentic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grj328-hlhA Plus, if he w
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by pmarreck 2y ago
I was mainly devils'-advocating, up until this guy. With this guy, I can find no fault. If you watch his 60 Minutes interview, it seems heartfelt and authentic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grj328-hlhA Plus, if he w
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by pmarreck 2y ago
I literally don't understand your first sentence. I understand if English isn't your first language, but please swing it past an LLM to clarify.
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by pmarreck 2y ago
so I finally got a luajit and some standard libs working together in my environment the reason why it took so long is I use nixos and nix-darwin and... well, you know... it was non-obvious how to get everything working together "becaus
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by pmarreck 2y ago
It seems like every new language community and generation of developers needs to re-learn a set of the same lessons (why declarative instead of imperative config is the way to go, why functional is superior to imperative, why immutable is s
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by pmarreck 2y ago
It seems that it has something that is close enough to regex to do the job most of the time
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by pmarreck 2y ago
Roc? They're unfortunately in the middle of a compiler rewrite from Rust to Zig right now though
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by pmarreck 2y ago
I like that term "pessimism porn", although I might qualify it further as "techno-pessimism porn"
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by pmarreck 2y ago
> seems like a strange man seemed . Unfortunately, he passed away a couple of years ago (which I wish I had known before now!)
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by pmarreck 2y ago
it has no regex? eeek
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by pmarreck 2y ago
> In my testing, a lua script that functions like `echo` runs faster than echo. this is kind of hilarious lua must be severely optimized at this point
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by pmarreck 2y ago
This is interesting, what kind of prompt or preprompting do you use to get it to notice things like Grice's Maxims violations? Mine is only set up to notice some informal fallacy violations
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by pmarreck 2y ago
Your product looks great. Do you have an open-source or self-hosted version for companies with strict security requirements?
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by pmarreck 2y ago
Linux namespaces and Nix closures solve different problems at different stages of the software lifecycle. Namespaces isolate running processes; Nix closures guarantee build-time determinism and reproducibility across systems. Namespaces don
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by pmarreck 2y ago
Racket intrigued me, what did you find with it?
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by pmarreck 2y ago
Have there been any unofficial attempts to make a stdlib for it?
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by pmarreck 2y ago
I try to keep very few programming rules, but one which has emerged over time is "no python unless absolutely necessary" (precisely because of the thing you hinted at- the dependency problem, which I've run into one time too
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by pmarreck 2y ago
I've been shopping around for a scripting language to replace Bash for commandline stuff, which also doesn't have a significant startup time, is Lua something I should look at?

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