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by prionassembly 4y ago
I don't think the unborn are to blame for the flaws of the people who set out to defend them.
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by prionassembly 4y ago
It'd be interesting to see if persistent homology can be found in this representation (like it often can be found in phase-delay representations of time-series).
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by prionassembly 4y ago
Or having built a city on a precarious place that shouldn't have been for human dwelling by any conceivable reason, and yet it is. That people insist on living in these places is a testament to the value of human occupation as such. (I
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by prionassembly 4y ago
Man, I miss SimCity.
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by prionassembly 4y ago
There's the mythology of the heavens being held up by the titan Atlas, who rests on top of a cow, which rests on top of a turtle... the kiddy version continues on top of another turtle, on top of... I once had a vision -- yes, a vision
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by prionassembly 4y ago
At one point in a past life I was in a PhD Applied Math program and one of the professors who was into computer graphics gave a lecture on data visualization. She encouraged us to pick artwork we like and run it through Adobe Kuler to get p
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by prionassembly 4y ago
This is a kind of adverse selection.
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by prionassembly 4y ago
Wait. Are you me? Did I write this in my sleep?
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by prionassembly 4y ago
I've wanted to use cuelang twice already, but having to install the go language on Ubuntu is a major inconvenience. Instead I used NestedText (I tend to do all my parsing with Pydantic anyway).
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by prionassembly 4y ago
The onramp from - script without a main function - to personal or ad hoc codebase for non-tech workplace - to packaged code to cope with namespaces + type hints + general best practices - to code that reads like good code from the major ope
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by prionassembly 4y ago
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=emergent+behavior+agent+based+simu...
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by prionassembly 4y ago
https://michael-hudson.com/2000/03/how-interest-rates-were-s...
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by prionassembly 4y ago
Banking is older than trigonometry, or even writing. All of this has happened with clay tablets; all of this will happen again.
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by prionassembly 4y ago
He's a Cylon, but he's on your side.
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by prionassembly 4y ago
I started following a bunch of right-wingish accounts just because it was aired that they had been banned so I wanted to see what they were all about for a while. OTOH the Musk hysteria became annoying so I unfollowed a lot of blue checks a
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by prionassembly 4y ago
Thus money and capital are different things with different cardinalities. (More: https://asemic-horizon.com/2021/07/31/zero-chroma-infinity/ )
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by prionassembly 4y ago
So many words, so little clarity.
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by prionassembly 4y ago
One would hope that social progress means that people learn inclusiv[ity|eness] as an abstract ethical concept and, from that, language and other social practices follow. Instead we're down a route where we're force-fed a kind o
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by prionassembly 4y ago
Also doesn't British English still use "the f word" for cigarettes? (I mean, given WHO guidance maybe we'll be discouraged to write about cigarettes going forward)
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by prionassembly 4y ago
What?
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by prionassembly 4y ago
Postel's law etc. etc.
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by prionassembly 4y ago
By all appearances Xah is such an extreme personality. It's this (and websites like this) which made the internet awesome.
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by prionassembly 4y ago
The expression "virtue signaling" implies insincerity.
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by prionassembly 5y ago
Email the authors.
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by prionassembly 5y ago
> more expensive There's pressing a flat circle in a factory somewhere, and there's - printing album art, making sleeves, etc. - storage - distribution - retail space - "shrinkage" (ok, stealing a CD is easier) - ...
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by prionassembly 5y ago
Yet the (military) Air Force uses modafinil?
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by prionassembly 5y ago
I can never understand why people leave reviews on apps they haven't downloaded.
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by prionassembly 5y ago
Ayn Rand's heroes are overwrought and improbable, but her villains are nothing to emulate either.
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by prionassembly 5y ago
This made me finally download TikTok and.. OW! that's REALLY NSFW! (I didn't think I'd live, as a man, to be offended by sparsely-clad voluptuous women, but there I am.)
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by prionassembly 5y ago
The source of disagreement is: his code generates floating point approximations of uniformly-distributed real values in [0,1]; not random floats greater than 0 and smaller than 1. This distinction has little to do with the subtlety of float

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