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by pygy_ 6y ago
Not a native speaker, and I thought it was one of these words that are their own antonym... Must have crossed wires :-)
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by pygy_ 6y ago
What evidence? That it used to be (and still is in many contexts) totally non-racist? I agree with that. But it's also been coopted (humorously, but it still is a rallying sign). To this day, the swastika is still a religious sign in H
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by pygy_ 6y ago
When you read "inflammable", you can often, from the context, determine whether it means flammable or not. Sometimes you can't. The same applies to the OK sign. Flashing it surrounded by notorious racists after the 4chan hoax
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by pygy_ 6y ago
Notwithstanding its origins, it was subsequently adopted by racists as a rallying sign. Context matters.
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by pygy_ 6y ago
Getting photographed smiling next to two notorious white supremacists is already fishy. The picture was taken after the sign became a notorious rallying sign for racists. Do you really think that Luckey is aloof to the point of not not know
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by pygy_ 6y ago
Imperfect as they are, these abstractions impact the universe though, through our thoughts and actions, and getting them wrong can have dramatic consequences. Thinking in terms of composable attributes maps the world a lot better than dicho
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by pygy_ 6y ago
I like "bare plastic JavaScript" :-)
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by pygy_ 6y ago
Mithril contributor here (former maintainer). I've been out of the loop for a while, I'm getting back to it, and if you've discovered a keyed diff bug I'd love to hear about it. Feel free to hop into the gitter chat ( ht
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by pygy_ 6y ago
Crucial knowledge is gradually embedded in/embodied by industrial capital. In parallel, we’ve been defunding schools and the healthcare system (in Europe, at least), because people just aren’t worth the expense. Education professionals
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by pygy_ 6y ago
Safari supports it. Chrome had it ready, behind a feature flag. It was then dumped for FUDdy reasons centered around user concerns that turned out not to be warranted (Safari has proper tail calls per the ES6 spec, and no one complains abou
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by pygy_ 6y ago
Safari supports proper tail calls per the ES6 spec. If your code relies on the non-elimination of tail calls it will not work in Safari, and thus not be Web compatible.
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by pygy_ 6y ago
Or even in modern movies with CGI-enhanced characters. Gollum moves as if his enormous head was empty, because the actor doing the motion capture didn't wear a heavy helmet. In "Rust and Bones", Marion Cotillard plays a chara
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by pygy_ 6y ago
See also https://james-forbes.com/#!/posts/alternative-to-npm-scripts Which uses `eval "$@"` and bash functions, which let one pass arguments to your scripts. If you call the script file `run`, you end u
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by pygy_ 6y ago
Massive tech will not prevent billions from dying. The point where tech is able to sustain itself without human input is in sight now. I still can't see why an automated economy would waste resources on useless meat bags.
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by pygy_ 6y ago
The metaphor seems apt. FTA: > On land, life tends to spring from the ploughed lines of a field, but in the deep sea the trenches are relatively barren. The creatures that relied on the nodules, now removed, cannot re-colonise. And othe
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by pygy_ 6y ago
The following papers make the argument that, at least for systems with a low initial entropy, "within a quantum mechanical framework, all phenomena which leave a trail of information behind (and hence can be studied by physics) are tho
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by pygy_ 6y ago
Broken age is one of the darkest games I’ve ever played... MAJOR SPOILER: The great Mogs stand for pregnancy...
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by pygy_ 6y ago
I learned recently that Crockford had been a colleague of the Thimbleweed Park core team at Lucasfilm Games.
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by pygy_ 6y ago
The ability to write good tech documentation is a valuable skill. I understand the GP was upset when they lost an easy way to signal they have it to potential employers.
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by pygy_ 6y ago
The DOSBox X branch (an independent project) can IIRC run Windows 95 decently. Maybe even stock DOSBox.
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by pygy_ 6y ago
Subjects could volunteer into a double blind trial. I wouldn't fear adverse consequences. Childbirth (of the vaginal kind) is naturally messy.
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by pygy_ 6y ago
The blueprint analogy is too simplistic. Some genes called "transcription factors" activate and/or inhibit the expression of other genes, including other transcription factors. They form networks functionally equivalent to ne
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by pygy_ 6y ago
The calendes were a Roman holiday IIRC. Greek ones simply don’t exist...
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by pygy_ 6y ago
Alchemy was also about personal transformation, using matter as an esoteric metaphor...
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by pygy_ 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GTP_cyclohydrolase_I The deficiency causes problems with amino acid metabolism, which themselves mess up the brain. The depression was a mere symptom of the underlying disease. When you re
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by pygy_ 6y ago
Science is the process that makes our cultural representations of the world match the world as it can be observed and measured. Provided the author is otherwise trusted, even anecdotes add to the scientific corpus. "Hey, I saw this&quo
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by pygy_ 6y ago
Shadows are blurry unless the source is a point. The gradient is the part of the shadow where the source is partially occluded.
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by pygy_ 6y ago
French officials have admitted they lied initially because of the mask shortages, which weren’t solved until recently. I agree they lacked preparedness. They also reacted far too late ( the lockdown was postponed in France to hold local ele
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by pygy_ 6y ago
I wonder if the lies were informed by empirical social psychology, or if they were based on our leaders’ level of selfishness projected onto the general population...
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by pygy_ 6y ago
Having everyone wear mask would have been a proper solution had there been enough of them for everyone. But the stocks were so badly depleted there were not enough of them for critical workers... Also, getting widespread compliance outside

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