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by rcoveson 3y ago
Even if we disregard the anecdote, we can at least infer that the intention was to make an original, evocative piece of performance art. How does that implied goal cause people to act? Like a bunch of avant-garde nutjobs, maybe?
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by rcoveson 3y ago
I wasn't trying to say art has no value, just that its value isn't in it being a source of conclusions. Art can raise questions that we wouldn't have had otherwise, and questions are the starting point of science (and that of
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by rcoveson 3y ago
Attempting to extract a conclusion about human nature from this event is as ridiculous as trying to determine if hypnosis is real based on the outcomes at a hypnosis performance. The people were not randomly selected. We are not told what t
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by rcoveson 3y ago
That doesn't sound like a conflict to me. People actively resist allowing vomit to touch most of their mouth. We tend to do the opposite with soda. So swishing with water after vomiting puts vomit where it otherwise wouldn't have
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by rcoveson 3y ago
Because it's functionally a mega-downvote and it's not clear that there are any consequences for abusing it.
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by rcoveson 3y ago
Freedom for me, but not for thee Thou art a common idiot, see? Though I've tasted the fruit And seen that it's good I fear it won't suit you like prison would.
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by rcoveson 3y ago
> There are other mammals who live much longer than humans. This didn't ring true to me so I did a bit of reading. AFAICT there's one[0] species of mammal that can live much longer than us. We're at least tied for second-l
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by rcoveson 3y ago
You're assuming your concerns were dismissed arbitrarily. Why? Is it possible that your concerns were considered, pros and cons were weighed, and the final decision was simply not in your favor? And what's this nonsense about &quo
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by rcoveson 3y ago
How is lampooning people who disagree with you as "arrogant" not moralizing? Arrogance is a moral accusation. This isn't a problem where you can just copy and paste a deductively-proven-correct-for-all-inputs solution and be
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by rcoveson 3y ago
Why do you think it's easy for most to have nuanced, dispassionate discussions about the ancient Assyrians but not the Nazis? Spacial/temporal/ideological proximity. We're not likely to become anything like the former, b
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by rcoveson 3y ago
Why all the moralizing? Deciding when to make breaking changes is hard. Deciding it's more trouble than its worth for the developers and the users usually shouldn't be ascribed to one of "ignorance, arrogance, or fear".
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by rcoveson 3y ago
The thing about the Lord's Prayer doesn't really follow. If you use a grammatically correct and semantically commonplace 12 word sequence like that, you surely don't have 128 bits of entropy. But the ease of memorization come
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by rcoveson 3y ago
It's not obligate-multiplayer, but seeing as it's a Dungeons and Dragons implementation with lots of best-in-class multiplayer features it seems libelous to call it "single player".
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by rcoveson 3y ago
FWIW I am very surprised to hear that lxd depends on snapd. There are surely lxd users that predate that dependency.
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by rcoveson 3y ago
I disagree. I've known photos could be faked my whole life but I doubt I've ever been presented with a fake photo of somebody I know, and I'm confident nobody has ever faked a photo of me that I've seen. A world where an
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by rcoveson 3y ago
Can we please just skip to 2-5 years from now when image/video generation is so good that it's as easy to fake it as it is to lie in textual form? Most important information is textual, and there's really nothing at all that
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by rcoveson 3y ago
> Human intelligence and a foundation of consciousness is just as much the ability to forget somethings as it is to remember. What's the word for something that's phrased like wisdom but doesn't hold up at all to mild scru
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by rcoveson 3y ago
> Though only one of the hypervisors works well. Well don't leave us hanging, which one? (My money's on QEMU)
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by rcoveson 3y ago
That's what this is. "Containers" implemented as actual VMs.
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by rcoveson 3y ago
0 is a year if we say it is, which astronomers have for hundreds of years (because its extremely mathematically convenient), and which ISO-8601 does. Year 0 is what historians like to call 1 BC, but historians are also just making that up.
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by rcoveson 3y ago
An expansion card that is flush with the rest of the laptop frame compared to a dongle that dangles from the side is absolutely not just an aesthetic difference. Expansion cards don't need to be disconnected and reconnected whenever
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by rcoveson 3y ago
Notable, a form factor that does not dangle. Are PCIe cards just dongles in another form factor? Is it a question of how much of the peripheral's surface area is visible from the outside? Or is it the difficulty of insertion/remov
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by rcoveson 3y ago
Sounds like most people estimate surprisingly well. Fermi-wise, the obscure term in your numerator is 10^10 and the obscure term in your denominator is 10^8. The more obvious term (room size) is 10^1. So the answer is 10^3, and people are g
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by rcoveson 3y ago
That's pretty good, but keep in mind that it's a headline. Most style guides stipulate alliteration, even at the expense of accuracy and specificity. For example: Sunk Submarine Sued: Design Deadly During Designated Dives
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by rcoveson 3y ago
User profiling is a huge reason why Google works the way that it does. I remember a time when my wife was trying to look up a fix for Mass Effect on a 21:9 monitor. Terms like "ultrawide mass effect" and such. Google would no
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by rcoveson 3y ago
I wasn't really trying to move somebody else's goalpost, but here's an attempt to bridge the gap anyway, at least as far as "should be free" ("must be free" follows if you're sufficiently authoritaria
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by rcoveson 3y ago
I know it seems like it wouldn't scale merely because we haven't seen it happen, but I don't think it's economically impossible or even economically difficult. I don't think there's any reason to believe that y
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by rcoveson 3y ago
Getting something valuable for free sounds weird in the physical world but it's not weird at all in the information world, where costs can diffuse so thinly that many users never even see them. I see no reason why a non-profit reddit c
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by rcoveson 3y ago
If it wouldn't surprise you then I think you should recalibrate your feelings about how surprising Unicode encodings are. There aren't very many of them, they haven't changed in a very long time, and they don't deal with
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by rcoveson 3y ago
This is why I alias `ls` to `dd` and vice versa on all the systems I admin.

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