revolvingocelot

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by revolvingocelot 3y ago
The pilot provided firing solutions for heavy SWAT ordnance, which then subjected the ragweed people to low-level, round-the-clock saturation "being in jail".
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by revolvingocelot 3y ago
IMHO the evidence suggests it's both -- plus, everybody knows the Tortured Artist is always going to lash out, and the Money-Men are always going to scheme. I suspect the one is used as evidentiary justification for the other, and vice
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by revolvingocelot 3y ago
Oh, I imagine we'll keep trying. Each one of us, shaped by both the differing environments we were nurtured in, and our individual genetic nature, will try different ways and means of addressing it with you. Perhaps eventually one argu
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by revolvingocelot 3y ago
Why would it not be relevant? Naturally-occurring materials have a much better chance of being biologically uncontroversial when introduced to the human organism -- not that eg cyanogenic glycosides, which can kill you, don't exist in
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by revolvingocelot 3y ago
Yes! Well, not exactly: play the Enhanced Edition [0], which modernizes only the mouselook, keyboard controls, and compatibility, but leaves all other aspects unchanged. Frankly, there's even value in the actual original version, in th
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by revolvingocelot 3y ago
But isn't installation via curl more of a PEBKAC issue? You don't have to pipe it to a shell immediately -- pretty sure you could curl the install script and manually verify it. And isn't the CPU-might-be-spying an invarian
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by revolvingocelot 3y ago
Nothing has been presented that suggests that the teachers' union wanted this to happen. That "article", an editorial from a right-leaning source, doesn't support the claim that "the New York teachers union has made
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by revolvingocelot 3y ago
This is delightful -- a piece of comment-performance-art! To any confused readers, consider the second paragraph in the context of the first .
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by revolvingocelot 3y ago
>Recently, these unions succeeded to lowering testing standards for graduation in blue states to mask the worse job they’re doing teaching our kids The link provided shows that, in fact, the union opposed the change. This claim is a bald
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by revolvingocelot 3y ago
I suggest "ecks-or". This developed in university CS labs, as a result of exchanges like "OK are we going to finish the shell project tonight or shall I just slam my head into the desk until I fall unconscious?" "Ye
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by revolvingocelot 3y ago
You maintain a connection to the telephone network, which the telemarketers utilize in an entirely uncontroversial way to speak with you. "Using the web" is like "having a telephone", in that I can select what I wish to
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by revolvingocelot 3y ago
>- refactor "broadly" (say, "rename all variables to match the following style" or "turn this class into a dataclass like XXX" or "transform the SQL queries into builder queries using XYZ"). Often
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by revolvingocelot 3y ago
"Genuine People Personality", eh? >“The Encyclopedia Galactica defines a robot as a mechanical apparatus designed to do the work of a man. The marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation defines a robot as "Yo
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by revolvingocelot 3y ago
Western culture, as putative shaper of behaviour as expressed in the parent comment, even makes it into economics/psychology itself! Most psychology studies are done on WEIRD [0] people: Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and dem
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by revolvingocelot 3y ago
Is this question in reference to what the imaginary construct "society" should want, or actual choices, made by the people who run things, about the way the world is arranged?
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by revolvingocelot 3y ago
I prefer the term "5 dollar wrench attack" [0], per the relevant xkcd. [0] https://xkcd.com/538/
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by revolvingocelot 3y ago
>Much rather have a robot policing me than the local ex-quarterback who could just barely be bothered to finish his GED Er, what? Who do you think is showing up shortly after the drone does? Who do you think the drone reports to?
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by revolvingocelot 3y ago
Back in highschool, my friends and I got kicked out of a buffet restaurant. Every movie I've ever seen a poster for suggests that it's "Only in Theatres", yet I've held many a DVD release in my hands. There's s
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by revolvingocelot 3y ago
I know there's a lot of acrimony surrounding this fellow; the top comment is an excellent perspective on it, I suppose. That said, as awful as this may sound, that type of behaviour is indicative of exactly the sort of turbo-autism tha
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by revolvingocelot 3y ago
>JRRM I know of JRR Tolkien, and GRR Martin, but... As Charles Dodgson/Lewis Carroll wrote, "If your thoughts incline ever so little towards fuming,” you will say “fuming-furious;” if they turn, by even a hair's breadth, t
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by revolvingocelot 3y ago
>has evolved in modern literature to any item [which can] cause death when an image of them is mentally constructed The excellent and memorable science fiction short story BLIT [0], by David Langford, is what I think of. In the story, a
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by revolvingocelot 3y ago
To be honest, some strange underdeveloped artistic [0] part of me wants the logos to be oriented the same way, but I grudgingly admit that the current position of the thunderbird is probably best for the adaptive icon. I do kinda wish they
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by revolvingocelot 3y ago
I do like this idea, and other ideas like this, but can't help but observe that it's inducing a sort of functional privation without a corresponding counterbalance. We can't just work to "eliminate automobile usage in
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by revolvingocelot 3y ago
Don't copy that floppy!
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by revolvingocelot 3y ago
>I want to meet them at a café, a bar, or a restaurant, casually You're talking about the sociological concept of the "third place" [0] -- not home and not work, but a hangout elsewhere. [0] https://en.wikipedia
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by revolvingocelot 3y ago
While it's not precisely congruent, this makes me think of Prince's single "Breakfast Can Wait" [0] whose artwork features Dave Chappelle dressed up as Prince, a still taken from a Chappelle's Show sketch (y'kn
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by revolvingocelot 3y ago
I'd argue the file picker thing is just a standard-bearer for a whole bunch of different problems. Just look around this comment section, GNOME has more problems than thumbnails. KDE might not solve them all , but I'd argue its p
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by revolvingocelot 3y ago
I had an almost identical experience to the parent, though I went KDE a little earlier than the publication of that incredible article, "GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker (and my toilets are blocked)" [0]. It's absol
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by revolvingocelot 3y ago
>Africa Er, you might consider looking into China's so-called Belt and Road [0] initiatives with regards to Africa. The boomer-era IMF strategy of predatory lending to third-world countries with an eye to controlling export infrastr
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by revolvingocelot 3y ago
Agreed. The temple is built for "all of us", in as much as any public edifice is, but those who maintain it don't think of the readers' whims. The maintainers are too busy with the all-consuming, gradually-complexifying

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