roflc0ptic

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by roflc0ptic 3y ago
Started reading this series last Monday, on book three now. Fantastic sci-fi, enjoying how optimistic and not grimdark it is
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by roflc0ptic 3y ago
This doesn't seem unambiguously legal - it seems like the backup part is the legally grey bit.
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by roflc0ptic 4y ago
Blockchain is good for one narrow thing most people don’t care about: reconciliation in multiparty transactions. LLMs appear to have myriad uses, today, no Twitter .eth con men required.
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by roflc0ptic 4y ago
Yeah, I think identifying into roles is unwise in the long term. In addition to the benefits author cites, it also tends to distort one's thinking in bad ways: if you identify into something, threats to your status in that thing matter
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by roflc0ptic 4y ago
I haven't been on the internet much this week - what happened?
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by roflc0ptic 4y ago
Are we starting to understand that? In what ways?
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by roflc0ptic 4y ago
I don't understand what you're saying: > people pushing the idea that diet / food restriction alone is sufficient for weight loss Diet/food restriction alone is strictly sufficient for weight loss: I'm pretty sur
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by roflc0ptic 4y ago
i'm shocked that 50% of people are willing to do it. I wouldn't do it simply for the hassle, setting aside any ideological opposition to mass surveillance by my dishwasher. Having stuff in my friend's "smart home" s
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Why Do Multiparty Applications Matter?(docs.daml.com)
1 points by roflc0ptic 4y ago|0 comments
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by roflc0ptic 4y ago
This is silly hyperbole. I was paying honest attention to crypto and I was continually surprised that it didn’t crash. Eventually I gave up and stopped guessing it was going to crash. Then it did :shrug:
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by roflc0ptic 4y ago
Whether or not something is worth polishing is context dependent, so the context you’re giving here is pretty crucial, and the essay suffers without it. When I write docs for my small team, I’m pretty lazy about it. If I write docs for a ne
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by roflc0ptic 4y ago
They're making a general statement about perception. This is markedly true and an important human dynamic. There's even a meme that plays on this: "How do you do, fellow kids?" The linguistic patterns (including jargon b
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by roflc0ptic 4y ago
yes, you can now legally torrent metropolis. You can also make derivative works (e.g. you personally could make Metropolis 2: The Reckoning!) without fear of consequence.
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by roflc0ptic 4y ago
> So not really different to what it was before. The hyperbole here. Functioning infrastructure + corruption is a lot better than destroyed infrastructure + corruption
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by roflc0ptic 4y ago
more like university press
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by roflc0ptic 4y ago
Right. You can only imagine the amount of fury that would drive a person to follow through on a thing like this. I mean, kudos to him for his success here against professional depravity, but litigation is awful , and often it’s better to j
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by roflc0ptic 4y ago
Sure, but it’s a race condition that could happen in a functional language, too. FP has an analogue to a class called ADTs, and you could have the same bug using those
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by roflc0ptic 4y ago
My relationship with Chinese people is great. I have a chinese ex, whose mom is hyper critical of the CCP and hates communism. They’re not Han chinese, they’re one of the less desirable ethnicities, and they didn’t feel well treated. Anyway
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by roflc0ptic 4y ago
I gotta say I personally felt insulted when I was doing contracting and my hiring company bought me a 5 dollar starbucks gift card. They were making $25/hr off of me for the privilege of having introduced me to employer. Found it prett
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by roflc0ptic 4y ago
Legit point
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by roflc0ptic 4y ago
i think it's the word "scam" they were taking issue with
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by roflc0ptic 4y ago
i felt that way until i read the article, then i realized it was the first really good use of "disproportionately affects..." i've seen in a while.
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by roflc0ptic 4y ago
But in the US at least antibiotics require a prescription from doctors. So you need the doctors to play along, too, and in my own experience I’ve never received antibiotics unnecessarily
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by roflc0ptic 4y ago
You don’t make more cuts there
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by roflc0ptic 4y ago
> Most uses antibiotics on their kids with slightest fever People in my vicinity generally understand that antibiotics don't help viral infections. What doctors are they getting these antibiotics from? I doubt this claim.
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by roflc0ptic 4y ago
Ah, didn’t understand that. Thanks for clarifying!
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by roflc0ptic 4y ago
I did, his name was Quincy, he died of cancer
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by roflc0ptic 4y ago
Honestly I was tempted to quote the five remembrances from buddhism: “everything you love will come to change.” We put them up on gravestones for Halloween one year. Buddhism decidedly doesn’t say “ergo, don’t love things.” It’s more “love
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by roflc0ptic 4y ago
Everything you love you will lose. Avoiding loving things because of that seems like a painful life strategy.
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by roflc0ptic 4y ago
Tho upside is they sometimes have good self knowledge and insight into other people. Naturally YMMV on all points

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