rvbissell

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   by rvbissell 5y ago

   "New" refers to this particular Erlang-focused instance of a forum. But I'm curious-- given that you seem to consider online web-based fora to be outmoded & anachronistic-- what in your mind would be representative of the
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   by rvbissell 5y ago

   > "Meta" does NOT mean "Virtual" Until enough people decide that it does.
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   by rvbissell 5y ago

   I see what you did there.
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   by rvbissell 5y ago

   Can websites fingerprint visitors by the particular set of browser extensions/plugins/whatever they have installed? If so, wouldn't extensions such as this one be self-defeating, once you have a handful of them?
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   by rvbissell 5y ago

   I think it transcends sarcasm, circling back to how they actually feel.
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   by rvbissell 5y ago

   1988 version, directed by Vladimir Bortko? (Wikipedia lists it as filmed in 'sepia', which could colloquially be called black & white)
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   by rvbissell 5y ago

   Eloi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Time_Machine
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   by rvbissell 5y ago

   Then make sure all your calls are in tail-call positions, and use a compiler or interpreter with TCO.
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   by rvbissell 5y ago

   I thought DESQview was pretty cool. But none of my nerd friends appreciated it that much. Until I showed them they could hide _Bards_Tale_ or _Sopwith_ from the game-hating highschool librarian with a simple hot key.
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    by rvbissell 5y ago

    My reply was influenced by my own experience & biases. While I'm generally negative towards religion overall -- because of the specific one I was brought up under-- I do have to recognize that some people have had healthier, more
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    by rvbissell 5y ago

    I suspect it depends on how much social and psychological equity you have invested in the core beliefs, when they get challenged. If you've never experienced much indoctrination, I can completely understand why it would be hard for yo
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    by rvbissell 5y ago

    I'm not sure why you were net-downvoted; your anecdote was on-topic, relative to the comment you replied to. I have a similar background, and your use of 'of this world' may possibly indicate that we both suffered at the hand
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    by rvbissell 5y ago

    "By the grace of God almighty, and the pressures of the marketplace, the human race has civilized itself" -- Roger Waters, /It's A Miracle/, _Amused_To_Death_
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    by rvbissell 5y ago

    No, no, it's "crime art".
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    by rvbissell 5y ago

    We also have a meat-space academic term for it: code switching.
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    by rvbissell 5y ago

    I cancelled mine, because the ads provide enough friction to keep me from spending too much time there.
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    by rvbissell 5y ago

    I've recently stumbled upon Matt Levine. His writing is wonderful.
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    by rvbissell 5y ago

    Just a note to say that your writing is excellent! After seeing this HN post yesterday, I bought your /Crafting Interpreters/ book to see if it could help me evolve my AST-walker into a threaded-interpreter (using GNU's compu
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    by rvbissell 5y ago

    I estimate 99% probability of sarcasm.
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    by rvbissell 5y ago

    https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/fungu...
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    by rvbissell 5y ago

    Some podcast -- RadioLab I think -- did an episode on how climate change (specifically, warming) has been putting selective pressure on fungi to make them hardier towards infecting warm-blooded animals... at the very same time that the aver
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    by rvbissell 5y ago

    I'm partial to penisland.net ... they make the best pens.
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    by rvbissell 5y ago

    I remember in the 90s they did a sketch where Cookie Monster was dressed as Brutus from Shakespeare's _Julius_Caesar_. They were trying to get him to recognize the numeral '2'. "Is it a 2, Brutus?"
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    by rvbissell 5y ago

    r/mildlyinfuriating's custom style is a work of art.