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by saulpw 8mo ago
Welp, you just proved my point. I still don't get it. I want to vote my preference and I don't want to vote Hillary and Bernie equally. shrug .
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by saulpw 8mo ago
Yeah I'm finding that there's "clock time" (hours) and "calendar time" (days/weeks/months) and pushing people to work 'more' is based on the fallacy that our productivity is based on clock t
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by saulpw 8mo ago
The U trap turned out to be a lot more useful than a "trick". It's one of two reasons we managed to get indoor plumbing (which is a pretty huge win for personal comfort IMO).
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by saulpw 8mo ago
I've heard the arguments for approval voting, and I'm sure it's all the things you mention and more, but people don't get it . I don't get it. I don't want to vote for both Hillary and Bernie. I want to vot
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by saulpw 8mo ago
> Cooking those products creates byproducts that must be handled. Okay so the job of "cook" just became "grease disposal engineer"? > Yet most of the customers still have to interact with an employee because "
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by saulpw 8mo ago
I didn't know this had a name, thank you so much!
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by saulpw 8mo ago
Some of us like lifting weights too but you can't fault someone for using a backhoe instead of a shovel when they want to build a house.
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by saulpw 8mo ago
Regardless of ignorance, people don't vote even every year or two, because it's inconvenient, they're busy, and they become cynical after months of negative campaigning on both sides. We need "assigned voting" wher
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by saulpw 8mo ago
...except that port 23 seems to now be filtered across the internet at large, leading to a huge drop-off in telnet traffic over the course of days if not hours. I think it's safe to say that even if you patch telnetd, being able to us
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by saulpw 8mo ago
By Tom Toro for the New Yorker (2012).
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by saulpw 8mo ago
config.sys was understandable. Now your computer has thousands (probably more) of config.sys-sized components and you are still only one person. The classic UI may improve your ability to find the components (sometimes) but can't red
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by saulpw 8mo ago
Money is the paperclip.
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by saulpw 9mo ago
obsolete in the software *industry
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by saulpw 9mo ago
what? Their documentation is hallucinated?
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by saulpw 9mo ago
What I found out when I was burgled, was that they don't care. I had nothing valuable in my firesafe but they still took it wholesale. I found some papers from it drifting around outside afterwards like they had dumped it out. But no
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by saulpw 9mo ago
That's what happened though? First humans built sheds, then we built 2-story buildings, then taller and taller, until we built skyscrapers. Obviously it wasn't a single structure, but we did have to evolve our thinking on how to
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by saulpw 9mo ago
But much of the motivation for starting a foundation is from Melinda.
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by saulpw 9mo ago
You might like Penelope Scott's Rat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoPyqPXxtAg
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by saulpw 9mo ago
The ziphead era of coding is over. I'll miss it too.
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by saulpw 9mo ago
> If the law was bad, does it make it okay to violate it? Yes.
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by saulpw 9mo ago
I'm building a slide rule in my head: https://magworld.pw
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by saulpw 9mo ago
Perhaps wisdom is closing your mind to common stupidity.
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by saulpw 9mo ago
One of other authors he links to[0] brags that he's released 10 projects in the past month, like "Super Xtreme Mapper, a high-end, professional MIDI mapping software for professional DJs", which has 4 stars on Github. Despit
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by saulpw 9mo ago
Well said.
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by saulpw 9mo ago
No, because AI is not deterministic. All those other tools are intentionally isomorphic with machine code, even if there's a lot of optimization going on under the hood. AI may generate code that's isomorphic with your prompt, b
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It Was One Guy(dannyman.toldme.com)
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by saulpw 9mo ago
Yup. I want to be able to use it to listen to music, start/stop/pause/skip/volume while I'm at the dentist.
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by saulpw 9mo ago
You must have a different brain than mine. I'm finding (and increasingly as I age), that the act of learning feels inherently uncomfortable. Like my brain really wants to use its existing toolset instead of learning something new, an
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by saulpw 9mo ago
Whoa there. You're making quite some assumptions about me, it seems. I'm in no way advocating for the present administration, not in strategy nor in tactics nor in any other way. I do think that the US was not "doing just f
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by saulpw 9mo ago
I agree, the whole thing is stupid. But, when you don't have a healthy, educated society, they wind up being easily conned into electing stupid greedy people. So it seems that the resource curse may lead inevitably to systemic failur

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