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by schneems 3y ago
IDK the rules but I’m unable to edit the post anymore, thanks for the assist.
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by schneems 3y ago
> with FPTP the main parties are all big tents that just represent the centre-left or centre-right. FPTP by itself might not be so bad, but combine it with primaries and you’ve got a recipe for extremism and scorched earth politics. Now
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by schneems 3y ago
> we seem to have a tendency towards polar vortices of worldviews First past the poll voting with primaries encourages (forces) politicians to go to the extremes. Ranked choice voting can reduce extremism. It’s also cheaper for tax payer
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by schneems 3y ago
I assume you’ve read wayfarers. There is more drama in that series but it’s still quite good. I’m in other recommendations as well. Robot and monk is a quick and easy read. I’ve already read it twice.
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> I was their age myself Gotcha. It’s hard to reason about in that case and I agree it’s really frustrating when you’re in the same peer group. As much as I struggle to understand why someone would fall for something as obviously bad as
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by schneems 3y ago
I had an assignment in the OMSCS course where we had to turn the results of a project into a paper and a presentation. It was eye opening on why so many CS papers are difficult to decipher. I’m used to writing on the web where the scroll is
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by schneems 3y ago
> how many of the other kids As a proud owner of two kids and as a former kid myself: their prefrontal cortex is still developing. Either they cannot stop themselves or they don’t notice the danger or don’t believe it applies to them. K
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by schneems 3y ago
I’ll take the other other side and bet that they’re in their room gooning right now.
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by schneems 3y ago
Eraseability for me is important for studying. I find it more readable and less confusing then a bunch of stuff crossed out.
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by schneems 3y ago
Thanks. I’ve not posted my files yet but when I do it will be on https://www.printables.com/@schneems My files are a jig to cut the kurutoga and an adapter that needs to be glued that allows the twist-erase to spin. It’s so
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by schneems 3y ago
I’m not a pen guy. I mainly use pencils. The kuratoga is the best mechanism and the twist-erase is the best eraser. I hacked together some prototypes of the two together using a pipe cutter and a 3d printer. https://ruby.social&#
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by schneems 3y ago
> obsessed with policing language “When you say this thing about a minority group, people will die, so please don’t do it” is not the same as “let’s burn books because they acknowledge that slavery existed”
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Do you have any info to back up that claim or is it a guess?
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by schneems 3y ago
I took an AI in ethics course from a state backed school (Georgia Tech) and the answer to questions that weren’t “that’s illegal based on protected status” were “well, it depends.” Which, sure, that’s true, but maybe not helpful. In my view
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by schneems 3y ago
Rounding up a transaction and taking the leftovers wouldn’t be a crime worthy of the FBI for one transaction but it would be for a million or a billion. Scale matters and impact matters. If you’re making an ethical argument “it’s okay becau
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by schneems 3y ago
I wrote a book with a chapter on how to write docs for other people’s code https://howtoopensource.dev I also wrote an open source tool for writing and testing tutorials https://github.com/zombocom/rundoc a
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by schneems 3y ago
Good to know, thanks for the explanation!
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by schneems 3y ago
I extremely know nothing about this field. Would a naive approach would to have a coordinated “crop rotation” type tactic where all hospitals switched to a primary antibiotic every C years/months do anything?
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by schneems 3y ago
It means peace/world in Russian. He said so in his rubykaigi keynote. Given that, the more peace in this world, the better, I think. I’m curious if he still sees a path or benefit for Ruby switching to such a tool.
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by schneems 3y ago
de rien
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by schneems 3y ago
Available on Heroku https://devcenter.heroku.com/changelog-items/2772
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by schneems 3y ago
Now I feel fortunate
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by schneems 3y ago
The first and fourth were my favorites in that series. I like robot and monk too. Her short “To teach, if fortunate” is also good. So much talent.
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by schneems 3y ago
In “the hidden life of trees” the author talks about forests being stronger than individual trees. Which I believe agrees with your conclusion. As a tree you don’t want to get dwarfed, starved and die. But you also don’t want to kill your n
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by schneems 3y ago
To me it’s a deep philosophical post in the vein of “what even is memory safety anyway?” > The piece makes the case that Python isn't memory safe It’s a philosophy argument tactic. Take something everyone considers to be true “Pytho
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by schneems 3y ago
It’s been a long time since I looked into it, but IIRC the exposure time doesn’t make sense in a duct. RealSexyCyborg talked a lot about this during the pandemic. Though that analysis was limited to the Covid virus. Also to watch for: Some
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by schneems 3y ago
Ive been deep down the HVAC rabbit hole. You really need 3 separate systems to do it right: - ERV - Dehumidifier - HVAC And basically no regular installer does it right. Lots of efficiency nerds over at Green Home Builders, subscription req
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Syn, Ack, Syn/Ack. IRL.
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Warren ran on a platform in 2020 that had some good systemic solutions to issues like that. We have the power to regulate, we have the power to regulate the regulators. We don’t have to accept the way things are now is the way things will a
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by schneems 3y ago
I wonder if we could put a mic by the pins and play it back amplified. It’s still not the “same” which I’m guessing is the bigger problem, but it at least would be more sensory feedback in the short term.

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