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by schoen 1y ago
I think you want the Preparedness Paradox. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preparedness_paradox
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by schoen 1y ago
Are you somehow committed to the idea that it's not useful or morally valid to debate about whether those ideas are right or wrong? From your discussion of the Chinese political speech issues, it seems like you actually think that -- i
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Dance Marathon(en.wikipedia.org)
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by schoen 1y ago
The other famous example which people have mentioned here is that "sideloading" is now used to refer to installing software on a computer, which used to be a normal, routine (and required) thing to do in order to use any computer.
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by schoen 1y ago
I may have glossed over this detail, but I didn't think the article was saying that "open source" had actually won either (perhaps that people who preferred the term "open source" have tended to accept much narrower
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It's quoting people who say that it has won because of extensive adoption. However, that adoption doesn't mean that most people are allowed even in principle to change most of the software in embedded devices they own, or even o
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Can you see how this makes it look like the "socialist system" only survives by force, by physically preventing people from thinking and talking about its flaws? That it can't actually withstand criticism at all? (That's
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I've personally met Chinese people who were stopped by force or threat of force from saying what they wanted to say about domestic politics. There are many selection biases in how I came to know the people that I do, and it's ent
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by schoen 1y ago
(I wrote a whole thing here, but I think I want to sleep on it before having more people read it.)
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Note that Apple's app store transparency report (thanks to them for publishing this, they don't have to) https://www.apple.com/legal/more-resources/docs/2024-App-Sto... says that there are over 1700
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by schoen 1y ago
The "software is speech" idea was popularized partly by being used (successfully) as an argument in litigation about U.S. software export controls. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_as_speech (It was later p
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by schoen 1y ago
How about "our country should have a free market economy because I think that is morally correct"? How about "our country should not be led by the Communist Party because Communism is a mistaken, harmful idea?" (or if yo
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There was an IETF working group that was working on a more distributed alternative based on a DNS record (so you could make statements in the DNS about common administrative control of subdomains, or lack of such common control, and other r
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by schoen 1y ago
(It's Portuguese for "guava".)
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It's difficult to entrench things. In the UK they have often said "one Parliament can't bind another Parliament", and in the U.S. it's also sometimes said "one Congress can't bind another Congress". T
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I agree that it's not a practical form of transportation, but that 100 meter radius parachute drop would be beautiful as an art project.
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As elsewhere in the thread, I'd advocate for "basic higher mathematics" or "introductory higher mathematics" (which would make clear that it's for people actively studying math as a subject and not as a standar
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My first calculus class in high school was about 10% "conceptual explanation of limits, derivatives, and integrals", 30% "techniques for evaluating derivatives", 50% "techniques for evaluating integrals", and m
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It attempts to communicate peer-to-peer but falls back to a relay if necessary.
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It would make more sense to include the term "higher math" (from the author's own description) in the page title, like "Basic Higher Math Textbook" or "Introductory Higher Math Textbook". Higher mathematic
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by schoen 1y ago
I think you used the word "holistic" in a non-idiomatic way here. To me, what you wrote would mean "fond of functional programming, but don't have a broad or comprehensive perspective on it" or "fond of functio
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by schoen 1y ago
I think I talked about this possibility with Bunnie Huang about 15 years ago. As I recall, he said it was conceptually achievable. I guess it's also practically achievable!
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That's awesome. Thanks for the explanation. I did find several machines like this on YouTube, and it's amazing to watch. (One of them had little motor-actuated slats that could kick the defective items away, almost like a foot kic
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by schoen 1y ago
Oh sorry, I thought you were conflating the two because the talent you described was for mirror writing. I'm also left-handed and learned belatedly that I can do mirror-writing with my non-dominant right hand. I'm not that coordin
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There are probably other periods of time when I might have advocated running hybrids of different families of primitives, although I'm not sure that I was ever following the details closely enough to have actually advocated for that. T
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I worked on one of the Linux live CDs (Linuxcare bootable business card / LNX-BBC), which we designed to fit in 50 megabytes. I remember being kind of jealous of the QNX floppy, because I felt that it had about 25% as much software fun
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by schoen 1y ago
Is "optical food processor" a metaphor, or is this actually a device that would cut up food items based on image feedback?
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That's usually called "mirror writing", but it's a different concept. If you look closely at these examples, you'll see that the letter forms are carefully chosen so that the texts are still readable as normal und
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I don't have a good sense of what to point to as the "mechanism". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lattice-based_cryptography#His... 2005 (LWE), 2012 (LWE for key exchange), earlier (1990s for lattice math
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DJB has been complaining about this NSA position since 2022 (I guess long before it was an issue at the TLS WG): https://blog.cr.yp.to/20220805-nsa.html I'm actually quite surprised that anyone is advocating the non-hy

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