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by skulk 2y ago
If you want portable shell-scripts that come with their dependencies bundled, Nix also has a solution: writeShellApplication[0] (and more simpler ones like writeShellScript). writeShellApplication { name = "show-nixos-org&q
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by skulk 2y ago
how does one build a relationship with a recruiter? I stopped talking to them after I got a job, should I be poking them randomly asking how their kids are doing?
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Unfortunately, multi-tiered societies ("those people do THAT work") have been a thing ever since people got the idea to settle down. Maybe for a brief period of time, these tiers could be in entirely separate hemispheres, but thin
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My tone might have indicated otherwise, but I don't have a solution because I don't really see a problem along this axis. I don't really care about how stupid everyone is, as long as their material conditions are at a standar
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> It's going to be a major issue, especially in a world that requires higher and higher education Society will bifurcate further; as mental labor is offloaded to GPUs, the demand for education will drop. A greater percentage of the
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by skulk 2y ago
Why "learn" anything when the computer just gives you the answer? The computer won't chide you for not manually gathering and reviewing sources for an essay, not understanding units in physics formulas to check your own answe
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I think technology is making the general populace stupider. Presidential debates are a litmus test for what politicians expect of the populace. A hundred years ago they sounded a lot different than how they sound now. Does your nihilism enc
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> I personally hope we can all get on the same team with AI and treat its advancement as scientific research for the betterment of humanity. s/AI/capital/. It's painfully obvious that this is going to make material co
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by skulk 2y ago
I also learned about Mafia from participating in math competitions (in the US)! My teachers were Turkish immigrants and they introduced us to the game and we had a blast. it did suck for the person who died on night 1, though.
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Let's back up a bit. Ancestor comments are saying "I wouldn't put it past Trump to take money to bring TikTok back." That's what's being discussed here. I'm not sure why you're on some personal crusad
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by skulk 2y ago
I, for one, am glad that I live in a country that's willing to commit atrocities and hide them from me so that I can peacefully sit on my ass and have all my goods and entertainment delivered straight to my various orifices.
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At this point, I trust Xi approximately as much as I do Zuck and Musk with my economic future.
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(I know I could just RTFM but since you offered!) Does it do something like NixOS for declaring modules as functions and resolving the configuration as a fixed point of all module function applications (roughly, I don't think I'm
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by skulk 2y ago
You've been using Guix for over a decade? Is there somewhere I can read more about your experience? I think Guix is a cooler version of nix but I've been put off by the lack of packages and smaller community.
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I have worked at multiple, and it's getting really tiring to read these hyperboles spouted constantly by people with some weird grievance.
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"Standing in the shoulders of giants is for losers! I will instead crane my neck and fail to see much of anything."
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It doesn't help your point at all that your two examples are things that don't actually happen outside the imagination of reactionaries.
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by skulk 2y ago
It's true that having a two-parent household helps children's outcomes, but it's somewhat inflammatory to ignore the impact that targeted violence has had on black communities, or that simply pretending that didn't happe
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by skulk 2y ago
If you're studying for the SAT, just do timed practice tests until your score is where you want. This is probably more efficient than using a LLM, because it trains you in all ways (time management, etc) to perform well on the test. Ei
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Sure, if you can survive the period between the obsolescence of human labor and the achievement of post-scarcity. Do you really think that period of time is zero, or that the first version of a post-scarcity economy will be able to carry th
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"Do you think you will be able to halt this race to the bottom? No? Then start running, I hear it's great down there!"
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You must have a truly mind-boggling amount of social capital to be able to switch your family/friends off of a mega platform like Discord or WhatsApp. Do you just onboard every single person who wants to talk to any of them also? Or do
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by skulk 2y ago
I'm not going to dig up the transcripts, but I was following this pretty closely when it happened. If memory serves right, Jones was given several chances to comply with discovery requests and was constantly attempting to misdirect and
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It's very simple. InfoWars did not defend itself in court. Fox news would have. CNN would have. Is it the court's job to defend every defendent? The amount of comments opining here without knowing a smidge of the details of the ca
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> I don't know if you can argue it is terrible to the tune of what they've done to Jones They're telling him to stop. That's what the judgement really is. He refused to defend himself in court and he's been told
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The entire last section deals with this. It would be helpful if you could point to which of the author's objections are invalidated by Starship's existence.
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quick Google search shows that the term has been in scholarly use for at least 50 years now and means pretty much exactly what "the kids" are talking about.
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Darknet Diaries #151 has an Australian dude explaining a form of this type of attack and how he stole money out of a middle eastern bank for a wealthy client. Maybe it's not exactly the same but it struck me as similar because he uses
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Then I don't really see how God's answer to losing a leg (or any such calamity) doesn't boil down to "literally just deal with it bro." Which is, no doubt, solid advice to someone who needs it.
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> And each of those questions comes from a highly confused state about what religion is, about what prayer is, about what God is. No need for goalpost moving. The holy book claims that God answers prayers. This is, in fact, a lie. Some p

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