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by smitty1e 1y ago
> The part about Germany and cars is also crap. So, could you suggest a link to a solid refutation?
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What does that have to do with the article, please? I should have thought this site a little better than "guilt by association".
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> None of these arguments were presented in a reasonable way, with numbers, ahead of a policy decision that made a considered attempt to find an optimal balance. TFA is the transcript of an historical overview lecture, not a formal econo
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by smitty1e 1y ago
TFA is merely an historical overview, not an argument for or against. The conclusion is: "We'll see". One might argue that the sight in question tends toward the Trumpian side of things in general, I suppose.
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Tariffs in American History(imprimis.hillsdale.edu)
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What excellent prose. While enjoying this, one was an reminded of another master of English who was not a native speaker, Joseph Conrad: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Conrad The other thing that comes to mind
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by smitty1e 1y ago
Did you miss my reply?
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We Await Silent Tristero's Empire
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It's not literally true that "Weasels Ripped My Flesh"[1] but WSL2 did rip the python support in QGIS by polluting my PATH with space characters. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weasels_Ripped_My_Fles
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Yes, but, the longer I use python (for personal and admin tasks mostly), the more the REPL and pytest let me sneak up on the 80% solution to my task at hand and get on with life. The scope of possibility does not end with a full-on enterpri
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All that wealth is great, and may even make a difference if you catch cancer. Or not. One famous chap who is nailing it is Shatner. Strive to be spreading joy like that guy, whatever your means.
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> Why is "written in Rust" a feature to be mentioned? Who cares? If one is a "purist", the idea of non-python tool involvement may dissatisfy. Scare-quoting "purist", given the general lack thereof anywhere
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Serious question: If doing an extended, service-level session (like a GPT interaction) with a server known beforehand, would it make sense to set up a keypair and manage the interaction over SSH? Restated: are we throwing away a lot of band
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But even the age of social media hasn't supported any breakthroughs.
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Assuming a disdain toward sausage is straightforward and natural. Hunger is an unforgiving teacher, and the reality that our forebears grew expert at squeezing every last calorie out of everything in sight might afford a lesson.
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> almost every film and TV series, as well as a good many plays and novels, have exactly the same plot? This is what makes Pulp Fiction[1] such a masterpiece. Three interwoven story lines chopped up and served out of order make for a wil
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> Power is fractured so that there are many checks and balances. Except that power has been centralized: see the national debt.
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If you aren't maintaining a healthy skepticism, especially of those you admire, then you may be the mark.
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Tarantino wept.
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The question is less the regulation than the feedback loops maintaining the regulation at that "goldilocks" point of balance.
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Except a necessary, special purpose device, e.g. a pacemaker, I wouldn't have anything implanted. Now, an artificial ear for the deaf starts to be more compelling.
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Is the friction of establishing trust via TLS on the way to consuming all the bandwidth? One seriously wonders if the cost of zero trust will kill off the open internet, reducing us to walled gardens of SSH connections that can only be obta
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West
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There is an absolute need for people to mature and perpetuate a peaceful society. Maturity implies that, while I might retain a right to be a dickhead, everyone (including me) would be better off if I put on my big-people pants. Beside just
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The article was something of a tribute to the author of => https://robertpaulwolff.blogspot.com/2017/11/the-completion-...
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I'd have to re-read TFA a few times to be sure, but it seems that the author echos something that I have felt for some time: humans don't scale. There is no "categorical imperative" on the plane of existence for the same
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> sweet careers are made of this, so who am I to disagree? Compile the world; Java Python C. Everybody’s looking for some bug. Some of them want to maintain you. Some of them want to be maintained. For those missing the reference: https
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"Alcohol use disorder" recalls George Carlin on the evolution of language: "In this classic George Carlin routine, the legendary comedian breaks down how language has been systematically softened over time. From "shell s
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Hmmm...so a python generator might be just the thing for that aggregate...
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In a similar fashion, I once saw a python script that called out to a one-page C program that read a .csv dump (probably from SQLServer) and blew away the upper byte of each character, demoting it to ASCII. Once I understood what was afoot,

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