smitty1e

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by smitty1e 2y ago
Are we going to give up on an open internet and just SSH into a proxy that can deal with all of this overhead?
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by smitty1e 2y ago
Possibly you can take the negative approach and reject all of these inferior answers to arrive at something. I've done what's possible in this medium to explain why you will always retain a quibble. Let me now sign off and leave y
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by smitty1e 2y ago
You're at liberty to go the Full Bertrand Russell with the rejection of the "wishy washy" all you like; Objective Truth is always going to bring along a Kurt Gödel. Whether or not you buy off on the notion that Objective Trut
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by smitty1e 2y ago
There is no intellectually satisfying answer, in the form or a mathematical proof. For if there were, then your liberty to reject that objective truth would stand diminished. I can only tell you, for example, that "form follows functio
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by smitty1e 2y ago
Crochet happens in a serial context, the one loop on the hook. Knitting happens in parallel, with X loops cast on the needle. And sometimes (cabling) you execute those threads out of order. I think that it's fun to HACK (half-ass croch
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by smitty1e 2y ago
A theological point: > Even should you go to the ends of the earth and find some weird fringe sect that strictly professes perfect classical trinitarian doctrine, but also that God is bad actually Satan (and atheists) seem to spend more
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by smitty1e 2y ago
Everyone's attention is drawn to a Tanvi Ratna thread on X => https://x.com/tanvi_ratna/status/1907880105369845865?s=19 Whether or not these Big Brain ideas bear fruit remains to be seen.
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by smitty1e 2y ago
Your second category inncludes those adept at "making the problem smaller". Not always easy, but that is the first thing that comes to mind, no matter the context.
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by smitty1e 2y ago
What are you reading? What are you planning? Who are you calling?
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by smitty1e 2y ago
Decrease in yield means that the crushing national debt is getting cheaper to re-finance.
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by smitty1e 2y ago
Pay attention to the bond yields. For all the hue and cry about the Dow-Jones &c, there are more strategic dimensions to the economic questions of our day than just the tactical concerns of the stock market.
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by smitty1e 2y ago
"What are you syncing about?" https://youtu.be/0MUsVcYhERY?si=8gEMOo3nkd7SRX-Q
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by smitty1e 2y ago
Ah, so. That helps. Thank you.
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by smitty1e 2y ago
> In this case, {x: int, y: int, z: int} is a subtype of {x: int, y: int} It seems like the former should be a supertype?
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by smitty1e 2y ago
Openpyxl is a great library.
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by smitty1e 2y ago
> XML is now niche technology, but it's a bigger niche than you might think, and it's not going to go away any time soon. When you consider that .docx, .pptx, and .xlsx files are zipped XML archives, "niche" seems a m
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by smitty1e 2y ago
As mentioned in the article, along with PDM.
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Charlie Brown and Franz Stigler incident (1943)(en.wikipedia.org)
66 points by smitty1e 2y ago|7 comments
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by smitty1e 2y ago
His bust is at the entrance of the engineering building, Ricker Hall, at USNA. The nose is a bright gold-ish hue against the brown of the rest as the Midshipment rub it for luck on their way to exams. Which never afforded me much, alas.
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by smitty1e 2y ago
It was a pleasant break from the Mark 1, Modification 0 top-to-bottom web page, yes.
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by smitty1e 2y ago
While never supporting such an idea in general, one must fall short of judging such an action, IMO. It's between them and the Almighty. There is an essay by Roger Scruton, "Dying in Time", in "Confessions of a Heretic&qu
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by smitty1e 2y ago
"All who dare To cross her course Are swallowed by A fearsome force Through the void To be destroyed Or is there something more? Atomized — at the core Or through the Astral Door — To soar…" https://www.rush.com/so
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by smitty1e 2y ago
Therein lies the rub. Treating abstract and the concrete in isolation was always tough sledding for me. Bouncing between the two is where the action is. And units: if I had it all to do over, I would pore over the units sooner rather than l
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by smitty1e 2y ago
"Go As TypeScript"=="GOAT"?
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by smitty1e 2y ago
Swan dive into the enshittification.
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by smitty1e 2y ago
Boss, if conservatives had an actual violent bone on offer, the results would have long since been unspeakable. The peddlers of violence deal in propaganda and all the negative social follies of our day, as well. Sow peace.
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by smitty1e 2y ago
How about Amazon buying Firefox instead?
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by smitty1e 2y ago
There are so many little bits of logging going on with modern systems that the idea of totally cleaning up all evidence seems far-fetched. Not that one couldn't make it very hard to tell, but even circumstantial evidence in the hands o
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Star Trek: The 50 Best Alien Races (2017)(denofgeek.com)
2 points by smitty1e 2y ago|1 comments
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by smitty1e 2y ago
So, it sounds as though the recommendation is to carry on until the collision with Stein's Law? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Stein

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