smitty1e

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by smitty1e 2y ago
I want to argue: "Well, capitalism contends that someone will show up to offer that product." "Yeah, we'll get right on that," says the cartel.
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by smitty1e 2y ago
My claim to fame in life is having hauled a highland bagpipe up Mt. Fuji and blown "Amazing Grace" at the summit. Which is a terrible idea. The air pressure at that altitude does not support driving four reeds, especially through
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by smitty1e 2y ago
Efficient Society hypotheses abound. They are called "religions". Their subjectivity helps inform the general human lack of scalability.
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by smitty1e 2y ago
Intelligent Platform Management Interface https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_Platform_Managem...
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by smitty1e 2y ago
Another take on the matter is that Brazil is a trial run for a general global crackdown on unfettered communication. Your hint that Brazil have the USG give Elon Musk the Pavel Durov treatment is chilling, indeed. I guess after HN is shut d
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by smitty1e 2y ago
My Samsung Galaxy A7 is venerable, but runs Zotero and Acrobat like a boss and has spared several forests by holding all of that academic research. I make up for this by getting a new Samsung watch/phone combo every other year. Good pr
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by smitty1e 2y ago
Thank you
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by smitty1e 2y ago
As a default, I'd keep everything in one language: https://pypi.org/project/pyexpect/
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Monument to the Unknown Bureaucrat (2018)(atlasobscura.com)
1 points by smitty1e 2y ago|1 comments
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by smitty1e 2y ago
My point is that the advertising needs to pick a course and steer it. As a technical matter, I agree with you.
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by smitty1e 2y ago
I think that Ranked Choice Voting might be helpful in an insular, knowledgable case like the PSF. Its knowledge requirements of the voters are such that I would opposed it for general, political cases.
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by smitty1e 2y ago
Can't have it both ways. Elisp is either a scripting language for a text editor, OR a fully-featured programming language for doing All The Things.
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Origin of the phrase "Roger that" in English (2016)(jakubmarian.com)
9 points by smitty1e 2y ago|1 comments
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It's a legal system. The computer has an operating system. Both systems really, really hate undefined behavior. I'd always assumed the legalese was about minimizing the ambiguity that leads to undefined behavior.
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Maybe some segmentation into minimal, average, and deluxe would help the Goldilocks situation.
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by smitty1e 2y ago
I've got a tinfoil hat that says this AI hype cycle is ~20% no-kidding tech, and ~80% fig leaf for offloading expensive employees.
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by smitty1e 2y ago
The four abstraction layers reflect the reality of technological drift over time. Even stipulating a Wand of Internet Technology (WIT) that could produce the One True Stack (OTS), two things remains undone: - fixing all the old stuff (or do
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Terraform and Handlebars = DRY as a Bone(github.com)
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Homebound: The Long-Term Rise in Time Spent at Home Among U.S. Adults(sociologicalscience.com)
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With 5th & 8th graders, my chief concern is the perceived anti-Western slant that the schools my taxes support have apparently subscribed to of late. Hence my willingness to float private tuition on top of taxes. I don't care to ha
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by smitty1e 2y ago
> Person says brutalism is a style of modernism, a movement that appealed to architects and designers because of its material honesty and lack of ornamentation. It crushes the human spirit. Our societal renewal will include a return to b
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by smitty1e 2y ago
Walz has now been denounced by his replacement, his chaplain, and his Commanding Officer. You are perfectly within your rights to continue defending this abject piece of work. Understand that veterans do both understand that life is messy
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by smitty1e 2y ago
"Complexity is a subsidy."--Jonah Goldberg. I submit that you're setting yourself up for a mugging.
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by smitty1e 2y ago
But to punt on the need to communicate would seem to reinforce the adversarial forces, no?
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by smitty1e 2y ago
If the legal system runs athwart the lay opinion, there ought to be some wisdom driving the tension, and that wisdom ought to be better explained than "Shut up, peasant."
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by smitty1e 2y ago
The countering question is: why does the economic/legal model have to be so over-engineered that nobody outside the Priesthood is capable of grasping the nuances? One should think that keeping the complexity minimized would be a goal o
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by smitty1e 2y ago
> And the organization suffers even while improving results of components One properly and three half-flat tires on a car is an obvious visual here. The counter-argument is that one must begin somewhere; waiting until everything is &quot
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by smitty1e 2y ago
Magnificent strawmanning. I answered your "yes or no question" with specifics, and you ignored the specifics. This places your arguments on Walz footing.
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by smitty1e 2y ago
So he spent less than a year, in Italy.
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by smitty1e 2y ago
=> "for a year" And yes, I grasp that military efforts have some sprawl to them. "...had he been deployed to a front line position then he would have gone as instructed." It is clear that Walz had knowledge of the sch

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