smitty1e

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by smitty1e 2y ago
I've been binging on https://www.classicalstuff.net/ this year. It's not much more than pump priming for the topics on offer, but that lends itself to driving, as one doesn't want to get too enmeshed. But the
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by smitty1e 2y ago
The internet was Edenic as HTTP. The advent of HTTPS was a fall from grace, as reality set in. Even if most people are nice enough, a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump. The Edenic experience can be reborn in a walled garden sort of way
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by smitty1e 2y ago
The question raised is whether one can be as great an artist as Kubrick without succumbing to taking oneself too seriously.
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by smitty1e 2y ago
You can label it a "bad habit", but these are precisely the sort of stereotypical shortcuts that are needful if we're to get on with life.
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by smitty1e 2y ago
God to modern Scientist: "Sure, but who do you think drives the AI that you used to fake it until you made it?"
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by smitty1e 2y ago
I love these various theoretical explanations, but what would really land the plane is some suitably small unit test date doing the forward and reverse transforms. This is the general grief with math: in enshrining the ideas in a single let
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by smitty1e 2y ago
There is no luck; there is only Freewill interacting with the Borrow Checker of Destiny.
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by smitty1e 2y ago
Prediction: in five years or so, gcc shall have gained some extensions which, combined with some ludicrous boost.org template gymnastics, manage to duplicate Rust's borrow checker. C++ will then kick back, light up a cigarette, take a
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by smitty1e 2y ago
When I hear 'tree' I think https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directed_acyclic_graph
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by smitty1e 2y ago
Sure. Point to "McPhô", please. There are noodle joints aplenty, but franchised globally.
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by smitty1e 2y ago
The point extends to food. Where are the local restaurants with unique cuisines and traditions? There are ethnic ones, sure. But the point I'm after here is scalability. "Everyone wants" homogenous, franchised outfits, so it&
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by smitty1e 2y ago
Given their longevity, it seems difficult to label them "bad".
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by smitty1e 2y ago
Loved the Baroque cycle. NS is, of course, an Emacs user https://youtu.be/RC5yGM8fk8g?si=FfoxlXNeD7gLpcx2
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by smitty1e 3y ago
Haha, I thought your handle was "amazon", and I'm wondering: why aren't you pimping Route53?
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by smitty1e 3y ago
If we speak of genetic "code" within the cell nuclei of organisms, does that imply that life is some flavor of executable? And if life is a biochemical executable, then philosophy could therefore be seen as an effort to document t
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by smitty1e 3y ago
You have stated things that are quite true but which ignore the gravity of the actual federal bureaucracy. The debt, for one example, is so large that it is just a Really Big Number. Do you think that the U.S. Government accidentally create
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by smitty1e 3y ago
> If Congress wants to override this rule, they can hold a vote and do it tomorrow. As elsewhere in the thread, I find this point mostly theoretical. You could say with an equally straight face that Congress could balance the budget any
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by smitty1e 3y ago
My point is that the power has oozed into Article II over the last century, leaving facades in place for Articles I and III. High time for an Article V re-write.
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by smitty1e 3y ago
> absurd talking point You can call the reality of the situation "absurd" all day, but you'll not be driving much improvement.
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by smitty1e 3y ago
> Congress hasn't abdicated anything, they've delegated it, and they retain the power to overrule the EPA Console yourself with this theoretical point, by all means.
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by smitty1e 3y ago
The Environmentalist effort to demonize carbon (present in pretty much every molecule of ever cell of every body) as some kind of pollutant, and shut down coal plants at the same time AI is seemingly sucking all the 'trons does lend a
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by smitty1e 3y ago
One of the ideas informing representative democracy is that those wielding power stand for election. This means that if those making public decisions pursue folly, they pay a price at election time. Irrespective of whether this specific ide
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by smitty1e 3y ago
> why technologists don't think about the consequences of what they do before they do it? I would argue that incentives matter, and the system runs like a chemical reaction to conclusion. The idea that Edenic internet of the pre-AJA
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by smitty1e 3y ago
In other words, after deciding to run a BSD, do the homework and obtain supported hardware.
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by smitty1e 3y ago
> The stats are clear though, airlines are incredibly safe. The concern among some is that safety is being sacrificed on a political altar, and that there will be a butcher's bill, probably sooner than later.
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by smitty1e 3y ago
No, I never did that with stock Emacs. The 'space' in Spacemacs is how all of the menu options trigger, and I find it a pleasant approach.
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by smitty1e 3y ago
I've liked Emacs, but the left-handedness of the key-chords tore me up all the way to the shoulder after any substantial amount of use. Spacemacs was my answer. https://www.spacemacs.org/
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by smitty1e 3y ago
Governance is always a brake pedal, not an accelerator. Friction stabilizes a system--at no point am I advocating anarchy--at the cost of gain. When engineering, never lose sight of the trade-offs.
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by smitty1e 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-ZPass By which I mean: confuse not implementation with principle.
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by smitty1e 3y ago
Government is a load, never a driver. To the extent the cart can spoof the horse, look for a downhill slope. Which will not go on forever. Once the potential energy is spent, the friction kicks in. QED all about you.

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