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by smitty1e 3y ago
"Don't get Clippy with me, Rover," said Bob.
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by smitty1e 3y ago
I'll maintain a libertarian indifference to whatever people are legally getting up to. But wisdom is joy over time, and I kinda don't see the wisdom in any of these "modern" variations on the theme of XXXY marriage. As I
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by smitty1e 3y ago
I've seen some knitting applications for glove fingers, also.
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by smitty1e 3y ago
"I see what you did there," said Bob.
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by smitty1e 3y ago
RDD leaves serious wreckage in its wake.
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by smitty1e 3y ago
The sooner python packaging has a sane story, the sooner people will wonder why it took so jolly long. For those lacking time/skill to contribute, how can we support?
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by smitty1e 3y ago
The response has an AI pap flavor.
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by smitty1e 3y ago
"Quantum AI Blockchain" for the hype trifecta!
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by smitty1e 3y ago
I was just grateful for some feedback pertaining to the down vote. Not quite sure how one takes a euphemistic phrase and gets "smug" out of it. However, the reader has the right of it.
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by smitty1e 3y ago
> emergent properties can exist even in materialism How would the material as such be aware of these properties? I'm sincerely questioning here. The accusation of "smugness" up the thread seems a cop-out. The dirt needs to
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by smitty1e 3y ago
Maslow seems to have re-invented the Tripartite Soul[1]. Transcendence is what one obtains via the community of faith. The materialists will reject this answer, yet fall short of offering an explanation for life beside "bag of electric
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by smitty1e 3y ago
For now. The insistence that some future researcher may not care is myopic.
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by smitty1e 3y ago
When is 3D printing going to put a stake in the heart of Brutalism and give us public spaces that bear no resemblance to oversized Legos?
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by smitty1e 3y ago
"Gambas" sounds like a Tolkein character.
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by smitty1e 3y ago
There are dilettantes, but most have seen their work blow up in their face enough times to check their ego at the door.
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by smitty1e 3y ago
Nothing going on at the moment seems likely to do anything about the concentration of power in the hands of the few. Not a partisan issue. The only thing--and not without risk--that seems likely to affect the collapsing political architectu
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by smitty1e 3y ago
Hearkening to electron? Via Wikipedia: ...the Greek word for amber, ἤλεκτρον (ēlektron).
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by smitty1e 3y ago
When traffic is mad, one either drives the bus or goes under it, apparently.
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by smitty1e 3y ago
I'm just saying that the information staying on the device is aspirational. I see that this skepticism has offended.
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by smitty1e 3y ago
> stays on my device Heh.
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by smitty1e 3y ago
I submit that the existing packaging mosaic covers the requirements (almost) totally. Just need to incentivi$e the proper ninja(s) to merge the functionality into One True package. Whether or not that is a native python, or C-port of all th
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by smitty1e 3y ago
Biometrics seem worse-is-better: you now have some unique identifier for me, which is totally swell until the inevitable DB breach. Which breech will likely be due to an Admin whoopsie of some sort. Because the people remain the weakest lin
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by smitty1e 3y ago
Seeing the Poetry support on the thread, maybe just 1. pick the best of breed, 2. have the PSF sponsor a Packaging kickstarter for those of us who'd toss in some money but lack time/skill to do more than whine, and 3. get this mes
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by smitty1e 3y ago
> When you live with a spouse/partner, over time you learn to consider your choice of words even in a single language in order to make it happen -- individual words can have idiosyncratic implications. A long-term relationship grow
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by smitty1e 3y ago
> What type of container will WSL build? Pretty sure WSL is installing the full OS as a guest, a la VirtualBox
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by smitty1e 3y ago
Windows Services for Linux can install a Ubuntu image for ready usage.
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by smitty1e 3y ago
Just arrived in the mail today, in fact. I'm turning into a bit of a fan of his stuff: https://bookshop.org/search?keywords=michael+w.+lucas
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Second Interdisciplinary Workshop on Reimagining Democracy(schneier.com)
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by smitty1e 3y ago
The Famous Article (TFA) is an exemplar of dispassionate substantive, liberal criticism. The shortcomings of systemd seem likely the overall shortcomings of open source: none of the $PROJECT maintainers experience $PAIN_POINT, so it is sim
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by smitty1e 3y ago
It seems the goal of Java is to have one executable line of code per file. Thus, the Java exception trace in the log file is almost like an interactive debug trace. Whether that is a bug or a feature is an exercise for the reader.

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