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by smitty1e 6mo ago
> Why do we, as a species, ignore hard-won experience and instead restart? Humanity moves from individual to society, not the reverse. Some knowledge moves from the plural to the singular, top to bottom, but the regular existential mode
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by smitty1e 6mo ago
It's never too late for a savory blend of tomato, carrot, celery, beet, parsley, lettuce, watercress, and spinach.
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Cyclic Graph Query in SQLite/Python(smitty1e.substack.com)
2 points by smitty1e 6mo ago|0 comments
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by smitty1e 6mo ago
I have found much value in reading the python and sqlite documentation. The Arch wiki is another reliable source. Good documentation is hard.
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by smitty1e 6mo ago
Went to Spanish.
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by smitty1e 6mo ago
So, providing actual customer service becomes a market differentiator? "Yes, we cost more, but your get what you pay for" can be a good play.
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by smitty1e 6mo ago
Oh, don't drop a pfennig in me about the arbitrary genders. I'm contending that enumerating the article variations should spare us the ambiguous overlaps. Millions of Germans are all: "Deal with it".
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by smitty1e 6mo ago
Full-throated denunciation of anyone who can't see the marionette strings of Big Conspiracy behind all of this.
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by smitty1e 6mo ago
As a student of German (80 on DuoLingo) I'm fascinated by the definite articles. If we're going to manage gender and case across nouns appearing in sentences, why not make them more distinct, please? We've got 'die'
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by smitty1e 6mo ago
My ancestors fought for the North in the Civil War to end that whole "white country" thing. But I support and defend your Constitutional right to flog that dead horse.
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by smitty1e 6mo ago
As long as they can blame their shortcomings on the Clementine Cthulhu, it's all good with Europe.
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by smitty1e 6mo ago
> The West exists in Europe. The West exits Europe.
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by smitty1e 6mo ago
> Trump is splitting the West in half, which is great for China. What. West. NATO is as useful as a chocolate teapot. Trump has merely laid bare the truth.
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by smitty1e 6mo ago
We can also rule out cash in the name of better tracking, that none may buy or sell without the mark of the Beast.
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by smitty1e 6mo ago
> We need to grow up from our RTFM tendencies and build technology that people can intuit how to use without a manual. Concur to a point here. But these technologies don't drive the bell curve of the population. This conversation co
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by smitty1e 6mo ago
Pelosi's Folly? Give the other leg a pull too, please.
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by smitty1e 6mo ago
> notorious conservative pugilist David Horowitz "From 1956 to 1975, Horowitz was an outspoken adherent of the New Left. He later rejected progressive ideas and became a defender of neoconservatism. Horowitz recounted his ideologica
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by smitty1e 6mo ago
From the abstract, the idea is that we can continue to shrink: "...in a manner in which no thermodynamic entropy is created or passed to the surroundings." The objection seems to be the "free lunch" assumptions being mad
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by smitty1e 6mo ago
I had always heard "lush". This was my first encounter with "louche" in print. In some way, this is as striking as Trivers himself.
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by smitty1e 6mo ago
By the third round, the submit button interfered with the puzzle on my S24 phone.
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by smitty1e 6mo ago
The legislation seems more high-level requirements, that then implemented over in the Code of Federal Regs[1]. Using AI to plow through and make sense of all this would put us at risk of people knowing what the USG is getting up to. [1] ht
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by smitty1e 7mo ago
There is a book "Eats Shoots and Leaves" that gets at the importance of knowing when (and when not) do deploy the punctuation: https://www.amazon.com/Eats-Shoots-Leaves-Tolerance-Punctuat... ? I also enjoy how mean
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by smitty1e 7mo ago
The user experience is alive and well: https://www.spacemacs.org/
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by smitty1e 7mo ago
The obvious answer to the power problem will be to have the AI design massively parallel exercise bicycle/electrical generator plants that can be powered by all of the people laid off by the AI. A literal "virtuous cycle", if
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by smitty1e 7mo ago
One is fascinated by how others can be enthralled by something that seems, at first blush, so much polishing of the cannon ball. But that's OK. The world is a better place for not being ruled by my bland tastes. If I had to design a ty
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Cindy Cohn on privacy battles old and new(lwn.net)
2 points by smitty1e 7mo ago|0 comments
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by smitty1e 7mo ago
You could turn the phone off and put it in a Faraday pouch. Business idea: Faraday headwear, so that the tinfoil hat can store the phone. For that fashionably paranoid person in your life.
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by smitty1e 7mo ago
Look, it's all a bunch of rectal sunshine: https://www.bostonherald.com/2020/01/22/the-truth-behind-oba...
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by smitty1e 7mo ago
One is safe to assume partisan shenanigans with every single government program and number until proven otherwise.
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by smitty1e 7mo ago
Depending upon which party controls the White House, numbers seem to be released to support a predictable narrative, then adjusted later. But that's probably just my lying' eyes.

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