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by sramsay 4y ago
I'm having flashbacks to a number of basically interminable debates in computing : big-endian vs little-endian, thin clients vs thick, windows vs mac, framework vs no-framework, functional vs imperative, monolithic kernels vs microkern
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by sramsay 4y ago
Except not this time. RC 2 was just released.
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by sramsay 4y ago
Right now, homebrew is refusing to compile packages from source: Error: Your Xcode (14.0.1) is too outdated. Please update to Xcode 14.1 (or delete it). Xcode can be updated from the App Store.
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by sramsay 4y ago
Ventura and iPadOS 16 dropped (along with iOS 16.1), but not Xcode 14.1 (which is still RC). I don't recall them ever not releasing Xcode at the same time as an OS update.
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by sramsay 4y ago
The author is drawing comparisons (playfully, I admit) with Buddhism, but the Puritans were following a tradition that goes back to late antiquity in the west. Books like the ones being described, in which the "psychology of sin"
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by sramsay 4y ago
Read only Reuters for a month and then go read AP. Then go read the NYT. You’ll be amazed.
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by sramsay 4y ago
English professor here. This is the secret to becoming a terrific writer: exposing yourself to excellent writing. Nothing replaces this, and it works in every genre from technical writing to lyric poetry.
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by sramsay 4y ago
This is really, really important for any kind of fermentation (including things like sourdough starter). I believe it's possible to get rid of some kinds of chlorination from municipal water sources by boiling the water first, but it
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by sramsay 4y ago
You move like them. Are you the chosen one?
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by sramsay 4y ago
It doesn't (in this case), and I didn't say it did. And there's nothing "blindingly obvious" about the ubiquity of the Zipf curve.
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by sramsay 4y ago
I think people (here and below) are getting hung up on definite articles, but Zipf's Law makes no such observation. It says only that a word's frequency in a natural language corpus tends to be in inverse proportion to its rank i
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by sramsay 4y ago
Absolutely no way.
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by sramsay 5y ago
Can you say a bit more about this? I know I can go look at the API, but I had no idea that it was capable of generating (?) MIDI files (I don't have cause to use Lilypond, really). Do you personally use it for generative music? Or s
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by sramsay 5y ago
I've said nothing about what "deserves" preservation, but only what sort of things tend to be preserved over periods on the scale of centuries. And yes: My contention is that unless a substantial community of people voluntar
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by sramsay 5y ago
> Think archival grade materials and ink, then add translations into Mandarin, Arabic, and Spanish . . . I think this is actually wrong. It certainly doesn't hurt to write on fired clay tablets, or to "store" your papyr
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by sramsay 5y ago
No, no. I did not think you are saying that (that if physics doesn't explain something it doesn't exist). That's why I put in that last line. But now I'm actually not so sure. You seem to not admit of a category of th
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by sramsay 5y ago
For Turing, the criteria for intelligence was a matter of observers (if it walks like a duck . . .); what is "actually happening" inside is irrelevant. Searle's objection was that what is happening "inside" is sure
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by sramsay 5y ago
Would you accept the statement "If physicalism is true, then there is nothing here to explain." I'm not setting a trap. I'm just trying to clarify your position.
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by sramsay 5y ago
I understand what you mean when you say "pseudoscientific bullshit," but it might be better to simply say "non-scientific" in the sense of "beyond the ambit of what science is designed to explain." The problem
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by sramsay 5y ago
You may be right about where the burden lies, but your explanation renders the thermostat conscious. Edit: I should put that differently. Your sense of the criteria by which the problem may be considered solved does not preclude thermostat
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by sramsay 5y ago
That's one answer. Another is that you would be within your rights to draw the inference that the system you are observing is conscious (which is slightly different, and deeply unsatisfying to many).
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by sramsay 5y ago
I think you only regard that theory as "airtight" because you accept the premises of ontological naturalism. What you're basically saying is that it must be this way, because there is no other way to for it to be. But it r
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by sramsay 5y ago
Or Diogenes’ On Farting.
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by sramsay 5y ago
The Orthodox theologian David Bentley Hart (who has translated the New Testament) has suggested "bread adequate for the day's needs:" "'Daily bread,' admittedly, is almost accurate enough, though the phrase wou
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by sramsay 5y ago
You know, I had sort of forgotten all about this edition. I notice that the public-domain Robinson edition I mentioned was one of the source texts. And the XML is pretty amazing. Every token is tagged!
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by sramsay 5y ago
This speaks of "multiple translations." What I would really like are APIs to critical editions of the Greek New Testament, Septuagint, Hebrew Bible, Peshitta, Vulgate, etc. I'm not holding my breath; those are all under cop
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by sramsay 5y ago
I would suggest getting through your first cup of coffee before you hit this article. It speaks of "ROM-based Ph.D. students" and "giant swimming heads."
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by sramsay 5y ago
Really, really cool!
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by sramsay 5y ago
I'm a huge fan of Bash, and am always interested in upping my skills. My only question is this: Is it better than the (free) Bash Guide ? https://mywiki.wooledge.org/FullBashGuide Because that is a pretty amazing res
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by sramsay 5y ago
> He does not entertain the derision he receives for his erratic cycles of hype and retreat, because they are part of his hyper self-conscious creative rhythm, part of his prayer ritual. Right. He has also publicly admitted that he has

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