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by sterlind 1y ago
the joke I heard growing up is they'd ask suspected spies to sing the Star Spangled Banner, and shoot them if they knew the lyrics beyond the first verse!
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by sterlind 1y ago
specifically, The Population Bomb was the big book during the era, which was written by a Stanford professor. India's forced sterilization campaign was at the behest of the World Bank, and championed by the Ford and Rockefeller foundat
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by sterlind 1y ago
Context: Chris Krebs was CISA director in 2020. Trump fired him via tweet after Krebs stated the election was secure. Trump retaliated by issuing an Executive Order against SentinelOne, where Krebs worked, on April 9, stripping all employee
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by sterlind 1y ago
make it so! the fun of reverse engineering systems I don't understand to fix them is half the reason I joined this industry.
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by sterlind 1y ago
my pet theory is that assortative mating concentrates autism. two people who are each slightly on the spectrum meet, they click (because their minds are compatible), get married and have children. the genetic factors involve get concentrate
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by sterlind 1y ago
the ethics committee of the university is supposed to have control of the ethics of its researchers. remember when a research group tried to backdoor the Linux kernel with poisoned patches? it's absolutely correct to raise hell with
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by sterlind 1y ago
corporate news rarely lies outright. libel is illegal. articles will spin and speculate, emphasize and elide, omit and opine, but that's not lying, it's spin, and a careful reading can extract the facts of the matter. yes, you hav
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by sterlind 1y ago
he might be intelligent, but he has negative rizz. the only person excited about Vance 2028 is Peter Thiel.
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by sterlind 1y ago
quick Prolog example because I'm not as familiar with Curry: % This generates or recognizes any palindrome: pal --> [_]. pal --> X,pal,X. % Here we try it out and press ; to generate more answers. ?- phrase(pal,P). P = [A]; P = [
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by sterlind 1y ago
it's not random. it tries definitions in declaration order until one succeeds. it's then yielded as an assignment of variables and control returns to the caller. if that assignment gets contradicted it will backtrack and try the s
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by sterlind 1y ago
the Overton window has shifted sharply Right. if you've shifted along with it, the institutions that haven't shifted at all look like they've moved sharply Left. Wikipedia hasn't shifted particularly Left since 2020. Cen
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by sterlind 1y ago
> A majority of people are fine with legal migration an alarming number of legal aliens are being detained, deported or disappeared: students who wrote op-eds, Afghan asylees who helped us during the war, college professors and Canadia
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by sterlind 1y ago
type classes existed the last time I tried it. maybe they're not 100% complete but I didn't notice anything missing.
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by sterlind 1y ago
Mercury feels like if the Ada people wrote Prolog. it's very verbose. you have to declare signatures in separate files and determinism modes. grounding is strictly enforced. it's statically typed. there's no REPL, remarkably.
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by sterlind 1y ago
exactly! laws are for old geezers who went to State, not young superstars with fancy degrees. MIT negotiated diplomatic immunity for its graduates, after all. that's why Sam Bankman-Fried got acquitted when FTX went under.
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by sterlind 1y ago
it's written into the Constitution very explicitly. and it's a really bad time to hold a Constitutional Convention.
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by sterlind 2y ago
I had the (self-inflicted) problem of modeling systems of linear equations in C#. `x` is a Sym, `x+2` is an Expr, `[2x,3y]` is a TermVector, etc. I wanted the comforts of NumPy, so adding an Int to a SymVector should make an ExprVector by b
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by sterlind 2y ago
really happy to see something of a revival of interest for logic programming lately. it's an extremely powerful tool if you know when to reach for it.
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by sterlind 2y ago
of course "race realists" tend to be anti-Israel; many of them are genuine neo-Nazis. the term arose back in the '90s among white supremacists, who tend to be heavily antisemitic. the Trump admin aren't (for the most par
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by sterlind 2y ago
> The DNC today is like Kerensky in 1917. Or the Weimar Republic in 1932, say. Apparently its economy was in shambles. But that gives me no sympathy for those that installed its successor.
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by sterlind 2y ago
you claimed you can do something. I ask you how, and you deflect. can you do it or not?
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by sterlind 2y ago
the question wasn't about the (government) account holder's EULA, the question was whether citizens have to accept Twitter's regular EULA in order to view the posts. can I scrape government Twitter accounts and mirror them wi
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by sterlind 2y ago
> I view content on X without an account every day. How? I can see direct links, but I can't search or look at replies without an account.
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by sterlind 2y ago
as soon as someone frames ISP peering as border crossing we'll have a Great Firewall too.
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by sterlind 2y ago
it's nice to be able to have private conversations.
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by sterlind 2y ago
it really seems like there's a push to de-skill Americans. like Bessent's remark that the laid-off civil servants could become factory workers as we bring back domestic manufacturing, and the recent corporate push towards vibe cod
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by sterlind 2y ago
there was much ado about chlorinated chicken a few days ago. apparently the US washes chicken carcasses with chlorine to disinfect them, whereas that's illegal in the EU, which has more stringent farm cleanliness standards instead. I t
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by sterlind 2y ago
Jesus, does that actually work?
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by sterlind 2y ago
I apologize for strawmanning, I misunderstood your position. Yes, disturbing the peace is such an example, though like disorderly conduct it's somewhat prone to abuse as a charge. My position is that 1A ought to protect the publication
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by sterlind 2y ago
> The highest-paying developer jobs have always expected programmers to wear suits to the interviews. this is the inverse of the hacker aesthetic. you might be right, but it's just sad. personally, I'd assume the candidates tha

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