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by svieira 5y ago
Who will build the systems that are psychopath-resistant if not for people who have seen things as they are meant to be?
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by svieira 5y ago
Indeed - the battle of the Crater in Petersburg is an eery foretaste of the WWI battlefield. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Crater
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by svieira 5y ago
Fra Giocondo (among others) would like a word with you: > The second siege was that of Padua in 1509. A monk engineer named Fra Giocondo, trusted with the defence of the Venetian city, cut down the city's medieval wall and surrounde
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by svieira 5y ago
On macOS all browsers are distinct engines, just like on Windows and Linux (yes, and on Open/Free BSD, Haiku, etc. I see you). It's on iOS that all browsers must be skins over Safari.
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by svieira 5y ago
Part of the empire the Franks founded was named "France" and France still traces its origins to Frankish kings. So connecting a trade language spoken by the empire-before-the-empire with the empire of France doesn't seem tha
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by svieira 5y ago
I do that too, with a function in my .profile that I can call in the `dotfiles/local` [1]. That lets me "advise" the global version of the file with before: cat ~/dotfiles/local/profile SETUP=goes.he
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by svieira 6y ago
It's not an unmitigated good - unions are just as capable of becoming "another boss" as any other human institution. Simply supporting "unions" without asking "what kinds of unions" is opting people into
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by svieira 6y ago
If human life is so precious that it must not be taken, then it's precious enough that it must not be taken by oneself as well as others. If people are worth the chance at life, then a life in a prison cell is as worth that chance as
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by svieira 6y ago
How do we choose to pretend free will exists?
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I too am pro-life
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by svieira 6y ago
But a life sentence in prison with a noose in it is humane?
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by svieira 6y ago
To be fair though, if you're targeting a business with marketing (e. g. a website) you probably want to speak to the first-order problems the business is having (e. g. cost savings, safety) not to second-order problems that those outsi
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by svieira 6y ago
If you're writing a calendar app, then you should probably store the triple of `local time`, `time zone name`, `version of time zone database used to look up time zone name` https://codeblog.jonskeet.uk/2019/03&#x2
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by svieira 6y ago
> Stove Polish Explodes. [by the Associated Press ] > LOS ANGELES, Feb. 24 Mrs. Sylvia Olds wife of George Olds, of Gardena was probably fatally burned by the explosion of a bottle of stove polish today.
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by svieira 6y ago
"That the universe exists" isn't a sufficient explanation since we know that it doesn't exist of necessity (since it is composed of parts). The argument doesn't say anything about what this "First mover"
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When you say "which notably doesn't address the infinite regress issue" are you talking about what you said or what I did? (Just trying to understand if I wasn't clear enough in my explanations).
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My point is that the Church is not the churchmen and that those who cover up others crimes, like those who commit them are all in the beds. You do not see the Divine Physician and so conflate those under judgment with the One Who judges th
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The Church only claims that it is a hospital for sinners. It doesn't claim that it is a country club for saints relaxing on earth for a vacation. The surprise that such a hospital should be full of those who need its cures is not Bib
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by svieira 6y ago
St. Thomas also held that contraception was wrong, not merely abortion, so the fact that ensoulment didn't happen before quickening (in his learned opinion) didn't change his understanding of how moral contraception and abortion
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> things most have come from a creator because nothing can ever just exist. This isn't the "watchmaker" argument, this is the "principle of sufficient reason" argument applied to existence. The principle of suff
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by svieira 6y ago
Whereas I know very few people my age who do not. It depends on your social circles more than your age if my anecdata says anything about it at all.
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Safepoints: Meaning, Side Effects and Overheads (2015)(psy-lob-saw.blogspot.com)
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The Garbage Collection Mysteries (Volume 1) – An Awkward Pause(medium.com)
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by svieira 6y ago
Your travails reminds me of Joe Armstrong's talk _The Mess We're In_ where he talks about the pains he had getting his slides for the talk ready: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKXe3HUG2l4
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by svieira 6y ago
So is Original Sin. Unless you believe than mankind is naturally depraved, in which case the state of the world makes perfect sense right now and cannot be changed. To delve into this a little bit more - if mankind is _by nature_ depraved
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The proper analog to union types in Dart (as in Java) is enums and / or church-encoding [I think that's the term] generalized algebraic data types (GADTs). E. g. something like this: https://gist.github.com/jbgi&
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Buried towards the bottom of the post: > Hummingbard’s code will be available as soon as I am able to decide which license works best for us.
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> As a young unicorn, ByteDance does not have strong government relationships like other tech giants do, so it's walking a tightrope every second. For those in free countries: when you build moderation tools and use them to silence
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Remote memory does not count as shared because of the atomicity problems. The same reason _local_ memory doesn't count as shared the minute you spin up two writer threads with access to the same mutable memory space. (And why Rust is
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by svieira 6y ago
Actually, some things _did_ break and required wonky work-arounds (redirect through three top-level domains to set cookies so you can show the user a page composed from three different systems embedded widgets) and at some point we'll

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