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by thwest 11y ago
Pinning a massive culture shift away from ancient mythos on something as particular as copyright law seems absurd. The move away from historical knowledge in general and towards a permanent-present is evidenced across our media, from entert
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by thwest 11y ago
There are some other things you can do that don't rely on your effort level to police your own thoughts: - don't speak, let those you want to support speak instead - remove names from resumes on first few passes
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by thwest 11y ago
> Companies that use group/political identity Isn't this every brand since Bernays came along?
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by thwest 11y ago
The legally mandated disclaimers in their compiler manual are quite scary about this.
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by thwest 11y ago
OMZ provides opinionated defaults and doesn't expose you to all of the choices that the typical zsh config process does. Which is the exact opposite of the Arch Linux mantra of being aware of every choice that you are making in which s
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by thwest 11y ago
Do you care to cite those conflicts? Are 18th century reformers beyond a mote of cynicism? That sentence isn't claiming to describe the entire world view of the reformers, but to specifically note that they would have been aware of the
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by thwest 11y ago
Perhaps prison is more frightening than executions.
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by thwest 11y ago
Holding philosophy to the standard of utility brings a lot of assumptions to bear on your reading. Conciseness is a virtue that one can overindulge. Many philosophers aren't concerned with providing readers with ideas in the system of
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by thwest 11y ago
> Foucault "proves" his opinion not by citing a single document but rather by simply stating his opinion that "executions did not, in fact, frighten the people." That quote is the concluding sentence of a paragraph wh
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by thwest 11y ago
> This is a C programmer refusing to learn Brainfuck or INTERCAL. Right, and refusing a Brainfuck's assumptions does not deny it turing complete status, or render it unable to produce ELFs. For some, it illuminates the nature of an
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by thwest 11y ago
I found "The Cybernetic Hypothesis" to be a great antidote to the Neo-Reactionaries' take on the contemporary immanence of capital. I'm extremely torn between "The Coming Insurrection"s call for drop-out politi
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by thwest 11y ago
No one will deny that there are charlatans and poets posing as philosophers in the continental tradition. Tatterdemalion's post even prefaces with that. There are also straight up falsifiers and a endemic of p-value smudgers in the har
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by thwest 11y ago
Do you care to cite the supposed gobble-dy-gook in the GP's recommended 'Discipline and Punish'?
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by thwest 11y ago
I agree, and imagine your downvoters are praising themselves for identifying some fallacy in your sarcasm. Enforcing a uniform profitable culture where all real estate is available for developers' whims is not a "neutral" act
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by thwest 11y ago
Another piece of the formula is the state constitution forbidding increases in property taxes. If these real estate holding corporations faced profit pressure in the form of property tax, they would be more inclined to reinvest.
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by thwest 11y ago
Do you have a link for the Moulton record? The Moulton site has a weird phrasing about top speed and doesn't provide the time. If there really is a design advantage to small wheels, I wonder what the physics there are. Large wheels are
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by thwest 11y ago
I would be interested in seeing recumbents used in individual time trials perhaps. However, they seem to be significantly less nimble which is flat out dangerous in the peloton. Their wheel base is longer, so I wonder if a peloton might act
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by thwest 11y ago
That's fair. C devs are also a little more used to being tied to specific OS facilities such kqueue/select. For me boost shines as an ASIO implementation. When that becomes stdlib, I'm not sure I would be compelled to use it.
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by thwest 11y ago
Yes there is always a balance of concerns. Build management with 3rd party deps is not trivial but its part of the lifecycle. In my experience boost integration really is "a day" on windows (including stashing the .libs as their o
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by thwest 11y ago
Devs who happily use C++ yet balk at spending a day to get a large third party library integrated into their build are a curious bunch.
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The Myth of the Boiling Point(ucl.ac.uk)
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by thwest 12y ago
Like C++ interfaces that contain std::unique_ptr, you can encode Rust types in your mangled names during linking.
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by thwest 12y ago
Compressive Sensing using the Radon transform associated with radar has extensive literature. Not sure about the OPs imager. The optimization techniques are applicable to most sparse signal reconstruction transforms. Formally you would look
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by thwest 12y ago
We founded InView Technology with a few of the professors heading up Compressive Sensing research at Rice. We make Short Wave Infrared cameras with these techniques utilizing DLP chips. We also sell research platforms. Our website is a bit
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by thwest 12y ago
There are plenty of free outlets for political and economic news. Some examples include CEPR, DemocracyNow, Tom Dispatch, http://ceinquiry.wordpress.com/ , etc
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by thwest 12y ago
General optimism, hoping that certain culture wars (the 60s) will age out generationally, some positive evidence from countries with harm reduction focuses (Portugal).
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by thwest 12y ago
Statically typed i.e. without a inner loop dispatch penalty? Which others? I've considered an implementation in Fortran and OCaml as well. OCaml is attractive but doesn't cross compile to ARM officially. With C++ we can target x64
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by thwest 12y ago
In C++ I can write a generic vector math routine that operates on any scalar type and still simd specialize it for particular scalar types.
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by thwest 12y ago
The degeneration you fear sounds like a fine alternative to me. I'd rather deal with happy drunks than stressed out angry workers. Idleness doesn't bother me. The crime you allude to is usually committed by the young men who have
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by thwest 12y ago
Arsenal implies they will be armed, right?

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