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by tines 2y ago
> The “digital echo” is more than just the awareness of this; it is the cognitive burden of knowing that our actions generate data elsewhere. I don't really feel any burden of this myself, I don't feel weighed down by the data
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by tines 2y ago
The reason not to do this is observable in your post on my phone. The spaces cause the word wrapping algorithm to leave a dangling dash at the end of the line which looks ugly. Omitting spaces prevents the word break.
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by tines 2y ago
You can already kind of replace that core on a form-by-form basis in plain Lisp by redefining EVAL and APPLY, and passing whatever forms you do not care about redefining to the original versions of them.
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by tines 2y ago
> We know from experience that YJIT compiles over 9000 methods when running Shopify’s production code All your methods are belong to us?
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by tines 2y ago
> I once took a deep dive into the methodology of one of the custodians of "democracy rankings". It is one of the 2 most popular custodians. Why not just say which it is? Are you trying to give your post a veneer of unbiased-ne
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by tines 2y ago
I’m not sure this is totally true in every case. Usually negative freedoms prevent others from interacting with you in some way, while positive freedoms force someone to interact with you in a certain way. For example, trying to phrase “the
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by tines 2y ago
Some of the graphics have black text on a transparent background and so are hard to read with a dark theme.
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by tines 2y ago
Hello ChatGPT
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by tines 2y ago
Sure, but that's not really what the quote says, it doesn't talk about making things more complicated than they really are, it just talks about "complexity."
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by tines 2y ago
I'd argue that's a poor way to say that, because "managing" complexity tends to mean "taming" or dealing with complexity in a good way.
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by tines 2y ago
Sounds like a problem with the CIA, not USAid. But that quote is self-defeating for your argument if it happens "much less frequently now than in the old days." Obviously it shouldn't ever happen, but like, just make it never
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by tines 2y ago
I'm not sure we can have a productive conversation about this, but while Republicans are indeed full of shit, DEI initiatives certainly do have an effect on meritocratic selection. For example in colleges Asians are/were rejected
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by tines 2y ago
How does > There is no pride in managing or understanding complexity interact with > If I think something is easy, that's a sure sign I don't understand it. ? Is it implying that you must understand the irreducible complexit
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by tines 2y ago
This is fucked.
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by tines 2y ago
1. So, don't do that? The fact that an organization was involved 30 years ago in something bad doesn't mean we need to take it apart. It may do good things too. Every branch of government has done something bad. You've done s
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by tines 2y ago
Can you provide a source for that? I can't find anything in a casual Google search.
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by tines 2y ago
Tell me exactly how I will miss your right arm and the thousands wasted on feeding you. Be specific please. As the saying goes, "I don't know how to explain to you that you should care about other people."
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by tines 2y ago
Ah, excellent, my mistake. Carry on. --- I actually just looked up the arguments against Direct File, and the Republicans who oppose it argue that the IRS has no incentive to make sure that you pay the least taxes possible, while third part
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by tines 2y ago
Can you detail exactly how the OPM, GSA, and USAid are working against my interests?
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by tines 2y ago
I always figured it was just to increase blood flow. That's the reason that hot water also satisfies the itch, it increases blood flow as well.
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by tines 2y ago
To the people talking about how "Zelenskyy said that he only got $75 billion of the $175 billion in foreign aid we sent them, where'd that $100 billion go??? That's right, it went into the pockets of the Deep State!" and
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by tines 2y ago
> I still think this is what will happen. Agreed, but we won't hear about it, a failure of that kind would never make it to the public's awareness.
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by tines 2y ago
And how much did you pay for the bridges?
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by tines 2y ago
It's not a test of The Constitution, it's a test of our constitution, and we're being exposed as we speak.
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by tines 2y ago
> I would never understand US fascination with "Founding Fathers" Have you read any of their writing? A lot of it is timelessly insightful and they were very intelligent men. > having answers to all the questions for all the
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by tines 2y ago
> The founding fathers were all younger than these guys. Who do you consider to be the founding fathers? Franklin was 70 in 1776. Washington was 44. Adams was 40. Jefferson was 36.
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by tines 2y ago
I dunno man, the hero is a con artist?
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by tines 2y ago
Is there an audio format that stores the 3D origins of each sound, so that you could theoretically play it through Airpods (or some other spatially-aware headphones) and hear the sound change as you tilt your head?
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by tines 2y ago
Damon Albarn is a genius, plain and simple.
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by tines 2y ago
Not quite! I presented no evidence that my generalization was correct, but you didn't say that my generalization was incorrect, you said that "to generalise" a large number of people is unsound, which is refuted by studies

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