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by veltas 3y ago
Regarding this claim that Wiener's wife was conservative, and slandered Pitts (or his associates), there are some interesting answers on https://hsm.stackexchange.com/questions/184/ to the question of why Wie
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by veltas 3y ago
Although it's the statement of the title, it's not really what the article was about. The title is clickbaity, it should really say "Richard Stallman Was Right" or something. This is explained in the disclaimer above the
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by veltas 3y ago
It's a shame that (from my perspective anyway) a lot of that state capacity seems to have degassed for the NHS. Right now it's impossible to get a doctor's appointment where I live. If you call any local surgery within a spli
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by veltas 3y ago
> no sitting in uncomfortable meeting room chairs Why are meeting room chairs so uncomfortable?
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by veltas 3y ago
Could you use a cake slicing algorithm? I.e. you get one party to choose a fraction, and the other party chooses whether it's theirs or not, until the number of fractions is gone? Does this scale to n parties of different shares and al
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by veltas 3y ago
In a sense this comment is still relevant, because from the grand perspective this email error could be considered a random failure on the part of the test in its full practical context. And it's not impossible it will happen again (in
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by veltas 3y ago
> Use spacing to specify the order of arithmetic operations. I actually wish this was a thing in mainstream languages, if someone spaces like that they obviously believe that the precedence matches their spacing. It might as well work th
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by veltas 3y ago
Even 10 years ago I knew people cancelling their broadband to just use mobile internet. It's smart to cancel broadband if you're not streaming video, or if you are streaming but have a fast mobile network connection and decent pla
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by veltas 3y ago
The amount of effort, I think it would be worth excavating it totally or paying someone to excavate it.
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by veltas 3y ago
The roots go 2 meters deep, and can spread horizontally several meters.
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by veltas 3y ago
Blocking the screen is annoying, though. I prefer the banner-style ones which you can actually almost ignore if you're "just" trying to do something super quick on one page and couldn't care less about the domain's
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by veltas 3y ago
I disagree that it's a "fine example of whataboutism", I think it's more 'apples and oranges'. How would you define whataboutism, or why do you think that it applies here?
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by veltas 3y ago
No shame in that, I love his videos but I think it's well established that there are different kinds of learners out there. His content matches what works for me, and it's worth reminding people like me that one size doesn't
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by veltas 3y ago
It's much like open source vs corporate, but not quite. The bazaar really is better than the cathedral.
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by veltas 3y ago
This is really fantastic work and there definitely needs to be a hacker microchip community. I love the idea of one day having a simplistic processor chip someone made in their garage.
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by veltas 4y ago
>Tech bros love to whine about "The EU cookie policy" that simply doesn't exist the way they imagine it. All these popups are the most radical way to interpret the explicit consent demanded by regulations when sending data
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by veltas 4y ago
All state philosophies are about programming, man!
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by veltas 4y ago
Yes, this fits my understanding and know I'm not judging you or people like you. I understand this because I'm the same way, but from my own era.
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by veltas 4y ago
I also agree with this. You have also misunderstood me.
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by veltas 4y ago
Each generation has different motivations, regardless of our ideals. They can still ultimately produce many people who will care about the same things you do.
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by veltas 4y ago
I agree with you completely, and this was what I tried to convey. You have misunderstood me.
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by veltas 4y ago
This change is necessary because young people aren't interested in the fundamental abilities of computers, instead they're only interested in the applications. If you grow up playing video games and using social media then you won
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by veltas 4y ago
> I don't see any serious rejection of it in politics It's the policy of the Tory party to reduce immigration, has been for years, and is popular policy that wins them votes. The Tories don't actually do it and among the p
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by veltas 4y ago
> a sense of arrogance and lack of tolerance that I have observed to be quite common among supernaturalists You are stereotyping religious people (84% of the global population) while preaching about arrogance and lack of tolerance.
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by veltas 4y ago
>but who reads the edit history anyway? Every time I look at a controversial article, and I'm unconvinced by the implicit narratives, I will look at the history, and more often than not there are interesting details lurking in the p
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by veltas 4y ago
I haven't done a ton of PowerPC assembly but I knew this. Frankly, it seems that the people writing the PowerPC output didn't know PPC that well, which is always a problem. There are probably more bugs than this.
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by veltas 4y ago
vscode didn't exist when I learned vim, and Visual Studio was only on Windows, and I had seen demonstrated that people using vim seemed to be a lot faster manipulating and navigating code.
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by veltas 4y ago
Not to start a flame war, but no, people use vim and Emacs because they're productive with them. I've certainly tried alternatives like vscode seriously and find I prefer vim.
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by veltas 4y ago
You can take two different programmers, give them the same requirements, and produce the exact same bugs more often than you'd think.
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by veltas 4y ago
> First of all, I don't want another Emacs rewrite, much less in Guile. Mixing languages is not good for power-use, which requires ease-of-use, or at least conceptual simplicity. This is a huge problem with GNU. Lisp is an extremely

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