Dove

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by Dove 4d ago
In broad strokes, the skins of things are high in nutrients, medicines, fiber, and toxins - natural, agricultral, and environmental. The degree to which each of these things is true depends very much on what specifically you are trying to
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by Dove 24d ago
This sounds to me like it is very much time to start dumping certain tablets into Boston Harbor.
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by Dove 25d ago
Excellence is what matters. It can be found in universities (and is in theory what universities are for), but in my professional experience, a C.S. degree is no guarantee that one has been trained with excellent taste and judgement. In fac
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by Dove 1mo ago
I find Brave search is superior to Google, particularly in linking me to more useful references.
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by Dove 2mo ago
He was an incredibly great man, and it remains a privilege to have learned from him. While I left mathematics for engineering, his audacious asking of the right questions around the philosophical foundations of an endeavor remains a large
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by Dove 2mo ago
We were studying geometry - my adviser was the great Branko Grünbaum: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branko_Gr%C3%BCnbaum The conjecture had to do with whether one convex polygon could be continuously deformed into anot
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by Dove 2mo ago
This was back when the internet was mostly chain emails and personal web pages, being unreachable once you went home for the weekend was perfectly normal and expected, and automatically thinking the worst of people was not a common form of
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by Dove 2mo ago
When I was in grad school, I had the opportunity to take a course from my adviser in which he discussed his current research and some open questions. It was a relatively accessible subject area and the questions were sometimes easy enough
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by Dove 2mo ago
I think one of the most aggravating things about interacting with the health care system is losing control of cost/risk/reward tradeoffs. The mandatory transfer and ambulance ride in the linked story are an excellent example. I
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by Dove 3mo ago
Air filters, decluttering, regular deep cleaning, replacing dust-friendly surfaces and furniture (such as carpet, drapes, and upholstered sofas) with things like wood, vinyl, or leather. HVAC maintenance, cleaning, and filters. Washable al
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by Dove 4mo ago
Let us imagine a Bug Bounty Bouncer Service. The project does not accept bug bounty submissions without BBBS attestation. To get it, you must first submit your report to the BBBS for review. Now, if this is your first submission (you are un
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by Dove 4mo ago
By the way, this paints a very dark picture. I keenly mourn the world I feel slipping away, but there are bright spots and people who fight the good fight, and the occasional blessed and beautiful creation and the odd victory. I don'
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by Dove 4mo ago
We are a generation of tyrants, each oppressing the others in his own little domain. Gone is the dream of making a modest living while enriching humanity with offerings of technology. Whatever is invented now is gated, rented, and exploite
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by Dove 4mo ago
This is tyranny: making people powerless, afraid of each other, and submissive, per Aristotle's understanding.[1] The technological means are new, to be sure, but the social strategy is as old as civilization. Mark my words. General pu
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by Dove 4mo ago
The obvious thing to me is to ask the AI to notice obviously offensive submissions and transform them along absurdist lines, such that "I-hate-girls" becomes the familiar Wikipedia redirection page saying something like "Arch
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by Dove 5mo ago
"Every time I sat down to play [the game] it was like walking into a dark shed full of rakes, treading on one, and getting blatted in the face... and then I'd go back into the shed, thinking maybe it was just the one rake, when b
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by Dove 5mo ago
Some of my best work has been done as a labor of love. I do have the vague impression that we as a society have taken a wrong turn in selling the sacred. I am not in favor of collapsing society down to hippie communes or anything, but it
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by Dove 5mo ago
> make unique swallowing monsters (Juiblex) resist magical digging from inside Oh noooooooooo... yeah that's fair. Lots of overdue gameplay changes here, really. I was something of an expert player 20 years ago, my best ascenscion
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by Dove 5mo ago
Every few years, I think Yahoo's old attempt to have real people build a phone directory of the web wasn't such a bad idea. And I occasionally wish Google still worked by seeing what other people thought was a worthy web page on
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by Dove 5mo ago
Some critical differences between the situations that come to mind: - The problem of counterfeit currency is well acknowledged and has roots in antiquity. Reasonable people agree that currency genuinely cannot do its only job if counterfei
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by Dove 5mo ago
I once became so famous that a community of several hundred people knew and recognized my name for a few years. At the time, it was very ego-flattering, and I was delighted to have done something that had such a big and positive impact. H
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by Dove 5mo ago
I agree that there is a parallel between governments and corporations multiplying surveillance and preppers impractically multiplying gadgets. I perceive both to be responding to some sort of psychological issue relating to control or inse
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by Dove 7mo ago
That was my first thought, too. I and a couple of my kids have great affection for Minecraft. However, I don't think that affection really matches the absolute foaming-at-the-mouth excitement we felt for Descent. I don't think i
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by Dove 7mo ago
Everspace is good too!
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by Dove 7mo ago
Impressively faithful, right down to weapons functioning incorrectly at a high framerate!
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by Dove 7mo ago
I will always love Star Wars for the 15 minutes of Return of the Jedi that make the point that, with all of magic and technology at your disposal, love is still the strongest weapon in the universe. The rest of Star Wars (and all of Star T
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by Dove 7mo ago
They are sort of incomparable, being very different shows. That said, I am myself someone who grew up with TNG, who was molded by TNG and shaped by TNG, and for whom TNG is the only good Star Trek... and I like B5 better. For me, TNG is en
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by Dove 7mo ago
We quote Babylon 5 on an approximately daily basis in this house. Definitely my favorite sci fi series. Well, that and Firefly. B5 won not one, but two Hugos, which were highly deserved. Whenever I get the itch to watch the whole thing
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by Dove 7mo ago
In the 1950s, and perhaps to some degree in the 1990s, it seemed possible to believe technology was limitless and miraculous and conducive to human thriving. As a result, breathlessly hopeful and exciting stories about the wonders of the fu
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by Dove 7mo ago
In many contexts in which I am trying to deconflict namespaces, I use my initials. I hadn't thought about it in this particular context, though now that I do, it seems fortunate that I am ced rather than sed.

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