FooBarBizBazz

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by FooBarBizBazz 10mo ago
If you, like AI, have been trained on real literature -- perhaps including em-dashes, as real books do -- then you might register as AI. but if u talk like this boss i had, then obv ur a human, kthx Great incentives. /s
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by FooBarBizBazz 10mo ago
I think my sense of the word "seduce" predates male "pick up artists". My intention is to speak from the cultural mainstream. Consider also uses like, "do not be seduced by fascism". Or: > Pope Francis: ‘The
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by FooBarBizBazz 10mo ago
IMO "seduce" has the negative connotation that you are somehow manipulating a "target", whereas "charisma" is more positive; it means your behavior attracts positive attention -- that people find you compelling
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by FooBarBizBazz 10mo ago
Two of those (Italy and Japan) have more conservative gender dynamics than the US does. (Reasonable ones though. We're not talking about Saudi Arabia.) I think a lot of the appeal isn't even about gender per-se. They're just
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by FooBarBizBazz 10mo ago
Fantastic article. And their "light touch" approach seems very correct. Now -- What counts as a cult? One sufficient condition, in my opinion, would be ritualized sexual abuse, especially of children. But this is baked even into s
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by FooBarBizBazz 10mo ago
Oof! Thank you for the correction. I should have checked the publication date. I thought it was from the late '50s; I was wrong. (By contrast, turns out 1984 -- which is always paired with BNW -- came out later than I thought, in &
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by FooBarBizBazz 10mo ago
I think he was inspired by Valium and other benzos. They put people into a docile, low-anxiety state, and they were popular around the time the book was written. That's also more-or-less consistent with the implied literary reference t
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by FooBarBizBazz 11mo ago
Realistically, the compiler is building a DAG called SSA; and then the CPU builds a DAG to do out of order execution, so at a fine grain -- the basic block -- it seems to me that the immutable way of thinking about things is actually close
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by FooBarBizBazz 11mo ago
When I have been in NYC recently, it's seemed remarkably quiet to me. In particular, I don't see many cars. (Only the subway is loud. But that doesn't stress me out, because I don't have to do anything. You get on, you
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by FooBarBizBazz 11mo ago
Pales in comparison to Soviet science ;-): > the power comes from pistons that are filled with a fuel-air mixture, and fired by compression when the user puts his or her full body weight down into the boot https://en.wikipedia
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by FooBarBizBazz 11mo ago
1. Yes re. first paragraph. There are many examples from the nuclear program. 2. No re. second paragraph(?). How many of the recent high profile "leaks" have been driven by money? Most seemed ideological. That said, when you read
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by FooBarBizBazz 11mo ago
Wait til you hear about Phi Beta Kappa. Sometimes they even have pizza parties. Probably.
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by FooBarBizBazz 11mo ago
Isn't this solved with salt?
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by FooBarBizBazz 11mo ago
I don't get it. This guy had bugs in his Pascal code, and he thinks moving to C is going to make his life easier? I mean, that's one way to see fewer errors: If a tree writes off the end of an array in the forest, is there actuall
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by FooBarBizBazz 1y ago
This isn't new. It goes back thousands of years.
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by FooBarBizBazz 1y ago
Chinese civil engineers, and engineering orgs, are good because they get a lot of practice. In the West, and especially in the US, individuals and orgs don't get practice, so when they finally do get a new contract they have to stumble
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by FooBarBizBazz 1y ago
I used to do stuff like this (ok, not half as smart), but stopped around 2013 or so, as the distinction between "implementation defined" behavior (ok) and "undefined" behavior (not ok) started to matter and bite. After t
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by FooBarBizBazz 1y ago
Oh, don't get me wrong, during the day it's the most comfortable way to travel. But the ability to lie flat, even in fare classes that aren't too fancy, like they have in India, counts for a lot when you're traveling ove
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by FooBarBizBazz 1y ago
Amtrak would benefit from a coach-class sleeper, like they have in India or in Eastern Europe. They just need coach benches that convert to beds. If, for a reasonable price, you could lie flat at night behind a little curtain, like you can
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by FooBarBizBazz 1y ago
This might be the right attitude for a max function written in JavaScript, where the calling code has some control over the inputs. It's the wrong attitude for a JSON parser written in C, unless you like to get owned.
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by FooBarBizBazz 1y ago
I too was so surprised by that Banks quote that I still wonder if maybe he was lying or being deliberately provocative. (I wouldn't call The Culture "leftist" exactly, as it seems to be a space version of liberal imperialism,
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by FooBarBizBazz 1y ago
"I know what my life needs -- chaos, demands, and risk!' Been there, done that. This trend arises from a rational analysis of tradeoffs.
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by FooBarBizBazz 1y ago
Hey, if this therapy-speak gets lumped into "right wing", maybe people in culturally-leftish places will stop doing this shit. Win.
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by FooBarBizBazz 1y ago
Moreover, money is not destroyed by spending, but rather circulates. Right now it's flowing around faster -- a manic phase for a portion of the economy. In other eras, everyone got excited and went to tent revivals. Granted there could
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by FooBarBizBazz 1y ago
Nah, he's just describing CalTech. :-)
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by FooBarBizBazz 1y ago
The numbers are insane to me, relative to other "real" industries. E.g., making some inferences from a recent Economist article, the entire world's nuclear industry "only" generates something like $30bn/year
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by FooBarBizBazz 1y ago
I clicked to learn what a "fat factory" is, then realized -- Soup. They were making soup. I would like to know what seasonings they used.
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by FooBarBizBazz 1y ago
The 4% Rule means everybody with $25M is getting $1M per year for zero hours of work per week. Google tells me Sam has $1.7B.
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by FooBarBizBazz 1y ago
Are backtests available for these indicators?
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by FooBarBizBazz 1y ago
The economy is not a static thing in which the same goods and services are offered independent of the wealth distribution. The same work is not done. When wealth is concentrated, prices cease to aggregate information and preferences from ac

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