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by acephal 1mo ago
>Whatever the Abrahamic influence on the course of Aristotelian thought, there is no reason to believe that Abrahamic influence was absolutely necessary to "universalize ethics" (take the early Stoics, for instance). This is ex
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by acephal 1mo ago
>One very common error people make is to believe that ethics - at least epistemically and for the most part - is sectarian. This view seems to stem from an ultimately nihilistic presupposition that morality is a fiction supplied by the f
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by acephal 1mo ago
It’s weird and messed up because Aristotle’s audience isn’t Christian or even Abrahamic the slightest. He’s right about rejecting abstract definitions that aren’t grounded in the elements of a situation however.
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by acephal 2mo ago
New browser engines have not
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by acephal 3mo ago
Sad watching Apple design repeat Microsoft’s mistake of trying to push through a single UI paradigm across mobile and desktop (and, especially, VR in Apple’s case)
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by acephal 3mo ago
The amount of em dashes in Nietzche; the amount of semicolons in Hegel
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by acephal 9mo ago
> My favorite thing about Napster and LimeWire was when you could find a song, and then BROWSE the hard drive of the person hosting that song. Soulseek lets you do this and is still going
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by acephal 9mo ago
From what I've read, he's tied up RAM manufacturers through 2029. That's a lot of quartely earnings reports for many firms in the economy where they watch consumer spend come to a screeching halt.
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by acephal 9mo ago
Altman should be jailed for this. Single-handedly crashing consumer spending in an entire sector of the economy. At the very least for the reason that that was supposed to happen _after_ they had the AI in hand to supplant majority white co
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by acephal 10mo ago
Facebook itself still has a big problem with it's lack of youth audience though. Zuck captured the boomers and older Gen X, which are the biggest demos of living people however.
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by acephal 10mo ago
Is there any reason to prefer uBoL over Pi-Hole/Adguard Home?
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by acephal 10mo ago
The famous French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan claimed that if everyone said exactly what needs be said, language wouldn't exist or something like that. I'd wager movies are a reflection of how our psyche works, including 'mai
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by acephal 10mo ago
Only in America is this kind of anti-labor sentiment masquerading as "if you knew what was good for you now look what happened", as if businesses were so stupid as to be fooled by "if we don't make it apparent, they won&
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by acephal 10mo ago
I never use this. Where I live, one will require dark mode well before the calculated sunset.
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by acephal 11mo ago
I've been awaiting the rocks.nvim team to migrate to this
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by acephal 1y ago
Yes, this is why the biggest winner of LLMs is off-shoring
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by acephal 1y ago
Last I touched a Linux desktop was 10+ years ago and you had to muck about with FontConfig and third-party config packages to even come close to Windows or macOS type rendering. Has this seen significant improvement?
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by acephal 1y ago
Any highlights?
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by acephal 1y ago
Yes, the story I'm referring to also features veiled homosexuality (the King is only alone with the assassin cause he thinks he's gonna fuck him)
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by acephal 1y ago
iCloud is almost justified by the number of expendable email addresses one can allocate
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by acephal 1y ago
Don't forget the story in Judges where a Hebrew assasin stabs an obese Canaanite king in the gut and he shits himself but his guards outside the room were already used to him shitting himself so ignored the smell.
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by acephal 1y ago
I had Claude, as an agent, get into an infinite loop trying to resolve a diagnostic in Java test that any human would easily figured out and fixed in a second.
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by acephal 1y ago
Firefox's WebExtensions implementation still has service workers disabled and no File System API. MV3 requires service workers, so Firefox extension ecosystem is on a countdown.
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by acephal 6y ago
This is also Joe Rogan and his "just eat mushrooms" ideology
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by acephal 6y ago
High likelihood most of these responses are from well-placed SREs
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by acephal 6y ago
Highly recommend watching the Italian show Gomorra
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by acephal 6y ago
And Russia and Ukraine
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by acephal 6y ago
Of whom Queen Elizabeth is a descendant
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by acephal 6y ago
>At first glance, these dates may seem much too recent to account for long-isolated Indigenous communities in South America and elsewhere. But “genetic information spreads rapidly through generational time,” Rutherford explains. Beginnin
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by acephal 6y ago
>Like who, Umkhonto we Sizwe? Patrice Lumumba? The MPLA? We're talking ground-floor interactions from what I've seen that obviously do not speak to any kind of unanimity but a surprising extent nonetheless. One such video: htt

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