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by at_a_remove 1y ago
It might be fair play, however. If I correctly recall, LessWrong had, for a while, a prominent wiki admin who had been punted from Wikipedia for his frothing npov.
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by at_a_remove 1y ago
I will throw in an additional factor: any group, community, or segmentation of the general population wherein the participants both tend to have a higher than average intelligence (whatever that means) and whose preoccupation revolves aro
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by at_a_remove 1y ago
Odd. As an undergrad in physics, we had a project for our team which involved percolation theory and "testing" it. So, we had to make differing grids of conductive ink, with a certain number of "links" (resistors, edge
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by at_a_remove 1y ago
I have a fairly unusual genetic disorder, and quite rare to boot in this particular variant. The gold standard cocktail contains a medication which, while effective in dealing with one facet of the pain, absolutely turns down the dimmer sw
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by at_a_remove 1y ago
I had to gently chide a surgeon who came out in the middle of a friend's hysterectomy (and bonus ovary removal) to do a kind of "drive by, not expecting any kind of feedback" picture show in the middle for not having a plan o
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by at_a_remove 1y ago
I am keeping an eye on this thread, as I plan to eventually rip my somewhat large collection, but would prefer to do it just the one time. Exact Audio Copy, the author seems to have moved on to other interests, which is a shame because I wa
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by at_a_remove 1y ago
Or Poul Anderson's Brainwave (1953), in which the Earth finally leaves a part of the galaxy which inadvertently made thinking hard. And everything with two neurons to rub together gets smarter, not just humans. Essentially, we evol
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by at_a_remove 1y ago
I used to work mapping in EMS. It is absolutely not that simple, nor will it ever be. Yes, Google was often wrong. Sometimes I would drive out to a street to make sure I had not lost my mind. Sometimes, the local addressing authority w
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by at_a_remove 1y ago
I strongly agree. The walrus operator ... argh. When I code, I try to make everything I write not clever. I am not saving a byte here and there because I am not typing in a program from a magazine in the 1980s (I was there, I am not goi
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by at_a_remove 1y ago
How quickly we forget "Dear Colleague."
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by at_a_remove 1y ago
Indeed. I started off making a general "land" for the small city a friend is working up for a prospective module of Dungeons and Dragons. I quickly found myself re-adjusting various distances, estimating the impacts of elevation
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by at_a_remove 1y ago
You are being fazed by two different, annoying things. Even in physics itself, the word "mass" has multiple contexts (inertial, gravitational, and conversion to energy) in which it is used. Einstein made quite a lot of hay out of
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by at_a_remove 1y ago
Dumb question, but is every channel "synched" such that, if two different users tune in on Jellyfin, at separate times, they will still see the same thing at (roughly, given latency, et al) the same time? I was not able to figure
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by at_a_remove 1y ago
I think started a little earlier, back when every site had a cgi-bin directory. And, yeah, so much ... cruft now, and I rarely hear reasons for the tradeoff, other than "should" and "It will be great." And if it is so gr
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by at_a_remove 1y ago
A shame, I used to use cgi all the time, back when I did web stuff. I wouldn't know what to do now, especially on IIS. Never did understand why I ought to want or need WSGI, other than I "ought to." Nor did I see how I w
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by at_a_remove 1y ago
This is the best overview I have ever seen, and I have had a passing interest in Cyc since I first read about EURISKO. Hands down, this is great: thorough, historical ... perhaps a little more negative than I would like. My personal &quo
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by at_a_remove 1y ago
I have always despised travel, possibly as a result of being moved around a lot as a child. I do not care for a single facet of it. Not the planning, or the reservations, of the attaining of paperwork. Packing or parking. Checking maps t
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by at_a_remove 1y ago
This is pretty sad as a headline. It's not a warning, it is business as usual. Civil asset forfeiture started expanding in the 1970s and in the next decade, we got Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984. Gitmo? 2002. Room 641A is
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by at_a_remove 1y ago
I may have to learn its other half, Tk, as a side project of mine is starting to feel less like something I can pull off as a "wizard" on the command line. I had wrestled with wxPython many moons ago and, while I got through it,
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by at_a_remove 2y ago
I have never had the full on hallucination of a specific object where one is not. All I have ever had, visually, is -- and here I struggle to find the words to precisely describe my perception -- that kind of dynamic ornamentation which fe
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by at_a_remove 2y ago
In terms of pedagogy, it is a problem. I started tutoring other kids in grade school and eventually got paid for it as a side gig later in life. If I ended up covering electronics and/or general electricity, I saw the same thing I saw
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by at_a_remove 2y ago
I have expressed this repeatedly: the assignation of a negative value to the electron and a positive value to the proton has probably slowed humanity by a decade.
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by at_a_remove 2y ago
It has been ages since I read it, but in Sagan's The Demon Haunted World -- which if you haven't read it is a paean to skepticism -- toward the end, he admitted that he found three areas of "psi research" to possibly r
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by at_a_remove 2y ago
I wonder if the worst possible name would be something like "Null van Hooten-O'Brien" ... there's probably room to make it more painful.
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by at_a_remove 2y ago
Ah, no. Suppose you do all kinds of studies and not show any telepathy, precog, or remote viewing. You could still say that the brain was only a receiver. None of that would disprove the "brain-as-consciousness-receiver" conce
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by at_a_remove 2y ago
Although I did love playing Parsec (and Fathom and TI Invaders and Munch Man and ...), I did a significant amount of programming on mine. First I made a text-based "cave explorer" deal, with significant randomization, various choi
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by at_a_remove 2y ago
I cannot see how one might perform an experiment to determine which concept is correct. As with most things which are unfalsifiable, the idea can be amusing for a bit but is ultimately not useful to the extent that you can do anything abou
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by at_a_remove 2y ago
I will throw one in: James P. Hogan's Thrice Upon a Time , from 1980. Micro black holes, terrorizing the minds of sci-fi writers for decades!
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by at_a_remove 2y ago
I have a rare metabolic disorder which frequently causes some extraordinarily harsh abdominal pain and has done so with increasing frequency, intensity, and so on since I was fifteen, which is to say "most of my life." I am avoid
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by at_a_remove 2y ago
Before the fall of Techshop, they offered me a setup where I could take all of the classes I wanted in three months. Muhahahahaha. I already had a few advantages going in: a year of drafting in high school, a year of computer drafting in c

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