bagful

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by bagful 7mo ago
Like the chip-software in Gibson’s sprawl, from the micro-soft to the ROM cowboy to the Aleph, the endgame of computertool distribution is via single-use chunks of quasi-biological computronium
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by bagful 11mo ago
Can’t say; this set of genes didn’t produce a consciousness that cares to pass them along, I suppose
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by bagful 11mo ago
This assertion relies a bit much on overloading the definition of “life”, and I for one care more about spreading my ideas than my genes.
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by bagful 1y ago
What are the other axes in your theory?
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by bagful 1y ago
Artificial colorants make it easier to design visually hyperstimulating foods without having to compromise on flavor. What could the upside for the consumer be, to disrupt our evolved associations between appearance and flavor?
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by bagful 1y ago
I dare say autism is the pride of human intelligence.
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by bagful 1y ago
I regret never having written a single essay in my decade of being homeschooled; it wasn’t until the last year of my bachelor’s I could even begin to appreciate the benefit to the writer that composing an essay has. I find it sad that futur
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by bagful 1y ago
I simply ask that Apple let me plug my phone into any USB-C dock and use it as if I had done the same with a MacBook.
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by bagful 1y ago
Learn by imitation ; if you want to make DnB tracks, try and inevitably fail to recreate existing DnB that you admire. With time your failures-to-imitate will congeal into a novel and personal style.
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by bagful 1y ago
Uh, too bad for them? What if I want a hot muscular body, but don’t want to spend the hundreds of hours running, lifting weights, planning and executing a healthy diet; and I certainly don’t want to use steroids?
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by bagful 1y ago
I should rather have said, “we will solve it no sooner than …”, because certainly there are countless other ways society constrains desire to the detriment of the subject’s capacity to relate to others. I’m sure our musical culture would do
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by bagful 1y ago
AllElectronics in CA, too. I bought out their 10k dual-taper A/C pots during their closing sale; an unusual but powerful taper for audio electronics.
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by bagful 2y ago
I don’t regret my math minor but that didn’t go on the paper diploma …
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by bagful 2y ago
As an American, I would not call our system healthy from a practical sense; certainly not for society, if this past decade of mounting instability, distrust, and profiteering is any indication.
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by bagful 2y ago
No greater horror has ever been dispensed upon the martyrs of truth but a downwards pointed thumb
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by bagful 2y ago
For one, a brain can’t do anything without irreversibly changing itself in the process; our reasoning is not a pure function. For a person to truly understand something they will have a well-refined (as defined by usefulness and correctness
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by bagful 2y ago
Many people hold worldviews which are ontologically incapable of co-existence with other viewpoints. By reducing discourse to intergroup sparring and affinity signaling, the intermingling of various such extremists only solidifies the statu
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by bagful 2y ago
In the former case it is a list of performances characterized by including Anthony Hopkins; in the middle, it is a list of performances belonging to Hopkins. The latter reads incorrectly to me as an American but as a possessive nonetheless.
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by bagful 2y ago
For my biology, L-theanine (200 mg) rounds out caffeine by stamping out the anxiety-inducing effect. By itself it just gives me a headache sometimes.
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by bagful 2y ago
False humility is a form of egotism; every stated upside of Go can be equally construed as a paternalistic concession to our general failure to produce capable programmers, let alone at a sufficient volume to fulfill Google’s commercial amb
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by bagful 2y ago
What is insurance if not “overpay[ing] ‘just in case’”? What does paying a middleman benefit you in this situation?
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by bagful 2y ago
On the contrary I think it’s quite reasonable to gate functionality behind reading the manual. But one wonders why it’s a distinct application and not integrated throughout the system, such as through tooltips or a “question mark cursor”?
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by bagful 2y ago
“Rotting” has a connotation of uncontrolled decay; cheesemaking is a well controlled process that enhances the base material.
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by bagful 2y ago
The ease of obtaining such sounds on the cheap makes it difficult to appreciate just how cutting-edge those sounds were in Kraftwerk’s time. Making electronic drums sound good requires a lot of processing, and they did all of that with anal
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by bagful 2y ago
It’s a subtle aspect of moods and emotions that we are not privileged to know their impetuses. Yet, to learn them can be as simple as asking the subconscious of this, and this is a crucial function of free writing.
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by bagful 2y ago
Such thoughts never do more harm than when they are trapped in our heads. Fortunately, paper notes, unlike digital ones, can be made to disappear without a trace.
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by bagful 2y ago
Took up journaling late last year on Julia Cameron’s suggestion (“The Artist’s Way” prescribes for artists a daily, morning free writing exercise). It is a distinctly effective way to neutralize ruminating thoughts, pull apart confusing fee
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by bagful 2y ago
The problem is precisely in “what” endures. But now, Biden has both soiled his legacy and destroyed the last vestiges of trust in the Democratic party
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by bagful 2y ago
To provide figures in this manner is to report with "false precision", but we could workshop that phrase into something pithier.
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by bagful 2y ago
Asking sincerely — what has Joe Biden done that he would not have without Sanders’ influence over the past four years?

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