branweb

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by branweb 3y ago
ah ok. I thought the board decided to remove Altman, then Brockman quit in response, so there was no deliberation about his (Brockman's) removal.
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by branweb 3y ago
ah ok makes sense. I thought he just resigned in response to Altman's ouster, so there was no board decision to remove Brockman.
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by branweb 3y ago
wait...isn't "the decision" referred to in the parent comment about the removal of Altman?
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by branweb 3y ago
New evidence was released in the DOJ vs Google case. The judge for the case called this evidence "embarrassing" to Google. It's a bad headline. There's no a complete sentence here. "DOJ vs. Google evidence release&q
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by branweb 3y ago
In light of this fact, I'd guess "their" preferred pronouns are he/him/his.
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by branweb 4y ago
So put more simply, what you're saying is that the reader can tell by the context. When the writer says "this begs the question", if that phrase is followed by an actual question, the reader knows the writer is using it in th
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by branweb 4y ago
It does make sense. "Begging the question" is a term of art from philosophy meaning to assume the thing you set out to prove--e.g. God exists because the Bible says so, and the Bible must be right because it is the literal word of
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by branweb 4y ago
exactly correct. The question is not: "was software bloated in the 90s". It's: "given that hardware capability increased in by several orders of magnitude, did software quality/speed see a similar increase?" T
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by branweb 4y ago
I haven't read War and Peace, nor (presumably) have I tried this app, but I will gladly come into the comments and shit on it. Gotta love hacker news.
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by branweb 6y ago
"the news media is a for-profit business whose interests are tangential to telling the truth" <- That's well put. And yeah I guess I wasn't that surprised by MSNBC, but definitely didn't expect the percentages to
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by branweb 6y ago
I'd buy that except the major media outlets are the corporate power.
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by branweb 6y ago
Manufacturing Consent is a book that had a big impact on how I perceive media, and I think it's wise to examine who's saying something and what their motives are, but I don't totally understand what you're saying. What&#
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by branweb 6y ago
yeah it's a questionable claim for sure. This was a widely cited poll that asserted for the first time ever, the majority of Americans mistrust the mainstream media: https://www.axios.com/media-trust-crisis-2bf0ec1c-00c
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by branweb 6y ago
right exactly, that's what I was trying to say. The constriction happens mainly in the imagination rather than in the writing. That's the theory at least.
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by branweb 6y ago
I love the series but I think this is an astute observation...though I have trouble articulating why I agree with this. I wonder if the world constricts or if its possibiilties just narrow (as they necessarily must) as the story plays out?
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by branweb 6y ago
Nice to see something about Gene Wolfe here. I'm a big fan. I just finished re-reading The 5th Head of Cerberus and have been eyeing The Book of the New Sun series on my shelf. Probably time for a re-read of that soon. If I may put on
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by branweb 6y ago
I seriously doubt a bunch of first-year cadets with a looming calculus exam sat around in their dorms thinking "what would Trump do?". Yours is one several comments here expressing this sentiment, and aside from what it says about
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by branweb 6y ago
considering iraq wmd, the financial collapse, the bailout, syria, libya, russia-gate, and the pandemic (among other things) I think the x-axis should go back further and resemble a negative sloping line instead.
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by branweb 6y ago
the cadets — all but one of whom are first-years... Please read more closely.
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by branweb 6y ago
Agree. The argument seems to be: 1. individuals are blasted with a firehose of data 2. individual-focused systems to manage this data--like GTD--are ineffective because the left hand (one person working autonomously) doesn't know what
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by branweb 6y ago
Yes exactly. I was wondering if I was misunderstanding something. If lactose intolerance (or malabosorbtion or whatever) is the problem, that seems unrelated to an 11am cutoff time. Would seem more reasonable to not drink milk-based coffee
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by branweb 6y ago
The video's title is "Why Italians Don't Drink a Cappuccino After 11am". Seems like most people in these comments got it. What's the point of the video if not that?
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by branweb 6y ago
ha ha from the "sic" I can't tell if you object to the verbification of the word or if you're just British. Nice tip though. Had no idea about this feature.
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by branweb 6y ago
That's true, though I wonder if the life expectancy table mentioned in the article accounts for increasing life expectancy.
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by branweb 6y ago
Interesting...I wrote this to display a countdown in the i3 status bar: #!/usr/bin/env sh DIFF_DAYS="" death_clock () { DEATH_DATE=$(date --date 'YYYY-MM-DD -u' +%s) TODAY=$(date +%s)
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by branweb 6y ago
Not trying to troll you, just wanna know: why is that?
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by branweb 6y ago
I think you have a point. But there does seem to be a difference between say using FLOSS project X as a dependency in my app vs AWS tweaking it, introducing it as a direct competitor to X, and leveraging their huge marketshare to sell it. S
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by branweb 6y ago
Interesting. Second instance of journalistic self-criticism in the times this week. First instance (as an oped) here: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/09/opinion/nyt-1619-project-...
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by branweb 6y ago
Taibbi, Greenwald, and a few others have been providing some eye-opening criticism of contemporary media. Delighted to see his name mentioned here.
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by branweb 6y ago
Both require evaluation against some standard of good performance. I guess the difference is the definition of "good performance." If it's a function of # of papers published, and you don't care about publishing papers f

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