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by clarity20 2y ago
I don't see why climate change needs "solving" per se, or how it can be "solved." To take your example, there have always been hurricanes. It's not correct to infer there's a human-induced tendency toward
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by clarity20 2y ago
I think he (she?) makes some good points about why community & social life are falling apart and what might be done about it.
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by clarity20 2y ago
Marriage goes way beyond the Jewish and Christian spheres. It's a far-reaching anthropological value. Strictly speaking it's a natural state, which means it isn't an invention. What we're missing most of all in contempor
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by clarity20 2y ago
Has any thread had 3000 comments before?
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by clarity20 2y ago
Grand ideas about structuring society often have an egotism problem. The ego behind the ideas turns its critical lens outward without looking inward. Naturally it ends up telling the world what to do.
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by clarity20 2y ago
But that is refutable. You're not a true nihilist as long as you take advantage of the accoutrements of civilization, even down to the technology that enables you to make that post. You can avoid taking advantage of such technology in
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by clarity20 2y ago
When postmodernists describe language as referential and arbitrary, they are moving headlong toward nihilism when an "uh oh" borne of caution and self-awareness is in order. Language comes from the human need to communicate, which
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by clarity20 2y ago
The downvotes came! And it's not like you said something bad ...
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by clarity20 2y ago
There isn't much to "colonialism". It's just the establishment of colonies. In the many historical cases where the subject peoples were cannibals, I would have supported colonization.
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by clarity20 2y ago
"Fascist" began as a neutral description of political-financial relationships and was later made into a household slur by the Soviets to take the heat off after people started likening them to Nazis thanks to their short-lived mil
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by clarity20 2y ago
Nowadays there are places in the U.S. where the tech staff are largely from (what used to be?) the 3rd World, and it definitely has its effects on the workplace culture. There are teams who rationalize being spoken to like they're garb
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by clarity20 2y ago
Citing "climate change" doesn't make you sound profound. It's a generalized justification for totalitarian controls.
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by clarity20 2y ago
No cataclysm visited upon the entire world would be enough to fulfill your sweeping demands. Are you sure your wishes are tantamount to a force of nature?
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by clarity20 2y ago
Waiting to hear the calls for new strong-state controls on human activity because of ... something changing, somewhere.
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by clarity20 3y ago
Don't look at the competition. It's just you and the finish line.
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by clarity20 3y ago
Offer to streamline the recruitment/interviewing pipeline for the company(s) in question. Tell them you will give them a technical introduction to your public projects (choosing just the 1 or 2 projects that present your skills in the
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by clarity20 3y ago
"Publishers want billions, not millions, from AI" But why ask for billions when you can have ... millions?
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by clarity20 6y ago
Thank you, and a tip of the hat to them for doing square roots the hard way.
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by clarity20 6y ago
I'm afraid I don't have the wherewithal to do this in the Bourne shell! An explicit call stack using those globals is a neat idea. Generally the [[ =~ ]] construct is my go-to for string parsing. Can you do everything you need wit
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by clarity20 6y ago
Thank you, I tried to make the code as readable as I could. And yes, since the *nix model for (sub)processes is cleaner than Cygwin-on-Windows it's kind of surprising that that gap is what it is.
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by clarity20 6y ago
;-)
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by clarity20 6y ago
Yes, it's a POC for anyone who might want to use it or expand on it.
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by clarity20 6y ago
Hello, all! I'm proud to present shellmath, a floating-point calculator written entirely in bash. Shellmath does not call out to any external programs -- calculators, text manipulators, or anything else -- and achieves execution speeds
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by clarity20 6y ago
In the spirit of "back to the basics" I'm proud to present shellmath, a decimal calculator written entirely in bash. Shellmath does not call out to any external programs -- calculators, text manipulators, or anything else --
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2 points by clarity20 6y ago|1 comments