darby_nine

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by darby_nine 2y ago
You'd think if intelligence were that interesting we'd be able to agree on, like, any attribute of it. The best we can do is IQ and let me assure you there's enough high iq morons that intelligence not a difficult myth to dis
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by darby_nine 2y ago
I tend to think that destroying the nazis and the empire of japan was worth the extremely high cost. I'd hazard a guess that most ukrainians and russians and koreans and chinese and a whole swath of southeast asian peoples would agree.
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by darby_nine 2y ago
> So OSS aside (which has its own complicated economics) Assuming you're actually referring to free software and not open source software, it really doesn't, though. It's straight up better in every way than service-orient
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by darby_nine 2y ago
I highly recommend this movie if only because it's a hilarious combination of excellent production value, terrible acting, and some of the most boring and openly delusional film you'll ever witness.
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by darby_nine 2y ago
The term end-user does not refer to advertisers by definition. Typically most people use the term "user" to refer to humans. You're not wrong, but advertisers are a cancer on society that not only do not contribute any value
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by darby_nine 2y ago
Eh, it depends on the situation in question. Social acceptance (if this is even possible) will cost some people far more than it can benefit them. Any behavior, principle, or value will inherently make some portion of the population not wan
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by darby_nine 2y ago
This might be the first positive thing I've ever heard someone say about at&t. Mad props for distributing phones though! If you wrote up even a brief guide as to how to do this and common pitfalls I'd do the same in my area.
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by darby_nine 2y ago
My god the future sucks far more than we could have ever imagined. Imagine being sold a chatbot and being told it's an android!
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by darby_nine 2y ago
A metaphor with another physical object will always fall short. Why not just state the number of bits a particle represents? It's much easier to describe going through each dimension (colloqiual, I hate string theory for the same reaso
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by darby_nine 2y ago
> 2 vs 3 Is this really still relevant? I've been using only python3 for well over a decade now and I can't remember the last time anyone even suggested I use python2. the rest of your critiques ring true though.
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by darby_nine 2y ago
> This may be so, but there is no competition that's even 10% better than Google. It's been more than a decade since google results were distinguishable from bing results. Both spam you with commercial crap. > This may be so
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by darby_nine 2y ago
It's clear google wants to be a dumb pipe rather than a business that's responsive to end-user needs. Unfortunately, they're also notoriously unreliable as a dumb pipe.
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by darby_nine 2y ago
Surely this refers to decomposition and not living plants. Your link doesn't appear to finger plants as the culprit at all.
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by darby_nine 2y ago
> i am having trouble wrapping my head around the sense in which entanglement is a physical phenomenon as opposed to a semantical byproduct of the bookkeeping involved in modern quantum theory. Is there any indication that all reality is
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by darby_nine 2y ago
I think it's interesting that the trolley problem is so useless you could interpret this as a statement for or against virtually any ideology or moral framework. Hence my rejection of any moral implication to bare analysis.
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by darby_nine 2y ago
I expect spamassin will work as well as it always did. The difference now is that we're not allowed fine-grained control over whats spammed at us.
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by darby_nine 2y ago
> People of integrity with utilitarian leaning are often labeled amoral or unemotional. Utilitarianism is a moral concept. I think you just mean analytical.
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by darby_nine 2y ago
Make's clear benefit is laying out a process as a series of dependencies.
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by darby_nine 2y ago
Shell scripts are additional complexity? I'm not sure what you mean. Adding structure reduces complexity.
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by darby_nine 2y ago
What's the distinction? What do just do better than make?
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by darby_nine 2y ago
I don't think that really matters. Sometimes even basic shell scripts are better modeled with a makefile.
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by darby_nine 2y ago
I expect people will just ship with their own model where the built-in one isn't sufficient. When people describe it as a "critical tool" i feel like I'm missing basic information about how people use computers and inter
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by darby_nine 2y ago
You're comparing an a priori concept with a posteriori one. It's like claiming the number five doesn't "acshually" exist. Like yea, it's a concept, concepts don't exist. A universe isn't a turing mach
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by darby_nine 2y ago
Not really, it's antisocial behavior either way. This is just splitting hairs anywhere but a courtroom. Anyway, a mall is a public space in the context of recording without consent. You have no reasonable expectation of privacy. The la
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by darby_nine 2y ago
I'm ok with this if it's also banned for everyone else. Otherwise this will just be laundered through private enterprise, the only party less trustworthy than the government.
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by darby_nine 2y ago
We'll never know because nobody tried. The internet is too broken now to bother searching. For a group of people that claim to love empirical analysis people on this site sure do love writing off anything but the current state of affai
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by darby_nine 2y ago
Right but writing dependency management (of targets, not package management) in shell seems like a nightmare compared to just leveraging make. Why complicate things? It's dead simple to debug, the interface is dead simple, what's
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by darby_nine 2y ago
Why not just use make? I am constantly confused by people reinventing the wheel with new syntax and little benefit
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by darby_nine 2y ago
This is absolutely true. It's also difficult to judge how much otherwise obnoxious developers take advantage of "niceness" from outside the zoo looking in. These situations were almost necessarily interpreted out of context w
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by darby_nine 2y ago
Ah yea, this makes sense. Thanks.

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