eanc

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by eanc 4y ago
And there are projects that interest me where whatever they’re up to is all in a chat so the rest of the world never does know if/how things have been progressing.
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by eanc 4y ago
I still suck at being verbally coherent, as my brain isn’t quick in the right way, but my guess is that it’s good to have "talking points" that you’re trying to work toward from wherever the question actually started, and an outli
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by eanc 4y ago
I don’t see pictures, and I don’t have a monologue running, either. I don’t know whether it’s the best place to look, but I’ve seen that the people on /r/aphantasia like to talk about these matters.
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by eanc 4y ago
I hate chats so much. Having to ask something manually and then wait and hope for minutes/hours/days for a manual reply, I can’t think of something more opposed to what people who are familiar with what computers can do for humani
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by eanc 4y ago
I remember Jim Watson saying that stupidity could someday be cured, and everyone absolutely lost their minds and pretended that he was calling stupid people bad. Somehow. Not hugely surprising to today-me, but I was still young enough that
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by eanc 4y ago
I puzzle over how, out in the open source world, so much seems to have shifted from testing for a while before releasing to just releasing and acting like it was normal that there turned out to be lots of bugs. Or never releasing at all and
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by eanc 4y ago
Sacrifices always seem to be presented as the killer or the people giving up something they value, but I would not be at all surprised if it were basically a display of power — killing people those who are poorly-connected or who are rivals
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by eanc 4y ago
I'm still amazed how few Americans are capable of caring about the health and lives of other people, their neighbors, their communities. And thoroughly in denial that anything could ever befall their perfect selves.
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by eanc 4y ago
I feel not convinced, given my experience, but I don’t know how to express it briefly. Maybe I could say that you need to have to happen to have some of the right tastes.
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by eanc 4y ago
I also didn’t, and maybe it’s me because I never have really made any very like-minded friends ever, but computer science sure didn’t make it easy, since there were always programming projects that could eat up every minute of your day ever
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by eanc 4y ago
In my—undergraduate, not-very-specialist—days of being taught something or other about entropy now and then, I felt like we were being told "This state is special, so the entropy is low, and then it probably ends up in one of these oth
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by eanc 4y ago
Right, I too remember so many people discussing how bad it was for humans that Bezos bought the Post, and I don’t follow print media news closely.
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by eanc 4y ago
What caused single-use to take over?
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by eanc 5y ago
I'm glad to see we have the right reasons at heart for caring about human events.