karatestomp

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by karatestomp 6y ago
> 1- We fundamentally don't agree, you think I'm irrational on this topic and I think you are. That's fine. Personally I believe that any conversation that doesn't involve disagreement is not intelligent, it's do
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by karatestomp 6y ago
This is very confusing. I believe you've entirely misread the bit of my post you quoted here and taken it to be about your mentioning Chomsky. Particularly at issue is to whom "their" refers. I took your accusing me of carica
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by karatestomp 6y ago
Neither's a perfect synonym for "systemic", but "systemic" is sometimes thoughtlessly or reflexively applied when it's not quite correct. Though that's true of most words, really. When life hands you &qu
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by karatestomp 6y ago
I didn't slam a humanities education in my post—I applied one. Poorly, perhaps. > Maybe you don't like the word "systemic." I do, though. :-) I intended to communicate that "systemic" is a very common word i
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by karatestomp 6y ago
Yes, I read it. I double-checked to make sure it wasn't actually anywhere near indefensible from most main-stream perspectives on the role of the state first, in fact. Which part makes it indefensible? Why might it have been the only
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by karatestomp 6y ago
> Oh, I see the value in ironmanning indefensible arguments. The original premise does not call for any such thing, though. The position is uncomfortable. It's far from indefensible. One can even adopt a position well outside what m
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by karatestomp 6y ago
I'll continue to take the assumption that asking a (prospective) student to conduct an exercise involving a thought experiment implies support of the premises of the exercise on the part of those asking it, an expectation that the stud
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by karatestomp 6y ago
Humanities programs issue a license for unlimited and liberal use of the term when you're admitted. Along with some others like "hegemon". Sprinkling those sorts of words in sentences when appropriate (and, if inept, when not
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by karatestomp 6y ago
Even Excel has (had?) a secret flight sim.
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by karatestomp 6y ago
Yeah, that's the one. Fake "controversy" playing on ignorance.
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by karatestomp 6y ago
Reminds me of a story that made it onto HN some months (years maybe? how time flies) back about an entrance exam prompt to some British university program requiring the candidate to craft a message defending some unsavory deed on the part o
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by karatestomp 6y ago
> Can I agree with his overall premise but disagree with thinking that scheduling weekly one-on-one's with your wife is in any way a good idea? Some folks have a gut-level extremely bad reaction to structuring or treating relation
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by karatestomp 6y ago
Fridges are one of those product categories for which the magic of the free market misses completely for me. I want a basic fridge with maybe $200, tops (manufacturing & material cost) of improvements to things that actually matter (cas
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by karatestomp 6y ago
That doesn't let you tell graphviz how large you want to draw each node, right? Just how large graphviz would draw them? What I'd like is a way to take styling and drawing outside GraphViz. It's important (for what I'd l
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by karatestomp 6y ago
Do most libraries use static types? Or have something widely-used and well-supported available like the @types project for TypeScript to provide them, fairly seamlessly, to consumers of those libraries?
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by karatestomp 6y ago
> Are you using an actual GraphDB like Neo4J? Are you putting a graph frontend on Postgres like PostGraphQL? None of the post really makes any sense because GraphQL is a Query Language, not a data store. What are the CAP theorem tradeoff
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by karatestomp 6y ago
There are automagic GraphQL layers that sort-of make sense to me, since at least they remove the biggest pain points. But AFAIK they're all single-database. Actually stitching together multiple services or DBs with it manually seems li
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by karatestomp 6y ago
I don’t get why WSL is better than a Linux VM in hyper-v or virtual box, until it’s way smoother than it currently is. You can full screen the VM to work entirely in dwm or i3 or whatever if that’s your thing, plus Xpra and SSH exist if y
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by karatestomp 6y ago
Aha. Is this how folks actually attain worthwhile rates of return on very low-return, low-risk investments? [EDIT] well no that can't be it because it requires even more money coming in for those loans, which can't provide more
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by karatestomp 6y ago
Firefox Focus also serves as an adblocker for Safari, if you like having all that sweet apple integration but want free adblocking. It’s alright at it.
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by karatestomp 6y ago
I'd rather have graphviz expose a kind of layout engine such that it can take the size each node will occupy (determined by whatever's going to draw them) and use that to create a layout, feeding path info to something that can ha
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by karatestomp 6y ago
Holy shit I was just looking at their site the other day and bounced because the price was way beyond anything I'd consider spending. It didn't occur to me that they price differently for individuals, or that it'd default to
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by karatestomp 6y ago
Landscape monitor just means you tile your windows and prefer scanning side-to-side rather than up-and-down.
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by karatestomp 6y ago
A lot of PHP work is digging around in Wordpress themes & plugins with a bunch of other (third-party) themes and plugins installed, some of them paid which can add another layer of annoyance to testing and deployment and such. Hosting&#
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by karatestomp 6y ago
Ten years ago "looking at a cellphone" was still universal shorthand for "is a dick" in fiction. So was "talking to no-one" (bluetooth headset) which carried a further meaning of "business douche" (&q
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by karatestomp 6y ago
To `useradd` or to `adduser`: that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous manpage, or to take up `file` against the output of `which`, and seek "Perl script text executable&q
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by karatestomp 6y ago
I must forget to give grep an filesystem path argument at least 10% of the time I invoke it. What I'm intending to do in all of those cases is recursively grep in the current directory. "Warning: recursive search of stdin" mi
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by karatestomp 6y ago
Lichtheim edited a 3-volume "Ancient Egyptian Literature" which contains a lot of funerary inscriptions. I'd second wl's post above: if you don't have tolerance for really dull writing, avoid. Almost all of that &qu
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by karatestomp 6y ago
> And have to update each software package manually as in windows/macos? (even worse, have a backdoor updater build-in on packages) I only use Windows for gaming so IDK there, but almost everything I use on macOS is installed with H
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by karatestomp 6y ago
> Unix (and hence Linux) was designed to make efficient use of these limited resources by installing popular software system-wide with shared dynamically-linked libraries because that was the only way to even _fit_ a few hundred users on

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