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by marchdown 6y ago
Unethical Thought Experiments: what if Twitter shrank the retweet button or hid it under the fold to but the brakes on the viral spread? Put amplification behind a trivial inconvenience that would make knee-jerk retweets less frequent and a
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by marchdown 8y ago
Since no one has presented a version of the dotsies bookmarklet, which is actually necessary to use them in practice, I'll go and make one with the proper mapping for v3. If there is one already, let me know. Actually, looks like all t
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by marchdown 8y ago
This sounds interesting. Do you remember the essay or more details so that I could google it?
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by marchdown 8y ago
I'd be interested in seeing your list.
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by marchdown 8y ago
I might offer some insight here. I’m slightly obsessive about not inconveniencing other people. I try hard to put things in their proper places, not to eat the last bite of anything without asking or being offered, not making noise, not lea
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by marchdown 8y ago
What are some research areas complementary to the quantum computing/computational complexity where additional effort would remove roadblocks in QC research?
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by marchdown 9y ago
Oh no! I was following his work closely and had high hopes for him delivering on his vision: type theory and constructive notion of equality not getting in the way of doing mathematics with computer, but helping us along. It will hopefully
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by marchdown 9y ago
This does ring true, but I can't think of any reliable sources backing that up. I'd appreciate it if you mentioned some.
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by marchdown 9y ago
Thank you! I've just send a note of appreciation to the Centre for Effective Altruism. Let's hope that's a first step. I'll try keeping track of them @ https://mastodon.xyz/web/accounts/75086 U
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by marchdown 9y ago
I could use some encouragement and life advice. I apologize if this ends up being long and whiny. I feel like I'm stuck on the outside of the part of society where all the meaningful intellectual work happens. Since I was a child I hav
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by marchdown 10y ago
I want to get involved with an open source project, I am familiar with Haskell and enthusiastic about making it more accessible. I've just completed an educational project where I've used iPython with my students and I would have
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by marchdown 11y ago
> The vast majority of people wish to belong to the tribe of “The vast majority of people.” This is not obvious to me at all. Would someone please explain?
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by marchdown 11y ago
ARM has notoriously low energy dissipation due to low voltage.
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by marchdown 11y ago
What are some examples of good pedagogy in programming? I would point to pretty much anything by Norvig, Knuth, Sedgewick, and maybe to Zed Shaw's agressive tutorials.
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by marchdown 11y ago
Consistency is shooting yourself in an even number of feet. How is it ethical to dox people that are being made into villains?
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by marchdown 11y ago
Thank you for that. That's the stance that I naturally gravitate to, but one I have been doubting lately. Your comment is encouraging. This might not be the most effective way to steer your resources towards common good, but there&#x27
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by marchdown 11y ago
What is notable here is the low approval rate.
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by marchdown 12y ago
It is meant for those who are already familiar with LaTeX but do not have a handy unicode input method. Emacs has a feature that allows you to literally type \alpha or \in or any of hundreds of other LaTeX commands and have it substituted w
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by marchdown 12y ago
Now, replace "Alexa" with "Hey Siri" and you don't need another device.
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by marchdown 12y ago
Take a look at http://marvinapp.com . It has some fancy typographic and organizing features. I found it not to my taste, but YMMV.
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by marchdown 13y ago
I would love to see your take on this dependency graph, no matter how subjective and incomplete it turns out to be.
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by marchdown 13y ago
What you missed is that "nuhhuh, you do , too, here are some things you didn't think about" is not always the adequate response to "I have nothing to hide, or at least I can't think of anything". There's
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by marchdown 13y ago
That's far from the only reason to encourage privacy. I don't really know how to respond to here. I believe that I see your point, but even though I wouldn't mind my answers to that questionnaire being made public, I still fe
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by marchdown 13y ago
You can do that, I tried.
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by marchdown 14y ago
Thanks.
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by marchdown 14y ago
I'm not sure that it's appropriate to ask, but I would love to see the paper.
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by marchdown 14y ago
the cloud part was the point; the old hardware was supposed to be cheap enough for casual use, or for casual replacement for that matter.
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by marchdown 14y ago
Emacs 24.2.1 here, no matches for "ns-toggle fullscreen". Edit: no luck with the latest pretest (24.2.93.1) either.
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by marchdown 14y ago
How do you get true fullscreen mode in Emacs on OS X?
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by marchdown 14y ago
There's nothing keeping you from using the same X11 apps on OS X as you do on Linux.

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