narwally

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by narwally 3y ago
> The private sector will almost always deliver a better result as you mitigate market power abuse. Yeah, and feathers fall at the same speed as baseballs if you mitigate friction.
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by narwally 3y ago
I believe emacs chunks large files and then lazily loads them to enable this. I remember having to mess around with a specific mode to get it to work in the past, but I think it's included in base emacs now.
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by narwally 3y ago
I don't even use finder and I still find these things popping up every now or then.
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by narwally 3y ago
It took me forever to figure out that windows defender was what was slowing emacs down to a crawl on windows. I even went through the trouble of compiling native-comp and it was still slow.
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by narwally 3y ago
I wish I could tell it I always want English language wikipedia results first regardless of which language I search in. I'm tired of my top result being a poorly translated version of the English wikipedia page I actually want.
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by narwally 3y ago
If I were talking about sentience I would definitely be including goldfish. What about them is so different to us that we would have sentience while they would not?
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by narwally 3y ago
Remember that dude that wrote the vast majority of Scots wikipedia while not being able to speak Scots? Yeah, just waiting for the first LLM to make headlines by hallucinating it's own version of human history and publishing it to wiki
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by narwally 3y ago
I wasted two hours yesterday just to track down a bug that was in the documentation, not the code. It's so frustrating. Maintaining good documentation is incredibly hard especially when you're trying to document how your program i
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by narwally 3y ago
It shouldn't, that's wage theft and is very much illegal.
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by narwally 3y ago
Trademark and copywright aren't quite the samee things. We can get rid of copywright while still allowing trademarks.
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by narwally 3y ago
Do we actually need monetary incentives to get people to create new things. Won't people naturally keep creating new things as long as they aren't constrained by a more fundamental need? So we really just need to create a society
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by narwally 3y ago
More Lord of the Flies than Anarchy. There's definitely hierarchy in our system.
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by narwally 3y ago
I shove them all into ~/docs and then edit my ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs file to match.
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by narwally 4y ago
Can you really not imagine any kind of system where everyone can pay their bills and knowledge isn't guarded behind a paywall?
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by narwally 4y ago
Misattributed. It was actually Kurt Tucholsky who was himself quoting an unnamed French Diplomat. "Der Tod eines Menschen: das ist eine Katastrophe. Hunderttausend Tote: das ist eine Statistik!"
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by narwally 4y ago
until you get to the one actually tricky part and you need to pause it for sec so your brain can catch back up.
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by narwally 4y ago
Hell, it's hard enough these days to identify which physicians are actually physicians. I recently had an NP introduce herself to me as "Dr. So-and-so."
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by narwally 4y ago
Yep, google published a bunch of research about their hiring processes and it basically said "we've tried everything and nothing works... anybody else have any ideas?"
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by narwally 4y ago
I mean, I'd say that about regular Duolingo.
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by narwally 4y ago
Hell, I can learn that just by chit-chating with my redneck neighbor.
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by narwally 4y ago
Would that also include side affects from medications?
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by narwally 4y ago
> CBT can be helpful, but it 'intellectualizes' problems too much. How about teaching these kids how to increase their self-confidence? How to identify their emotional needs? How to build their social skills, resolve conflicts
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by narwally 5y ago
The Royal Game of Ur?
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by narwally 5y ago
I find that the more you use emacs the more you get frustrated that nothing else works the way it does in emacs. You either deal with it, try and hack some emacs functionality into your favorite tools, or end up living full-time inside of e
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by narwally 5y ago
My solution for this on linux has been to run Linux Mint Debian Edition while using Nix for package management of stuff I want to stay reasonably up to date.
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by narwally 5y ago
Since it uses the neural signals for handwriting, I'm not sure this is going to allow me to achieve my dream of using emacs with my mind.
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by narwally 5y ago
Yeah, I feel like a lot of us emacs users have been using it for so long that we don't even realize how different even the basics feel to people that are used to doing things the 'new fashioned' way. I picked it up after read
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by narwally 5y ago
I agree with you to an extent, but learning lisp is a bit more involved than just picking up another programming language; it's learning to program in a completely new paradigm. I think it's perfectly reasonable to expect students
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by narwally 5y ago
I wouldn't say they're esoteric, but there is a learning curve because they're incongruent with the UI we've been taught by our graphical desktop environments. I do concede the somewhat dogmatic tone, but that's hon
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by narwally 5y ago
>And then tweaking assignments to not be video game focused Our only program of any significance in CS101 was a space invaders clone, but because we were so inexperienced, they provided a project template where we really just had to fill

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