quirkot

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by quirkot 23d ago
It's a real Chesterton's fence situation. There's a lot of latent information contained in a tradition of calling the first menu item "File" including expectations around what can be found there. You could also say
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by quirkot 1mo ago
> At the end of the day, these communities don’t care if your code works at all... I think the key word to all this is "communities." If you can make something alone, just do it. If you enjoy gathering together to build a bigge
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by quirkot 2mo ago
I mean... they're called "agents," they must do what they're told and they don't get paid. Sounds pretty slavey.
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by quirkot 2mo ago
> Thus, anyone who wants to corral that kind of entity and make it do their bidding? Yeah, they want slaves. That's the horror buried underneath all the tech, policy, and gloss. The real, animal brain, desire that drives most of thi
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by quirkot 2mo ago
I cannot express how much I drank this kool-aid. When there were still updates every 2-3 years I would scour google maps to try and find the site. Based on Long Now promo images and local newspaper photos, this is my leading contender. The
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by quirkot 2mo ago
banging on the door like a madman where's the clock? where's the clock we all donated money for? tell us about the clock you cowards!
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by quirkot 2mo ago
Such a great synopsis. The things that are easy to signal (landing page, presentation deck, logo, etc) have never been the make-or-break aspect. The part that's always been hard, that remains hard, is that a business must solve a probl
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by quirkot 2mo ago
In terms of removing friction, I think of moving a boulder. Wheels = good. Ice slide = bad
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by quirkot 3mo ago
you'll have to take that up with the folks from worldnuclearwastereport.org
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by quirkot 3mo ago
Footnote has the backup. 2-3x is guesstimate, but it doesn't really matter. The answer is there's just not much waste to store
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by quirkot 3mo ago
Europe has about 60,000 tons of nuclear waste storage[1], so lets say the global nuclear waste quantity is 2-3x or 120,000 to 180,000 tons. That sounds like a lot, however it's less than 2 weeks of coal deliveries to a coal plant (at 1
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by quirkot 3mo ago
In english this is called pollarding a tree. Historically it has been used for smaller wood pieces (firewood, etc). It's fuctionally different [from daisugi] because you don't get construction grade timber from it https:/&#x
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by quirkot 3mo ago
If you want good checks against a government, one dude rich enough to field an army has historically been a bad way to keep the government in existence
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by quirkot 3mo ago
Made $1 billion? Throw 'em a parade, put their name on a plaque on Wall Street, and never let them touch a new penny from here on out.
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by quirkot 4mo ago
Gotta keep in mind that "you control what you can destroy" was expressed as the crux of a single-planet guerrilla group's maximalist negotiation strategy with an interstellar government, where the destruction was of the abili
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by quirkot 4mo ago
> do children have personalities if we left them in a dark room with no interactions with other humans? Short answer: yes. generally speaking, personality traits range between 30% to 60% heritable
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by quirkot 4mo ago
Maybe there's some technical definitions for the words used to describe the films, but match between archetype and movie is incomprehensible to me. I'm not seeing a single one where the film is where I'd expect based on the d
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by quirkot 5mo ago
> But it boils down to having the vision, the belief and the strength to follow through over many years And importantly, that vision being correct. The graveyard of history is full of the dedicated yet incorrect.
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by quirkot 5mo ago
By that example, PostgreSQL itself is a form of intelligence relative to a physical filing system. It doesn't seem like your working definition of intelligence has a large overlap with a layman's conception of the word.
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by quirkot 5mo ago
"being yourself" means choosing to believe that the you that is true is competent and capable of growth while the awkwardness is a temporary barrier between that is not reflective of your true nature.
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by quirkot 5mo ago
regarding #2: how many serfs came home after re-digging the toilet hole to eat a meal of hand-milled grain bread and old vegetables with the members of the family that survived infancy and thought "life just doesn't get any better
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by quirkot 5mo ago
Magawa cleared 1,517,711 sq.ft of land. He could work at a pace of 2,808 sq.ft (a doubles tennis court) every 20 minutes. If he maintained that pace, he worked 180.2 hours. Let's assume, with hazardous terrain, he worked 25% that speed
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by quirkot 6mo ago
Money is the sledgehammer of incentives. Above a reasonable amount of pay, it's overkill and makes lots of collateral problems. The really effective incentives are status based and situational to the group dynamic
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by quirkot 6mo ago
i just actually read that and it is possibly the most morally abominable screed I've come across in a long time. Shocking that its acceptable to share in polite company
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by quirkot 6mo ago
observation a: Document title is about a minority's rightful supremacy observation b: document says "this is not political" then dives into persuasive speech conclusion: this document was written by the bad guys
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by quirkot 6mo ago
You're limiting the frame to an employment situation. Higher quality sources of knowledge are free: Wikipedia, public libraries, etc. Similar quality sources of information are also free: human relationships.
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by quirkot 6mo ago
counterpoint: if I have to treat the computer like a person, what's the point of talking to a computer in the first place? Particularly when there are so many other systems that can provide answers without the runaround
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by quirkot 7mo ago
Train the algorithm so that you can be the sort of product you want to see in the world
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by quirkot 7mo ago
the issue brought up in the article isn't that "the algorithm is biased" but that "the algorithm causes bias". A feed could perfectly alternate between position A and position B and show no bias at all, but still se
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by quirkot 7mo ago
Sounds a lot like Marx's theory of alienation

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