rdlw

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by rdlw 8mo ago
What do you mean? There's $1370 earmarked for the lease.
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by rdlw 8mo ago
What does reading a great novel or starting a garden specifically accomplish? People do some things for reasons that aren't easily quantifiable. It seems to me that you are starting from the viewpoint that everything has to prove its w
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by rdlw 8mo ago
As mentioned in the next clause of that sentence, the aperture ring does not work on Olympus bodies.
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by rdlw 8mo ago
"Our first priority is to minimize sylliness, but I think our second priority should be to maximize silliness. And 'thirty squared twelfths' is certainly sillier."
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by rdlw 9mo ago
Maybe printing the first (last?) line of a file whenever a terminal is opened would work
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by rdlw 10mo ago
Is there a collection of type theory axioms anywhere near as influential as ZF or ZFC?
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by rdlw 10mo ago
If 1% of the last 10 billion people to live were academics and published on average 5 papers (many only had one, i.e. their dissertation/thesis, but a small fraction will have had dozens or hundreds), that comes to 500 million. I'
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by rdlw 10mo ago
I think it's a brilliant example of how to use data to make a point. https://xkcd.com/1162/
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by rdlw 10mo ago
Interesting, I only knew it as the del until now
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by rdlw 11mo ago
Saying something and doing something are different. They claim it is true, but they haven't demonstrated it by doing it. If a company says they've built the fastest car in the world, a reasonable response is "ok, let's s
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by rdlw 11mo ago
The vast majority of readers won't get any information from anything in the article. Why not pseudonymize everything and scramble the place names? I at least appreciate that in principle, I could research the people mentioned. Romanian
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by rdlw 11mo ago
It's not a transliteration. What supposed writing system are Vietnamese originally writing in, before they transfer it to Latin script?
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by rdlw 1y ago
> as opposed to what? human editors? ...yes? If I go to a website called "_ News" (present company included), I expect to see either news stories aggregated by humans or news stories written and fact checked by humans. That&#x2
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by rdlw 1y ago
There's even a 'perspectives' section that tries to contrast two of the sources, but they're the same article.
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by rdlw 1y ago
His Master of Arts is in economics. His master's thesis was "Fiscal Triumvirate: Examinations of Federal Deficit Spending and Interest Rates, State-Level Taxation and Domestic Migration, and the Irrelevance of State Credit Ratings
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by rdlw 1y ago
No, they sound like Socrates' friends begging him to properly argue for himself in court, in order to not be condemned and killed. I don't think Stallman is abrasive out of a sense of respect and duty to the system of public debat
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by rdlw 1y ago
That's the systemd article, and this is the forum post explaining why arch moved to systemd: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1149530#p1149530
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by rdlw 1y ago
It's not a digraph, it's pronounced /gm/
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by rdlw 1y ago
Wow, this really makes me think. Thanks for making that up and commenting it.
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by rdlw 1y ago
Christ, what an asshole!
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by rdlw 1y ago
It simulates CRT pixelization and low resolution
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by rdlw 1y ago
In addition to case, it's testing tense (went to have seen) and plural vs. posessive (ducks cousin)
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by rdlw 1y ago
And yes, if I was telling someone a story, I might say "cast your mind to the snowy wastes of Canada..." as a fairly standard rhetorical flourish for someone who doesn't think of their country as the default location.
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by rdlw 1y ago
Only if you think there's something wrong with play.
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by rdlw 1y ago
If I read something that isn't in my native language and don't understand it, I don't claim that it's poorly written.
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by rdlw 1y ago
Thank you o wise one, may you rest and gather enough mana to dispense your wisdom next time you comment.
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by rdlw 1y ago
> Today, for us Latinx to even briefly step in the USA, if we don't have an always-on handheld device with spyware “social media”, its absence is taken as proof of criminality. I will never visit Arizona again This part is talking
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by rdlw 1y ago
It does start out by saying they worked in Brazil for Google. > The fact that Google fired me... Normally you have to work somewhere to get fired. I suppose that's an assumption I made upon reading that part. > let us go back in
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by rdlw 1y ago
The two-paragraph introduction explicitly places this article in Brazil in 2007
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by rdlw 1y ago
Why the (sic)?

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