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by snowfarthing 2y ago
I'm not entirely convinced this is at all true. The American Left fully understood the "paradox of tolerance", and they pushed their own tolerance to the point where, much to the relief of many Americans, President Trump won
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by snowfarthing 2y ago
This essay fleshes out a lot of the conclusions that have been nebulously growing in my mind over the last few months and even years! And now that I think of it, the fear of AI resemble somewhat the fear of runaway nanobots -- the notion th
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by snowfarthing 2y ago
When I first saw the headline, I imagined a big huge organ with 100 keys and pedals, lots of stops, and huge pipes. I was very pleasantly surprised to see something small, with maybe 48 keys, and a handful of creatively-placed pipes! Som
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by snowfarthing 2y ago
On the contrary, the so-called "capitalism" that emerges when we respect individual rights is the one way we can escape this. Too much emphasis is placed on government regulation and corporate environments to "make things rig
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by snowfarthing 2y ago
I just had a random thought: perhaps it would be a good idea to have a project that doesn't do optimizations, but just focuses on fast compiling. Then again, I now can't help but wonder if LLVM (or even GCC) would be fast, if you
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by snowfarthing 2y ago
I think this is more a problem with the nature of technology in general. If we want simple and fast, we can do that, but sometimes it doesn't cover the corner cases that the slow and complicated stuff does -- and as you fix those thing
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by snowfarthing 2y ago
I was puzzled by the source at first -- it seemed like Assembler, but was too high-level to be that -- and it looked too complex to be BASIC (or possibly JOSS, I suppose) -- I was a little taken aback to see the extension of the filename as
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by snowfarthing 2y ago
When I was in college in 1995/96 (and later 1999/2000), this was somewhat how I programmed too. While I had access to computers at both home and school, my access to them were somewhat limited, and the tools I had at my disposal
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by snowfarthing 2y ago
Many years ago, when I was learning about pair programming, I remember someone (possibly even Kent Beck) saying that "Pair programming is kryptonite for incompetent introverts!" and I remember thinking, "Well, yeah, but I bet
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by snowfarthing 2y ago
I recall a psychologist or psychiatrist who challenged the notion of "defiant personality disorder" by observing two things: (1) Many of these "defiant" people merely didn't trust credentials -- they were perfectl
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by snowfarthing 2y ago
One of the reasons X is being fazed out in favor of Wayland is because X is far more global than it needs to be -- and this is one of the reasons it has security risk that can't be completely removed without API-breaking effects.
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by snowfarthing 2y ago
There are certainly levels of the abstraction pyramid where mutable global state is unavoidable; however, it shouldn't be too difficult to get to a point where we have enough abstraction so that we don't need to worry about mutabl
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by snowfarthing 2y ago
First off, it's now clear from the evidence that the "insurrection" was the FBI working hard to entrap all the people they could, after everything was done to limit security on the day of the protest. Secondly, the riots in W
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by snowfarthing 2y ago
If Democrats can incite violence and post information with impunity, yet Republicans get fact-checked out the wazoo (by Democrats, no less!) ... it's very hard for us to take the claim that this wasn't "because of his politic
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by snowfarthing 2y ago
For the last several years, they censored the Hunter Biden laptop story (before an election, at that!), the claim that COVID was possibly a lab leak, and other "uncouth" topics that turned out to be reasonable after all. And the
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by snowfarthing 2y ago
I intended to include something that I now see I forgot: this phenomenon is called a "preference cascade", and it's a big reason why we see dramatic shifts in power in oppressive regimes.
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by snowfarthing 2y ago
"Harris’ moral and ethical failings are nothing compared to Trump. You can do what I did and not vote and not support either candidate. Stand up for truth and righteousness and stop trying to justify your support for a person as shitty
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by snowfarthing 2y ago
"If you want to discuss Biden then start another thread. This one is about Donald Trump." You cannot talk about Trump without putting him in context. The fact is, the reason why we have Trump for President again, is because the p
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by snowfarthing 2y ago
You aren't aware of what was found on Hunter's laptop, or in Ashley's diary (she had to choose her showering times carefully to make sure her father wouldn't join her), or Tara Reed's allegations. To say Biden hasn
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by snowfarthing 2y ago
There is a danger to hating something so much, that it goes underground. A major reason why President Trump won the first time around was because hatred against Trump and his supporters was so strong, that many people being polled were afr
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by snowfarthing 2y ago
Do you realize the exact same things can be said about the President we had for the last four years? It's really hard to worry about your own guy being a scumbag, when the opposition supports a scumbag too (and then lies about it).
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by snowfarthing 2y ago
What I don't get is why anyone would want to allow the automation. Is it really that difficult to use the up-arrow key and correct the mistake? Doing something automatically when it's sort-of correct is a recipe for doing thin
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by snowfarthing 2y ago
According to "The Millionaire Next Door", this is actually a surprisingly common "edge case". The "rich" are the people who diligently save and invest, get their hands dirty at what they do, and don't car
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by snowfarthing 2y ago
I think it's even more complex than that. There's only one human I can understand pretty thoroughly, inside and out, and that's me -- and even then, there are a lot of limitations! We cannot know all the thoughts and experie
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by snowfarthing 2y ago
Having learned in the last year that I'm autistic, and having learned a lot just about what that means, I cannot help but wonder to what degree Reagan and Trump may be dyslexia and not even know it. It's very easy to realize you&#
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by snowfarthing 2y ago
I'm not entirely sure if smugness is the entire reason for doing it -- I suspect that for many of us (particularly autistics like me) there's a certain amount "But someone's wrong on the internet!" syndrome going on
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by snowfarthing 2y ago
When working on a test that has several asserts, I have adopted the process of adding one final assert, "assert 'TEST DEBUGGED' is False", so that even when I succeed, the test fails -- and I could review to consider if
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by snowfarthing 2y ago
Indeed, it's an interesting rabbit hole! I liked the part where they were looking for someone to manufacture the handles, and the Japanese machinist said "If he could make it, I can make it!". Indeed, having gone down the rab
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by snowfarthing 2y ago
I have concluded, as a general rule of thumb, that if something costs more to recycle than to produce naturally, it is probably more harmful to the environment to recycle it than to create it fresh and dispose of it properly. There are cert
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by snowfarthing 2y ago
I find this particular notion to be rather weird. I cannot see how it's a "waste" if something's fed to animals instead of humans!

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