throwaway91827

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by throwaway91827 6d ago
Just wanted to say, thank you for the detailed response, I suppose my comment looks a bit glib in comparison. I appreciate this perspective- I knew about some basic elements of tuning and acoustics, but it's fascinating that there&#x27
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by throwaway91827 10d ago
Does music come from first principles, or is it a cultural product that's a result of a feedback loop between a listener/practitioner and an ambient culture and technological landscape? Parrotting is exactly how we learn music-
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by throwaway91827 22d ago
Can you back up any of these claims with evidence or is it just vibes-based white supremacy?
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by throwaway91827 1mo ago
I've never seen "the n+1 problem" used in a context like this, can you explain what that means? To me "the" n+1 problem is the one where you do your DB queries in a for loop instead of using joins or something like
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by throwaway91827 2mo ago
Have you experienced Silvesterabend (New Year's Eve) in a major German city? It feels like a warzone. In the context of fireworks specifically, this image of Germany as an over-regulated nanny state feels particularly at odds with my e
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by throwaway91827 3mo ago
I don't think you have it right- the analogy to woodworking and craftsmanship is a category error and probably misses the broad thrust of the essay. The goal of a woodworker or craftsman is the production of a finished good. He's
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by throwaway91827 3mo ago
"Building an application used to mean orchestrating roles over time: one person designed, another challenged the architecture, a third tested, a fourth deployed." What? That's not my experience at all, this lost me very quick
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by throwaway91827 4mo ago
What historical examples are you thinking of?
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by throwaway91827 6mo ago
I don't disagree that you got a window into American values, I just don't agree that proximity to American values is the same as civilization versus primitivism.
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by throwaway91827 6mo ago
Just trying to understand your point here- so non-westerners are primitive and irrational, unlike the West, led by Donald Trump, champion of rational, elevated discourse?
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by throwaway91827 8mo ago
Revolutionary terror in 1789 wasn't about killing the Bourgeisie- the French Revolution was a Bourgeois revolution- the Revolution was about overthrowing the Aristocracy, the nobles, the people with, as you say, titles- Being Bourgeois
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by throwaway91827 9mo ago
So I should listen to 4Chan but not Pakistanis?
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by throwaway91827 9mo ago
How do you square your directive that leaders use X as a way to get an option poll or pulse of a nation with phenomena like this: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/23/rightwing-in... where a h
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by throwaway91827 10mo ago
I decided to put this to the test. What I would expect a human to reply: "Um... OK?" What Claude Sonnet 4.5 replied: "Hi there! I understand you're planning to repeat the same sentence. I'm here whenever you'd