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by troutwine 1mo ago
I believe the Principia Rewrite is at https://principia-rewrite.org/ .
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by troutwine 1mo ago
Historically, yeah. In a "k-shape" economy, one where the upper end of the economic scale does most of the buying and selling and the lower end is struggling, that's not true. Gross inequality has serious knock-ons in longer
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by troutwine 5mo ago
> Alex is the frontman for the "cabal" (he admits his dad was in DARPA and Intelligence). Alex Jones is a severely damaged man and a known liar. His story about his father has changed radically over the years and within days of
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by troutwine 5mo ago
They’ve bounced around in time — and across InfoWars adjacent shows — for a good chunk of their run so far. I suspect they’ll be okay. Worst case the world suddenly becomes much kinder and gentler and there’s no new content being made in th
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by troutwine 5mo ago
There's a roughly contemporary book "Dragonfly: NASA and the Crisis Aboard Mir" by Bryan Burrough that I recall being somewhat controversial when it came out but also very carefully reported. I do recommend it still.
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by troutwine 1y ago
You might find your rhetorical success is improved if you, in general, say what you mean instead of what you don't mean.
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by troutwine 1y ago
If I'm a US citizen what right does ICE have to my tax information? The article states that ICE made a request for 7.3 million taxpayer's information, citing ongoing criminal investigations. Given how this administration rides rou
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by troutwine 1y ago
Alright, even if I were to grant this without reservation this doesn't get us back to the GP's assertion that electric vehicles are luxury cars for a select segment of the population.
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by troutwine 1y ago
At least in the Bay Area it’s pretty common for people to park their car on the curb in front of their house and run a charge cable out over the sidewalk. Mostly just works.
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by troutwine 1y ago
“C++ Templates are Turing Complete” by Todd L. Veldhuizen has the history of discovery, early elaboration.
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by troutwine 1y ago
It's a fun route! If you give it a shot and have a bike that fits you good you'd be amazed at how quickly you can build up fitness for cycling, heavy or not.
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by troutwine 1y ago
My wife has a sense of fashion and I do not. When we go out she's always dressed precisely and, left without guidance, I look like a hike might break out at any minute. Relwen's excellent. Sturdy clothes with utility -- my concern
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by troutwine 2y ago
> It's busy-work that provides no business benefit, but-for our supplier's problems. I dunno, if I were paying for a particular quality-of-service I'd want my requests authenticated so I can make claims if that QoS is brea
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by troutwine 2y ago
Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amusing_Ourselves_to_Death
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by troutwine 2y ago
At my university, performance. The CS department was clued into Linux development but also the Haskell world so darcs use among students was high. Our underpowered lab machines and personal devices struggled with darcs for reasons I no long
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by troutwine 2y ago
I'm not tracking how your question follows. If by garbage collection you mean a system in which resources are cleaned up at or after the moment they are marked as no longer being necessary then, sure, I guess I can see a thread here, a
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by troutwine 2y ago
I agree. If we were to try and pin a thought process to an additional level of systems programmer it’d involve writing an allocator that’s custom to your domain. The problem with garbage collection for the systems’ case is you’re opting int
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by troutwine 2y ago
I can’t speak to the Wikipedia page as I have not read it but the biographical material in my Norton Critical Moby Dick and Delbanco’s Melville line up: Moby Dick was a flop and ruined his reputation in society, Pierre not selling further p
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by troutwine 2y ago
Melville was a prominent author, an early sex symbol even, owing to the success and popularity of his novels before Moby Dick. That novel was hugely controversial in its day -- perceived as blasphemous, overwrought -- and it ruined his repu
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by troutwine 2y ago
> From the highest levels to the lowest levels, power dynamics decide how things are. Even granting this premise, which I don't, the interpretation you are operating under -- all but the 1% or 10% or whatever get get crushed -- is n
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by troutwine 2y ago
Is this meant to be a game? I am unable to type my own prompt, the site is filling its own prompt in and then requesting that I press enter to allow it to do so again. I figured there was an intro but the self-play is more and more elaborat
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by troutwine 3y ago
Having been around at that time, I suspect a lot of that behavior was period specific — “quirky” as a character trait was big then — or a put on to fit in socially. Lifted trucks that never see so much as gravel in one place, unicycles and
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by troutwine 3y ago
I think your distinction would imply that Facebook/Meta was not venture backed, which it is, since Mark Zuckerberg has always held a majority stake?
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by troutwine 3y ago
No, the claim is still wild. Ignorance of chemistry in one person or woo-woo beliefs is not an indication for the article's general claims about humanity. You also do not know me or my social circle. There's a cynicism in your pos
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by troutwine 3y ago
It is a wild claim. I think it's important to understand that LessWrong -- whatever it eventually became -- comes out of the SF Bay Area "Rationalist" community. Despite claims to generality, it's a narrow way of reasoni
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by troutwine 3y ago
No one's dictating your choices? If you thought eating glass was tasty it wouldn't be factually inaccurate to tell you that it's bad for you. Same idea for hyperpalatable foods. Strictly speaking, I'm not sure that the U
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by troutwine 3y ago
I think what the OP is getting at is that not knowing about something in great detail doesn't mean it's not important. Folks'll hew to what they find immediately pressing or have an inclination toward. Which is to say, the wo
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by troutwine 3y ago
I would argue that the fix is for the software to refuse to function if it can detect that it's in an environment where it won't function safely, to fail-closed rather than fail-open.
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by troutwine 3y ago
It didn't make the transition to 64 bits worth of memory with the record intact. https://lwn.net/Articles/820969/ Although the CVE _is_ from 2005 so perhaps it doesn't count.
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by troutwine 3y ago
That’s… what I’m arguing? There’s a hard problem to be solved with uncertain paths toward a solution — or uncertainty of what “solved” means in this case, maybe, depending on whether endemic is an acceptable outcome — and every attempt at

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