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by xwkd 14d ago
If the problems are solved, wouldn't you rather all those programmers use their productive systems-oriented brains on other problems?
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by xwkd 4mo ago
I watched the whole commencement, and it seems that Eric Schmidt himself was booed louder than anything "AI" that came before him in the program. The students had strong reactions to almost every statement he made. If you listen
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by xwkd 5mo ago
This really is the crux of it. If democracy rules, then power lies with the demos and by extension controlling their windows to the world.
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by xwkd 7mo ago
Over the past decade, there's been a lot of regulation forcing Apple to open up their "Apple only" integrated platforms. It used to be the case that if Apple wanted to build a walled garden / cathedral, then in order to
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by xwkd 8mo ago
This is an understandable perception, but it reveals your lack of context. By and large, children in the US are educated in the public school system. Only 6% of children in the US are homeschooled. Now, there has been a relatively recent
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by xwkd 1y ago
Critical thinking requires that the sources themselves are evaluated for bias. Anecdotally, I've come across several articles for which the bulk of citations all come from one source, and that source is a heavily political "newsp
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by xwkd 1y ago
Yes, let's bring these back. In fact, why don't we just build Khrushchevkas and skip the whole proletarian revolution step? We can even start wearing the funny little hats with flaps and drink until we forget about freedom or di
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by xwkd 1y ago
Galileo and the church were both correct.
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by xwkd 2y ago
It's rare for an app dev (of such a popular tool) to go out of their way to respond to a random forum user. Even rarer is to address every point on their list with patience and consideration. You must be a remarkable person and I wish
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by xwkd 2y ago
I'm not even able to hold a candle to Wolfram intellectually- the guy is a universe away from me in that regard. But: Given a cursory look at his wiki page and Cosma Shalizi's review of his 2002 book on cellular automata [1], I f
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by xwkd 2y ago
Produced by a Mormon whose dissertation was supervised by an atheist Professor of the Hebrew Bible and Ancient Religion. This may be a data point in favor of the trustworthiness of the podcast, or it may be an argument against, depending o
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by xwkd 3y ago
If singular, this definition makes sense. If not, then I have to ask: Independent of what or whom?
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by xwkd 3y ago
Please excuse my understanding as a layman, but could this be related to the electromagnetic absorption spectrum of water? https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/18/Absorpti... It seems that th
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by xwkd 3y ago
You can suspect whatever you would like. I don't mind. Your comment is rather disrespectful and yet, if someone tried to shut you up, I would proportionately respond. You have a right to your disrespectful speech.
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by xwkd 3y ago
I wholly disapprove of what you say and will defend to the death your right to say it.
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by xwkd 3y ago
Needs to be played on a CRT in general. For retro games, you can't beat the low latency and fantastic glow of an electron gun. No shader emulation comes close.
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by xwkd 3y ago
> I feel that traffic is much worse since before COVID, drivers more aggressive, etc. From what I've seen, it seems like people are less afraid of the consequences of bad driving behavior. There's less of a police presence on
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by xwkd 3y ago
I'm a man and I don't feel particularly lost. For all that this article had to say, (and it said a lot without saying much), I see us needing two things: Good brothers and good women. We need each other. We really do. We could
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by xwkd 3y ago
Having a high BMI and a low body fat percentage means that you are likely composed of a lot of muscle weight. I would think that this would correlate highly with physical strength, which I would also think is something we would want for ou
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by xwkd 3y ago
I agreed with the parent's sentiments initially. But then I saw your comment before the edit, where you had called this "uneducated loser mentality." I'm sad that you edited it, because you're also right. >I lo
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by xwkd 3y ago
Again, excellent trolling. I commend you.
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by xwkd 3y ago
Don't piss on my leg and tell me it's raining.
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by xwkd 3y ago
This is excellent bait, and I'll take it. You (hopefully) know as well as I do that twerking with Megan Thee Stallion is more of a "yas queen" than a "does this please you, viewer?" The thing that takes an ostensibl
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by xwkd 4y ago
Allow me to be an annoying pedant for a moment: Isn't that a bit tautological? The bottom half of the bell curve is below the mean in a normal distribution by definition. There's always going to be a lower half as long as we mo
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by xwkd 4y ago
I agree with you completely. This is the way that it should be. I will also say, then, that I feel like we’re all a bunch of huge pussies. Sounding more like my dad every day. Great. Curation and censorship are strange cousins, don’t yo
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by xwkd 4y ago
Comedy cannot be offensive to trans people on Twitch, specifically! Here's the part where I rhetorically taunt with my weaponization of the virtue of free enterprise: "You have a right to free speech, but I have a right to decide
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by xwkd 4y ago
It's a particularly responsible man, too. You'd think if they had some kind of insidious demographic agenda they would choose a different contrast. I think the only subtextual story here is the last line: >"He said that
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by xwkd 4y ago
Supporting hardware is pretty much what operating systems are supposed to do. Computation always supports some human end. Humans are doing a lot more with their hardware these days.
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by xwkd 4y ago
Which, in my opinion, isn't too bad for a cold and wholly inorganic thing meant to harness electricity for Diablos. I'm not sure that I've ever seen a beautiful PC. Technology in general is ugly. We do everything we can to
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by xwkd 4y ago
I'm surprised that you say that you have 10 years of professional experience if you were actually having this conversation with a company. Get another job. The interviews are part of the process. This is tough love: Suck it up. Ther

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