bitofhope

@bitofhope@awful.systems

Bistable multivibrator
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18+ Vaccinations in Book Form?

A while back, I set myself the project of figuring out how much of the MIT undergrad physics curriculum could be taught from free online books. The answer, so far, is more than I had anticipated but much less than what we deserve. But working on that, along with a few other conversations, has got me to wondering. We’ve seen...

bitofhope,

Sounds like a straight (derogatory) version of homoiconicity.

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What, so if there’s power that’s honest, harmless and sensible you’re supposed to… not speak truth to it?

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Okay, but apart from YouTube, Google Search, Gmail, YT Studio, Chrome, Google Keep and Nest, what have the Romans ever done for us?

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OK, David’s was still “that tracks” tier but that crosses the line to NEEEEEEERD!

They sound like a keeper.

New York taxpayers are paying for spicy autocomplete to tell landlords they can discriminate (themarkup.org)

In October, New York City announced a plan to harness the power of artificial intelligence to improve the business of government. The announcement included a surprising centerpiece: an AI-powered chatbot that would provide New Yorkers with information on starting and operating a business in the city....

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A large boulder the size of a small boulder.

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I guess there’s still DigitalOcean and Linode, the Azure and AWS of Some Guy LLC, respectively.

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Linode now brought to you by Akamai, the CDN that also exists, you know (it’s not just CloudFlareont!)

bitofhope,

He’s a little confused but he’s got the spirit!

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Is Apple obligated to ship an iMessage client for other platforms? For free?

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Open secure messaging protocols with freely available and unencumbered specifications and even implementations are good, actually.

I wish XMPP or Matrix or whatthefuckever existed so that we didn’t have to rely on fifteen fucking proprietary IM systems to communicate with an adequate portion of our friends.

Can we make it an outright criminal offense to ship a new messaging application without an accompanying RFC detailing the format? With aggravating circumstances if you outright forbid third party clients that end up being created anyway.

bitofhope,

The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask was not supposed to be an instruction manual!

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A guy who knows the age of consent in every country by heart, except for financial regulations. There’s a lot of overlap too.

"Why I'm no longer a White Nationalist." Neoreactionary blogger goes to live in Red America just like he always dreamed. What followed will shock you! (web.archive.org)

“Walt Bismarck,” a neoreactionary/alt-right blogger, decided to live by his beliefs and move from the liberal hellhole of Arizona to the midwest:...

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There’s a difference in having a personality that gets easily bored of luxury and believing conflict is what inherently gives life a meaning. Maus puts it: “Suffering doesn’t make people better, it just makes them suffer”

If someone’s life is so damn easy and hedonistic they’re actually getting bored of it, there are good ways and bad ways of introducing adversity and getting out of your comfort zone. The negation of being a slave to the hedonic treadmill[1] is not an eternal war for domination.

1: A strange figure of speech, who the hell thinks treadmills are hedonistic?

bitofhope,

Genital augmentation and the word “stubsack” in the same sentence is an awkward cocktail.

bitofhope,

I was in an FTTP orgy once. It was kinda disappointing. I was the only one who even brought an ONT.

bitofhope,

Ah damn, Justine has my respect for a bunch of cool and interesting stuff but this is just embarrassing, unless I’m missing some extremely dry satire.

bitofhope,

I had been mercifully spared from her nontechnical opinions until now.

bitofhope,

“getting rid of sweatshop labor with no replacement would lead to significantly worse conditions … sweatshops should be replaced with liberal markets”

bitofhope,

Yeah I can tell. So much for that respect.

bitofhope,

Just now I tried to find what an argotism is and the top result was that very paper.

bitofhope,

Huh, so something like a cant then (and indeed Wiktionary lists it as a synonym)

I still doubt “argotism” (as far as it’s a word in actual use at all) is countable.

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But he said he was Spartacus!

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Aella is #1 education substack

bitofhope,

I wonder if the existence of RationalWiki contributes to the confusion. Even though it’s unrelated to and critical towards TREACLES, the name can cause confusion.

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Spoiler warning but Darth Vader is Luke’s father.

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