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The problem is that it sends you files before you need them, which clogs up throughput as you try to figure out what the files are supposed to be for. It's more efficient to slow everything back down to NVMe speeds.

They literally think the scissor statement is a real thing that will really work, fml.

> The conclusion that I finally came to (right or wrong) was that I was unwilling to study the chessboard and weigh the consequences of each possible move I might make. Even people who couldn't see complex patterns might at least penetrate two or three moves ahead, but not I. I moved entirely on impulse, if not at random, and could not make myself do anything else. That meant I would almost certainly lose.

> And again - why? To me, it seems obvious. I was spoiled by my ability to understand instantly, my ability to recall instantly. I expected to see things at once and I refused to accept a situation in which that was not possible.

Interesting. I was also fairly bad at chess as a kid, and my self-diagnosis was similar. I found "checking" all the possible moves too tedious, so I just did the first one that looked promising, to terrible effect.

I've tried to play a little as an adult, and now I have more patience, but that means I find chess too stressful! I don't want to go until I'm fairly sure I have a good move, but I still can't quite "check" all the possible moves, so I sweat the whole time and don't enjoy playing.

Love Galactus.

In Japanese and Chinese, there are alternate numerals used on bank notes that have more strokes and therefore can't be amended. The normal number 1 is 一 and the fancy bank version is 壹.

No, the objection to not keeping .DS_Store per folder and doing it per file system instead was that a non-Mac might make changes that would not be seen. The point is that this can already happen for a lot of different reasons! So keeping it per folder doesn't eliminate the failure mode, it just makes it slightly less common… at the cost of annoying all non-Mac users and any Mac user who needs to interact with Git etc. The tradeoff analysis for doing it per folder is bad.

This also happens with .DS_store files if the other computer on the network isn’t a Mac. It’s irrelevant.

All file operations have been watched by Spotlight since forever at this point.

You don't need or even want well defined terms when you're trying to explain why a mathematical formula is useful or naturally applicable to real world situations.

It's not "noble savage" to note that Native Americans domesticated numerous crops used globally today and that such domestication was a technological achievement, much like the domestication of the horse in central Eurasia or the cultivation of rice in Asia. It's basically the opposite idea: rather than being "naturally" in balance with nature, Native Americans figured it out the same way humans figured everything else, through trial and error, and at the cost of countless lives. It is closer to the stereotype to believe that Plains Indians had some kind of timeless way of life, instead of recognizing they occupied a temporary historical niche that lasted between the introduction of the horse and the near extinction of the buffalo. Introducing history to our understanding of Native American achievements and failures is the only way to treat them as equally human as every other culture.

> If the native Americans had the technological ability to extinct the Buffalo

I think it's more the case of if they didn't have the ability to create a balance. Things like the creation of the Amazon rainforest and the domestication of corn, potatoes, tomatoes, quinoa, llamas, etc. were because Native Americans figured out how to do those things. It's likely though that the first Native Americans just didn't know that stuff yet and accidentally ate all the mammoths or whatever because they didn't yet have a tradition of "only eat the mammoths when the third moon rises after Orion returns" or whatever. Those kinds of cultural traditions are social technologies, and they enable ways of life that would otherwise collapse in a few decades.

In the Pacific, Hawaiians and others had seemingly useless taboos like "women can't eat bananas" but following the taboo rules sustained a huge population (estimates for Hawaii vary, but it was at least a significant fraction of the current population without international shipping!).

In the Amazon, manioc is a great staple crop… as long as you serve it exactly right so you don't slowly poison yourself. They figured that out, but I'm sure there were many generations that got it wrong before they got it right.

So I don't think the framing should be "plains Indians didn't know how to kill off the buffalo." Rather a) plains Indians didn't have horses pre-European contact, so that whole way of life didn't exist until modernity and b) balancing with nature is a learned cultural achievement.

Your prior post was an expression of genuine confusion about whether all music videos are made on VHS.

No, it is 100% literally true that there is not a single exception to the trend of all music videos being shot on VHS now. This is how language works. All quantifications are always exact quantifications, and there are never any humorous exaggerations.

Yes.

I got into this in the 2000s and 2010s by which point it was already obsolete-ish. There are levels and levels of bad cameras people can get into for fun: Polaroids, lomography, Holga, Instagram filters, GameBoy camera, Nintendo DSi, Nintendo 3DS. On the video side, all music videos are now made on VHS for a retrolook, but back in the actual 90s, you would show you were artistic by shooting on 8mm. I'm sure that soon all the music videos will shift to being shot on Flip cameras as the cohort of newly 20-something videographers remember that from their own childhoods.

Every link every hour. https://github.com/spotlightpa/linkrot

I have run a news website since 2019. Every hour, I have a crawler look for dead links. I replace about one link a day with a link to archive.org. The funniest ones are the day after an election when all the candidate websites go blank. The saddest are the government websites that go offline from 3am to 5am every week.

The medieval cathedrals of Europe are known to have been built without slave labor because slavery wasn't practiced in Europe at that time, but they were built by serfs, which is not totally dissimilar. It's hard to describe past labor relationships with modern language since they had very different societies.

Seriously, take this picture[1] label the Dinoco car "C++", Rust-eze "Rust", and Hostile Takeover Bank "Go". Done!

[1] https://image.jimcdn.com/app/cms/image/transf/none/path/s90b...

Why would you label the Rust-eze car "C++"?

Here is the Godbolt. My assembly is weak, but AFAICT, it does not shortcircuit. https://godbolt.org/z/4z4Tr9Gjv

I think it would be better if Go had nilptr for pointer types and "nil" only applied to interface types. That would fix the problem of "why did I return nilptr but the value != nil?" But Go should also have a named zero value that applies everywhere, or at least an operator like ? that compares anything to zero.

Fortunately, we have a chatbot that can simulate him perfectly: http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~eschwitz/SchwitzPapers/GPT-3-Den...

Modi is out of control.

You take that hex and turn it into Crockford32 and it says eatmefatass00.

I like Crockford 32. It has more letters than hex, but is resistant to swear words.

https://www.crockford.com/base32.html

Dale Beran's It Came From Something Awful is a good history of the evolution of the scene from edgelords to alt right.