Posts by GardenOfForkingPaths@hostux.social
(DIR) Post #9fOwqtdSZloX4NVKxk by GardenOfForkingPaths@hostux.social
2019-02-01T20:01:00Z
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@Ocean22 Imagine, if you can...
(DIR) Post #9fQeEGVMpZqONkVigS by GardenOfForkingPaths@hostux.social
2019-02-02T15:41:49Z
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@Ocean22 But how effectively can you fight without ARMs?
(DIR) Post #9fR5TR8oGWwITYQ03M by GardenOfForkingPaths@hostux.social
2019-02-02T20:45:59Z
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In the dystopian future, automation will have decimated admin. jobs, but I shall still be manually fixing metadata when cataloguing e-books.
(DIR) Post #9fVDAcLJUEzJZII8tU by GardenOfForkingPaths@hostux.social
2019-02-04T20:32:08Z
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@Ocean22 Hmm. Looks shifty.
(DIR) Post #9ff7vXrm3lWXjDfdoW by GardenOfForkingPaths@hostux.social
2019-02-09T15:19:59Z
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'After investigation of their most recent reviews, we found that in every review this reviewer requested an average of 35 citations be added, approximately 90% of which were to their own papers and the remainder to papers that both cited them extensively and mentioned them by name in the title. The reviewer’s phrasing strongly suggested that inclusion of these citations would influence their recommendation to the editor to accept or reject the paper.'https://retractionwatch.com/2019/02/07/the-case-of-the-reviewer-who-said-cite-me-or-i-wont-recommend-acceptance-of-your-work/
(DIR) Post #9ffIg7VkreHj8pDcG0 by GardenOfForkingPaths@hostux.social
2019-02-09T17:17:50Z
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'Ajaokuta Steel Company has never gotten around to producing a single bar of steel. But it has been "operational" for so long that it has more than 10,000 pensioners on its books.'https://twitter.com/JohnAshbourne/status/1093836495574716417
(DIR) Post #9fhfvU7qQkwxFE2s1w by GardenOfForkingPaths@hostux.social
2019-02-10T20:50:14Z
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@Ocean22 Apparently there's a cunning hack, unless they've disabled it since 2014: https://www.computerworld.com/article/2857708/keurig-2-0-spoofing-vulnerability-hack-bypasses-coffee-drm-allows-brewing-of-any-pod.html
(DIR) Post #9flMG1KDEjGkNZgx6W by GardenOfForkingPaths@hostux.social
2019-02-12T15:11:50Z
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@aparrish Well, we consider *literary* writing a form of art, and the autonomy of art is a respectable tradition of thought in philosophical aesthetics, perhaps the dominant one. And no doubt programming can be artful; but physical architecture can also be artful, and yet buildings without definite function ('follies') are rare. We generally want buildings to be mundanely useful and to create an attractive environment as well. Maybe programming is like that.
(DIR) Post #9gX7Z6R40iqHy1FseW by GardenOfForkingPaths@hostux.social
2019-03-07T16:30:55Z
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@Nightingalle Maybe they have them at https://mastodon.sleeping.town/
(DIR) Post #9gjrRU5r5v4goR9x1k by GardenOfForkingPaths@hostux.social
2019-03-13T20:01:22Z
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@Macroneon Apparently it went down for a lot of people: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/19/03/13/1720248/facebook-is-down
(DIR) Post #9hR2fhiPRdnFZfVgiu by GardenOfForkingPaths@hostux.social
2019-04-03T15:57:44Z
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@guizzy @moonman It sounds like an excuse for all manner of things:'Senior Wranglers were once fêted with torchlit processions...'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senior_Wrangler_(University_of_Cambridge)
(DIR) Post #9iYFSKdrNRbE2sfJFw by GardenOfForkingPaths@hostux.social
2019-05-07T01:18:05Z
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@Ocean22 Are they actually called puppies? Not kittens?
(DIR) Post #9jMyDO5CfcGUsZvTpA by GardenOfForkingPaths@hostux.social
2019-05-30T21:10:49Z
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@tom79 'App developers' meaning you, right? I'm reading this on application software right now: it's a Web browser derived from Google's Chrome. People who say yes are presumably those who'd readily block Gab for themselves anyway, or choose an instance whose admin will. So the question is about our attitudes towards control of *other* people...
(DIR) Post #9jTdSO7jZ17CQT1TIe by GardenOfForkingPaths@hostux.social
2019-06-03T17:45:36Z
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@ArdanianRight @kekuser His current thing appears to be complaining that he never sees people defend free speech online except for unpalatable causes. I can believe he doesn't; I just don't think that demonstrates what he seems to think it does.
(DIR) Post #9jWLJKn5N4ZFmWmH8C by GardenOfForkingPaths@hostux.social
2019-06-05T01:03:06Z
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@jeremiah @aven @newt Very few thinkers make major contributions through having their works widely read outside their disciplines, though: the same criterion would be a problem for mathematicians, physicists... Measuring the indirect or practical influence of e.g. Rawls or Popper or Berlin or Kolakowski is admittedly tricky though. And generally recognised positivity is a demanding criterion: does it count against Scruton that so many people hate him? Should it matter?
(DIR) Post #9xRxA5lL7ElJaqrt3I by GardenOfForkingPaths@hostux.social
2020-07-25T16:26:33Z
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'The Phrygian cap is a soft cap with the top pulled forward. Associated in antiquity with the inhabitants of Phrygia, a region of central Anatolia; from the French Revolution a symbol of revolution, liberty and republicanism – and in modern times with Smurfs.'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointed_hat
(DIR) Post #AEj78jfsWXlfj4YjKa by GardenOfForkingPaths@hostux.social
2021-12-24T10:54:09Z
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@deshipuIf you haven't seen it before, you might find FKiSS (an add-on to the Kisekae Set System) of interest there.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kisekae_Set_System
(DIR) Post #AEj7bmfSTSYRPJDKDY by GardenOfForkingPaths@hostux.social
2021-12-24T10:59:25Z
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"When you first took my hand on a cold Christmas Eve, you promised me Broadway was waiting for me!""That was a scenario, not a projection."
(DIR) Post #AGfFrc3tYJa8q1MKv2 by GardenOfForkingPaths@hostux.social
2022-02-20T09:57:16Z
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@MoonIt varies, but if you mean recent anglophone research papers, it's partly for the usual academic reasons (that tedious enumeration of responses to obscure quibbles is designed to survive peer review), partly because we're trained to detach argument structure from literary style but not from attempts to seem credible by sounding technical.It's not an unrecognised problem, just an intractable one: https://cah.ucf.edu/fpr/article/why-is-so-much-philosophy-so-tedious/
(DIR) Post #AGjPotgzK37Sp6pPZw by GardenOfForkingPaths@hostux.social
2022-02-22T10:07:40Z
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@esheepBut with grammatical ambiguity so you can take it however you want.