Posts by simrob@social.wub.site
(DIR) Post #AhrUPmO4EvH5RzaZtI by simrob@social.wub.site
2024-05-13T22:02:46Z
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@futurebird Its kind of the same principle as if the bank directly bought the company, because the bank is saying "we think you'll make enough money running this business for the business to pay back this loan."Now, of course, time and time again we've seen that letting banks get involved in investment leads to fraud, self dealing, and ultimately makes everyone who isn't a banker poorer and worse off. So what's happening isn't a good idea, but I think that's what's happening.
(DIR) Post #AjJjFUyFHRP2evJbpQ by simrob@social.wub.site
2024-06-26T10:53:19Z
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@futurebird @WhyNotZoidberg not a multi poll for me
(DIR) Post #AjjeAEC6mNVfWFQPqa by simrob@social.wub.site
2024-07-08T22:54:25Z
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@foone been there
(DIR) Post #AmGFJZEKwYSgxZmP3I by simrob@social.wub.site
2024-09-22T12:10:29Z
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@futurebird 7*8 and 6*7 - those were the only ones I couldn’t ever come up with a shorthand algorithm for and instead just had to memorize.I used to say the times tables were my hardest academic challenge in math. When I completed my CS Ph.D. I revised that to second hardest.
(DIR) Post #AnNfTmARExUw9dRkLw by simrob@social.wub.site
2024-10-25T23:58:22Z
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@foone I don't want to make suggestions that you haven't asked for, but *sometimes* the newer ECMAScript Modules world actually do make the "HTML File and JS file and NPM package and they're all friends and there's no bundler" easier. People are used to bundlers but they're frequently not necessary in the current world
(DIR) Post #AnoZd9GCIQDxtMBryy by simrob@social.wub.site
2024-11-07T23:30:26Z
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@futurebird I “like” how many people are responding by just repeating one of these takes or confidently adding another take. I am glad you’re being curious, collecting, and observing. I don’t understand why all these people did something that would prevent me from wanting to be in community with them, and that signals that they would never want to be in community with me. It feels isolating and confusing and alone, and your curiosity gives me something to aspire to.
(DIR) Post #Apkl0HPuuPJKalgdRw by simrob@social.wub.site
2025-01-04T23:03:10Z
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@futurebird this feels like asking if the smallest uninteresting number is less than a million - there’s really not such a thing as a smallest uninteresting number (because if there was that would be interesting)I don’t think I could agree with *myself* what the weirdest thing in the universe is, much less agree with you!Hell, I’m not even sure what a “thing” is if we’re examining weird things - someone mentioned Death Valley, but is that weirder than California, which contains it?
(DIR) Post #ApklxoIQJBRbeNZGi0 by simrob@social.wub.site
2025-01-04T23:11:14Z
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@mcc @futurebird yes, *and* this formulation requires an absolutely precise definition of “interesting number” that (I claim) would make it clear the concept isn’t amenable to formalization in this way - and the same goes for “weird thing”
(DIR) Post #ApkmmHhRGFeRK4Kvc8 by simrob@social.wub.site
2025-01-04T23:20:23Z
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@mcc hmm, we’re totally derailing the thread so @futurebird let us know if you’ll like us to stop atting you, but I don’t know what you mean here and I’m curious. who is being difficult?Also fwiw, as a matter of philosophy I prefer the “not everything we say in English needs to be formalizeable in Agda” resolution to this particular paradox. Playing fuzzy terminology games is ok but you may win fuzzy paradox prizes, so beware trying to do logic to a fuzzy thing like “interesting” or “weird”
(DIR) Post #ApkmtO0SDAImuScKLA by simrob@social.wub.site
2025-01-04T23:24:21Z
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@futurebird my actual answer here when I’m not trying to be a pedant is that I don’t know, because if there’s other life in the universe it’s almost certain to be the weirdest thing from our perspective, and if there’s no other life then the weirdest thing is probably on earth
(DIR) Post #Aqcv6hquXioVBOg9U8 by simrob@social.wub.site
2025-01-31T02:10:48Z
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@futurebird we're very lucky foone is on our side
(DIR) Post #Ar0RRbRCE9I0vdC5vk by simrob@social.wub.site
2025-02-05T12:37:25Z
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@futurebird ok I absolutely understand your point and your frustration, but when I read the last rhetorical question I immediately think “Adafruit, Jameco, Mouser, Digikey.” The tariffs are absolutely limiting your options here, but there are non-billionaire-fascist-oligarch options galore *especially* in the small electronics space.
(DIR) Post #ArNSx5Lnd8NPGjK9GC by simrob@social.wub.site
2025-02-22T00:50:14Z
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@chillicampari @futurebird it has *NOT* passed the house according to https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/22/text/ih This seems to me like a weird troll like the RWBland rather than something that has a chance to pass the house, much less the senate.
(DIR) Post #ArNSx7BEpN7IwYOk4m by simrob@social.wub.site
2025-02-22T07:00:39Z
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@guyjantic in principle this is a great idea, but as @futurebird said, misrepresenting the status and likelihood of these bills can *discourage folks from voting* which is doing the white supremacists’ work for them
(DIR) Post #AsAa8m2ytLhenFf8mu by simrob@social.wub.site
2025-03-17T18:16:19Z
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@mattblaze @ct_bergstrom a fractal of incorrect
(DIR) Post #AtOpaRhvrYRrK2HvHc by simrob@social.wub.site
2025-04-22T11:51:09Z
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Oh look, it’s a list of college leaders who are at least potentially willing to meet the current moment: https://www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-call-for-constructive-engagement(I’d certainly share this letter and list if I knew anyone who is deciding on where to go to college or graduate school in the US.)
(DIR) Post #AtOpaScITzXE8qew8e by simrob@social.wub.site
2025-04-24T00:35:10Z
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It took a day but Northeastern signed. Good.
(DIR) Post #AtY5aeZG5vuvEvXyvw by simrob@social.wub.site
2025-04-28T11:51:00Z
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@futurebird on the second question: an argument that we could not be growing enough food for 8 billion people could make me nervous if I could verify a few data points convincingly.
(DIR) Post #AvddmTmQwhjMtSBFc8 by simrob@social.wub.site
2025-06-29T23:49:28Z
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@chrisamaphone cat
(DIR) Post #Ax90WKEH0hsizF1Q9Y by simrob@social.wub.site
2025-08-13T03:54:43Z
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I Can’t Believe They Might Not Be Giants