Posts by sqrtminusone@emacs.ch
(DIR) Post #AcuZaSCg44kUWt9Lvs by sqrtminusone@emacs.ch
2023-12-17T20:25:09Z
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@mms Thanks!It also has grown larger since a year ago :D
(DIR) Post #AcwtbfYiHXLNdiEYFc by sqrtminusone@emacs.ch
2023-12-18T23:18:54Z
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@mms Yeah. It took some effort to bring the package closer to my idea of usable. Not a lot of effort, just a bunch of transients and advice functions.https://sqrtminusone.xyz/configs/emacs/#mastodonMaybe I'll contribute some of that eventually.
(DIR) Post #AdS9hKLBzQULqBWlBg by sqrtminusone@emacs.ch
2024-01-03T01:15:16Z
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@mms IIRC when I used MS Exchange's SMTP, it required adding the sender's address to Bcc in order to save the email to "Sent".Maybe something like this is the general case, and/or maybe in the normal case the same email is sent via SMTP and added to the IMAP folder by the client...
(DIR) Post #AhrXjbey8K9npmdlPE by sqrtminusone@emacs.ch
2024-05-13T22:40:45Z
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@interfluidity At least they have the money to buy their hemlock.
(DIR) Post #Ahsu9jMMWJ0BOTl8W8 by sqrtminusone@emacs.ch
2024-05-04T08:06:48Z
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@argv_minus_one The Borg could have easily won with better PR
(DIR) Post #AhvvOmHyatsuFcKJ3Q by sqrtminusone@emacs.ch
2024-02-01T22:10:50Z
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@daviwil Hmm, is there no #Emacs client for Discourse? Can't believe it
(DIR) Post #AhzTdD6DgrWzN6lEIa by sqrtminusone@emacs.ch
2024-05-17T18:32:27Z
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@interfluidity Feels right to me. The function is true on each element of this array
(DIR) Post #AiOREgjx0Uf56ZWQgy by sqrtminusone@emacs.ch
2024-05-29T19:33:26Z
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@interfluidity Wouldn't two suffice? For any given non-zero vector v = (v_x, v_y), there's already one linearly independent vector orthogonal to it: u = (-v_y, v_x)v \dot u = 0
(DIR) Post #AiOSMNzcgzf1ET5SWe by sqrtminusone@emacs.ch
2024-05-29T19:45:58Z
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@interfluidity Then, unless you idea about (hyper-)plane refers to something other than a subspace that has at least one less dimension than the ambient space, three will work.Otherwise your hyperplane is identical to the space, and why wouldn't the same process that made it so keep it so after you've invented a new dimension to retreat?
(DIR) Post #Aizde3o40qHpNAEhyy by sqrtminusone@emacs.ch
2024-06-16T18:16:48Z
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@interfluidity That feels so strange. These emails are written as if they were personal, but isn't it obvious they can't be?Like, "I won't choose a VP until I hear from you" makes sense if "you" means "the voters" or something. But "First Name, you've got guts"... Can anyone seriously think it's Donald Trump himself writing this to you? I felt like the whole appeal of this guy was his authenticity, and this feels so fake.I wonder, are these emails HTML-formatted with American flags and such?
(DIR) Post #AizfH6oiqwMnxRjCJE by sqrtminusone@emacs.ch
2024-06-16T18:35:04Z
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@interfluidity Fascinating indeed. This one looks like a perfectly normal spam email.How does it even work...?
(DIR) Post #AjOV2RezqlQD3jzcZc by sqrtminusone@emacs.ch
2024-06-28T18:08:08Z
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@interfluidity So my wonderings about the meaning of words like "is" aren't a coincidence.
(DIR) Post #AjamYPgEmEe9IpvCtM by sqrtminusone@emacs.ch
2024-07-04T16:20:56Z
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@interfluidity I'm not sure I'm following the argument... The author says that tech entrepreneurs have lost their way, misunderstood philosophy, and started making bad products? Fair enough, short their stocks then, I guess...But then he says that these same people, who are so stupid as to plan to live for 100 years and die from cancer well before, can actually deliver the Apocalypse? And not go bankrupt the very next market downturn?I've actually opened the article to get the context for the quote. I'm not sure if there ever was a time when a "vast majority of the people" weren't afraid of change. Hadn't the British government dispatched the military to suppress the Luddites, back in the Industrial Revolution? Was there ever a moment when there were fewer NIMBYs than YIMBYs?So I'd bet that "vast majority" is a projection of himself and his change of mind over the years.
(DIR) Post #Ajb5Kk6RwmSbiZNRxI by sqrtminusone@emacs.ch
2024-07-04T19:51:21Z
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@interfluidity As for "smart": I agree, look no further than Mr. Musk for an example of this. Still, I don't see how these two sentences are compatible:- Ray Kurzweil has consistently been wrong in his very area of expertise;- The likes of Ray Kurzweil can bring about the Apocalypse by cultish reckless innovation.I don't disagree with the latter, but then one has to grant the likes of Ray Kurzweil some kind of engineering competence. And even disregarding that, a tech-Apocalypse is a very different thing from Jim Jones taking over the world... I'd be more afraid of us discovering some civilization-destroying knowledge, for instance. Or a technology for stable totalitarianism. Which, what a surprise, is also a concern for Mr. Kurzweil, and totally distinct from cult dynamics, the keynote of this piece.For me, that part feels like "we haven't done it, look what the US had done, they deserved it anyway" from the Cold War. I.e., multiple incompatible statements that didn't feel as such for Soviet diplomats because of the general anti-US self-justifying vibe and the diplomats' lack of critical thinking. How does one even argue with that, right?And on fear of change: I might agree on the post-Atomic trend. I do feel like something you've mentioned is now lost.I've just seen counterexamples, e.g. people resisting the spread of Internet. The Chinese say "may you live in the times of change" as a curse, for what it's worth.So I'm uncomfortable assuming any such grand narrative, pro- or anti-progress. They usually become unfalsifiable when they become too abstract (see: the silent majority is with us!). And what feels like sampling the Zeitgeist becomes sampling of yourself, and using that to further your arguments without doing the homework. Which, I still think, happened with in piece.
(DIR) Post #Ake9KDhaRQhEwsOe8G by sqrtminusone@emacs.ch
2024-08-02T12:48:15Z
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@kasdeya Naturalistic fallacy is cope
(DIR) Post #AknW9dSOOKZ70cqo0u by sqrtminusone@emacs.ch
2024-08-09T16:43:01Z
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@niconiconi Command Studio sounds cool
(DIR) Post #AknaMYojLvWYCUiZGK by sqrtminusone@emacs.ch
2024-08-09T18:27:39Z
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@interfluidity F
(DIR) Post #AlBcziRmLVlR3woqDQ by sqrtminusone@emacs.ch
2024-08-21T08:50:14Z
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@interfluidity He will be a President for 40 years to find the only place in U.S. politics without oil
(DIR) Post #AlSh5k6AoyPrQUA3vM by sqrtminusone@emacs.ch
2024-08-29T14:26:14Z
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@interfluidity @GuerillaOntologist Uhm, protection from whom? From Russia?This guy has his own security service, no less, and the money to move to almost any country in the world
(DIR) Post #AlljPNHnEs7UNTK92G by sqrtminusone@emacs.ch
2024-09-07T18:51:43Z
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@interfluidity Yes, and "contrarians" look all too much like conformists to different groups.