anaximander
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Comment · 6 years ago
This is a really fun use of GPT-2. Uncannily similar to DFW's own writing! And definitely got a hearty laugh out of long strings of "Jim. Jim, Jim. Jim, Jim, Jim, Jim.". Would love to see this extended further!
Comment · 9 years ago
To expand on this: I use VimWiki daily and it's been a really great way to keep myself organized. Being able to easily hyperlink and jump between documents makes navigating the document hierarchy very straightforward. I have VimWiki set up to integrate with Taskwarrior, so I can create and manage tasks right from Vim and everything gets persisted in a Taskwarrior file, which I can then use to generate reports or otherwise manipulate via standard Taskwarrior commands. Creating/managing tabular data has never been easier in Vim with the help of VimWiki. The list goes on; I really can't sing its praises enough!
Comment · 9 years ago
What is there to like about such an event?
Comment · 9 years ago
Very cool idea, and impressively well-thought-out. I have long toyed with the idea of a universal 'concept language' wherein all concepts can expressed as one of a set of "root" concepts that has had a chain of generic "transformations" applied to it.
Comment · 9 years ago
Is assembly language not useful for mere humans? Certainly, every human-friendly programming language abstraction that we use today is built off of something like assembly language.
Comment · 9 years ago
I think they're pointing out that while the speed of the earth relative to the sun is 30 km/s, its speed relative to the center of the galaxy is quite a bit faster, which may be a fairer comparison to what's being discussed in the original article.
Comment · 10 years ago
> ... if I ever felt that kind of epiphany personally I know I would head straight to the nearest mental hospital.
I can't say that you're wrong, but I would also ask you to consider that your sane and reasonable state of mind that's saying this now, is not the same state of mind that believes these delusions. What may seem right now to be a very clear and easy decision may be the last thing you would even consider in another mental state.
Comment · 11 years ago
Search for the div with id="cLxocL1WVq1Evp" and set its width to 100% in the CSS. Abracadabra.
Comment · 11 years ago
Seconding "The Information". I had it on audiobook and listened to it during long car trips. It was very compelling and informative.
Comment · 11 years ago
Yep, I just subscribed to her not too long ago. Mostly, it seems to focus on alternative and minimal housing solutions. It's wonderfully refreshing to see the unusual and simple ways in which people decide to live, in a world so often focused on financial success and extravagance.
Comment · 11 years ago
Luxury condominiums, organic ice cream stores, cafes that serve soy lattes and chocolate shops that offer samples from Ecuador and Madagascar are rapidly replacing 99-cent stores, bodegas and rent-controlled apartments in the Mission District
It's a minor tragedy to set up the conflict this way. "Largely useless and hedonistic shops replacing stores that actually matter! How long can the city tolerate these too-wealthy, dandy scum?!"
Certainly, if the stores are being replaced, that's a function of property-owners' decisions to change tenants, is it not? Why are we blaming financially-successful technologists for actions taken by greedy land-owners? Don't you think these "gentrifiers" would be happy to pay the same amount that the "natives" have been paying for so long?
The property-owners are extracting as much from the world as they can, because they have a monopoly on the land/property and nobody except maybe the government can argue with them. They were taking as much as they could from you before, and now they're taking as much as they can from the wealthier people moving in. This is capitalism: they've earned their right to set the price for their property by buying it/building it/inheriting it before you did.
What options do we have, if we want this to change? Let's not pit the victims against each other.
Comment · 11 years ago
He closed a bunch of issues as "dick" moves, which I can understand, but a lot of PRs were just ignored entirely, which is a little disappointing.