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@maradydd

Parser engineer. Para-academic. Rootless cosmopolitan redneck. Writes for . 'Juvenile but not white supremacist' --

Belgium
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    Jul 28

    "More heat than light" is a useful distinction. That said, you can get around okay without light to see by, but without heat, you freeze to death. When warmth isn't available by other means, there's always friction. An astonishing amount of conflict fits this pattern.

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  2. Aug 31

    the little velcro that could

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  3. Aug 23

    "What kind of terrible person do you think I am? I'm a very specific kind of terrible person, and it's not that kind!"

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  4. Aug 21

    >tfw new business cards 😎

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    Aug 19
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    You may not be interested in the sunk cost fallacy ... because you've spent so much effort ignoring it you don't want to stop now.

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  6. Aug 19

    You may not be interested in the sunk cost fallacy, but the sunk cost fallacy is interested in you.

    "The reasoning, Netflix's statement says, comes from its last controversial decision: to add auto-playing videos, complete with unmuteable audio, while browsing through Netflix content." I see that, and I see what I see everywhere else: American culture just can't quit dumb shit
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    Aug 14

    Cat lll landing 🐱

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    Aug 7

    be the basilisk you want to see in the world

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    Aug 2

    Something I think a lot about is what is a reliable signal for gauging someone’s expertise in a field you are not familiar with. I’ve provisionally distilled it down to Unanticipatable Edge Complexity. They are able to drill down without hesitation into imperfections in models.

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  10. Aug 1

    History may be written by the winners, but winners who leave their losses out of the history books -- or, worse, rewrite them -- don't stay winners for long.

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    Jul 31
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    Absolutely, its interesting for sure :) Btw I'll plug here who also wrote a very nice introductory article to elliptic curves a while back (though not in the context of a particular bug):

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    Jul 31
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    When your analogies are equivalent up to isomorphism...

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    Jul 31

    Lately and I have been talking about "Load Bearing Analogies" -- in which a domain becomes increasingly understood, comprehended through analogy. described ECC as Billiards. documented an ECC hack in that context.

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  14. Jul 30

    Besides, what would we do without "Belgium still doesn't have a government" for slow news days?

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    A united Belgium is a blasphemy against Gnon. ...
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    Jul 28
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    “More heat than light” can also reflect genuine & legitimate passion the other person can’t process due to not sharing enough information or having their own (presumably negative) reaction. It’s not all on the speaker, even if the speaker’s in the best position to modulate.

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    Jul 27

    Old MacDonald had a farm, unsafePerformIO! And on that farm he had some forks, Here a fork, there a fork, everywhere a fork fork, Old MacDonald had a farm, unsafePerformIO!

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  17. Jul 27

    Heading home after two mind-blowing weeks at . *cracks knuckles* There's verification to do.

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  18. Jul 25

    "oh palilalia, never change"

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    Jul 23

    I refuse to stop valuing being smart; I also refuse to place valuing being smart in opposition to valuing being kind. I am diversely motivated by competition and by co-operation in different contexts, and refuse to be black-and-white about that, either.

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    Jul 21

    Wow. And it checks out. Maybe that whole "It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer" thing is just because ten guilty persons are *still* less likely to become one innocent, highly aggrieved, long game playing TERMINATOR

    In 1991 Isaac Wright was wrongfully convicted of being a drug kingpin in New Jersey and got life in prison. During the appeal process he educated himself on the law, was exonerated of all charges, went to law school, came back and got the cops and judge locked up. ISAAC MF WRIGHT
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