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I don't see why climate change needs "solving" per se, or how it can be "solved." To take your example, there have always been hurricanes. It's not correct to infer there's a human…

I think he (she?) makes some good points about why community & social life are falling apart and what might be done about it.

Marriage goes way beyond the Jewish and Christian spheres. It's a far-reaching anthropological value. Strictly speaking it's a natural state, which means it isn't an invention. Wha…

Has any thread had 3000 comments before?

Grand ideas about structuring society often have an egotism problem. The ego behind the ideas turns its critical lens outward without looking inward. Naturally it ends up telling t…

But that is refutable. You're not a true nihilist as long as you take advantage of the accoutrements of civilization, even down to the technology that enables you to make that post…

When postmodernists describe language as referential and arbitrary, they are moving headlong toward nihilism when an "uh oh" borne of caution and self-awareness is in order. Langua…

The downvotes came! And it's not like you said something bad ...

There isn't much to "colonialism". It's just the establishment of colonies. In the many historical cases where the subject peoples were cannibals, I would have supported colonizati…

"Fascist" began as a neutral description of political-financial relationships and was later made into a household slur by the Soviets to take the heat off after people started like…

Nowadays there are places in the U.S. where the tech staff are largely from (what used to be?) the 3rd World, and it definitely has its effects on the workplace culture. There are …

Citing "climate change" doesn't make you sound profound. It's a generalized justification for totalitarian controls.

No cataclysm visited upon the entire world would be enough to fulfill your sweeping demands. Are you sure your wishes are tantamount to a force of nature?

Waiting to hear the calls for new strong-state controls on human activity because of ... something changing, somewhere.

Don't look at the competition. It's just you and the finish line.

Offer to streamline the recruitment/interviewing pipeline for the company(s) in question. Tell them you will give them a technical introduction to your public projects (choosing ju…

"Publishers want billions, not millions, from AI" But why ask for billions when you can have ... millions?

Thank you, and a tip of the hat to them for doing square roots the hard way.

I'm afraid I don't have the wherewithal to do this in the Bourne shell! An explicit call stack using those globals is a neat idea. Generally the [[ =~ ]] construct is my go-to for …

Thank you, I tried to make the code as readable as I could. And yes, since the *nix model for (sub)processes is cleaner than Cygwin-on-Windows it's kind of surprising that that gap…

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Yes, it's a POC for anyone who might want to use it or expand on it.

Hello, all! I'm proud to present shellmath, a floating-point calculator written entirely in bash. Shellmath does not call out to any external programs -- calculators, text manipula…