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leroy-is-here
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About leroy-is-here
https://leroysthoughts.substack.com https://leroy.works
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I tried to do this when LinkedIn forced me to upload an ID. It didn't work unfortunately. I see the good in this but I know it will be abused. I want to run away but I don't forese…
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Comment #46722631
Which ones are you going to? 90% of what is in a grocery store is pre-packaged processed food. In fact, many grocery stores are starting to sell clothes. The produce sections are s…
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Comment #46711179
We eventually believe the words we speak about ourselves.
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Comment #40045544
The problem is taxes. Different items can be taxed differently. Itemized receipts are a must from the get-go unless you want to explain to the government that you underpaid them be…
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Comment #37709193
Yeah, the model only makes sense with an infinite length tape. I only mention it because many commenters get stuck on the word 'infinite' without realizing how inconsequential it i…
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Comment #37708800
To your point, Turing's paper 'On Computable Numbers' doesn't even mention the length of the tape. He doesn't specify that it must be infinite at all.
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Comment #36116480
There was a time when source code was shared in magazines and someone had to manually write the source by copying from the magazine.
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Comment #36114119
Everything is monolithic by accident. Source code used to be able to be shared and compiled directly with little effort. Now we have created tools to create entire systems dedicate…
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Comment #36113399
I think you missed the point.
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Comment #36077795
Firefox shows literal advertisements in the “new tab” window. I recently started using Firefox again because I was told I was being “ridiculous” when I said Firefox shows me litera…
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Comment #36016217
It depends on the books I am reading. I get the most out of philosophy and learning books when I actively engage with the text with responses in kind. But when I am reading mind ca…
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Comment #36009076
Reality does not need to be peer-reviewed to be true.