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leroy-is-here

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About leroy-is-here

Come read some thoughts of mine:

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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    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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    We eventually believe the words we speak about ourselves.

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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    I think you missed the point.

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    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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    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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    Reality does not need to be peer-reviewed to be true.