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lisper

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About lisper

https://rongarret.info/

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    Comment #49254510

    Yeah, I actually realized too late that my brain somehow thought that nanofarads were smaller than picofarads. Mea culpa.

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    Comment #49247476

    Why is this a component? Couldn't you just make one of these out of PCB traces?

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    Comment #49245045

    Yeah, well, the topic at hand is how Silicon Valley tech bros abuse philosophy. The philosophy they abuse includes a lot of non-academic stuff. I can cite a lot of bullshit in acad…

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    Comment #49244970

    > when you try to argue that economics is a field of philosophy You obviously haven't read Murray Rothbard.

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    Comment #49244960

    Apparently they don't teach you about straw-man arguments. I didn't say philosophy was useless, I said a lot of philosophy is bullshit. That is not the same thing. A lot of physics…

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    Comment #49240850

    > people who aren't philosophers said some bullshit Wow, I didn't expect to be vindicated quite so definitively when I predicted: "The most likely outcome of that exercise would be…

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    Comment #49240788

    Then by all means please do enlighten me: what is that criterion?

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    Comment #49239676

    How would you expect me to defend it? It's my opinion. I could give you a long list of things in philosophy that I consider BS, but what good would that do? Do you really doubt tha…

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    Comment #49239632

    Well, yeah, obviously. I didn't say that all philosophy is BS, only that a lot of it is, including a lot of what is included in SEP. But as a source for making the field accessible…

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    Comment #49239607

    There's a lot of BS in most fields. The problem with philosophy is that it has no criterion for separating the wheat from the chaff. All other fields have some kind of external for…

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    Comment #49233732

    It doesn’t help that a lot of philosophy is actually bullshit.

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    Comment #49149425

    Here is what I wrote about it at the time: https://blog.rongarret.info/2009/08/snow-leopard-is-disaster... Consistent with this article's take on the situation 17 years later.

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    Comment #49127117

    Newer CA homes also tend to do better in fires.

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    Comment #49010982

    No, they are not testing these wings in the present, they are planning to test them in the future : "Over the next three years, Airbus will design, build and flight test full scale…

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    Comment #49010050

    AFAICT they don't exist at all today. They are just renderings. So double clickbait. A more accurate title would be, "Airbus announces plans to develop foldable wing extensions, wi…

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    Comment #48878809

    Making polio great again.

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    Comment #48867237

    I wouldn't think the glass and fire would do them a lot of good either.

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    Comment #48847764

    You should take a look at this: https://www.uptoplay.net/wordiest-online-game/com.concretero... Very similar in spirit, but IMHO a lot more enjoyable than your version. It's untime…

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    Comment #48821684

    Yeah, I actually meant to post this comment in the comap thread. Both comaps and SC were on the home page at the same time.

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    Comment #48821659

    See also: https://gurumaps.app/

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    Comment #48819204

    See also: https://gurumaps.app/