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stingpie , 12 days ago to unix_surrealism in critique only

This always cracks me up, because it's a perfect example of a snake eating it's own tail. "Based" was originally just a shortened way of saying "based in reality" or "based in fact", but new people didn't get the original context, so it just became it's own word. Then, the uninitiated started making the "Based? Based on what?" joke, completely oblivious of the original meaning.

stingpie , 19 days ago to unix_surrealism in the irresistible force

I don't know what GNV/HYDRA is, but I like the sound of it. What's the repo called?

stingpie , 1 month ago to unix_surrealism in 'the entirety of human knowledge contained within a fully-sentient AI'

If course it's written in lisp. Though I'd expect it to be more like EURISKO or Cyc, instead of a more conversational ai.

stingpie , 3 months ago to unix_surrealism in On the frontier: A court compromised

Is this I'm reference to a specific event, like redhat, or is it just generally about Linux distros using proprietary code?

stingpie , 4 months ago to Comic Strips in "I'll test it on myself!"

I'm not talking about little tiny robots with batteries and computers, I'm talking about precisely formed, microscopic and deformable chunks of metal. That's why I brought up proteins- they do not carry any information themselves, and can sometimes form duplicates of themselves, such as in the case of prions.

stingpie , 4 months ago to Comic Strips in "I'll test it on myself!"

I don't think this is necessarily true. The reason DNA is so affected by radiation is because it's malleable. It's built out of chemical building blocks that fit like Lego. Gray goo would likely be similar to extremely complex proteins which replicate like a physical version of a quine.