Daniel Wigton

Catholic stay at home father of 5. Interested in spaceflight, decentralized communication, salvation, math, twin primes, and everything else.

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2024-10-16 16:20:02

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Yes. I plan on storing them on my distributed file system, just a binary blob like everything else. We don't want a client server kind of thing. You "install" an application by signing a small notification sent by others in your network that is basically a little description card.
"App: HelloWord, Context:{cli_write}, ID:Som3H4sh, DecryptionKey:50meK3y"
You sign that and your VM creates keys needed for the contexts the the app needs access to. Then anywhere you try to run that program it downloads it and runs it. Keeping the binary local there after.

2024-10-16 13:58:31

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Because of the way I am handling communication all files exist as serialized->compressed->encrypted blob identified only by it's blake3 hash. Any info about them is handled by Notifications. Those are single packets of data saying what they are and signing permission to access.
The first use case will be simply communicating with myself. My computers will share notifications of what is available and they can decide whether to transfer the files between them right away or wait till wanted. I'll have to look at caching algorithms to fine-tune where things get stored. I can't just sync and deduplicate since devices may have differing storage capabilities and I'll have to pick what level of redundancy I want. It is very much a work in progress.
At least storing everything with its hash will make deduplication easy. I am just hoping I can get away with fewer than 32 bytes. I have to carefully revisit the security implications. Anything I can save on hash size is a performance win. Premature optimization ftw!

2024-10-16 12:46:09

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I might be misunderstanding the Solid protocol (Very likely). Also I mixed up Mastodon and Diaspora. In both cases, however, you are beholden to whoever runs your instance.
I agree, however, that we need a both strategy. I wouldn't get rid of the whole messy TLS/HTTP/TCP/IP + DNS stack. It is a nice way to authenticate and access widely available services. But it is a nightmare of lock in and for identity and personal data. I think we can use the current paradigm to bootstrap something that looks like a magic p2p network.
So, like you suggested, that is exactly what I am building for myself. It doesn't use Nostr and Solid, because I think they have missed the mark. I am probably wrong, but I have the ability if not so much the time, to give it a try.
The worst outcome will be that I end up with a unique way to sync my personal data across my computers at home that no one else uses.

2024-10-10 00:48:14

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How extensive is this queendom? What is the yearly barely harvest?

2024-10-07 16:33:00

Everyone should retweet and follow!
#nevent1q…ynf7

2024-10-06 03:25:07

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I'm mostly sad that I missed the AOE2 tournament that is now (as of this note) rumored to have happened.

2024-10-06 01:28:16

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Was I awarded worst team-player ever in absentia? Sorry I missed it would have been nice to meet everyone.

2024-10-02 11:27:04

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Python is a great language, some might say the best, to avoid! I especially like how you can never build a python code base without setting up a virtual environment and pip installing a bunch of dependencies.
I will admit, that once really nice feature of python is that it is not ruby.

2024-10-02 02:11:24

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Mark 16:16 is also used by the Orthodox Church to demonstrate the necessity of baptism. Orthodox also hold the Eucharist as necessary. That is why the give it to infants at baptism.

2024-10-02 02:00:49

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I have no idea how I am cherry-picking. Am I missing a broader context? Are there verses that say the opposite? Catholics aren't allowed to quote scripture? By your definition I can't quote scripture unless I post the Bible here whole and entire.
What is frowned upon is using verses out of context in a way that the church herself never used them. That isn't what I am doing. I am using the verses as the church herself uses them.

2024-10-02 01:38:58

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What?! No. Sacraments are not a good work to earn God's favor. Sacraments are a visible sign of His grace. The church has always taught that baptism is necessary. The sacraments are the Avenue that God gave to humanity to encounter Him.
Of course the caveat is that the sacraments are the Avenue that God gave us. He is not constrained by them and we can hope that He saves those who have no access to His sacraments as He did with those who lived before Christ. But God is free, but we are bound by the commands he gave us. I am not "cherry-picking" verses, those are some of the verses that the church herself references.

2024-10-02 00:06:51

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But we want the good part! What project in what language?

2024-10-01 23:30:18

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I am sure all your neighbors will vote. Less sure if they will all be aware of that fact.

2024-09-29 12:56:05

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9am on a Sunday? It had better be a homily.

2024-09-19 16:34:30

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Not exactly. I don't own firearms because I doubt my ability to pull the trigger so I arm my self in ways that let me calibrate the force I intend to deliver.
But it should be noted that being armed does not automatically impart the ability to protect. It allows you to protect against a narrow band of circumstances. You still exist by the good will of your neighbors.

2024-09-19 16:29:18

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Not exactly what I meant. In a Pascal's Wager kind of way, being Christian will prove infinitely better than saving Bitcoin.
That being said. A bitcoiner who saves farms sounds terrific. My mental order of the most important tasks for society goes
Mothers,
Fathers,
Farmers,
Teachers,
Plumbers,
Everything else is nice to have. Except politicians.

2024-09-17 05:07:36

It is nice that someone took the time to make a bot that replies to my notes. Terrific to get some engagement. #validating

2024-09-17 05:04:22

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The reactions to my notes could hardly be described as "lively" but it's my own fault, I don't post "GM".

2024-09-16 20:44:44

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In for a what now?

2024-09-16 17:49:54

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Next time you are in MN, I challenge you to a being ok at ping-pong contest. I once went to a table-tennis club and discovered that while I am quite good at ping-pong, I am cannon fodder at table tennis.

2024-09-16 17:05:52

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Sorry, that was me admitting I was wrong and throwing in some self-deprication.

2024-09-16 16:14:40

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Ok fine, good points all. But it is safer in that I don't have to tell my friends that I program in go. I use rust, I don't have any friends.

2024-09-16 15:39:06

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Because that is where it sits. It is as perfomant and capable as c but safer than go. For distributed and secure systems it is probably the "right" language.

2024-09-14 21:48:59

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I am guessing it is this thing. About an hour from me. https://theminingconference.com/

2024-09-14 21:43:03

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You are coming to my area on the 27th! Sort of.

2024-09-14 21:37:30

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I always choose notes over carrier pigeons, it is much faster.
We should, however, have the option to print our notes and other relay requests so we can send them however we will.

2024-09-13 02:04:02

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I need to carve out some time to familiarize myself with all the various things. I really haven't had time to check out things like Alexandria and gitnostr. I feel like I am missing the bus on so much that is going on.

2024-09-09 04:30:46

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They aren't the same thing. No one has a problem with people supporting Palestine. Hamas is not Palestine and the IDF is not Israel. I am not fine with the actions of the IDF.
But the broader point remains we are to be peace-markers. That implies not supporting those fighting a war of retribution. The Israelis don't follow Christ, but you and I do. It is a harder higher road but we must take it.

2024-09-09 04:07:59

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While I strongly disapprove of what Israel is doing, I am at a loss as to how anyone can defend the actions of Hamas. Atrocities are never justified. Not in defense, not in offense, and not in retribution.
Christ came with a different message. "Love your enemy, pray for those who persecute you."
"Resist not evil"

2024-09-08 13:07:38

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No. There is no logical reason that you should have to set it up once for each device once the devices share an identity. I used non-networking examples to show what the ideal experience is because our networking sucks. IP is fine, but everything downstream of that is suspect because things keep gravitating back into silos because of spam.
The only resilient form of communication is in person conversation. So far. We can and must be able to piggy-back off that. Once we stop accepting that networking has to suck, we can start building applications that ordinary people can use.

2024-09-08 12:42:21

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That being said #nostr is a great start. It just has a very long way to go.

2024-09-08 12:40:38

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It isn't self-hosting that is the problem. It is the setup and network layer.
Do you have complaints about self-hosting solitaire or minesweeper? Of course not! They install without configuration and just work.
I'd counter with give me a protocol that doesn't require configuration of any apps that use it.
I don't want to pay for hosted services, not out of unwillingness to pay, but because that means I have configure something. Try telling people that they can have a great video-editing program and here are 14 companies they can pay to use it each with slightly different versions and pros and cons, but at least they are mostly interoperable.
#nostrsucks

2024-09-06 14:56:12

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You pick an N connections. After 3-4 hops that probably encompasses anyone you would want to hear from.

2024-09-05 12:12:44

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Vote American Solidarity Party! They may not be for you, but I like them and I'd appreciate the extra vote.
Plus you get to scare the duopoly a bit. Force them to get heavy handed against upstarts threatening their narrative.

2024-09-05 09:57:45

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Way to manage expectations!

2024-09-05 09:52:00

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Supplement you mean? I keep all the DVDs in a binder for legal purposes and for the case I ever need to transcode a different audio format. But yes Plex is delightful.

2024-09-03 21:04:13

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The trouble is that no one wants to join one of their friend's commune and hang out with a bunch of their friend's friends.
I am kind of hoping Heaven solves this somehow. Maybe extra dimensions so everyone's house will simultaneously be in the center of all their separate social groups.

2024-09-02 00:56:23

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If they don't have funds how did they pay for the crickets?

2024-09-02 00:49:14

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We can't just append str to everything and get away with it. Maybe just do that instead of hashtags?
photographystr
naturestr
owlstr

2024-09-02 00:45:51

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It appears!

2024-09-02 00:44:49

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Summer isn't over till she sheds her golden mantle and makes work for all who enjoyed her shade.
Meaning it's over and done when I grumble my first load of leaves to the compost site.

2024-09-01 13:40:07

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They said that about my social security number too. Won't be long before every form needs your nsec. Want to improve you credit score? Just put your nsec here.

2024-09-01 13:22:25

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All whinging over what others are doing to our democracy makes the bold assumptions that we have or want one.

2024-09-01 12:26:31

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Free speech allows you to rebut or revile the ideas. I don't think anyone wants to defend hate, only a person's right to express it, at which point we can marginalize those ideas by expressing better ideas. Allowed to be compete in the open, truth and love always triumph in the end.
Though I must point out, that the ways of truth and love, being gentle, always seem to be losing the moment, but they win in the end.

2024-08-29 16:42:38

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It's an ok day so far thanks.
https://image.nostr.build/a60c34f689c6013bce25047ddd574bbdc661ab04075ef4343073ec5045f74104.jpg

2024-08-29 00:23:05

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Running it locally?

2024-08-29 00:03:43

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No, Haskell is the way programming was meant to be until you try to do something useful.

2024-08-28 23:59:00

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Always has been

2024-08-27 19:44:14

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NgU? "Not gnu's Unix"?

2024-08-27 19:42:54

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I'm consistent.. occasionally.

2024-08-27 11:18:37

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No. We want less dependence on DNS and certificate authorities. If an npub under determines discovery, then include an IP address of a trusted relay

2024-08-26 16:26:46

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My code is basically self-documenting. I can go back to it at any point and immediately use chatgpt to explain to me what I was doing. No way to know if it is has the correct explanation but it is AN explanation.

2024-08-25 14:54:03

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This is what I end up doing and it isn't a strategy. On Twitter I am at best a "rando" a small account with few followers and less than 0 algorithm boost. Here I am just an other individual. My notes have or lack their own merit.

2024-08-25 13:40:16

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I don't, but does your creek actually have much power? Flow rate and vertical drop? Creeks rarely have the power people think they do.

2024-08-25 13:36:33

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Wait? Why shouldn't we listen to people who accept censorship?
We all want filters. I do don't want to have to wade through endless spam on every platform.
We also don't want kids being taught every conceivable idea. We are only interested in teaching the true. So we have to censor.
I agree with the general point, however, who should have the power to censor? Basically just parents. But in reality any organization that people willingly submit to as a teaching authority also has that power. If I attend a university, I will try to chose one that will filter the crap for me. If I attend church I expect them to censor false doctrine from the pulpit.
I did not however submit to the government as a teaching authority. I use them as a regulatory authority. I expect them to limit what a person might do rather than what a person might hear or say.
Separation of teaching and state!

2024-08-23 21:30:24

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What kind of fish is that?

2024-08-23 18:54:25

In light of Matthew 6:19-21 when I hear "stack says" I also hear "put your heart on the block-chain"

2024-08-23 12:50:02

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This is simultaneously good and bad advise.
Good, because it is correct in the absolute sense.
Bad, because it lacks humility.
What if observation and experiment fail us?
What if our own conclusions are wrong?
Authorities are authorities only because we trust them. That trust is a powerful tool to gain access to a body of wisdom beyond what we can discern for ourselves. Use Feynmen's advice not to reject authority, for then we merely substitute ourselves, but rather to discern who to trust.

2024-08-22 10:42:09

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Bummer and I had such a banger about it too. No wonder no one is answering my questions about it.

2024-08-22 07:30:43

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That makes no sense. #soundscommunist

2024-08-22 07:08:29

Ok, so how exactly does the #nostr pro tour work? How many many stops like #nostriga are there and how many points are up for grabs at each?
I see post proclaiming "this is how we win" but otherwise have trouble following sport. Which #nostrich are you all boosting?

2024-08-21 16:36:19

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This is false. Space Exploration fixes this.

2024-08-21 14:50:55

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Running on fumes sounds more impressive than walking on water.

2024-08-20 14:35:09

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I'll let him know. He's going to be 6'6" so more likely the next Andy Roddick.

2024-08-20 12:05:11

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Don't know about those, but I've a 9 year old who wants to be the next Djokovic. You could teach him, because I know Jack about tennis.

2024-08-19 23:21:29

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Where is this flight going? Hell?

2024-08-19 18:18:22

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Lol, thank. Profile++

2024-08-19 18:00:45

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Yes. I tend to reply more than post directly, even if it is a note I'd like my followers to see. Quote notes feels more like monologue than dialogue.

2024-08-19 01:09:15

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Yes, I think it needs to underlie the data channels we make. If data can only flow between people who know each other then it is very hard for bad data to get in. The cost of rebuilding trust is too high.

2024-08-19 01:05:22

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I think you forgot to jump in a cold lake, stay up late watching heavens whirl above, have a cup of tea, fall in love, teach a child to whittle, and take a walk in the rain.
Life is only a slow roll to death if your calculus matches your over Lord's. Wealth and power they can control and all who toil for it, but Love and Life they cannot touch nor the souls who take joy in it.

2024-08-17 22:26:52

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No. Money is at best a means to acquire something else. So in some sense it is never about the money. If it is about the money as an end then we are all idiots.

2024-08-17 09:06:57

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Yeah, mobile first has been a terrible thing for a awhile. We need a Luddite first philosophy. Just the text please.

2024-08-16 03:38:36

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☹️🙏

2024-08-15 11:21:36

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Depends. Is your culture worth fitting? Teams can and do collesce around shared ideals that feel important to them but are in reality shallow, vapid, and antithetical to creating a great product.

2024-08-15 00:18:26

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I'd like to provide my own key thanks.

2024-08-13 14:03:32

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The fact that these tend toward the mean rather than the minimum, implies that they are positively correlated with reproductive success, but some other variable begins to dominate after exceeding the mean. Since you have accounted for all the physiological variance the missing factor must be ideological.
I posit that it is the mere perception of being exceptional that is the problem. Pride. It is just pride. Humility allows women (and men) to live more freely for others and for greater goals than themselves.
The implication is kind of entertaining. If a society is steeped in a sense of humility then it is precisely the women who will cause an upward trend in the means of beauty, intelligence, athleticism etc.

2024-08-13 12:13:03

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Wait? You guys get answers to questions?!

2024-08-13 12:06:27

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I'm having trouble following the math but same. I've slept 8 hours only a handful of times in the last 7 years.

2024-08-12 22:46:20

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As evidenced by me trying to buy #2 pencils on Amazon.

2024-08-08 20:24:20

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It maybe uncool but Ubuntu works.

2024-08-08 13:26:41

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I was up all the last two nights with a newborn, so whatever it is, I'm not it and I don't think this tea is helping.

2024-08-07 21:20:22

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Absolutely yes. If you need more storage or compute for your enterprise you can put a beefy machine on your network and just add it to the company pool.
It will be important to be able to make some tweaks to the company wide VM like making sure N copies of the Data exist.

2024-08-07 20:34:43

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My idea is to build a wasm based VM with a distributed filesystem. Then over time add distributed io and compute. Imagine having your code editor available and running on all your devices without having to sync your code. Just move from laptop to desktop and pick up where you left off. The VM even moves the running code to the most effective core across all your machines.
That way compiling from your phone would automatically use your desktop etc.
It gets even more powerful if you have trusted contacts with mutual resource sharing agreements. They can act as an off-site back up as well as giving everyone with enough friends access to supercomputer like performance for highly parallel (and not too sensitive) workloads. Blender rendering for the masses!

2024-08-07 00:25:21

Thanks be to God!
My wonderful wife just delivered baby #6.

2024-08-04 19:22:20

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Western Maryland? I have to admit I didn't know Maryland had a west. In my mind it is all DC and Baltimore, not precisely places I would choose to raise a family.
Cumberland?

2024-08-04 15:09:32

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Stack children! My wife gave me 6, there's no trading up on that.

2024-08-04 13:44:13

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If it scales linearly then my $500-ish worth of BTC will be worth.. carry the 1.. $50,000! Nice I guess but not exactly retirement money.
And no I can't just buy more Bitcoin, with 6 kids I have other priorities.

2024-08-02 12:29:31

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There is simply no way to do this. Even if you control for weight and muscle mass men are far stronger. There is some overlap in the distributions but the peaks for various types of strength are multiple standard deviations apart.
We use the language "male and female" because it is useful and descriptive. Pretending they are arbitrary categories is intentional stupidity.
It might be interesting to make some sport with a really complicated set of rules that levels the playing field, but I doubt many athletes would want to play it.
Sports may develop complex rules but they usually have easy to understand objectives. Jump far, jump high, arrive first etc.

2024-08-01 23:51:21

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The only point of the exercise is to test if it has thermal issues. Can be a problem if you are crunching prime numbers as well 😃

2024-08-01 20:35:00

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I've had mine for 6 years. The speakers are terrible, but other than that it will probably last me another 10 years. Try playing some video games though just to see if it overheats. Tuxkart is a good candidate. I had to repaste my CPU because they over pasted it at the factory and it overheated easily. A little liquid metal paste and I can game on it now. Not that I do, but I could if I wanted.

2024-08-01 14:53:08

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Hard disagree. I've no interest in standing in your splatter. It's all about angles. A good urinal cuts off as many angles as possible. A good man doesn't need a good urinal.

2024-08-01 02:11:09

Conform to perfection.
https://image.nostr.build/c15970896378380a32580dca29a56724eadb7668f4c0c09847dc2d85fd790119.jpg

2024-08-01 01:58:48

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Nostr has an expectation of weirdness to which I refuse to conform.

2024-07-31 17:30:41

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Yes. My kids have a very small radius because My wife and I are introverts. In nearly 8 years of living in this town we have made 0 close friends. We don't know the people in the next house much less whoever lives by the park.
In my defense all the neighbors that I did know recently moved away. But they were all retired. We accidentally moved to a neighborhood with nearly no kids.

2024-07-31 15:16:43

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Very few people actually want to live far away from everyone. Most want to live in a tightknit community. It doesn't matter if it is a country hamlet or an multi-tenent building in the middle of a huge city. It just has to be tranquil, have a sense of community, and have the freedom to make it beautiful.
But today's cities are loud, lonely, dangerous, and restrictive. Fix that and people will stop running away.

2024-07-31 03:36:51

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I worry about this a lot. I think the size of the circle is dictated by who else you can expect to be in that circle with them. With the automobile it could be anyone.
Cul-de-sacs suck but are desirable because they remove a variable. I want to put roads under ground so kids can have the run of the neighborhood again.

2024-07-30 08:58:10

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Overnight success is not waking up at 3am for now reason.

2024-07-28 14:18:49

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Could you fix the broken watch on my perfectly good strap? It's a self-winding one that has been in pieces for 20 years.

2024-07-27 08:16:04

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As a counter proposal, follow Christ.
Yes following the money will help discover which evil people are doing what evil thing, but there will never be a shortage of directions to which evil scatters. Far better to make them chase you as you move to perfection. Follow Christ.

2024-07-26 15:24:52

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How strongly do you believe that is the real reason?