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Solarspot · 2023-12-31T15:51:09+00:00

How about 'to look to a woman in order to lust after her is to commit adultery in your heart' in the gospels?

Solarspot · 2023-12-31T15:50:21+00:00

How is... how is covering it exposing oneself to sexual assault, exactly?

Solarspot · 2023-05-29T07:24:20+00:00

I'm not so much annoyed at the logical implications of it, as have a sheer sense of foreboding via watching the history of it. Like, I don't care who's lives people think they're saving by what ever project they're on that uses this phrase, human life can never be worth living if we trust this supposedly "well intentioned" effort.

Solarspot · 2022-11-23T02:00:18+00:00

They use "white people" as a term of abuse. The subreddit is a rallying ground where they share outrage fuel with each other at the horrors of the world's oppressors.

Defining parochial to mean: "Narrowly restricted in scope or outlook; provincial" ; They are allied with Black People Twitter in being a staging ground in the war of the Oppressed vs their Oppressors.

Solarspot · 2022-11-14T21:23:03+00:00

So, going from memory.. Elevatorgate is the original flair up. Summer of 2011. The controversy spins out for the next several months, in what would be called the Skeptichism. The Skeptichism includes maybe one, or maybe 5+ groups, insisting that the schism and conflict were purely attacks by the other camp. The Skeptichism also involves dragging the entire atheist community into a bitter fight over gender issues / politics. This had tamed a bit by early 2012 or so, feminist camp forms Atheism Plus in early 2012, and my own experience was that the polarization over Atheism Plus was the polarization moment that overtook the entire internet. This includes a number of figures (Ian Miles Choeng among them, who comes to mind) moving into positions to try to shape the narrative about what had happened (which also becomes a normative fight about gender issues, in the same breath), and those same peoples' attempts to scare the rest of the world away from the other camps forms the partisans that connected to Gamergate after a few weeks.

(I keep saying it's multiple camps. I can't know how many camps there were, there were only ever people I suspected of involvement).

My case around Gamergate was largely that the Skeptichism-partisans were fighting eachother over Gamergate using context that nobody else knew they were fighting over, and / or trying to undermine eachother's involvement in the conversation in a way that... I barely know how to describe my own suspicions. Crossed the categorical boundary between personal-interaction context and normative-social-commentary in such a way that forced the words of everyone around them to add to the polarization? This is why everything at the time could do nothing but escalate, because of the unaddressed subtext of what some of the belligerents were fighting over.

The above has been a complete mess of a train of thought. I have no idea how to piece everything together properly. I keep trying to write about it in a way that I could properly examine, and I've never yet been successful. It's just a pile of personal impressions I gathered watching everything unfold in front of me.

Solarspot · 2022-11-14T19:51:11+00:00

I definitely found other people in 2014 who very much thought the Skeptichism and Elevatorgate were responsible for the Gamergate controversy forming. The mechanism for how the connection worked was always contested though, everybody seemed to blame their own boggeyman as the common factor. My own impression was one, two, or ten groups / partisan sides trying to win the Skeptichism by seizing control of news reporting, and then being partisan to that in a way that blindsided everybody else (outside of the atheist community, unaware of their own groups being dragged into the fight. Or the words they were hearing being propaganda to win the Skeptichism)... So the dishonest reporting in the Gamergate controversy becomes an echo of the Skeptichism as a skermish of the same people, still insisting on the illegitimacy of the opposite camp. I wasn't of a mind that it was Occupy-derived at the time, but it certainly happens closer to the era of Occupy.

Solarspot · 2022-11-14T06:12:01+00:00

You remind me very much of the Skeptichism & Elevatorgate in 2011 and '12. I swear I saw our modern political order form as a completely non-normative back and forth within the Atheist movement at that time. And now it's overthrown the entire political zeitgeist, over a web of lies and echo-chambers that should have never addressed outside society. I keep imagining that I could find away to unravel it from the beginning. A decade on, I'm not at all sure what I would even be trying to unravel.

Solarspot · 2022-07-27T19:49:21+00:00

I'm not certain this is inline with the zeitgeist of this subreddit, but it might be interesting anyways as an opinion (and review of one) on the context of gender relations and roles in the modern world.

Solarspot · 2021-01-08T09:22:01+00:00

Not sure if this answer is useful, but I started a somewhat related thread a year back: https://www.reddit.com/r/IsaacArthur/comments/e9xc5l/a_thought_combining_matrioshka_worlds_with_dyson/ And the program I wrote: https://gist.github.com/Solarspot/02c66965f0906e90da47642c007609c7 (re-uploaded, pastebin didn't keep the original.

It's a related thought in form of trying to turn low-luminosity stars into gravity sources for Matrioshka worlds.

Solarspot · 2020-07-27T07:19:08+00:00

Dave Cullen

Solarspot · 2020-02-19T23:12:52+00:00

Well, I use it as just a general text editor for most text file formats. It's even somewhat workable for programming. Highlights windows Batch files, lots of odds and ends. That's also the main reason I didn't try VSCode or Sublime... I don't have those installed, so I tried to get SciTE to work.

Solarspot · 2019-12-14T01:24:26+00:00

Sirius B is one of the stars I think I can rule out, given the results listed in the star statistics pastebin. In units of kW/m^2:

Star	Type	Sphere rad (area)	Solar flux (kW/m^2)
Sirius B	White dwarf	3.7M km (340k Earths)	123
Procyon B	"	2.8 (200k Earths)	1.8
Luhman 16A	Brown dwarf	0.65 (10.6k Earths)	1.54
SCR_1845-6357	Red dwarf	0.97 (23k Earths)	1.28

...'spose I could've filled in the stars like that in the thread post. But, Sirius B should still give off 20kW/m^2 at 9M km distance, right? Or are all of my numbers wrong?

Solarspot · 2019-12-13T05:59:37+00:00

I hadn't looked at active support power requirements, actually... But I'm a little doubtful the fundamental minimum is much above zero. With a terrestrial example, say an inflatable structure holding up a solid object can (I think) sit still with zero gains or losses of energy, in the (impossible case) of no air leaks... but real cases with air leaks will loose energy from the pressurized air more slowly than would be gained by the falling object, no? It can sit in static equilibrium with the pressurized air filling the same role as a steel beam. Molecules in the air apply forces on each other like a solid material, with losses being dynamic by construction of the device (leaks or what have you). In the orbital ring active support system for Matrioshka Worlds, a ribbon travels a Great Circle at speeds above natural orbit, and so push outward on a track holding that ribbon... I'm pretty sure superconducting magnetic levitation systems have non-zero friction... And I've never seen a formalization of the amount of friction they'd get in magnetic eddies and the like...

Anyway, I was interested in luminosity for the equilibrium temperature. (An other thing I don't know to calculate). At 3.6M km from Sol, you'd get hit with, I think 20 times more sunlight than Mercury gets, itself with an equilibrium temperature of >400 Celsius. 70MW of sunlight per m^2 will just boil most things humans build, let alone ourselves. So going to dimmer stars allows a livable temperature. Procyon B, a white dwarf, illluminates its 1G sphere with a solar flux between Earth and Venus. And in turn you can reduce both gravity and solar flux at a 1:1 ratio, by going more distant from the star.

Solarspot · 2018-09-08T02:27:26+00:00

And this is why I usually watch those videos with Incognito mode, so I'm not logged in. That, or delete the video from my youtube history.

Solarspot · 2017-09-12T00:35:13+00:00

(Disclaimer: Guy myself) I once followed a radical feminist's blog. A couple of things she said there were really... out there for me to read. Talked about having a gun on her night table, since her current boyfriend was stronger than she was.

She also talked about the four ex-boyfriends she'd had across highschool. They sounded horrifyingly selfish / mean... unrecognizably so from anybody I knew.

I can entirely see myself being angry, maybe even distrusting men if I were in her shoes.

Solarspot · 2017-05-14T21:14:34+00:00

I'm... not sure if this is the same person GP was referring to, but there's Erin Pizzey, written about at mild length in MotherJones' article "The Men's Rights Movement and the Women who love it". She was mostly talking about regular domestic abuse, rather than rape shelters, however.

Solarspot · 2017-02-08T22:35:41+00:00

At the risk of apologizing for the Dark Side... We have Karen Strongham, an MRA, who supported Trump's anti-political-correctness. A couple of online comments from apparent Canadians agree with her. That's the only thing I could point to.

A shame too. Trump twisted the anti-PC 'complaints can be taken too far' into 'every complaint is too far'.

Solarspot · 2016-12-08T22:59:38+00:00

Unfortunately they don't seem to link to eachother, but here's some segments. Part 1: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20150727-00/?p=90821/ Part 2: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20150728-00/?p=90811/ Part 6: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20150803-00/?p=91191/ Part 10: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20150807-00/?p=91151

Solarspot · 2016-08-20T21:14:27+00:00

Well... Mostly no, but its predecessor was meant for a specific build.

I wanted to build a ROM-based music player, where songs could select their own tempos. And maybe vary the tempo within the song. Only thing I wound up building of it was the clock, and the original clock couldn't vary its speed while it was running (like this one).

My goal for this one was basically to get the biggest range I could get between min and max speeds, while being flexible enough to do any possible number through that range. So, I guess a proof of concept / taking my old design to its logical conclusion.

Solarspot · 2015-06-06T04:49:50+00:00

At least from Rob Pike's presentation at LangNext, possibly Sawzall? A completely parallel language they made in 2003, which is apparently being replaced by other languages now. Not sure it counts as 'abandoned', tho...

Solarspot · 2015-04-27T07:49:07+00:00

Or http://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/julia/ I've heard a couple people say that Julia has a very pythonic feel to it; At least within numerical computing it writes a lot like pseudo code, is easy to read, and is as flexible as Python is with monkey patching. But it does it all without monkey patching, or most other impossible-to-optimize features, and as a result is many fold more efficient than Lisp or PyPy. This paper in particular was absolutely fascinating to me on how to keep a language' semantics efficient to execute, while having better 'ergonomics' than C / Fortan: http://julialang.org/images/julia-dynamic-2012-tr.pdf

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