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by 0xcafefood 8mo ago
Agreed. I think Clojure strikes a pretty reasonable balance here. It's opinionated about the programming paradigm, scales back some of the pain that comes from reader macros, and solves some of the bootstrapping problems by compatibili
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by 0xcafefood 8mo ago
Do people bash pandas? If so, it reminds me of Bjarne's quip that the two types of programming languages are the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.
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by 0xcafefood 8mo ago
I really wish lisps were more popular (or, really, popular again). Most people can't make it past the non-Algol syntax, which is silly IMO. But they do also demand more of the user than a typical language. Their use of metaprogramming
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by 0xcafefood 9mo ago
> Doesn't matter if you're white or black. Disingenuous. Other groups can and do create different cultures that are more tolerant of asking for help, clarification and feedback.
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Berkshire's Alphabet Buy Doesn't Sound Like Buffett(bloomberg.com)
1 points by 0xcafefood 11mo ago|0 comments
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by 0xcafefood 11mo ago
> Python 3 should be studied for why it didn't work as opposed to a lesson not to do it again. I'm curious about this in particular. It seems like the Python 2 to 3 transition is a case study in why backwards compatibility is i
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by 0xcafefood 1y ago
FWIW journalists are just following the lead of tech executives and others hyping LLMs as "AI" so it's hard to fault the journalists specifically.
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by 0xcafefood 1y ago
It's hard not to see the development of LLMs as a major stepping stone towards a much more hostile web. Downstream from there, the open web will likely be a wasteland and all interactions will be suspect. There seems like a world where
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by 0xcafefood 1y ago
It's not mentioned in this article, but Geoffrey West's book "Scale: The Universal Laws of Life, Growth, and Death in Organisms, Cities, and Companies" give a fascinating and approachable overview of similar ideas. One o
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by 0xcafefood 1y ago
> [P]eople that aren't interested in having children will 'go away' as the population declines, and we will reach a new stable population level? I think this is exactly what we're seeing. This is evolution as a punctu
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by 0xcafefood 1y ago
> if everybody in a country just stopped having children, that country would look, from an economic point of view, excellent for at least a couple of decades. There's even a name for this: the demographic dividend. It's the dem
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by 0xcafefood 1y ago
That is _one_ assumption. Another is that immigrants into these countries can and will just plug right into the local economy and be adequate substitutes for the economic effects of the local population decline. There's everything abou
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by 0xcafefood 1y ago
"Labour shortages do not arise because of a lack of suitable workers, they occur instead because of inadequate immigration policies that limit or deny the movement of capable, working-age people from elsewhere to fill local demand. Ind
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by 0xcafefood 1y ago
Social media seems to be moving to images and now even (ultra) short-form video content. Does a hypothetic 40% increase in social media engagement offset a 40% decline in reading in any meaningful way?
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by 0xcafefood 1y ago
It jumped out at me too. Are people not reading to their kids?!
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by 0xcafefood 1y ago
Seems so. Or more to the point of how data collected in the UK might reflect this trend (from the article you link): "According to a 2005 BBC report on Pakistani marriage in the United Kingdom, 55% of British Pakistanis marry a first c
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by 0xcafefood 1y ago
None of India is looking particularly good, but each state in southern India looks to have 20-25% rates of first-cousin marriages. Pretty high.
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by 0xcafefood 1y ago
It's extremely common in South Asian communities ( https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/10yx3va/... ). The UK has a large South Asian diaspora.
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by 0xcafefood 1y ago
How does one get into a missionary position? Seems rewarding!
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by 0xcafefood 1y ago
This is a really interesting point. Managers are the _only_ people I've heard say things like "it's only a matter of time till all coding interviews are just 'write a prompt to...'" or "soon all coding wil
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Apollo's chief economist warns the AI bubble worse than the 1999 dot-com bubble(fortune.com)
7 points by 0xcafefood 1y ago|4 comments
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by 0xcafefood 1y ago
I'd go the other way and say mass murder shouldn't be acceptable in video games either. Not every country does allow that.
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by 0xcafefood 1y ago
If you want to see that idea explored in art, I highly recommend the movie "The Man From Earth."
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by 0xcafefood 1y ago
Great point. It's like the earlier days where remote procedure calls were intended to happen "transparently" but the fact that networking is involved in some procedure calls and not others makes them very different in key way
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by 0xcafefood 1y ago
There are still taboos even for pixels on a screen, even for video games. It's a good thing. There should be. Perhaps you're just saying that you're mostly comfortable with the depiction of some forms of violence in some cont
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by 0xcafefood 1y ago
Microsoft also has Azure and its gaming division.
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by 0xcafefood 1y ago
Florida's Homestead Law also exempts one's primary residence from being taken to pay creditors.
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by 0xcafefood 1y ago
Those seem to hit NYC now too. Not as often, but it's also less prepared for them when they do.
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by 0xcafefood 1y ago
Before even opening the article, I speculated that this is related to financial firms eyeing Miami as an alternative location to NYC. And right there at the top "The new law is a big win for Citadel CEO Ken Griffin, who advocated for i
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by 0xcafefood 2y ago
It seems like your claiming that the perceived benefits of eating meat (by those who do) exactly equals the benefits of using ChatGPT. Is that right? If so, I disagree.

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