Barrin92

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by Barrin92 8mo ago
>then you need a bunch of extra parsing and validation code in every recipient object. that's not a big deal, when we exchange generic information across networks we parse information all the time, in most use cases that's no
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the problem is that nobody listened to Alan Kay and writes dynamic code the way they'd write static code but without the types. I always liked Rich Hickey's point, that you should program on the inside the way you program on the o
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>why hasn't anyone done this for real? because LLMs can't program anything of non-trivial complexity despite the persistent delusions from its advocates, same reason the lovers of OSS haven't magically fixed every bug in o
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because that would mean virtually every place in the country would look like Singapore, it would be significantly richer ,per capita, than Taiwan, millions of economic migrants would have left the country for no reason, and I suppose also b
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by Barrin92 8mo ago
>I now believe China’s actual population may be as low as 300–400 million that we now live in a world where people are confident enough to make claims this stupid in front of a camera should frighten anyone. Some basic logic, if China ha
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>there is just no way these weren't calculated in. the American government is publishing war footage intercut with Call of Duty scenes. The American secretary of defense is a former television personality with more tattoos than peop
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>secret societies like the Oddfellows do yes and they're all full of suckers. In the best case which is already bad you get a pretentious online night club like Clubhouse, in the worst case you get Epstein's island. These walle
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>Like what real difference does it make to you? the difference is that you get to see the unfiltered, unique perspective of a real human being. Just like I don't want to talk to anyone through an instagram or tiktok beauty filter or
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>and whose own creator cheerfully admitted he "didn't write one line of code" for it at that point ... what are you even acquiring? If a shoddy bot social platform is all you want just vibe code it yourself, super-intelli
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to be fair senior engineering leads in the software world are like Voltaire's joke about the holy roman empire, neither holy, roman or an empire. Despite the name not a lot of seniority, leadership or engineering going around
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>Is there some reason Lisp is superior to any other general-purpose programming language for text editing? purely for text editing? No. But that's not what distinguishes Emacs, it's famously very mediocre at it. The point of Em
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>Gaming ages. Not sure why you are under the impression it does not Individual games do. Characters don't. Tifa and Cloud don't age even when you republish Final Fantasy VII decades over. The Toy Story characters and Mickey Mou
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"She advised film-makers to focus on character and emotion[...] So evident is Pixar’s formula that it has inspired an internet meme: “What if toys had feelings? What if fish had feelings? WHAT IF FEELINGS HAD FEELINGS?” [...] Film fra
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>But perhaps something getting close to human intelligence this isn't getting close to human intelligence. They're using about as many cells as a fruit fly has (of course not actually functioning like an animal brain) processin
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>That trope only applies if the non-Japanese version of the thing exists It does. These kind of small scale food delivery services exist both in charitable and commercial form across North America and Europe. I know several "Meals o
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turns out it is for a lot of players which is why the kind of game is extinct. Just like in the real world, there's a fine line between risk and adventure and walking into something that looks like Liu Cixin's the Dark Forest. You
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> I have no fear of calling the US President a pedo or saying Fuck the Police on my Twitter. Does that matter? In China people don't judge the state of their civilization by how easily you can insult the police but whether you need
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people have said enough about the ethics of all of it but what I found even sadder is that the story made me curious to take a look at the actual piece he "investigated" with AI, it's this one ( https://theshamblog.
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to do what? We've already had this experiment in the form of phone calling and texting. And that's not technological because both are mature. People vastly prefer the latter. It's discrete, faster and asynchronous. In the sam
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the dictatorship is doing extremely badly then because in my experience roughly the last two decades have consisted of safety obsession, various 'cozy' aesthetics that don't involve leaving your house, the death of social dri
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>He's one of the rare humans who has truly "sucked out all the marrow of life". I think the biggest problem with him is that he styles himself as exactly that, but as the article points out he's a self-mythologizer wh
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> I am sure someone will say that is not legal but when has that stopped anyone. it has routinely stopped them as the courts have already struck down countless of nonsense by this administration, and they rely exactly on this bluster eve
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>Christian references in the Cantos were probably incidental, They're not at all incidental. The themes and the literal Catholic Church don't just make it into the books by osmosis, they're central to it and deliberate. Li
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>Oh but they put down a few solar panels the few solar panels in question are a united kingdom worth of green energy each year , about a royal navy worth of marine tonnage every two and they lifted more people out of poverty over the sp
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>And the issue with the idea being? See the 'rationale' section of the article. The point of it was to rebrand nuclear weapons as multi-use 'peaceful' tools and drive acceptance for nuclear weapons programs. Which was
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>This is how most foreign services are run It is not. The vast majority of the world has a professionalized diplomatic corps roughly modeled on a Prussian or French system. As Fukuyama points out in Political Order and Political Decay th
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of course they did. That's the literal topic of War Games (1983). You should actually be somewhat reassured that we aren't living during the era of Dr. Strangelove where you had characters in the military industrial complex who we
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>Most likely we will not miss them given that we've also lost the faculty to look at the past with anything other than contempt most people wouldn't even know what they miss. The little problem with losing the 'general cog
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centralized servers cost less to operate, that why data intensive applications centralize over time. That's division of labor. The higher the complexity the the higher degree of specialization. And a video service is very demanding.
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Literally every person I know who is obsessed with home automation has spend thousands of bucks and hundreds if not more hours on automating things that take a second or cost two bucks for a paper version that doesn't use electricity T

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