Barrin92

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by Barrin92 1y ago
No it isn't because of their birth rate, or at least, birth rates are an issue orthogonal to it. In some rich countries people spend now more years of their life out of work than in work because of much longer education and much longe
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It's intellectually lazy to attribute any judgement of media to nostalgia, and inappropriate in this case. Young people are the best example of this. If you look at what past games the current teenagers are interested in, it actually i
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by Barrin92 1y ago
Long but very good piece, although I was surprised to not see Tolkien mentioned even once, who Thiel has given essentially the same treatment. Tolkien like Girard was explicitly a Christian writer and if there's one message in his book
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On the consumer side it's definitely global, but on the productive side it's somewhat unique. Eastern Europe had an odd combination of having a lot of cracked programmers and scientific culture combined with really crappy economic
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by Barrin92 1y ago
>is simply the old games mentioned were the good ones of their generation. I don't buy this. Yes obviously there's a survivorship bias but here's some of the most popular games of 1998 alone , from memory: Ocarina of Time
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by Barrin92 1y ago
> LLMs are challenging the assumption, often unvoiced, that humans are special, unique even. A good chunk of people out there are starting to feel uncomfortable because of this. I'm gonna be honest, after Copernicus, Newton and Darw
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by Barrin92 1y ago
In which Paul Graham (re)-discovers Aristotelian and medieval metaphysics and the unity of truth, beauty and goodness. Or maybe more pragmatic in the word of Andrei Tupolev, head of the Soviet design bureau of the same name, "An ugly p
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by Barrin92 1y ago
A lot of kibbutzim are run collectively. As a joke in the TV show The Americans went, from an Israeli to a Soviet spy: "if you like socialism so much, defect to Israel, we do it better". That kind of thing isn't in the Americ
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Not close from my parents home is a small farm collective of mostly ex hippies who have been living there communally for decades with people well into their 80s now. It was so successful that the city, taking that as inspiration, ran trials
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>Of course! You chose to run Debian. Debian is entirely upfront about this! Okay, then going back to the beginning of the argument and the comparison you denied is accurate. If merely choosing Debian is sufficient reason enough for the u
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in reality a bunch of stuff no user ever has to look at. On Windows literally anyone can click on a 20 year old executable and in all likelihood it just works because the good people at Microsoft care about giving the user a decent supply o
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by Barrin92 1y ago
>Is it just me or does pessimist philosophy just immediately scream "I don't actually base my understanding in reality?" It's just you, for two reasons. One is that Byung-Chul Han isn't, and as far as I know does
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>But a distribution is neither an "app store", nor does it "insert itself" between the user and the software. Just scroll up to the second comment in the thread right now by the user rmccue . Given that Debian doesn&
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I second that. Not only are there not infrequent cases of package maintainers breaking software, it's effectively nothing but the "app store" model, having an activist distributor insert themselves between the user and softwa
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by Barrin92 1y ago
I have the same thing, it feels like your ear is clogged with water, or when you shift in altitude, then like a high pitched sound for ten seconds and then everything is normal again. Every few months or so this sporadically happens. Funny
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>but alone for every researcher who needs to write code for their research, AI can make them already a lot more efficient. scientists don't need to be efficient, they need to be correct. Software bugs were already a huge cause of sc
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>the possibility of interruption and loss That's not the case here though, Obsidian's a markdown editor. When you own your data and you're using a public plain text format it doesn't matter if your editor is closed so
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by Barrin92 1y ago
>But spaced repetition challenges that, in a sense. Common sense challenges this honestly. Education systems that traditionally have put a strong focus on repetition, memorization and what you could call neuromuscular training (e.g China
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> Essentially, these automated engines have replaced the music director from 1990s radio stations. They haven't. A nearest neighbor pseudo random walk from one viral song to the next doesn't replace a music director who could g
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>You collect them, hold on to them as long as you can, and then - at the end of the sentence - they all come tumbling out. as a German native I felt oddly at home with Japanese because funnily enough building seemingly endless verbs at t
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>Yes, it may feel redundant, but it absolutely improves human comprehension because it reads like clear human instructions. That should always be how code is written, including inside of functions, which is the real problem here. Somethi
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Do Don't Think from first principles Repeat what everyone else is saying Draw from diverse references and domains Stay confined to marketing jargon "We paint visions of t
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It's no more surprising than the fact that we invented distributed protocols to talk online and yet people use gmail or Facebook rather than sending data over the wire themselves. People who are very insistent on distributed solutions
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>That's the industry. I think this is complete nonsense to be honest. If you're 42 with 20 years of experience you can walk into any random municipal office in a reasonably large town and find a software or at least IT admin jo
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it's a video game archive. Virtually no video game due to the young age of the medium is in the public domain, so both creating digital backups, let alone making them available is a pretty good way to find yourself in a court with the
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>If AiAccountantBot3000 makes all accountants obsolete tomorrow, It won't. This just reflects the diminished view technologists have of work rather than any actual reality. It's a category error as absurd as asking, "what
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>It even accepts evolution and the big bang theory There's no need for "even" in the sentence. Georges Lemaître who was the originator of the big bang theory was a literal catholic priest and theoretical physicist, and fun
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>People really want these things - exercise, weight - to be important moral objectives for others because they are. The visual changes are superficial. Exercise is important because it holistically moves people to a healthier and active
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>What makes it extremely strong or privileged? The fact that his parents were math and literature professors who entertained him dropping out of school to write poetry. If I had done that my parents would have offered me exactly three ch
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I think in general treating email any other way than "everyone will eventually read your mail" makes no sense. Email communication, from forwarding to how people archive, to copy-pasting provides no security and is so brittle, jus

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