GuiA

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by GuiA 6y ago
“It” has already become much better than us at many kinds of thinking (playing chess, go, solving equations, transcribing speech,...).
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by GuiA 6y ago
To contrast with: British work culture: spend 7 hours at work socializing, 2 hours at the pub after French work culture: spend 2 hours at work socializing Japanese work culture: spend 12 hours at work with your head down not working, then 5
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by GuiA 6y ago
Dark humor is just not professional, and many people expect the content they interact with on HN to be professional in tone.
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by GuiA 6y ago
In the model you propose, what would I think instead of “this box is full of water”?
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by GuiA 6y ago
It’s not so much that there’s a place for both rather than both necessarily exist as two points in the same space. But the reality is that more websites than not these days will send you many megabytes of JS, mainly for the purpose of track
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by GuiA 6y ago
i am glad that there is a small village of indomitable developers holding out against tens of megabytes of reactive functional progress modern javascript frameworks. thank you
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by GuiA 6y ago
Do some research on the NSO Group.
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by GuiA 6y ago
Heh? Sentient life and the civilisations it creates are part of nature, where would the incompatibility stem from? If you’re talking about the phenomenon of some species depleting the resources of their environment, harming their population
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by GuiA 6y ago
This is really terrifying in the context of machine translation. I've seen a few forums (I think they were Discourse installs?) configured to automatically translate posts not in your browser language. It's very hard to tell that
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by GuiA 6y ago
Valve did this for a number of their games (e.g. Portal, Half Life 2). You can play the game in a developer commentary mode, where (iirc) "orbs" that play recorded audio commentary are littered throughout the regular game world.
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by GuiA 6y ago
Shortest answer: because they went through YC.
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by GuiA 6y ago
This is a very cool story, and makes me want to learn more about Tamiya. But the situation does not seem the same to me. People are - for the most part - able to play the old Nintendo games they want through the virtual console, backwards c
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by GuiA 6y ago
One can have the viewpoint that on average humans were likely happier 30,000 years ago, and that technology was a bad deal for us overall, without advocating that the solution is bombing society back in time.
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by GuiA 6y ago
Matt: So this is back in 2008 I saw an interview you had done it was posted on slashdot’s, I came across it. It was in a different language. You said something about free software and first I will run this by you and see if it is accurate
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by GuiA 6y ago
Well, that's what happens when everything "standardizes" after the initial wave of disruption. 15 years ago, there weren't any "programming bootcamps" or "entrepreneurship workshops" or "become a
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by GuiA 6y ago
Most every religion does have that bias of "we know better, we've got the holy texts, if you're not with us you're doomed/clueless/need to be saved/unlucky". The fact that modern practitioners in your
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by GuiA 6y ago
For engineering/creative endeavours at least, the trick is to keep making things that support what you say. It's pretty easy to get people to listen to you if they respect your skill. On the other hand, words are cheap.
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by GuiA 6y ago
The main goal of the people working on Urbit, as with most ventures, is to make money. They make money by selling you an identifier that gives you access to their network for ~$10-$20. They have 2^32 identifiers so they expect to make a lot
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by GuiA 6y ago
The first hit is always free :)
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by GuiA 6y ago
It’s a scam. They have 2^32 “planets” (a UUID that you can use to interact with the Urbit network), that they are each trying to sell for ~$10-$20 on a cute “exchange”: https://urbit.live/ (Of course you don’t really own a
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by GuiA 6y ago
A long term meditation practice may help you reach similar states of mind. Much less instantaneous than chemically induced, but perhaps more rewarding and sustainable.
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by GuiA 6y ago
Nice. The fact that it can be described by a diagram that fits on a single screen and could be absorbed by a new hire in 20 minutes is neat. I wonder if there are ways to design software such that we can get visualizations like this generat
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by GuiA 6y ago
I’ve definitely been seeing and hearing construction (mission) the past month...
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by GuiA 6y ago
I look forward to a world where platforms are less afraid to kick off the voices they don’t like. The world would be better with 50 YouTubes rather than just one.
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by GuiA 6y ago
That sounds like a toad problem in the making. Well, we can probably bring in foxes or something.
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by GuiA 6y ago
On the other hand, eBay customer support is very friendly to buyers. Open a case the day after the advertised delivery, you will get refunded. As a long time seller/buyer I’ve developed a set of heuristics around eBay (most of them obv
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by GuiA 6y ago
What is rich about calling coffee a mind altering substance? Sensibility varies across people, but as an occasional drinker, if I drink a cup of coffee (especially on an empty stomach), I get a strong buzz going for a solid 30 minutes or so
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by GuiA 6y ago
A semi decent amateur telescope (I recommend starting with a dobsonian) and a drive to an area with low light pollution (perhaps the harder requirement) will fill your eyes with the many wonders of the night sky, M31 (Andromeda) included :)
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by GuiA 6y ago
As the author notes in the article, all this takes is basic knowledge of physics units, and the only math required is addition and multiplication. So it’s a matter of basic skills to some extent, but that’s not really the key. The way you g
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by GuiA 6y ago
Many lenses from the 80s/90s hold their own compared to modern designs. We’ve been at the plateau of the S curve for a while. The really exciting stuff is happening in smartphones, where miniaturization is the driving variable - for in

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