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by Hasu 3y ago
> knowledge isn't predicated to be correct. It kind of is, though. The field of philosophy called epistemology deals with what knowledge is and how it is obtained, and the field overwhelmingly agrees that it is necessary (but not su
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by Hasu 3y ago
> So far, all these alternatives I'm reading about can't convincingly explain how they plan to pay for themselves. For most of its existence, Reddit hasn't been able to convincingly explain how it can pay for itself, and i
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by Hasu 3y ago
Of course in the 1950s many thought that computer vision and artificial intelligence were only a few months to years away, and here we are 70 years later and we're still working on those problems. Predicting the future is hard. Some pr
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by Hasu 3y ago
> All major (ad)tech companies are convinced that this is a major market that will materialize and be profitable if the right combination of hardware and software is developed. Does Google have a VR play? They explored this with Glass 10
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by Hasu 3y ago
> This was Microsoft's warcry for years: who cares if Apple has better software? We have better hardware. What on earth are you talking about? Microsoft is a software company first. They rode the Windows advantage for more than a de
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by Hasu 4y ago
I'm not sure about other people, but I hate Spotify's recommendations, and I think it's because my unit of music discovery is albums, not tracks. The Daily Discovery playlist is just randomly selected tracks, and I can't
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by Hasu 4y ago
> It's the most difficult book I've ever read--took me several months to work through. But I treat it similarly to how Finnegans Wake should be treated: don't try to understand everything, but rather find something on ever
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by Hasu 4y ago
I don't know, power concentrates plenty in unregulated industries. Google has owned search for over two decades, and it's not like there's a ton of government regulation preventing anyone from starting a search engine. pPople
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by Hasu 4y ago
> The entity that first achieves real general AI has the potential to achieve a decisive strategic advantage that will allow it to shape the world in its image, free of competition. The focus on "general AI" is so so so shortsi
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by Hasu 4y ago
> Except in the real world opinionated leads and team members forced teams to adopt ONLY hooks going forward, or have to maintain two separate implementations - hook compatible or class component compatible code. That isn't React&#x
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by Hasu 4y ago
React Hooks came out 4 years ago. React doesn't change dramatically every year and the React devs are careful not to break the old APIs, so you can ignore hooks or other new features if you want. This complaint comes up in every thread
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by Hasu 4y ago
> Like, my main problem is meeting women at all. Second main problem is impressing them enough to give me a chance to showcase my attractive qualities, which unlike my unattractive qualities, are not in plain view. Going to the gym helps
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by Hasu 4y ago
You're right, no progress has ever been made in software, no new ideas are better than any old ideas, and it's fads all the way down. The only difference between software today and software in 1980 is that today's software is
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by Hasu 4y ago
> Of course if that traffic included advertisements, you'd also lose 95% of your ad revenue. Not so, serving an ad to a bot gains you no revenue, because ad networks charge for clicks, not impressions. If a significant percentage of
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by Hasu 4y ago
> This makes me think you did not enter a bookstore before you checked out Amazon's version. Many do exactly this for the big, recognizable hits they expect to sell more of. Yeah, I worked at a chain bookstore years before Amazon ev
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by Hasu 4y ago
> You're implying that with TypeScript you will get your codebase spaghetti free I am not. I'm saying I don't have to imagine a world without TypeScript, I've lived it. > You can have a code base that hasn't a
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by Hasu 4y ago
> Think about TypeScript the other way round. What if TypeScript wouldn't be out there? What can you do to bring more stability to your FE code? Luckily, we don't have to conduct this thought experiment, we lived it from the re
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by Hasu 4y ago
> There is some use for ETH out there that doesn't involve avoiding financial controls and regulations or separating fools from their USD I do not grant this, because Ethereum has been around for 7 years and no such uses have materi
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by Hasu 4y ago
Have you thought about which of these is closer to the truth: 1. People like different things for different reasons. 2. You think people who appreciate things you don't like are forcing themselves to like it to be twee and artsy, becau
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by Hasu 4y ago
Eh, I use macOS, Windows, and Ubuntu pretty regularly, and they're all pretty much fine. macOS gets in my way the most, but it's not significant trouble. Other workflows than mine would probably have different results.
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by Hasu 4y ago
Swatch Internet Time has no timezones or conversions - it's always the same time everywhere - so DST doesn't and can't exist in this time system.
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by Hasu 4y ago
1. e4 2. Bc4 3. Qf3 4. Qxf7 (or the same with turns 2 and 3 reversed, the final move can also be the bishop) wins with the first check being a checkmate.
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by Hasu 4y ago
No, I was thinking 'less mature web libraries' for Go. It's hard to talk about groups of languages in broad strokes when there are various tradeoffs and each language has its own strengths and weaknesses, and I painted two po
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by Hasu 4y ago
Ruby, Python, C#, Java, and JavaScript are all are more predictable and just as useful. Go, Elixir, Clojure, and probably others are more predictable while being less "useful" only in the sense that they may have less convenient d
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by Hasu 4y ago
> With PHP code written 15 years ago still works. If you never upgrade, sure. PHP 7 and each minor version in it have deprecated and removed plenty of stuff that was legal in 5.6. PHP 8 is on track to do more of the same. I think the bac
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by Hasu 4y ago
Source? As far as I know his financiers committed on the same terms he did and neither he or they have any right to demand proof about Twitter's user information. You say "it appears" which sounds like speculation.
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by Hasu 4y ago
1) They provided access to their firehose API, how is that not enough? The crap about rate limiting doesn't apply to the firehose, and decent engineers can get around rate limiting, so either way this doesn't hold up. 2) Twitter&#
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by Hasu 4y ago
He won't, because 1) there was nothing in the contract about bot numbers and 2) Twitter probably isn't lying about mDAUs and bots.
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by Hasu 4y ago
> when the penalty is at most $1B This isn't correct. People keep saying this, but it's not true. $1B is the penalty if Musk can't get financing. He has financing. He has no escape clause now, and this is a transparent and
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by Hasu 4y ago
So what's your alternative, throw your hands up and proclaim ethical reasoning to be impossible, nothing is true, everything is permitted, and it doesn't matter what you do? All models are wrong but that doesn't make them use

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