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by Jach 2mo ago
Even discount beef has worse discounts. My grocery store changed out the 50% discount stickers for meat at its sell-by date to 30%.
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by Jach 2mo ago
Turns out that even with the limited self-curation power X gives you it's not too hard to customize an experience you'll mostly enjoy; some people enjoy being miserable though. A large fraction of my "For you" feed is ju
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by Jach 2mo ago
News to me about FIFA. SA has been trying to gain "influence" in sports overall, and their video game endeavors also seem focused on "e-sports" more than gaming as a whole. I frequently hear complaints about them in figh
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by Jach 2mo ago
It's more sad to me that it's usually just a second layer to the scam. People's empathy can be exploited just as easily if not more so than their intellect.
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by Jach 2mo ago
Like I ever answer my door lol. But they can leave something in the mailbox, and I'll at least see the envelope in 1-30 days. Last week I finally had an onslaught of spam voicemails, several in an hour, that caused me to disable voicem
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by Jach 2mo ago
There is a correlation, though it can be weak (see for within-the-US: low-income parts in Appalachia). But even if it was as strong as, say, the correlations with IQ and Big-5-trait Conscientiousness on various life outcomes, it would still
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by Jach 2mo ago
Maybe that's truer in other industries, but the history of Silicon Valley is at great odds with such a claim.
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by Jach 2mo ago
Some people predicted it and related things (like less writing output) after his Dwarkesh interview, especially with his flirtations with moving to SF and ever-increasing frequency of visits.
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by Jach 2mo ago
I believe that's what the first chapter is for. Kind of a hard problem in deciding what the sample should be, since if it was the first chapter those already familiar with the rules will be disappointed since they want to see applicati
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by Jach 2mo ago
The limits of the team, even insisting on >1 person being able to fix any code written by the team, are probably much higher than the average of the team. Furthermore, the average isn't going to improve much if code is never written
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by Jach 2mo ago
You can use most of the popular GUI libs, there's a couple Lisp-specific ones but they're not nearly as featureful. https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/gui.html collects most of them; though for gtk4 I
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by Jach 2mo ago
SICP, as beautiful and good as it is, is probably responsible for a large amount of the misconceptions and negative thoughts about Lisp. SICP isn't a Lisp book, it's a Scheme book, and the Scheme culture is at least as different t
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by Jach 2mo ago
Indeed. The behavior of arenas shared by multiple threads is important as well, and the proper use of destroy-arena vs. rewind-arena. Without care it's easy to create a leak in the unmanaged memory and the OOM Killer will come for your
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by Jach 2mo ago
One should not read or pay much attention to anything Gould wrote or said. ( http://cogweb.ucla.edu/Debate/CEP_Gould.html ) The amount of damage Gould has done offsets any positives. It's not just even being wrong,
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by Jach 2mo ago
A job market specific survey: https://www.devjobsscanner.com/blog/top-8-most-demanded-prog... They combine C and C++ together and it slides in at number 6. But together they only account for 5% of the job market. Total
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by Jach 2mo ago
At least you are aware of the lies. I'm reminded of Feynman's refusal to lie about the nature of magnets ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1lL-hXO27Q ): "You'd soon ask me about the nature of the [rubber]
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by Jach 3mo ago
May all world-class mathematicians take a look at the AI alignment problem such that humanity can have a better chance of passing through, and may some of them decide to not focus just on sexy parts like coming up with ways to kill us all,
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by Jach 3mo ago
There's been some new videos uploaded with her and the rest of the prize winners (and the winners of other prizes, like the Gauss Medal): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTPyjR3qmTA But after watching them I still don&
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by Jach 3mo ago
Here's the Vulkan version of that: #version 450 struct Material { Despite the name, GLSL is still used all over the place in Vulkan pipelines. The site teaches you the shader approach (rather than the fixed function pipeli
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by Jach 3mo ago
The Xbox can't even reliably play video trailers of the games MS in theory want to sell you. They don't even require every game to have a video. They don't even require every game to have a screenshot, as I've encounte
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by Jach 3mo ago
> If you’re not going to take responsibility for your bugs I don’t want to work with you. Depends on what "taking responsibility" means. > Don’t make other people QA your work; if you’re not able to figure out how to do that
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by Jach 4mo ago
I just accept I'll miss things / get some sub-optimal outcomes for my first play, though I do try to explore a lot and sometimes player messages help rather than troll/spoil/be funny. Guides only come out for NG+ and bey
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by Jach 4mo ago
A friend let me host a site on his server, I learned to use FTP (with a firefox add-on he recommended) to copy up HTML files. Later he saw how much duplication I was doing and showed me the humble include statement while using PHP, and poin
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by Jach 4mo ago
You are assuming symmetries where there are none. I want a thing, discover it's readily available for $1300, that seems insane, so I don't buy it. By chance I acquire the thing from a source that was unaware of its fair market val
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by Jach 4mo ago
Undertale is certainly a unique experience and should be played as blind as possible, I understand why people love it. The things it does knowing it's a game are great. Personally I ended up not liking it in the end, but it's a be
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by Jach 4mo ago
I appreciate the experience report, it's interesting to hear the differences, and it's fun to think back on SOMA after not thinking about it for years. There was a funny discussion elsewhere recently about movie tie-in games that
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by Jach 4mo ago
I can see how talk of a paperclip maximizer, or any sort of AGI that can actually deliver on e.g. Drexler's nanotech or otherwise act in very powerful ways like, to quote, "colonizing the galaxies", pattern-matches to somethi
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by Jach 4mo ago
Would you care to share any links? Specifically any talk of an AI-God "judging". If your entire perception is based on what you think you know about the Roko incident, may I suggest that you are ill-informed about it? It wasn&#x27
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by Jach 4mo ago
It's not you , it's Simon. And Simon is.. kind of dumb. He at least doesn't seem at all familiar with the sci-fi and philosophy topics, so perhaps his reactions are closer to such a person? His confusion and cognitive diss
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by Jach 4mo ago
EY has said that if diplomacy fails, nations talking to nations, then bombing datacenters becomes the sort of action that's very much on the table. Much like bombing nuclear enrichment sites is on the table after diplomacy fails. H

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