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by JadeNB 2y ago
That makes more sense. My brain immediately suggested R&D + FUD = Research, Uncertainty, and Doubt, which is a fair description of life in academia but didn't seem relevant here.
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by JadeNB 2y ago
I understand that it's a different point, but how can someone write a whole essay called "When imperfect systems are good" without once mentioning Gabriel or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_better
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by JadeNB 2y ago
> As long as it doesn't RUD, opening with no tools seems like a feature but the review reads like its a bug. What is RUD?
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by JadeNB 2y ago
As sibling commenter bookofjoe ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43102892 ) and your link point out, it's Larry Niven, not Isaac Asimov.
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by JadeNB 2y ago
Also, using this as a plot point though in no way engaging with the science, there's the recent "Omni Loop" ( https://www.imdb.com/title/tt28150132 ).
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by JadeNB 2y ago
> * access is non revokable and if any part of the drm scheme stops working the provider must provide a drm stripping tool This is unenforcable even in the presence of good will. (If a company goes bankrupt, they might simply not have t
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by JadeNB 2y ago
> If Google has say three different ways of figuring out who I am and I eliminate one of them then nothing has changed. That's not true! If Google has three ways and you eliminate one, and nothing else ever happens, then you might
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by JadeNB 2y ago
> I have the opposite problem: any words I hear spoken in the vicinity directly interrupt my brain's language processor (which is single-threaded) and breaks any chain of thought or writing attempt. And heaven forbid I try to speak
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by JadeNB 2y ago
> Interesting thinking about this being connected with young people using subtitles all the time. For what it's worth, I've used subtitles whenever possible ever since that became a thing, more or less with the advent of DVDs,
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by JadeNB 2y ago
> EDIT: Ah, I see you are part of the oppressor class. I disagree with your parent's dismissal of the worry, but I don't see what this adds to the discourse.
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by JadeNB 2y ago
> In general it’s not like war is about who’s right or moral. It’s more about who can bring more and better weapons to the fight. I suspect, though I'm not sure, that the point was more that a nation that rejects science in favor of
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by JadeNB 2y ago
> But what's the difference between an example ("it’s such good pedagogical practice to demonstrate examples of concepts you are trying to teach") and an analogy ("now they have to spend a week thinking that monads ar
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> You said that a few days ago.... And a few before that... And a few.... Aha, so already they're studying induction.
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by JadeNB 2y ago
In theoretical CS, I've seen Steps 4–8 called "the monad tutorial fallacy." https://byorgey.wordpress.com/2009/01/12/abstraction-intuiti...
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by JadeNB 2y ago
> How did you install it? App Store or direct? Direct. It hadn't even occurred to me to look for it on the App Store. I went to check, and noticed that it's $9. Since the reviews suggest that it's not always kept up to d
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by JadeNB 2y ago
> I hope this version will let me open a file from within LibreOffice directly, without granting full disk access (Mac) I'm currently, for no better reason than that I haven't upgraded, running LibreOffice 24.8.0.3 on macOS Seq
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by JadeNB 2y ago
Could you say more about your point of view? (Also, this looks an awful lot like the old notion of fexprs ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fexpr ), from which Lisp has seemed to move away (although there's https:&#x
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by JadeNB 2y ago
> I'm imagining post-incident analysis finding out that, "the data was exfiltrated via some Unicode string..." then they put it up on the screen and it's just an enormous line of turtle emoji Since it took me a minute
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by JadeNB 2y ago
> Do you think you made the world a better place or a worse place by filing that patent? Come on, what does this contribute to this conversation? The poster clearly is aware of the drawbacks of such patents, and didn't clearly play
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by JadeNB 2y ago
I thought "huh, some hospital link," but it appears to be a scam site, so be wary of clicking. (Good advice anyway, but I naively thought I could trust a link on HN.) Which link did you follow, by the way? I clicked a few, and t
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by JadeNB 2y ago
Ah, I thought you meant that you wished people who talked in public about their approaches to a problem (as Norvig and Jeffries did) would talk more about their framings. I think I now understand that you mean that you wish individual peop
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> I wish more people would be circumspect about the genre of problem they're trying to solve and how their framing railroads them into a particular type of solution that might have a better method. Do you mean "explicit?"
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> One switch.. that ignores user setting and turns on after every update. Ah. That is indeed irritating, but at least it's easily fixed once you know about it, even if it shouldn't have to be. Even when you know it needs to b
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by JadeNB 2y ago
Both are fresh voices and well worth reading, but I don't think Lem comes anywhere near Egan's diamond-hard sci-fi. Egan knows, and does, real math; you can sometimes find him at the n-category Café. My impression is that Lem&#x27
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by JadeNB 2y ago
> As someone who - by default - has Bluetooth disabled, I can safely say: Same with Bluetooth. Bluetooth has to be turned off for every app? I thought there's one switch.
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> It defaults to Apple Intelligence "on", which they had already declined in the last update. So, turned it off in settings. Then discovered they had to turn it off in each app that uses it individually. Same with Siri, by the
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by JadeNB 2y ago
> It's the same with doctors. Unless you have something straightforward: a tumor, a broken bone, a bacterial infection, etc... it is quite difficult to get a doctor _interested_ in solving a difficult problem. They don't have t
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by JadeNB 2y ago
> Oh… dont tell me Quantum Spin just called Spin because it’s a Spinor rather than something actually metaphorically spinning?! That's a great way to understand them if you are already comfortable with the algebra of spinors and spi
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by JadeNB 2y ago
The title here has two occurrences of "LinkedIn" at the beginning, whereas the title of the linked article doesn't.
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by JadeNB 2y ago
Sure, the temperature can be negative, but I'd have trouble understanding that as "I have -2 degrees" (and, if I'm understanding the French correctly, that's not what it means even literally).

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