Karellen

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by Karellen 2y ago
"The difference between science and screwing around is writing it down" -- Adam Savage
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by Karellen 2y ago
> I’ve also had dreams where I’ve known it was a dream. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucid_dream
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by Karellen 2y ago
Maybe it was only used as the `all in progress group` sentinel because it was used by the kernel and could never be the pid of a userspace process? There's no reason that Unix couldn't have defined `PID_ALLPROCGRP = -2` instead.
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by Karellen 2y ago
> There are large bespoke payloads (eg JWST) but these are inherently so expensive anyway the launch vehicle costs almost don't matter. If launch costs are going to be $250M, you need a budget of that order of magnitude to make a mi
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by Karellen 2y ago
IMO, you really want to be able to consider all of humanity to be part of your ingroup. No matter how small your ingroup is, the members aren't all clones of each other. They have differences in how they were raised by their parents,
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by Karellen 2y ago
If you get further down, they expand their view on Morality to be more nuanced, and something that sounds pretty reasonable. I think the core of their view is: > My view is that morality is “real” in the same way that language is real. B
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by Karellen 2y ago
> The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny..." -- commonly attributed to Isaac Asimov
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by Karellen 2y ago
> For example, the order of query params is free to change but it's still the same URL. Are you sure that's guaranteed by any spec? I thought an end-point would be free to treat `?a=1&b=2` and `?b=2&a=1` differently. I
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by Karellen 2y ago
> > Question is: "Alice has 60 brothers and she also has 212 sisters. How many sisters does Alice’s brother have?" > The right answer depends on how Alice identifies I guess? :) Given that the wording of the question sp
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by Karellen 2y ago
You could call it the "Compose a symphony fallacy", after the scene in I, Robot (2004) where Spooner asks Sonny if he can compose a symphony, to which Sonny replies "Can you?"
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by Karellen 2y ago
It's different in the same way that using an LLM instead of a traditional Markov chain is a different way of generating text. You're still predicting the next word at a time to hopefully end up with plausible sentences/paragr
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by Karellen 2y ago
// counter_associated.rs [...] let c = Counter::increment(f); What is `f` here?
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by Karellen 2y ago
> My definition of culture talks about the working values and processes in a company. Yeah, that does change it. And while that's certainly a reasonable definition of "cultural fit", I don't think it's been the p
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by Karellen 2y ago
> I suspect this is only transient. But the effects aren't. Once a 180-year-old bookshop closes and moves out, it's gone . Yeah, if the tourists go and if the AirBnB revenue dries up, and the "locals" move back into
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by Karellen 2y ago
> It would be much better to just publish a good knowledge base. Yes, but a lot of companies seem to institutionally incapable of doing so. The number of FAQ pages (or worse, FAQ apps) I've come across filled with questions that no
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by Karellen 2y ago
I thought the efficiency of a Dyson sphere/swarm was typically measured by how much of the star's total power was being used? We are not capturing 10-15% of the sun's total power output.
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by Karellen 2y ago
One solution to this is the Matrioshka brain, which consists of many nested "shells" around the star. Each one absorbs the radiation from the hotter shell inside it (or from the star, if the inner shell), and radiates waste heat t
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by Karellen 2y ago
The same axis of rotation? Pretty sure they're about 23° off.
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by Karellen 2y ago
> In british historical drama there is an old standard that any character that coughs will soon die. That reminds me of the classic short-film subversion of this trope: The Man Who Has a Cough and it's Just a Cough and He's Fi
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by Karellen 2y ago
Friedman's Malady https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedman_doctrine
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by Karellen 2y ago
> I ignore the "limited liability" bs since it should not shield you from criminal behaviour. It doesn't. That's not what "limited liability" is for. > Limited liability is a legal status in which a perso
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by Karellen 2y ago
...but you repeat yourself
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by Karellen 2y ago
I... what? Great-Grandparent> most M&A transactions trend to have a 30% premium above the trading price. I [...] could not find a good explanation to why You> It’s probably just a good rule of thumb. Me> But why is 30% better
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by Karellen 2y ago
> You cannot get around the Ken Thompson problem I thought Dr. David A. Wheeler's 2009 doctoral dissertation "Fully Countering Trusting Trust through Diverse Double-Compiling" had been generally accepted as proof that you
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by Karellen 2y ago
Why is that a better rule of thumb than, e.g. 5%/10%/15%/20%?
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> I joined the internet myself on IRC and NEWS And email, right? You do have email, don't you? Which is not implemented over the WWW, and is pre-WWW by the best part of a decade. (RFC 821/822 are dated August 1982, and the firs
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by Karellen 2y ago
If it were a supply chain attack , I find it hard to believe that a) it would have originated from Debian at all, and b) that the people making the patch would have posted to the openssl-dev mailing list to ask their opinion on the correct
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by Karellen 2y ago
It wasn't just "the Lord", it was that combined with the Doublethink of the wording. But that quote from Kipchoge does put it in a more comprehensible framing. Thanks.
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> There is another definition of freedom which simply says, “In whose service is perfect freedom.” By giving yourself up to the Lord, you free yourself of the narrow cage of your own desires and your own selfishness. ...and that's w
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by Karellen 2y ago
> Users are also asking why ChatGPT could not simply share the source of the answers it will dispense in this new partnership, both citing its sources and adding credibility to the tool. Of course, this would reveal how the sausage of L

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