NateEag

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by NateEag 4y ago
Yes. I have a copy of The Gift, and while I've yet to finish it, I'd recommend it to anyone who wants to understand the dynamics of OSS projects. See also this brilliant piece by Avery Pennarun on OSS, log4j, and the nature of gif
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by NateEag 4y ago
IMO, "crackpot" and "crank" are quite far from "butthead". The first two communicate precisely what you've described, and are a significant charge to level at a scientist. The last is a playground insult
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by NateEag 4y ago
Even should expert consensus ever form on the hard problem of consciousness, people will still espouse their opinions.
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by NateEag 4y ago
Why does your daughter need to be online? I simply don't understand that need. I'm thinking about introducing our eight year old to basic computational literacy, but I'm planning to have that be without any internet access at
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by NateEag 4y ago
> It is. [Spirituality] doesn't exist. The majority of people on the planet claim to practice some religion / have some spiritual practice. I think that means spirituality exists, as it's practiced to at least some extent
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by NateEag 4y ago
Virtue signalling is about the intent behind the action, not the action itself or its results.
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by NateEag 4y ago
> Things in the realm of anti abortion and pro death penalty break down when you get down to the root of things, which is free will and innocence of the unborn soul ...no? The essential point of steelmanning is understanding your opponen
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by NateEag 4y ago
> We usually feel like there is a person inside that has control and almost extra-physical ability to override, but surely this must be result of physical inputs and processes? I know of no rigorous evidence against the idea that we&#x27
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by NateEag 4y ago
I don't see it that way. To me, not caring what is true is exactly that - not caring. Your actions might be rooted in truth or not, but you don't care. You get your dopamine hits and who gives a shit how they came to happen? Being
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by NateEag 4y ago
I haven't yet taken this concept to completion, but when I had a similar issue years ago I hacked out a cheesy program to filter out static analysis messages on lines not modified by the diff: https://github.com/NateEag
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by NateEag 4y ago
Sure, but as noted that isn't a prototype - it's a sloppy product. That's when it's time to have a frank discussion about whether that's really what they want (and maybe to consider whether this project is really wh
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by NateEag 4y ago
Not even just "look like a prototype" - a prototype must be _incomplete_. If it's not? You have a solution, so of course it's going to be deployed. The fact that your solution is gonna fall over due to being brittle code
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by NateEag 4y ago
"Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading." That's what dang was referring to, I believe, not some hypothetical implication.
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by NateEag 4y ago
The key to having prototypes and PoCs work out okay is to leave some important piece of UX out entirely. Such an approach gets you the benefits of being able to explore a problem space with code in a quick, sloppy manner, without any risk o
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by NateEag 4y ago
I get the sense you aren't interested in this sort of feedback, but I'll give it a shot just in case: I think when the average Christian or Muslim claims that God is omnipotent, they mean something like "God can do all logica
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by NateEag 4y ago
> Perhaps the most important part is almost no one cares what is true on certain classes of questions. My experience has been slightly different, which is that almost no one is willing to accept that they could be wrong about certain cla
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by NateEag 4y ago
Beliefs that are invalidated by data are guaranteed to be wrong. Beliefs not conclusively supported by data may be wrong. Some such beliefs turn out to be essential to human functioning, like "My life is not just an extended dream or h
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by NateEag 4y ago
These are good points. Thanks for sharing them! I'm not personally all that convinced by the Simulation Hypothesis, but I recognize it's a legitimate possibility. ... right alongside the possibility that base reality doesn't
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by NateEag 4y ago
> This might not be possible - there are many inputs into the model; it would be impossible to trace which one tipped the scale. I am not a fan of problem-solving via legislation, but I wouldn't lose a lot of sleep if Big Tech was n
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by NateEag 4y ago
As a father of homeschooling children who was homeschooled myself, it's sort of surreal to read about a system I've never benefited from as if it's a totally vital thing whose collapse would be disastrous. I realize my perspe
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by NateEag 4y ago
I've been using thumb trackball consistently for 15 years now. I don't think switching devices is what did it. I did lower my pointing device usage overall at the same time, so that has a confounding effect.
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by NateEag 4y ago
I had terrible RSI from mouse usage. Switching to a thumb trackball resolved those issues.
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by NateEag 4y ago
I think OP meant the philosophical standpoint of materialism: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materialism
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by NateEag 4y ago
Only with a perfect procedural algorithm. Which may not fit with any hypothetical Simulator's goals, anyway. Most games don't feature an absolutely perfect Newtonian physics engine. The physics is just a means to an end, not the f
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by NateEag 4y ago
Yep, this tracks. My wife and I have been playing co-op Stardew Valley lately, and while it's a "farming sim", most of the ugly parts of farming are conveniently left out: * cleaning up animal poop * spreading animal poop on
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by NateEag 4y ago
If you think the Simulation Hypothesis has any merit whatsoever, you should consider the possibility that the Simulation does not have a fully-consistent engine, just one that was "close enough". Note, of course, that the same cou
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by NateEag 4y ago
Looks interesting. Thanks for the recommendation!
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by NateEag 4y ago
You want this document,or perhaps the book it eventually spawned: https://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/prep/index-old.shtml
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by NateEag 4y ago
> Perhaps the Amish would do well. I live in central Pennsylvania, in Lancaster County - there's an Amish farm walking distance from where I sit. I think about societal collapse a lot, and was just recently ruminating on how the Ami
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by NateEag 4y ago
I dunno. I have basically this working with my todo.txt file between my laptop and phone, and it's incredibly low-maintenance. Most CMSes mean running a complex app, a full DB engine, and having to stay on top of security updates for a

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