NateEag

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by NateEag 6y ago
> Nobody is making a career out of being a warehouse associate. Um. I worked a warehouse one summer in college. A whole lot of my coworkers were, in fact, making a career out of it. It was a crappy career compared to the easy, high-incom
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by NateEag 6y ago
Yep, you can't know in advance what code will evolve. I see that as an argument for my position, though. It's faster to write less-readable code. Documenting all your abstractions takes time, as does making sure all your names are
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by NateEag 6y ago
I think it's a (confusing) two-layer pun. When read phonetically as letter names, the name "ic" sounds like "I see". "ic" also is an initialism for "ice cream". Everyone loves ice cream, and so a
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by NateEag 6y ago
As far as I can tell, most software is changed rarely enough that writing readable code is a net loss. At every job I've had, there were piles of code that went untouched the whole time I was there, and chunks that were undergoing cons
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by NateEag 6y ago
Once AGI is realized, no human developer will ever be paid again. I personally doubt AGI will ever come to exist, but if it does, that's an obvious result that will happen within a few years.
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by NateEag 6y ago
Do not forget the possibility that no-code systems will result in a worse outcome but still technically get the job done, with a lot less sum total thinking required. Most software is plumbing, not competitive advantage, so it doesn't
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by NateEag 6y ago
> However, one of her colleagues finds the Star Trek television series almost the only redeeming feature of Earth civilization and recommends that the whole planet be destroyed. According to the quote, Sma's _colleague_ recommends d
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by NateEag 6y ago
IIRC, RMS has repeatedly blocked attempts to make GCC a more modular tool out of fear it would then be put to use in proprietary systems.
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by NateEag 6y ago
That's a strong statement about a whole lot of people. Maybe you should limit that to "The 'woke' people I know."
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by NateEag 6y ago
Great information. Thank you!
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by NateEag 6y ago
Can anyone give a comparison of the two from experience? I'm painfully familiar with the problem they solve and am delighted to discover they exist. I'd love some input about how they differ.
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by NateEag 6y ago
Given that the ocean is saltwater and thus not potable, I'd expect the glass of water to have roughly the same value by the ocean and in the desert. What defines the glass of water's price is how easy it is to get potable water wh
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by NateEag 6y ago
Mars is a cabin with a hole in the wall straight to hard vacuum, in that analogy.
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by NateEag 6y ago
The first draft of any new product will be totally fine with just one Linux box. Why? Because the first draft has no users. Once you have some paying users, yes - figure out what service guarantees those users want or need and put some effo
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by NateEag 6y ago
I don't have much that's at all polished, but I've been recording things ~daily since early on in COVID and have been posting them at http://noise.nateeag.com .
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by NateEag 6y ago
Schlock Mercenary does a great job handling the nature of consciousness boundaries and death in a post-Singularity world (technologically speaking - digital minds retain their own personalities in this story), as well as some of the ethical
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by NateEag 6y ago
Linux programmers realize that's what they're doing. Outlook users probably didn't, most of the time.
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by NateEag 6y ago
I don't gamble, but I am tempted by the long bet suggestion. I have a hard time seeing how we'd define a shared criteria for what constitutes "skilled actor", as well as "good writing". I wouldn't be surpr
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by NateEag 6y ago
It takes a whole lot of time and effort to learn to write well enough to be at all worth listening to. I do see your point that the tech may eventually make writing skills the only crucial element in filmmaking, though. ... actually, I&#x27
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by NateEag 6y ago
Uhhhh... Disney owns some of the most successful producers of new content and franchises in recent years - Pixar and Marvel Studios. And, say what you will about the terrible Star Wars sequels they just cranked out, I've heard rave r
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by NateEag 6y ago
Just get yourself a case of Gellman Amnesia. Problem solved. :P
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by NateEag 6y ago
Speculation, but I'd not be at all surprised if the C&C servers are compromised boxes that have other uses.
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by NateEag 6y ago
I thought it was hilarious. Opinions will vary, I suppose.
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How to Destroy the Earth (2006)(qntm.org)
293 points by NateEag 6y ago|155 comments
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by NateEag 6y ago
I used to have nearly every strip memorized. I'm 90% confident that is not a Calvin & Hobbes strip. I have not read all the bonus strips from the large anthologies, nor have I read the strips in the teacher's book Watterson co
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by NateEag 6y ago
Coding is a good way to explore the solution space, but not the best or only way. My current guidelines for myself are 1. Take a few minutes (or hours, depending on problem size) to write a clear plan for a proof of concept. What's the
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by NateEag 6y ago
In some cases, storing times in UTC opens you up to possible errors: https://codeofmatt.com/on-the-timing-of-time-zone-changes/ I think the right thing is to store times with the timezone the user wanted when they crea
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by NateEag 6y ago
I think OP should not have used "immutable" if it isn't what he meant.
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by NateEag 6y ago
> I think the bigger problems is most programs are bad and alienated. Programming with everything nicely packaged and ready to be modified is like working with a clean workbench / shop. If you've never been in a clean one, cle
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by NateEag 6y ago
If I have to write the rules myself, I'll do it in a language and toolset that are widely-known and well-defined, not in incantations that will only work on a proprietary system.

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