NateEag

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by NateEag 3y ago
> There’s so much text emphasized in this post that it’s impossible to read. s/impossible/annoying/
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by NateEag 3y ago
Reaching basic literacy - sure. Reaching the kind of mastery where you see extremely subtle mistakes instantly - well, no, I think that really does take years to reach, even if you're an expert in a similar language. I've picked u
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by NateEag 3y ago
> Why such an emphasis on what language stuff is written in? Why does it even matter? polyglot programmers are the exception, not the rule, and even for people who have mastered >5 languages, there's still no one who's maste
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by NateEag 3y ago
South-central Pennsylvania, near Lancaster. Pros: excellent quality-of-life / cost-of-living trade-off. NYC, Philadelphia, Baltimore, DC, and Pittsburgh are all reachable in a few hours if you want to do something urban, while local fa
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by NateEag 3y ago
Scheme and Haskell could both be interesting.
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by NateEag 3y ago
Though regular use of the assistant will degrade your ability to program without it.
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by NateEag 3y ago
I don't expect to consume AI-generated media. I do worry that as generative AI becomes normalized, many people who could have brought a unique perspective to the world and expressed it in their own way will instead be lured down the pa
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by NateEag 3y ago
If the technology replaces humans finding their own values and expressing them with a regurgitation of whatever's the most likely to follow a given set of letters in human writing so far... well, I for one find that repulsive. I may b
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by NateEag 3y ago
> Then they aren't being utilitarian because they are not including the risk into their cost calculation. Sure they are. They just estimate the risk much lower than you do. You have no way to know who's right for sure. Maybe th
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by NateEag 3y ago
Being a researcher doesn't require a fully consistent set of beliefs. You do need to be willing to go where the evidence leads you, but that doesn't require or guarantee a fully-consistent belief system.
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by NateEag 3y ago
And any utilitarian thinker who wanted to do the op would tell you that they weren't going to get caught, so that outcome won't be relevant to their calculus. Is that good reasoning? No. Is it what some humans will do? Yes.
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by NateEag 3y ago
As XKCD memorably observed, putting toothpaste back in the tube is trivial. However, it may not yield a result anyone's actually happy with: https://xkcd.com/2521/
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by NateEag 3y ago
> Open the wrong door and you’ll be fighting for your life in a garbage compactor. Technically the heroes blast a hole in the wall to get into the compactor.
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by NateEag 3y ago
> One would think that he would be on Twitter this week. Or maybe _this_ week he would need to spend his time doing something productive.
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by NateEag 3y ago
For those suspicious but who do not have a diagnosis (or who have a diagnosis but who can't use the usual stimulants), I've found the following supplements helpful. I'm a 5' 11", 190 pound man (for reference in rega
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by NateEag 3y ago
Just like human-driven cars. I mean, it could happen. I don't know it can't, and I won't be totally shocked if it does. I'm not totally sold either, though.
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by NateEag 3y ago
I've never watched it, but I may well have been aware of its existence when I first thought of the idea. I think the concept works much better if it's wilderness, though. Even a ruined, abandoned city has an endless supply of the
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by NateEag 3y ago
Huh. The things I missed growing up in conservative homeschooling. It is a very Heinlein plot device, now that I think of it.
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by NateEag 3y ago
When I was younger I flirted with a banishment alternative to imprisonment for severe recidivist offenders. Fence in a few hundred thousand acres of wildlands. Send sentenced criminals in with a minimal backpack of survival gear, a waterpr
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by NateEag 3y ago
If a plane gets struck by lightning, the remote connection may cease functioning. So, too, might the onboard computer. Regardless of what naive optimization might suggest, I doubt the airlines are going to risk the headline "217 Dead I
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by NateEag 3y ago
agreed. Though with the important caveats that _forgiveness_ is not identical to _reconciliation_, and that extending mercy to the unrepentant is dangerous and borderline incoherent ("I assure you, he will by no means get out of there
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by NateEag 3y ago
> Many? I would say it was the central message of Christianity. I would agree, but I don't see it treated or discussed that way in practice by plenty of self-identified Christians.
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by NateEag 3y ago
In many stripes of Christianity, Divine forgiveness is given freely in response to repentance . Genuine repentance is marked by sorrow over the harms and wrongs you have done, and sincere efforts to make amends where you can. It's als
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by NateEag 3y ago
I don't see how. I think it's closer to an attempted refutation of a strawman. As one who leans towards belief in free will and also towards compatibilism, and more importantly originates from a culture with a shared belief in fr
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by NateEag 3y ago
Can confirm that an autistic person I know is the only person I've ever seen treat bathroom hand dryers as intrusively / unbearably loud devices.
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by NateEag 3y ago
For sure. Tech debt can be much worse than the average manager realizes. I thought it was worth pointing out that the described issue wasn't actually tech debt, though.
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Thanks for sharing this! It's a very insightful analysis and I think you're largely right.
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by NateEag 3y ago
> 2) How often does it break or otherwise make some kind of bad thing happen when I use it? > 3) How bad is my day going to be if it breaks or does a bad thing? Gosh - I've used FreeBSD's package manager, Gentoo, MacPorts, a
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by NateEag 3y ago
> Users don't care about technical debt. > > > Falsehoods Project Managers Believe About Technical Debt If users care about something, then it's either a missing feature or a bug (/ UX flaw), _by definition_. Sur
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> I honestly can’t tell if he had mental health problems or if this essay is supposed to be a sort of self-aware self-referential story about reality breaking down. Yes. Less ellipticaly, Dick abused drugs at various points in his life a

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