Phiwise_

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by Phiwise_ 3y ago
Allow me to suggest to you that this is the inverse of my actual opinion.
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by Phiwise_ 3y ago
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by Phiwise_ 3y ago
Yes, how dare I give my opinion about tech on a thread about that tech on a forum collecting opinions on tech while children in Africa are dying of unpotable water diseases etc. etc. In kind, imagine my reaction when I see you spending your
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by Phiwise_ 3y ago
The original Steam Deck came out Feburary 2022 and the OLED model came out November 2023, nearly two years later, and I got my original Steam Deck nearly one year after giving Valve my money.
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by Phiwise_ 3y ago
This is a mystifyingly bad comparison. Did Valve invent OLED? Did the Steam Deck release before that invention?
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by Phiwise_ 3y ago
Somewhat off-topic, but I've been feeling really burned by my steam deck purchase lately. When it came out, I gave Valve the benefit of the doubt there was some good reason why they weren't providing an OLED option, and bought the
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by Phiwise_ 3y ago
[Citation Needed]
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by Phiwise_ 3y ago
Giangreco's book explains why what you said isn't correct.
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by Phiwise_ 3y ago
I don't agree with this in the context of the full video. I'd encourage you to watch it; it's quite good. It's clear Armstrong and Kay have a great deal of respect for each other.
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by Phiwise_ 3y ago
The right way to build AI. You know, the topic of this thread. I've been wondering what you're talking about, though.
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by Phiwise_ 3y ago
Kay himself does regularly describe the Arpanet as one of the inspurations for OO, and the modern interbet browser as an incomplete implementation of the same ideas: https://youtu.be/1e8VZlPBx_0
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by Phiwise_ 3y ago
>and of course dropping two atom bombs and killing a couple hundred civilians in one of the worst atrocities of the worst war in history just to show who's boss. It'd be helpful if you read about historical events before adopti
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by Phiwise_ 3y ago
Call me crazy, but I don't think the goal of AI should be to give the rock with electricity in it "a valuable experience".
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by Phiwise_ 3y ago
If only. Unix would be dead and buried many years ago if it was just a fad. It's far more like the old repeating fertility rituals of many paganistic societies, where your neighbors burn your pagus down to cleanse the village of the sp
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by Phiwise_ 3y ago
Does a full free operating system, all the way down to the metal, and hypermedia publishing suite in 936kB count as "a system of any complexity" that "will do what it is supposed to do" to you? If not, what specifically
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by Phiwise_ 3y ago
A road trip by random walk is also a kind of empiricism that can be tested. This does not imply it is worth the energy to actually do.
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by Phiwise_ 3y ago
>But Alan Kay doesn’t say “use Erlang”, nor does he go into any depths about what the desirable feature set is and what would make it work or would fail to make it work. Oh yeah? Then how do you explain this lecture where he says explici
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by Phiwise_ 3y ago
Of course not. We have so many more regulations and social programs today than we did in 1890. The federal budget per person absolutely dwarfs it today!
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by Phiwise_ 3y ago
If you had read my graph before commenting, you would have noticed that the bottom 50% had 1.289 million millions in Q3 2022, and have 1.189 million millions in Q3 2023, which is indeed a smaller number. You should also be aware that consum
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by Phiwise_ 3y ago
If only: >Between 1870 and 1900 [1], America’s inflation-adjusted gross national product expanded by an unprecedented 233%. Though the population nearly doubled, real per capita GNP surged by 90%. Real wages of nonfarm employees grew by
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by Phiwise_ 3y ago
I don't know where you got this impression from, but that's not what the official data says. In relative terms, the bottom 50% hold a larger share of the total net worth than they have since 2003 (ignoring the obviously temporar
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by Phiwise_ 3y ago
HN has regularly featured startup news since the beginning, and Ycombinator is probably the most newsworthy player in the space on a significance-to-spammyness scale. I don't love this article but something about the news should be h
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by Phiwise_ 3y ago
Vouchers when?
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by Phiwise_ 3y ago
I've spent way too much time spoonfeeding accessible reality in this thread already. It's very tiring to fail to run into anyone with the intetest to learn things themselves. You have as much ability to read the public record as I
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by Phiwise_ 3y ago
My point is that what you wrote isn't true.
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by Phiwise_ 3y ago
Sorry, but I use a different criteria for judging the meat on the bones of an argument than if it offends your sensibilities or not.
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by Phiwise_ 3y ago
It doesn't? That's great! Why didn't you say so? And, of course, you have proof of that?
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by Phiwise_ 3y ago
https://www.wiltsglosstandard.co.uk/news/9669965.the-trouble...
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by Phiwise_ 3y ago
I assume that french word must translate to "federal government" in english, right? What you've written makes no sense otherwise.
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by Phiwise_ 3y ago
Your argument is all true, but still doesn't go far enough. Today, plentiful nuclear energy will almost certainly make it conceivable, and maybe even profitable, to extract that century of coal burning back out of the air! Litany is ex

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