Silamoth

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by Silamoth 5mo ago
1. At a certain point, the idea of growth must be criticized. Unless, of course, you think infinite growth is possible. 2. Claiming the modern capitalism’s “cult of line go up” has anything to do with humans leaving caves is a stretch at
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by Silamoth 5mo ago
Huh? You got any sources on that? I’ve never heard anyone say a non-Delaware LLC is a bad idea. And most sources seem to say incorporating in your home state is usually the right call.
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by Silamoth 5mo ago
It’s not “random”, it’s whatever you’ve configured it to on your machine. Your choice of (e.g.) 3 spaces per tab shouldn’t be forced onto me if I prefer (e.g.) 4 spaces per tab. As long as you’re on your machine, you’ll see exactly the amou
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by Silamoth 5mo ago
I don’t think it’s accurate to say Roblox replaced Gary’s Mod. They both released in 2006, and they’ve always targeted different audiences. Roblox has always targeted younger kids while Gary’s Mod has targeted older kids, teenagers, and adu
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by Silamoth 5mo ago
Basically anywhere you need to scan a QR code to get in, you can have a pass in Apple Wallet. I’ve never stored payment info in Apple Wallet. But every time I take a flight, I store my boarding pass in Apple Wallet. It’s than printing a phy
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by Silamoth 5mo ago
Ayn Rand was a pretty terrible person. But you’re right that there are some interesting ideas in her books. Howard Roark in The Fountainhead is exceedingly interesting as a person living genuinely without much regard for societal norms and
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by Silamoth 5mo ago
Very interesting article! We need more microforests in urban and suburban areas. Better for air quality, better for the climate, better for bugs, and, frankly, better and nicer for people. A nice wooded area with some biodiversity is much m
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by Silamoth 5mo ago
What does national ID have to do with government surveillance?
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by Silamoth 5mo ago
For what it’s worth, there are many areas of programming where dependency injection is almost never used. Game dev, data science, and embedded systems, for example, rarely use dependency injection. It’s definitely most common in enterprise
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by Silamoth 5mo ago
At least 80% of what you’re describing would be satisfied by trains and buses. It’s wild that Americans are so obsessed with self-driving cars while ignoring public transit that solves most of the problems. It’s reliable, more efficient, be
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by Silamoth 5mo ago
In a lot (most?) companies, management serves as the bosses over engineers. So good luck telling your boss they’re not allowed in your meeting.
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by Silamoth 6mo ago
I stopped wearing my Apple Watch because notifications were too distracting when trying to work (even with Work Focus, I want some notifications, but I don’t want my wrist buzzing and lighting up all the time). I don’t miss it. The only rea
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by Silamoth 6mo ago
There’s a similar situation in game dev. Players are very good at identifying problems - this isn’t fun, this feels too hard, etc. However, the solutions they suggest are often terrible, resulting in broken, unfun games. The same advice app
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by Silamoth 6mo ago
That’s such a good one! I wish more people understood this. It seems management and business types always want some upfront plan. And I get it, to an extent. But we’ve learned this isn’t a very effective way to build software. You can’t thi
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by Silamoth 6mo ago
Statistics is absolutely fundamental to data science. But I’m not sure this relates to the above idea of “laws” being internally contradictory?
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by Silamoth 6mo ago
That’s how I understand it as well. It’s not about an abstract ideal of duplication but about making your life easier and your software less buggy. If you have to manually change something in 5 different places, there’s a good chance you’ll
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by Silamoth 6mo ago
> Andrej Karpathy…is the most famous person on Git Hub Is he really? I’ve only heard of him because HN is obsessed with his “AI” takes. Is he really that popular outside of this bubble?
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by Silamoth 6mo ago
Genuine question: Who uses stars on GitHub? Even if I use a library or tool, it’s never once occurred to me to give it a star on GitHub. Is this a real thing people do? And if so, why?
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by Silamoth 6mo ago
Very interesting article! I love reading about hacking in the classical sense: Using a system in way it’s not intended to accomplish an unexpected/unintended outcome. It’s a shame the media has perverted the term to exclusively refer t
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by Silamoth 6mo ago
Care to share what those “other things” you’re concerned about are? If you mean what I suspect you do, then this is a complete false equivalence. But it’s hard to evaluate when you don’t actually state your claim or concerns.
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by Silamoth 6mo ago
Calling Richard Feynman a “professional bongo player” is hardly an honest description. He was a Nobel prize winning physics professor renowned for his problem-solving abilities. He was certainly qualified to analyze the Challenger explosion
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by Silamoth 6mo ago
That’s funny because I don’t see civil engineers being “glazed” much online. Usually they’re the butt of jokes and ridicule from other engineering majors who perceive civil engineering as less ‘rigorous’ than other disciplines. I’m curious
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by Silamoth 6mo ago
Ehh, that seems pretty reductive. I could just as easily claim women love games with character customization or games with deep stories. All of these things may have some truth to them. But (1) it’s unclear how universal this is and (2) it’
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by Silamoth 6mo ago
Great article! Needless gendering absolutely hinders innnovation, in game design and elsewhere. (Not to mention the unfairness, oppression, and general absurdity). Slightly unrelated, but the point about tutorials starting with the “basics”
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by Silamoth 7mo ago
Am I the only one disappointed this was about some LLM slop and not digital signal processing? DSP is a well-established technical acronym, so I expected to hear about a new Python DSP library. Oh well.
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by Silamoth 1y ago
It’s had an impact on software for sure. Now I have to fix my coworker’s AI slop code all the time. I guess it could be a positive for my job security. But acting like “AI” has had a wildly positive impact on software seems, at best, a simp
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by Silamoth 2y ago
I feel this article's argument is weak, largely for one key reason: They don't clearly define anything. Their references might clarify some things, but not all. They argue against "general problem-solving strategies" w
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by Silamoth 3y ago
Godot is easily my favorite game engine. The node system is simple yet powerful, truly a joy to use. For the most part, I feel like I have a good level of control over my projects without having to get too low-level. It doesn't feel
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by Silamoth 3y ago
I recently read "Enabling tabular deep learning when d ≫ n with an auxiliary knowledge graph" ( https://arxiv.org/pdf/2306.04766.pdf ) for one of my graduate classes. Essentially, when there are significantly
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by Silamoth 4y ago
My thoughts exactly. The author seems to think a proprietary period is the best option. But honestly, I'd rather have data be immediately openly available and ensure we credit those who played an important role in identifying what ob

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