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by Verdex 3y ago
> Don't you think you're a little bit too emotional/biased just because title No, I don't.
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by Verdex 3y ago
> better way than "Crash" or worse - silent corruption My apologies, I could have sworn that your text was 'better way than "Crash" <end>'. And not in fact, 'better way than "Crash" or
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by Verdex 3y ago
> I think some folks are misreading the authors intentions(possibly due to aforementioned snark) Yes. It looks like the paper has some useful things to say. However, that abstract + intro is like walking into a wedding and splashing re
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by Verdex 3y ago
The problem with memory unsafe languages isn't that they can crash. It's that they won't crash. And instead allow an attacker to load up malicious code into the application.
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by Verdex 3y ago
Interesting, TIL. Follow up question then: Is it normal for pre-prints that go out for blind peer reviews to be publicly posted like this? Should I be interpreting this as a leak of some sort, someone trying to get their work public eyeba
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by Verdex 3y ago
Ah yes, the "* Considered Harmful" tradition in computer science. A tradition so widespread that it has even wrapped around upon itself and yielded the "'Considered harmful' considered harmful" paper. Not the
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by Verdex 3y ago
Yeah, this is sort of a case of tearing defeat out of the jaws of victory. Show up with some money, a bunch of magic swag + cards, and offer to create a card making them some sort of in game knight or king or something. Photograph everythi
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by Verdex 3y ago
> Any eye is terrifying to a criminal I find this to be an interesting comment because there is supposedly an effect where simply an image of an eye being present tends to cause people to behave better. https://en.wikipedia.or
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by Verdex 3y ago
> > [...] people will pick the right tool for the right job > No, they don't. I'm in strong agreement. People pick the option that has a good story associated with it. Having a good story protects you in the event of a
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by Verdex 3y ago
In my mind there are two major issues with java/c# style OO. 1) Subclass universality isn't great for cognitive comprehension 2) Subtyping component of subclassing has no compiler enforcement Okay, for the first point, consider th
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by Verdex 3y ago
I just checked it out on maps.google. Multiple camping grounds here means something like ~15-20 spread out in all directions in addition to some hiking trails. [I watched the video (iirc) about a week after all this originally went down.
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by Verdex 3y ago
I think it's the other way around. With certain thought techniques, you will find yourself writing. I'm sympathetic towards having a mode of thought that allows you to be a prolific writer and then bemoaning the lonely path you&
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by Verdex 3y ago
Reading this thread, I'm really not sure which side you're trying to take. > Crypto uses 1/4th the energy of the most powerful military ever. See, I read that and suddenly I feel like I need to sign some petitions and call
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by Verdex 3y ago
To be fair to AustinDev's comparison, I knew that crypto was massively wasteful. However, hearing that it's 1/100th of US manufacturing does put things into perspective. I once toured an automotive plant. The idea that cryp
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by Verdex 3y ago
> To put this into perspective US manufacturing used 4.69e12 Kwh where crypto mining used 0.05e12 Kwh. The perspective being that crypto is so small because it's 1/100th of manufacturing? Or the perspective being that crypto i
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by Verdex 3y ago
> You make decisions subconsciously before your conscious mind is aware of it. It's been experimentally demonstrated and at least calls into question the perception of free will. Eh, that's one possible interpretation of that e
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by Verdex 3y ago
On an individual level, I agree with this sentiment. However, as power and influence increases, I feel, so too does accountability to the community. For example, if an individual wants to have christmas lights on their house year round, I
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by Verdex 3y ago
Okay, so is this some grammatical style that I'm just unaware of: > where he has worked for more than decade I would have expected an "a" or something before decade. Meanwhile, over at theverge they have: > employed by
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by Verdex 3y ago
I agree, but the languages that actually do this are in a hyper-minority, I feel. Nearly every language allows you to do the wrong thing and then only lets you discover this at runtime via exception OR sometimes even just by careful examin
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by Verdex 3y ago
To be fair, ocaml doesn't have something exactly like c#/java interfaces. Given some problem that you might want to solve with a c#/java interface, you can also solve it with ocaml modules by flipping the coding structure
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by Verdex 3y ago
Yeah, I'm not sure I understand the author's complaint. OCaml has modules, associated types, anonymous modules, GADTs, polymorphic variants, and row polymorphism. All of which are kind of like interfaces. As far as I can tell, t
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by Verdex 4y ago
There is actually some case law about this. The car Elenore from gone in 60 seconds has its rights held by some organization that was going around suing people. Some US district court ruled that cars could not be copyrighted (although this
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by Verdex 4y ago
> Language is only useful if we all agree on a common meaning for it. Is it possible to agree on a common meaning for language using the language for which we are attempting to agree on the common meaning? On a logical level, I think I
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by Verdex 4y ago
For example, Henry Kissinger (a man I was surprised to learn is still alive) invested ~$6million.
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by Verdex 4y ago
Yeah, iirc her official crime is fraud with respect to investors. There were a lot of people who got bad diagnosis and none of her charges had anything to do with that. Also that one time their lab got massively contaminated with ebola dna
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by Verdex 4y ago
I would not be surprised if their resolution to someone taking pictures in order to show them the error in their ways would be for them to call to police and have you arrested.
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by Verdex 4y ago
I've only ever read the wikipedia summary. And from that much I actually wonder if the professor having read Gravity's Rainbow was more likely to have given your paper an A- than another professor who hadn't. Like the book
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by Verdex 4y ago
Same. When I'm in the middle of a research topic I find that I have to periodically stop and sort everything out because it gets really hard to me to focus on more mundane work.
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by Verdex 4y ago
The most productive hours at work for me has either been things I'm doing for the third time OR 15 minutes after I've left for the day after 8 hours of going in circles.
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by Verdex 4y ago
With all the AI discussion of late I've been thinking more about the alignment problem. Like, let's say you have a true AGI that's completely superior to human intellect AND you've found a way to align this thing. Can t

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