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by Verdex 4y ago
Perhaps later a more sophisticated study will come out that reveals that people who are not clever enough to hide their secret nose picking from researchers are at elevated risk.
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by Verdex 4y ago
> Programming languages aren't just for machines to execute. There are for humans to communicate and collaborate. "All it does is segfault!" I wake up in a cold sweat. It's still dark; a quick glance at the clock sh
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by Verdex 4y ago
"General, the Allies have dropped pamphlets containing what our top scientists are calling a memetic infohazard." "An infohazard? Have the eggheads come up with a new term for propaganda, we've got people to handle this
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by Verdex 4y ago
I'm mostly in agreement.[1] The thing that humans have an edge in that machines currently do not is story telling. Compelling stories presented with skill, beat even the most talented of people; let alone a machine. We want to know th
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by Verdex 4y ago
> It's impossible for me not to read this without imagining a sneering tone. Okay. Yeah, that doesn't seem great. > There are more important things in the world. Good to keep things in perspective: it's school... for g
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by Verdex 4y ago
> Have empathy for the people that need to see it in action. With the full context of my comment, I feel that I've given sufficient empathy for people who aren't me. > I mean, I sort of get it. Perhaps, deep down, everyone i
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by Verdex 4y ago
The existence of cloud->butt is kind of humorous. "Look, this thing is overhyped by people who don't understand it. What if we :s/cloud/butt/g, but like in an addon?" Yeah, I get it. Very clever. I don&#
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by Verdex 4y ago
I think I agree with your take on this. Our brains are already known to lie to themselves to make things appear synchronous that aren't actually synchronous. For example, syncing sound in a TV broadcast makes use of this. And I belie
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by Verdex 4y ago
The end there reminds me of the CS Lewis quote: “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.
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by Verdex 4y ago
Xenomorph cop. It's a Dirty Harry style movie except the lead is a xenomorph. The other characters are only vaguely aware that he's a xenomorph. Or how about the movie Clue with the three endings except an infinite sequence of &
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by Verdex 4y ago
I think this is an 'okayish' position to take. There are some people who absolutely can't handle being wrong, and I've personally seen them wreck havoc when they get out of their depth. However, there has to be a limit
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by Verdex 4y ago
If the job had been some sort of super low level position requiring a lot of hand written advanced data structures, then I might agree with you. Hashes, priority queues, skip lists, etc all rub up against more math heavy topics (number the
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by Verdex 4y ago
> There are objectively correct ways to search a graph Objectively false. Years ago I was talking to some sort of CS professor who had been specializing in networking. He mentioned that within an organization you typically see network&#
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by Verdex 4y ago
Interestingly enough, I've had hydraulic brakes fail on me for two different cars (thankfully it was 20 years apart, but still I would have preferred that the first time was the last time). iirc both times it was some sort of brake flu
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by Verdex 4y ago
I'm not sure determinism is where you want to draw the line. Just have the computer get a webcam pointed at a lava lamp. It's non-deterministic now. Or maybe you want to still argue that that's ultimately deterministic. Oka
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by Verdex 4y ago
"Oh, we call him the poacher punisher. Poachers killed his family, or at least that's the story. He's killed hundreds of poachers, maybe even thousands. In fact, he once killed an entire village of poachers. Men, women, c
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by Verdex 4y ago
"No, no, poaching elephants is actually really safe." "But, but the bounty? Poacher heads go for ten times what ivory goes for." "That, look, scary stories that the government has to tell to make the voters think t
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by Verdex 4y ago
Yeah, I think this is reasonable. I had a pre-technical interview "take home" coding challenge, which was just: Reverse a string in whatever programming language you like best. The technical interview itself drilled down more de
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by Verdex 4y ago
I agree with you, but at the same time. Like, you have to admit that Blindsight is not going to be a book for everyone. I think the book is fantastic. I've read it at least three times, and I expect that I'm going to read it at
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by Verdex 4y ago
The twist of Blindsight is that a fundamental assumption about the nature of intelligence is false. The book takes a very long time setting this up and then it hammers it into both the reader and the protagonist. It seems to be saying, &q
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by Verdex 4y ago
I enjoyed Blindsight, but I really did not enjoy Echopraxia. It feels like it sort of undoes some of the conclusions in Blindsight. While at the same time failing to do very much with its own conclusions and ideas. Watts' Freeze Fram
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by Verdex 4y ago
Verdex presents: A Plausible Future Driver: Okay Car are you ready to go? Car: Sure thing driver, let's just hook up to the T-Network. Okay, we're in! Where's our destination? D: Well, first thing is that I'm going
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by Verdex 4y ago
I would be interested in seeing of who would be willing to fight in a civil war how many of them are physically able to fight in a war. Also, how many are capable of organizing a civil war. How many are willing to take orders that would se
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by Verdex 4y ago
The brain chemistry altering controlled substances aren't necessarily the problem in my eyes. It's the lack of focus and individuality. School is a system that's supposed to help set people up for life as fellow citizens.
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by Verdex 4y ago
Or for that matter, how often in your career has the problem been an example problem that people use to showcase basic examples of their programming language. Prime sieve is almost definitely in the top 10 of most written and published prog
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It's not great, but I think the real question is twofold. Is the programmer far enough in their career to have been expected to already learn this lesson and did the programmer in fact learn the lesson. If they're young and they
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by Verdex 4y ago
I think the key is that if you have to pick up money it requires someone to be physically in some location. Where they can be arrested. The rest of the ransomware experience from the attacker side is hanging out in their living room in th
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by Verdex 4y ago
Sometimes I get the feeling that the interview questions are (consciously or unconsciously) optimized to find people who know when to lie (and lie convincingly) to inquisitor types. Surprise, your boss' boss just decided to drop in and
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by Verdex 4y ago
The appearance of bridges might change but I suspect that the underlying structural components are much better specified than what we have with software. While I don't know the specifics for bridges, I have seen the specifics for the j
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by Verdex 4y ago
Well... Blah1, blah2, "blah3, blah4", blah5 Maybe using a library is a better route.

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