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by _greim_ 6y ago
Aging and death is an enormous drain on society, emotionally, financially and in myriad other ways. Years leading to death are often uncomfortable or miserable. Extended friends and families are affected in their freedoms, finances, and me
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by _greim_ 6y ago
So, if we're so close, why isn't immortality capturing public interest yet? Ideas: Religion - Among other things, religion's goal is to help people endure the inevitability of death. Thus, to many, this is a solved problem.
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by _greim_ 6y ago
Welcome to web development, where change has been the only constant since— checks notes —the early 90s! My way of coping with the appearance of yet another new-and-hyped thing, is to not complain and resist , nor to try to immediately lea
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by _greim_ 6y ago
I'm not an expert in the internals of these things, but presumably Prettier, Webpack, TypeScript, Babel, Istanbul, and ESLint each build their own separate, private ASTs from scratch. Maybe a project like this could pipeline a sequence
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by _greim_ 6y ago
Of the potential footguns with async/await, I'd rate this as low to non-existent. This falls into the category of straightforward code which gets a task done and which hasn't been optimized to within an inch of its life.
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by _greim_ 6y ago
Practically everyone in my online bubble feels similarly, it seems, though I do think steelmanning it is a great way to explore the topic. Same with the Mary's Room argument. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qual
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by _greim_ 6y ago
Recently finished my second read of Blindsight. Enjoyed it more the second time than the first.
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by _greim_ 6y ago
This strikes me as very similar to the debate around the Chinese Room. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/chinese-room/
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by _greim_ 6y ago
CSS is a lot like JavaScript: cobbled together in a hurry and designed to be excruciatingly easy to get started with, almost to the exclusion of all other concerns. It makes me wonder if it's even possible to design a language that&#x2
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by _greim_ 6y ago
Or put it in a meadow along some easy trail near Anchorage. Let people hike to it there.
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by _greim_ 6y ago
Thanks for this insightful post! In this sense conspiracy theories are like a pot boiling over. You ultimately have a mess on your hands to wipe up, but the first thing is to remove the source of heat.
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by _greim_ 6y ago
Agreed. Libraries and tools often don't work in a straightforward manner. Lots of tools reach below the surface and do their own tampering and monkey-patching of the runtime, module system or environment. Layer upon layer gets deposite
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by _greim_ 7y ago
The "ideology" video linked at the end of the article was also instructive for me, by framing the issue in other terms. Both tests and types are proof of correctness; tests are proof by example, types are proof by category. The ar
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by _greim_ 7y ago
I'll assume this is a joke but just for clarity, but that would be a total cash give-out by the government of this many dollars: 327,000,000,000,000 Notice all the zeroes in there. It's important that we as a species lear
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by _greim_ 7y ago
Ha, its properties as a solvent are the reason I keep it around. It works better than anything I've tried—isopropyl, acetone, mineral spirits—at dissolving residue left after peeling various stickers off new purchases.
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by _greim_ 7y ago
Yes but these things are already problems for human-operated cars. You just need to drive slow and be careful on some roads. You need training, instructions, markers, specialized vehicles, or prior experience on some patches of terrain. The
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by _greim_ 7y ago
> For a human its trivial... I anecdotally question this based on both personal experience and stories I've heard. It seems like it would be a hard problem for both humans and AIs, however AIs have the edge in the long run due to sh
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by _greim_ 7y ago
To put this in perspective, imagine this hypothetical conversation happening a century ago: "I have this new auto-mobile concept which doesn't require a horse and which can go fast; I envision up to fifty miles per hour. It will r
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by _greim_ 7y ago
As opposed to defining a hash code for everything, yes. Parent asserts that writing obviously-correct comparators is easier.
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by _greim_ 7y ago
I entered the industry in 2000, and it was "programming geeks"—people who dug computers and thought coding was fun—who survived the dot com bust mostly unscathed. Dabblers, fillers, talkers, people-managers, org-climbers, etc. had
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by _greim_ 7y ago
Elm could completely disappear from the face of the Earth next year, and I'd still be glad I learned it, and would still recommend it to others. The concepts have made me a better programmer in general, whether in Node, React or vanill
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by _greim_ 7y ago
From the POV of someone hiring, there's a sort of geek-magnet effect that kicks in if you start hiring for something like Elm. You get the kind of people who like learning new things, who would otherwise completely ignore yet another R
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by _greim_ 7y ago
> To test out the latter, in the summer of 2017 we tasked a team of summer interns with the renewal of our seat map application, a crucial component of the ticket booking process. They were to use Elm, a language they had no prior experi
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by _greim_ 7y ago
NPM's move to ban the practice is unsurprising. Consider however that NPM has no qualms about showing various nag screens of their own, such as "a new version of NPM is available," etc. Perhaps they should consider taking lea
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by _greim_ 7y ago
This made me laugh. To be fair, the article talks about restyling <table> and related elements using grid instead of table display, rather than building tables using a bunch of <div> elements, which was a real thing I saw people
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by _greim_ 8y ago
Incidentally, Amazon does this. Particularly, they've adopted into the culture the concept of "good intentions don't work, mechanisms do." A decent summary can be found at this link: http://nickfoy.com/bl
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by _greim_ 8y ago
I read the first book and I liked it conceptually. Sometimes I feel like sci-fi authors try too hard to follow "show don't tell" [1] when it comes to characters' emotional state, but this author tells us at every point e
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by _greim_ 8y ago
Yes. If you're a musician or attend lots of live shows, consider visiting an audiologist and investing in some custom-formed earplugs. You'll be able to hear clearly and comfortably without destroying your hearing over time.
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by _greim_ 8y ago
> [...] notions of etiquette, self determination and even hygiene [...] will find it kind of gross and embarrassing to be caught up in somebody's disinformation. This reminds me of the CGP Grey video: https://www.youtube.
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by _greim_ 8y ago
You can't stop learning frameworks in order to be successful in your job. However, not all frameworks are equally "frameworky". It's possible to prefer ones that organize themselves around concepts, over ones that are ba

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