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by caconym_ 5y ago
Until we have a government willing and able to rein in the excesses of corporations, realism is going to look a lot like cynicism. I'm not an anti-capitalist, and I don't expect such a government to just fall into my lap without a
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by caconym_ 5y ago
I wrote a toy text editor for fun a while back. I was aware of the 'rope' and 'gap buffer' data structures, but beyond that I had no knowledge of how "mainstream" text editors are put together. I still don&#x27
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by caconym_ 5y ago
I don't think Hubble or the JWST have much to do with the question of whether we should have built another LHC to collect data twice as fast, except as an imperfect analogy to help frame the question in casual consideration—i.e. the re
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by caconym_ 5y ago
It's not quite the same thing, but as an analogy: should we have built two CERNs (edit: LHCs, not CERNs) to "find" the Higgs boson faster? Or was it better just to build one, expecting that it had a good chance of finding the
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by caconym_ 5y ago
The Big Techs that run on ad revenue typically keep user data to themselves, and offer advertisers a platform for targeting ads without knowledge of individual users. There have been some scandals (CA is the one I always think of, and there
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by caconym_ 5y ago
The obsession with "big tech" as the biggest abuser of consumer privacy frustrates the hell out of me, and must be a real delight to credit bureaus, cell carriers, data brokers, fintech parasites, and all the rest of the slimy fuc
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by caconym_ 5y ago
Generally, it's not reasonable to have your first round of feedback on your first project at your first job straight out of college come from your skip-level manager. Frankly, that strikes me as fucking insane. This post isn't eno
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by caconym_ 5y ago
Heat seems just as big an issue as battery life, if not bigger. Can i9-12900HK-equipped laptops really exist in the same highly convenient size/weight bracket as the new MBPs and make use of all that power without extreme fan noise, ex
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by caconym_ 5y ago
I read (not extremely closely, but better than skimming) Aaronson's foreword, the guest post, and the article in question; and I still don't know what about Wilson's work was supposedly "problematic". It's appa
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by caconym_ 5y ago
The bay area seems to have combined the pernicious conservatism of aging "liberals", the worst of leftist politics, and the bizarre, culturally illiterate excesses of SV tech and grind culture into a noxious stew I'm surprise
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by caconym_ 5y ago
I'd be pretty surprised if uBlock Origin had been exfiltrating data since 2017 without being caught, and (as the sibling comment points out) I'd expect a lot more than LastPass to be compromised. I think it exists at an intersecti
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by caconym_ 5y ago
Blockchain isn't a good replacement for functional legislative and/or regulatory bodies that actually give a shit about the people they're supposed to be protecting. In this case, corporations unwilling to grant actual owners
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by caconym_ 5y ago
One of the things that hadn't occurred to me before watching this video is how much easier GI can make environment artists' jobs. Rather than "faking it" with a bunch of artificially placed light sources, they can just l
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by caconym_ 5y ago
Real-time ray traced reflections are an impressive trick, but real-time global illumination is where this tech shines IMO. This Digital Foundry video ( https://youtu.be/NbpZCSf4_Yk ) is a good overview of why this is such a h
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by caconym_ 5y ago
> network effects Unless you have a true captive market or some crazy sales-focused enterprise business, you can't get network effects without first achieving that critical mass of users more or less on your product's own merit
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by caconym_ 5y ago
Insults and snark don't change the essential uselessness of your previous comment, though I can see how they might be a welcome distraction from it.
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by caconym_ 5y ago
> already fairly trivial for a talented SWE This level of subjective qualification makes everything that comes after it essentially meaningless.
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by caconym_ 5y ago
Not sure I understand what point you're trying to make, but when I "go mobile" I am typically leaving behind my monitor, my wired keyboard and mouse/trackpad, my backup drive, and most of the other shit I might have dais
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by caconym_ 5y ago
In the frame of the article, I think the innovations of the last few decades need to be measured by the economic growth they've created, not their essential complexity. So how is our economy doing, then? Corporate profits and sharehold
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by caconym_ 5y ago
The suggestion that he'd mention it in the very first sentence of an account of how he arrived at the idea for the atomic bomb, when in fact it was totally irrelevant at the time, is absurd on its face; and your analogy is terrible.
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by caconym_ 5y ago
I literally posted a link to what appears to be a letter written by Szilard himself (please correct me if I'm wrong), directly citing Wells' story as inspiration in an account of his own relationship with the genesis of the atomic
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by caconym_ 5y ago
Regarding H.G. Wells, Leo Szilard, and the atomic bomb, is this letter something other than exactly what it looks like? https://library.ucsd.edu/dc/object/bb58377715/_1.pdf More broadly, I don't buy for
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by caconym_ 5y ago
I don't think videos on politicized topics getting "ratioed" is a very good signal of anything in today's political climate. Many, many users are willing to downvote content featuring people and/or organizations the
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by caconym_ 5y ago
I honestly couldn't tell whether that flat earth comment was being ironic or not, but I think it's an interesting case study either way. Is a visible YouTube downvote count really the only thing standing between a meaningful numbe
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by caconym_ 5y ago
This is all well and good, but—again—what you aren't addressing is the (claimed) negative effects of visible downvote counts, mainly (as I understand it) spurious downvote brigades against relatively small/vulnerable creators. The
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by caconym_ 5y ago
The problem with this discussion is that (presumably) neither of us will ever have the data to back up our position. We can only disagree based on how we ourselves use YouTube, and maybe how we've observed friends and family using it.
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by caconym_ 5y ago
The primary signals I use to judge the worth of a video are 1) its prominence in search results, and 2) the video itself. This is because dislike counts are in my experience extremely unreliable—they may be elevated for stupid and irrelevan
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by caconym_ 5y ago
> But if you're looking for a "how to" tutorial, dislikes and comments are the only way to quickly sort the good from the bad. This is the "edge case" (not the best term for it, but whatever) I'm talking abo
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by caconym_ 5y ago
I'm with you. It baffles me how much people claim to care about a metric that seems only to be legitimately useful in the edgiest of edge cases, and has literally never been of any use to me. And, maybe I'm being unfair, but many
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by caconym_ 5y ago
If you read the whole "Modern usage" section rather than just the first line, you will see that mathematics is listed prominently there (and also logic, CS, physics, etc...).

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