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by cfiggers 4mo ago
I have a crystal clear memory of the day I stopped trying to make voice assistants work for me. I use a timer every day to brew my coffee. With a voice assistant I can set a timer, but with the lack of a screen I can't see how much tim
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by cfiggers 4mo ago
> How do you know that values and judgements have anything to do with being conscious? The terms "value" and "judgement" have a broad semantic range. I mean to use them here in a sense that presupposes an exercise of
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by cfiggers 4mo ago
I agree with you on that point. It seems to me that people who read Blindsight and get all existential are not thinking things through all the way. Blindsight poses the question, in essence, "What if consciousness is a competitive dis
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by cfiggers 4mo ago
Agreed on all points. I was presenting a deliberately bad argument in order to make the meta-point that arguments like it are unhelpful.
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by cfiggers 4mo ago
(Just for anyone who struggles with reading comprehension: I'm being incredibly sarcastic here. I think it sucks enormously that we broadly ignore the plight of the few just because most people skate by fine. My top level post is also
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by cfiggers 4mo ago
If we conceive of civilization as being like a biological system, then perhaps there are certain maladies that just are not worth dedicating resources to. Cells die all the time, of a trillion different causes. Few are worth rewriting an im
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by cfiggers 4mo ago
I see your reductio ad absurdum and counter you with its exact inverse: Because something bad has happened at some point to someone somewhere, you personally must take precautions against it happening to you? Do you intend to modify you
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by cfiggers 4mo ago
So at the risk of sounding incredibly apathetic toward something that I'm sure is probably a massive headache for some people somewhere... I'm a millennial and I've been told probably hundreds of times by this point in my lif
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by cfiggers 4mo ago
I think you're missing the feature of equal-weight index that your parent comment is attracted to—which is a sense that the market generally is out of balance toward AI investment at the moment and that there's a correction coming
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by cfiggers 4mo ago
There's a few that don't work, but one works phenomenally well— CosmicToast/jurl is incredible (unless you're on Windows—the library as a whole does work on Windows but the build script doesn't have Windows instruct
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by cfiggers 4mo ago
I use both. They're similar for simple use, but above a certain level of complexity Hy has a lot of Python-isms that bleed through. It really doesn't ever let you forget that underneath all the parentheses you're really writi
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by cfiggers 4mo ago
I didn't get the same impression. I'm curious to know what created that feeling for you. Perhaps I'm turning a blind eye to something or other?
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by cfiggers 4mo ago
This almost couldn't be less "Ferrari." Really baffling.
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by cfiggers 5mo ago
The mummy that is the subject of The Friendly Article (the post that we're all commenting under right now).
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by cfiggers 5mo ago
Wrong mindset—a seven-day, 10-minute per day course is the lower limit on what procurement officers will consider acceptable and grant a contract to, which hopeful contractors submit to RFPs as a way of out-competing their competition by su
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by cfiggers 5mo ago
Now that's funny. "They're too easy to get sentimentally attached to, and then it makes me sad if I blow them up!" Honestly this probably enhances the sandbox nature of the game by making the stakes more palpable.
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by cfiggers 5mo ago
> What people realy want: as little OS as possible I see what you're saying but that isn't how I think about it. I'm happy to have as "much" OS as is useful and adds value, convenience, or user experience for me
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by cfiggers 5mo ago
On Windows 11, when you reconnect to a monitor or set of monitors that you've connected to before, it will automatically return your open windows to the layout across those monitors that you had when you last disconnected (assuming tho
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by cfiggers 5mo ago
Without having run the whole company twice in parallel, once using Haskell and again in some other language, and without having measured both runs exactly the same way, I don't think metrics like you're interested in could pos
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by cfiggers 5mo ago
I wasn't aware of the Gloat project before this. It's a compiler that turns Clojure into native binaries by first transpiling to Glojure (which I'd also never heard of before this), which in turn targets Go. This is rather th
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by cfiggers 6mo ago
That's a very good point. I hadn't thought about that aspect before.
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by cfiggers 6mo ago
> It constrains what’s possible, not what’s reasonable. Why do you say "constrains what’s possible, not what’s reasonable", as though it's one and not the other? Does possibility conflict with reasonability? I would thi
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by cfiggers 6mo ago
> If you only care about the UX of TUIs, that I can stand behind This is a confusing concession. Of course we love TUIs because of the UX, what other reason is there? Constraint breeds consistency and consistency breeds coherence. Take
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by cfiggers 6mo ago
I only know what "sokoban" means because of the sokoban levels in NetHack.
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by cfiggers 6mo ago
The thing that happens to me is that I'll get something working in the REPL, then try to deploy it and it breaks—because unbeknownst to me, I had gotten my REPL into some state where everything was working, but a cold start doesn'
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by cfiggers 6mo ago
I have an AutoHotkey that just takes whatever is in my clipboard and sends it through as individual virtual keystrokes, specifically for defeating paste-disabled form fields. It gets way more use than I wish it did.
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by cfiggers 6mo ago
Yes—and the key is, you do not leave the category of "how to learn a thing" between steps 2 and 3.
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by cfiggers 6mo ago
> we do need ways to stay mentally sharp in the age of AI. Here's my advice: if there's someone around you who can teach you, learn from them. But if there isn't anyone around you who can teach you, find someone around you
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by cfiggers 7mo ago
Thanks for the pointer. That looks more to me like it's totally synthesizing the docs for me. I can see someone somewhere wanting that. I would want a UX more like a compiler warning. "Comment on line 447 may no longer be accurate
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by cfiggers 7mo ago
Interesting and semi-related idea: use LLMs to flag when comments/docs have come out of sync with the code. The big problem with documentation is that if it was accurate when it was written, it's just a matter of time before it

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