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languages have to come in curly brackets for adoption Python and Ruby are two very popular counterexamples.
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It’s a symptom of endless government regulation, bureaucratic overreach, and NIMBYism. One of the worst developments in the history of government is this incessant creep of regulations and codes that specify, in excruciating detail, how res
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by chongli 2y ago
As someone down below mentioned, programming is not as much editing text as it is massaging the underlying AST. Proper IDEs (not VSCode) in a hands of a power user who knows what his "hammer" can do (and how to invoke the necessa
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That may be true because 1980s UI scientists were most concerned with building efficient and intuitive UIs for the vast majority of people, not for 1%ers. I know that I, personally, would not have been able to take some of the notes I took
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For people who love vi/vim, it's not really about being "a significantly faster programmer." It's about reducing friction between the changes you want to happen and them happening on screen. Editors with a lot of fr
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Antitrust is a bandaid fix and a last resort. By far the majority of monopolies are created by government regulation in the first place.
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They do. US Congress has very low approval rating in general. However each member of congress (house or senate) has a high approval rating in their district / state.
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Private businesses are accountable to their customers, not only their shareholders. A business that loses all of its customers ceases to operate. A business that loses 10% of its customers will be held accountable by its shareholders. Gover
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No, a TVar is not a mutex guard. A TVar is a software transactional memory (STM) variable. STM works just like a database: you batch together a sequence of operations into a transaction and then execute them. During execution of a transacti
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I have occasionally used the construct “you owe it to yourself to X”. I think it works well at conveying the sentiment that the person in question may be missing out on something if they don’t do X. “You should” has a much more generic and
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This process began long before AI was a consumer thing. For example, I’ve long preferred text messages over phone or video calls. I think a lot of it has to do with the attention economy. Our attentions are so occupied by social media and w
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Well presumably the lookup table can have steps you go through (produce this symbol, then go to row 3568), with state as well, so it’s more like a Turing machine than a single-shot table lookup.
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The Chinese Room argument is silent on the question of the necessary and sufficient conditions for intelligence, thinking, and understanding. It’s an argument against philosophical functionalism in the theory of mind which states that it is
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There's nothing inherent to the Chinese Room thought experiment that prohibits the operator inside from using a random number source combined with an arbitrarily sophisticated sequence of lookup tables to produce "stochastic parro
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Apple's built their entire company on dropping backwards compatibility. It's how they've maintained their agility for so long, despite being one of the largest companies on the planet.
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This seems like it was inevitable. Most people do not understand the meaning of the word "stochastic" and so they're likely to simply ignore it in favour of reading the term as "_____ parrot." What you have describe
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No, I think the Chinese Room is widely misunderstood by non-philosophers. The goal of the argument is not to show that machines are incapable of intelligent behaviour. Even a thermostat can show intelligent behaviour. The issue for the ther
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What exactly is dubious about faking an AI with a giant lookup table and fooling would-be Turing Test judges with it? Or did you mean the Turing Test is dubious? Because that’s what the Chinese Room showed (back in 1980).
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No, the Chinese Room is essentially the death knell for the Turing Test as a practical tool for evaluating whether an AI is actually intelligent.
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The appeal can be seen with paredit -style [1] editor plugins. They give you the power of working on trees rather than text. When you master the paredit way of editing you’ll wish you could do that with every language. [1] https:/&#x
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The number of people who are capable of forming a healthy relationship is a subset of the single people out there. Being in a healthy relationship is a luxury available to the few, not a default lifestyle. Some people have decided that they
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I want fallout games to have a survival mode and I want rougelites to have a tourist mode It's funny that you mention that. NetHack, one of the longest-running traditional Roguelikes (in active development since 1987) actually has a
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Game reviewers don't spend as long with a game as regular players. They play enough hours until they feel like they have a good enough handle on the game to write the review. A game which maintains a high level of engagement during tha
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Wow, thank you for this! At some point I really want to get my own Mac SE/30. I have a Mac Classic (inherited from my uncle) I still need to work on. This video is really exciting for anyone who wants to fix one of these vintage machin
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Yes, that class / character unlock system is very common. Some purists will say that a traditional Roguelike cannot have these unlocks but I don't mind them. It definitely is a way of gating the game's complexity so that a ne
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I prefer that they be hobby projects or solo-developer crowdfunded efforts. Generally, I find that the traditional (waterfall) lifecycle of commercial games is not conducive to a good Roguelike. This is because the game is quickly shifted i
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Yes, because the goal of the game designer who adds meta progression is to increase the number of players who actually finish the game, at least when it comes to the "true progression" style meta progression. There is another appr
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Lego bricks is an apt analogy. I don't know how many people would actually care to manufacture their own Lego bricks but millions of people enjoy putting Lego together. Sam Zeloof [1] actually went through the exercise of making his ow
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You can order a whole batch of chips and wire them up on breadboards without sending away to have a PCB made. The PCB step is the last one when you want to finalize your computer and package it up. Ben Eater actually has a free course on Yo
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That’s a shame, because meta-progression ultimately undermines the spirit of these classic games. Roguelikes were designed to play like arcade games in that you’d always start over from scratch and try to get a high score. Most attempts end

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