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by chongli 2y ago
The old internet seems to be doing much better. But it lost most of its users in the last 15 years.. What do you mean by this? How do you find the old internet?
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by chongli 2y ago
Fast forward 20 years and we have propaganda machines that have been optimized on a nearly individual level And now I have to ask: what are the beneficial applications of this research? My gut reaction is to unplug, to go offline, to seek
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by chongli 2y ago
Even wilder to me is that one day, anyone living in the Milky Way will look up at the sky and be unable to see any other galaxies. If it weren’t for archaeological evidence they would never have any way of knowing about the existence of tho
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by chongli 2y ago
You still use paper. Instead of writing the game in a general purpose programming language you write it using logic gates. You get abstraction and modularity by designing larger components (adders, flip-flops, timers, shift registers) on se
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by chongli 2y ago
I think in the past I would’ve readily accepted this explanation but now it seems to me like a just-so story. Bacteria can exhibit doubling times on the scale of tens of minutes. We know of trees that live for thousands of years. On the oth
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by chongli 2y ago
I did read the article and it is not making the same point I’m making. It takes the position that humans are extremely slow, relative to the speed of light. I’m taking a different position: that humans are extremely fast, relative to the do
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by chongli 2y ago
The speed of light is not fast. It's really, really slow! That is, slow relative to the size of the universe and the timespan of the universe, relative to human scales of size and timespan. Humans can travel around the world (our domai
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by chongli 2y ago
What do you mean by cultural infrastructure? I think I agree with the general thrust of the argument but I’m fuzzy on the particulars. For example, the video rental store has been replaced by a multitude of sources: Netflix et al, torrent s
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by chongli 2y ago
Thanks for this! I read that but I'm still not convinced. Quote: They lean far too heavily on sub processes to do basic things. I thought this was the whole point of a unix scripting language! Most of the scripts I'm writing are
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by chongli 2y ago
Interesting but not a great piece for anyone not into functional language design. A pretty deep dive into the "how" while completely ignoring the "why."
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by chongli 2y ago
The ideal solution is to make the work they do at school engaging, then they'll seek out enrichment at home themselves. One thing I haven’t seen brought up in this discussion yet: technology. Seriously, what hope does a teacher have
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by chongli 2y ago
Immigrants and children of immigrants are over-represented among the US team members. Still survivorship bias. Immigrants from China and India are not selected randomly from the population, they're selected by their means and determi
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by chongli 2y ago
It was not a substantive contribution. Hacker News guidelines [1] discourage sneers, shallow dismissals, and non-substantive snark, swipes, and cross examination. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by chongli 2y ago
They're enriching their bank accounts just as they're impoverishing their spirits. On their deathbeds, no one ever says "gee, I wish I'd spent more time at the office." The same could be said for any other wealth-mo
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by chongli 2y ago
Not just a male thing! [1] It might be the case that men are more likely to be collectors/hoarders in general but there definitely are women who partake. I will also say that the type of thing being collected matters. Go to an estate s
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by chongli 2y ago
Of course they do. Apple is constantly putting more guard rails around their devices. When uninformed users mess up their devices they make a public stink about it and damage Apple’s reputation. Apple does not want this. This is the entire
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by chongli 2y ago
That was in response to court cases and regulatory threats. It wasn’t some choice they made out of the blue.
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by chongli 2y ago
I am pretty confident that Apple chose special security screws specifically to prevent users from opening their phones at home for a lark. The last thing they want is a user bringing in a device that has been damaged due to a broken seal, c
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by chongli 2y ago
they could and should have totally focused on repairability above everything else. Why? They almost certainly would have spent extra money on R&D and seen lower sales (due to sacrificing performance, battery life, durability, water re
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by chongli 2y ago
I'm still unclear about what you mean by not allowing "branding." Consider the following two scenarios, the first one with branding and the second one without: 1. "Hey what do you think of the new Apple iPhone 16?"
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by chongli 2y ago
A valve is a one time only device to prevent an explosion in the event of thermal runaway. It’s not going to accommodate the slight expansion and contraction which are a normal part of the charge cycle for lithium batteries. If the battery
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by chongli 2y ago
I’m really curious to know how a world where branding was illegal could possibly work. Branding, when it comes down to it, is reputation management. If you don’t allow anyone to manage their own reputation then you don’t really have a free
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by chongli 2y ago
The rubber mat is only going to work if the battery is pressed against it with a lot of force. An adhesive will hold with no pressure at all.
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by chongli 2y ago
I really don't see why we should refrain from judging a corporation on its values We can judge them all we like for any reason we like. We just can’t expect a corporation to change its behaviour until it is incentivized to do so. Whe
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by chongli 2y ago
I think it's important to recognize that morality does not apply to any corporation. Corporations respond to incentives and disincentives, that's it. If we want to change the way a corporation behaves we need to arrange things so
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by chongli 2y ago
I fully agree with you, it is video junk food. People spend a lot of money on junk food as well. They value it. Whether this is good or bad for society is a different question. Markets have never been able to solve that problem.
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by chongli 2y ago
It's the diamonds vs water paradox of value. Diamonds are highly valued yet practically useless to most people. Water is extremely low-valued, yet essential to all life on earth. High-quality, investigative journalism is an essential i
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by chongli 2y ago
The ONLY reason I have any interest in someone's output is if it is something they themselves actually care about, what they actually think, etc. I want to know what they have to say. There is absolutely no value in them trying to say
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by chongli 2y ago
Lots of people won't pay for journalism anymore. You'd have a hard time convincing me (or most other people on here) that journalism is no longer important.
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by chongli 2y ago
A single target (a single node in the dependency graph) of Make does exactly one thing: it takes input files, some dependencies and generates _exactly_one_ output file. Yes, but this is not particularly relevant to the user. With pattern

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