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by disqard 4y ago
You reminded me of an Alan Kay quote: "Then we had Dan Ingalls whose job was to be smarter than me and make it all really work, and his favorite line was you just do it and it's done... and that's what he did and and so we ha
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by disqard 4y ago
Since you have domain expertise, I'd love to know your opinion on searching through "personal libraries" like Zettelkasten (or similar repositories), and perhaps linking that with Internet-scale indexes. Are there tools that
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by disqard 4y ago
Concur! I bought this (Bill's version) a few months ago, and it's very well-executed.
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by disqard 4y ago
Thank you for making this tool! I'm interested in avoiding lock-in, and would love to be able to export every note as an individual markdown file ("export all your highlights to a single CSV file" is clunky, and unusable for
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by disqard 4y ago
You are correct, thank you! I probably could've been clearer about that :)
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by disqard 4y ago
Yes! This is the core problem due to the historical trajectory (browser invented for static documents, now being used to build applications) -- one that's no longer possible to sidestep at this point. I believe there is a phrase "
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by disqard 4y ago
Don't worry, a bunch of Microsoft VPs got promoted for showing that this would boost revenue (and, unless MS experiences a serious exodus due to this latest round of shenanigans, such increa$es will materialize). So, yes, there certa
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by disqard 4y ago
Thank you for adding this explanation! It helps catch the mistaken assumption one might make, that "adding X does not imply the compiler's source code also immediately starts using X".
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by disqard 4y ago
You might be interested in "Autoprogettazione" by Enzo Mari.
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by disqard 4y ago
Your point is valid. However, it was laziness due to typing on mobile rather than pretentiousness or attempting to show off. I find it interesting that you would impute "namedropping" as the explanation for what I did :)
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by disqard 4y ago
Your comment reminds me of something I read in Ouspensky's narrative of the teachings of Gurdjieff: (from memory) most people are automatons, so they don't actually operate at a very high level of intelligence to begin with. The a
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by disqard 4y ago
In Csikszentmihalyi's book "Creativity", pg 119, Barry Commoner is quoted: > I write with this pen [he removes a fountain pen from his breast pocket and holds it up]. And it’s very clear to me that my ability to think and
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by disqard 4y ago
I gave up, and came here, hoping for a summary. Thank you, fellow HN'er for doing that!
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by disqard 4y ago
Don't forget to append "visionary" to your profile! It's all the rage these days.
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by disqard 4y ago
This is an important point about GPT-based tools, and it was one of the key parts that Galactica got wrong: it was (over)sold as "an AI scientist", instead of "random crazy thought generator for inspiration/playful ideat
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by disqard 4y ago
...but it appears to be correct, as long as you glance at it (and don't have the time and/or expertise to actually read it). We're clearly in the phase of society where "Appearance of Having" is all that matters.
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by disqard 4y ago
I've felt this same way for a while now. What I find interesting (and hard to reconcile) is how society loves to reward the intangible, derivative, overcomplicated stuff, and ignores the foundational things. The overused (and valid)
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by disqard 4y ago
This is a fantastic inside look at this particular domain! Thank you for making time to write this up.
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by disqard 4y ago
That's a seminal paper, and when contrasted with the iPad of today, really drives home the point that most of this metamedium's potential is still not harnessed. The average tablet today (closest to the "dynabook" idea)
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by disqard 4y ago
Well put! Being efficient can be achieved in many ways. No matter how ruthless one chooses to be, there's no need to also be mean, unless one is sadistic and/or compensating for some major psychological problems.
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by disqard 4y ago
I spent one weekend going through the official Khronos tutorial for Vulcan, and wrote (understood, then typed -- as opposed to copy+pasted) the bare minimum necessary to get a triangle on the screen: it came to 900+ lines of code. Vulcan is
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by disqard 4y ago
This was posted on the official Twitter account of Elon Musk.
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by disqard 4y ago
> "I don’t want to see so many people getting hurt. My generation has been hit by the financial crisis, by Covid, we’re going to have the climate crisis. These people don’t need this extra suffering in their life." That's
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by disqard 4y ago
Jaron Lanier wrote about how this cancer exerted an eerily similar effect on the formerly-distinct personalities of Trump, Musk, and Kanye. https://web.archive.org/web/20221112000701/https://www.nytim...
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by disqard 4y ago
I imagine that the rare folks who actually do structure their life to keep doing such things, are: 1. low-key, and 2. try to stay out of the spotlight to the maximum extent possible.
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by disqard 4y ago
I experienced a similar data loss, which was very impactful: I was at the "fast-forward" session of SIGGRAPH, making notes on what I wanted to attend. Somewhere near the end of the session, EverNote crashed and took all of the dat
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by disqard 4y ago
Another HN commenter wrote that "EA is charity for sociopaths" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33578131
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by disqard 4y ago
Your explanation is the clearest one I've read thus far, of how these token scams work.
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You're almost certainly right!
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by disqard 4y ago
Any sufficiently large crypto scam is indistinguishable from an episode of "Silicon Valley" (Clark3's Law)

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