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by dogprez 3y ago
Ignoring the AI question. I wish people could have put this much thought and energy in considering our doom before the AI question brought this all up. As it stands now, the future without AI seems pretty doomed too.
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by dogprez 5y ago
Wouldn't it just be better to make a new shell that has this syntax?
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by dogprez 5y ago
I think you are considering RT journalism, it's not. It is not free to report fact. If it were free to do so I'd agree with you that it is valuable for understanding and for having dialog with Russia. We know RT is not free bec
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by dogprez 5y ago
Yea, I read through this thread a bit. I think everyone is mixing up skills and "thinking and reasoning". A game that is exercising a skill will be transferable to other times you use that skill, like mental math from Monopoly.
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by dogprez 5y ago
I thought the idea that games can improve thinking and reasoning was debunked? Dedicating your life to chess doesn't mean they can put you in the general's chair and you'll be a military genius, just means you'll be goo
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by dogprez 5y ago
But emulating the CPU is probably the least interesting part about writing an emulator for a video game system. Writing the other hardware components and getting them to work together is the interesting part imo. I'd say skip writing
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by dogprez 6y ago
Right, your point was that legislation is superior to unions. My point is that unions can lead to legislation, as was the case of the 40hr workweek.
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by dogprez 6y ago
Right, it's my understanding that the situation described in the article can exist for SWEs as well. It matches what was described to me from a SWE at a subsidiary of Alphabet. In their words they were doing the same work at a fracti
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by dogprez 6y ago
Bay Area SWE from Flint, MI here. > on paper it seems like a good idea to fight the rich company to give employees a bigger share of the profit That is explicitly a non-goal of this union. > Just look at what unions did to the people
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by dogprez 6y ago
I can't speak the the intent of the union in the article but after all of those things you listed you might want to know that your colleagues are getting treated fairly as well. For example, how would you feel about all your benefits
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by dogprez 6y ago
> The other challenge with unions, is that while one can succeed it leaves everyone else that is outside of the union at other companies completely unprotected. The 5 day 40 hour workweek was championed by the trade unions but everyone g
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by dogprez 7y ago
Neat, I didn't know about seL4. Can you point me to how they define the proof for it?
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by dogprez 7y ago
This might be worth checking out: https://flutter.dev/showcase Also this if you want to dig deeper: https://flutter-dashboard.appspot.com/benchmarks.html
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by dogprez 7y ago
That's not a Google only problem. It's a cultural problem in Silicon Valley (ex drive to disrupt) and America (ex not respecting stay-at-home parents). See the artwork of Mierle Laderman Ukeles: https://en.wikipedia.or
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by dogprez 7y ago
You may find it interesting that in Finland academics doesn't start until age 7. They emphasize play / arts in preschool and by age 15 outperform most countries. What has this child lost by encouraging academic pursuits at such
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by dogprez 7y ago
My guess at a computer analogy: Start program -> Delete program -> Crash process -> Resurrection of process impossible. The program being the bootstrapping mechanism that is present in a baby's brain. The process being consc
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by dogprez 7y ago
Reminds me a bit of the story of Charles de Gaulle. A war hero, a powerful man of his time that overstayed his welcome when the world changed around him.
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by dogprez 7y ago
I was given advice in 2001 not to study CS because I was too much of a people person. Good thing I didn't take advice at that age.
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by dogprez 7y ago
I think the mismatch is that I never developed websites, think games, media tools, developer tools. Anytime there was a dependency on a web component I was using a cloud service, external or internal. Internal cloud services were operated
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by dogprez 7y ago
I've worked for a Fortune 500 company for the past 5 years, still nope.
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by dogprez 7y ago
The article is lost on me too. ~15 years professional experience as a software developer and I never had to deal with an "Operations" team. My understanding is that it's the people that would be doing Amazon's job if y
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by dogprez 8y ago
Same, my daughter was 1.5. The people there were really nice, playing with her while I was geeking out. Sometimes my daughter would come and sit on my lap to watch what I was doing. It's really a special place and a very fond memory
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by dogprez 8y ago
Or they are true but we are the first to reach this technology level.
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by dogprez 8y ago
'Lingua franca' is a Latin borrow phrase that literally mean "Frankish Tongue". It has a specific meaning and nuance in English, it doesn't mean Italian: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingua_fr
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by dogprez 8y ago
Did you get a chance to read the Atlantic's "The Birth of a New American Aristocracy?" That's one of the paradoxes of inequality: as inequality increases, the value of your money decreases. It also increases the anxiet
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by dogprez 8y ago
It might be possible, but is it a future you want to live in? How do you want to spend your time, effort and money, fighting it or preparing for it?
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by dogprez 8y ago
I aspire to write a novel at some point despite the fact I haven't done much writing. When I did try to write prose I found it was much more different that writing emails for work. With email I obsess about being clear and concise, e
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by dogprez 8y ago
I think they are overselling Google's contributions a bit. It was more "Web 2.0" that shook Microsoft's dominance in tech. Google was a big curator and pushed state-of-the-art. Google was built on a large network of c
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by dogprez 8y ago
I played around with Forth last year and found it very fun. Similar to Lisp it has a simple ruleset with which you can build up abstractions that almost look like a DSL. I'd say it sits somewhere between Assembly and C. It's li
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by dogprez 9y ago
One way is if you have embedded agents and they are specifically getting instructions.

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