dustbitying

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by dustbitying 4y ago
why speak about an integer number of humans in a percent? to soften the blow? because they're speaking to investors, often institutional for whom it's more useful to know the rates and who don't particularly care about the li
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by dustbitying 4y ago
what's the difference between a subroutine an a proper C function?? theyr'e so close to what they're in principle. IMO, C functions are the answer to the problem exposed in the famous quote "goto considered harmful"
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by dustbitying 4y ago
I've been waiting for civilization franchize to do this. by this point anything less than free form chat with the other 'leaders' won't cut it
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by dustbitying 4y ago
where the mods plug advanced (post-chatGPT) AIs into this. it happened already, but it's still "military grade and security cleared" away from plebs but I am a crazy person so feel free to disregard what I say if it makes you
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by dustbitying 4y ago
> There is absolutely no reason to impose such a limit. regardless, I'm pretty sure that somewhere within Apple, they think it makes them more money this way, for the immediate term at least.
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by dustbitying 4y ago
> Reduced need for education. Right now, about half of college graduates do jobs that don't require a college education. For many people, going to college is not cost-effective. That will increase. you seem to implicitly assume th
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by dustbitying 4y ago
given your argument, it seems your gripe is with object orientation rather than with turing-completeness.
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by dustbitying 4y ago
and the goal, the dream, of every human is to live off charging for rent
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by dustbitying 4y ago
I remember the thankfully now extinct, era of browser toolbar add-ons... yikes
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by dustbitying 4y ago
on the other hand, there's a strong incentive for group-organizations, specially profit-driven and "the show MUST go on" kinds of organizations to never depend on a single (or a small sub-group) of people to keep things going
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by dustbitying 4y ago
it's a disappointing choice of words to say the expertise is getting diluted. it's not diluting, it's spreading, getting disseminated. to say that it's diluting softly implies that it's getting lost, that we're
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by dustbitying 4y ago
humans are natural "copy-cats". this is how kids learn. so why are ideas imitated? it's human nature. and not only humans, other apes are known to do this "monkey see, monkey do" there was an interesting experiment