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by dvt 1y ago
> This is a ridiculous attitude, exactly equivalent to 'if you've nothing to fear you've nothing to hide'. Quite the contrary. My attitude encourages one to actually solve problems that we are encountering today , an
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by dvt 1y ago
Always a new account with some snarky neo-luddite reply, as if Google, or Facebook, or Microsoft, or Amazon, doesn't already know everything there is to know about you. I mean, come on. That ship has sailed at least two decades ago and
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by dvt 1y ago
> The book gives you the code, but I feel like there is very little in the way of building intuition. There isn't really much intuition to begin with, and I don't really think building intuition will be useful, anyway. Even whe
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by dvt 1y ago
> This simply makes no sense unless you believe that consciousness is a non-physical property It does make sense, and there's work being done on this front, (Penrose & Hameroff's Orch OR comes to mind). We obviously don&#x2
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by dvt 1y ago
> while he accuses others of supporting cartesian dualism when they think the brain and the mind can be separated, that you can "run" the mind on a different substrate His views are perfectly consistent with non-dualism and i
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by dvt 1y ago
As someone that studied philosophy, his work is cited often and is absolutely instrumental in modern theory of mind. His work has seen a resurgence recently due to the explosion of LLMs. I've read 2 or 3 of his books, and he was a bril
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by dvt 1y ago
> much better than the mess of Webpack/Rollup/Brunch/Grunt/Gulp/Bower/Browserify/Parcel/Snowpack/Turbopack/Babel/etc/etc. What? That mess is still ongoing. Next.js for example (
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by dvt 1y ago
> actual domain experts Calling a VC a "domain expert" is like calling an alcoholic a "libation engineer." VC blogs are, in the best case, mildly informative, and in the worst, borderline fraudulent (the Sequoia SBF p
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by dvt 1y ago
I read it and their methodology is embarassingly bad, especially for the kind of study that can be done en masse so easily (heck, a Twitter poll would be more useful). N=28, where all were undergraduates, and 24 were women. Could easily b
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by dvt 1y ago
> The axioms are not chosen just on pure consensus without their own epistemological standards and evaluations. I have a hard time seeing if this is true or not. The Axiom of Choice, for example, has reached consensus because of its usef
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by dvt 1y ago
> If we define truth as "Whatever a majority happens to agree with" and the marketplace of ideas as a contest to create truth by building a majority consensus, then you're correct. This is semantic posturing, as, at the en
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by dvt 1y ago
> Why did the author of this one choose this approach rather than some other approach? What issues did they see with others that they decided to write their own? What's unique here? I'm not sure what you mean here. A lot (most?
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by dvt 1y ago
> They earn legitimacy through evidence, peer review, and sustained engagement with reality. Someone is trying to talk about the marketplace of ideas without reasonably engaging with Mill[1]. The positing of an idea being viable if and o
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by dvt 1y ago
Working on something very similar in Rust. It's quite magical when it works (that's a big caveat, as I'm trying to make it work with local LLMs). Very cool implementation, and imo, this is the future of computing.
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by dvt 1y ago
> A diverse group of independent entities, including some of Tempo’s design partners, will run validator nodes initially before we transition to a permissionless model. So not decentralized at all. The only reason to not open source vali
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by dvt 1y ago
Feels a bit more like Snake than Tron, but a very cool concept. Also quite impressed by the very readable 1000 lines of code. I've been writing a lot of Rust (various toy projects) for the past few years, but would love to do it for wo
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by dvt 1y ago
> just sounds like you have an axe to grind An axe to grind? I'm just commenting on the article, my guy. It seemed a bit misanthropic and gave my reasoning. Literally all of those things are occasionally useful to people and are com
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by dvt 1y ago
It absolutely is about misanthropy. You can't convince me that these have anything to do with your attention, it's mostly just being a dick to people that work in the service industry: > Do you need help with self-checkout? No,
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by dvt 1y ago
This gives a little "old man yells at cloud" vibes. Like, I get that some people are more misanthropic than others, but I personally have forgotten about appointments so text reminders were nice, I'm in plenty of Discord serv
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by dvt 1y ago
The entire discussion is about “=“ doing weird stuff, which in 99.9% of cases it does not do. And my point was that no language, without doing weird stuff (like overloading), does not let “=“ do weird stuff (and thus is pure). The counterar
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by dvt 1y ago
> You started with "In no language has a variable assignment ever stopped execution", The irony is that I'm still technically correct, as literally every example (from C++, to C#, to Python, to JS) have been object propert
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by dvt 1y ago
You're also overriding a setter. Maybe I'm going against the grain here, but it's absolutely esoteric. The assignment operator is not supposed to have side-effects, and maybe this is the logician in me, but the implication
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by dvt 1y ago
You're overloading a setter here. It's cute, I did it in JS as well, but I don't really think it's a counterexample. It would be odd to consider this the norm (per the thought process of the original blog post).
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by dvt 1y ago
I was ignoring these kinds of fancy overload cases, but even in JS you can mess with setters to get some unexpected behavior (code below).
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by dvt 1y ago
Yeah, this is actually a good point, could have a custom setter theoretically that simply looks like assignment, but does some fancy logic. const location = { set current(where) { if (where == "boom") {
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by dvt 1y ago
The redirect is an assignment. In no language has a variable assignment ever stopped execution.
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by dvt 1y ago
Using sync locks in an async environment is a code smell, so the Rust code is bad right off the bat. Just stick with async locks and take the tiny performance hit unless you know exactly what you're doing.
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by dvt 1y ago
So awesome, I hope to have kids one day precisely for this reason! One of my fondest memories is my dad quenching my curiosity (with a drawing, to boot!) of how satellite dishes work when I was 6 or 7.
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by dvt 1y ago
> That is basically the textbook definition of unethical medical practice This is an extremely uncharitable interpretation of what was said. First of all, it's really hard to get malpractice here, as consent is implied (unless you&#
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by dvt 1y ago
Tesla has been over-bought for years and everyone knows it, but as Keynes once said: the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent. My strategy has just been to stay away. TSLA could blow up in the next 6 months, or it c

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