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by edanm 2y ago
What. The. Hell. Just to get this straight. If you are in the business of creating websites for clients, and most of them are hosted on Wordpress.com, but a few are hosted on WPEngine, you are now forced to no longer use Wordpress.org and c
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by edanm 2y ago
We have a "Data App" built for one of our clients, which does all sorts of fancy stuff for managing their metadata, quality checks, etc. But some of the pages have "documentation" which is basically a bunch of tables wit
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by edanm 2y ago
I'm reading The Goldfinch right now. Indeed, master storytelling, super readable. I'm enjoying it immensely.
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by edanm 2y ago
I can totally get that. I didn't think it was too slow, but Stormlight is definitely slower paced than Mistborn. That's why most people (including the author) recommend Mistborn over The Stormlight Archive as a first read.
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by edanm 2y ago
A great book. I personally prefer Permutation City - for similar reasons. I don't think a book has quite affected my thoughts on what consciousness means quite as much as that book, and it's very interesting to boot.
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by edanm 2y ago
A wonderful, wonderful book. Highly recommended. > Yes, it borrows a LOT from existing stories. Honestly, I don't connect to this - this book has such a unique voice, so unlike most fantasy. And the plot is so different from the typ
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by edanm 2y ago
Honestly, I've really disliked these kind of full cast recordings every time I've tried them. No idea why. I'm a fairly voracious audiobook consumer, though.
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by edanm 2y ago
I'm pretty much required by law to tell you that his other books are also fantastic, and that if you like Mistborn, you should (after completing the trilogy) try The Stormlight Archive. Kidding aside, Sanderson is by far my favorite
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by edanm 2y ago
Well that was an entertaining read. Needless to say I disagree with most of it (and think he's factually wrong on a number of things). But it's entertainment - totally fine to disagree! :)
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by edanm 2y ago
I don't think it's humans that are hopelessly pathetic, it's just species that are less advanced technologically, mostly because of developing later compared to another species.
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by edanm 2y ago
Same! The first books I really remember reading for myself.
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by edanm 2y ago
I've heard of it many times but never gotten around to reading it. Apparently an audiobook version exists, so I'll bump it up my list and read it soon. Thanks!
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by edanm 2y ago
Yes, a beautiful letter. I believe I've read it before but always good to revisit. Especially given the current times, unfortunately.
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by edanm 2y ago
Depends on the age, but for age 9-14ish, one series is hands down the most influential thing I've ever read: The Animorphs series. It's both incredibly good entertainment, but also really digs into morality in a way that has shape
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by edanm 2y ago
Impossible to pick just one. I'll give a few that haven't appeared yet: Fiction: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (Eliezer Yudkowsky) Non-fiction: Rationality - from AI to Zombies (Eliezer Yudkowsky) Probably no books h
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by edanm 2y ago
Totally justified, I hadn't thought about that framing of it myself. I think it's just that the first time you use underrated, it seems to be referring to the problem itself, not to your specific take. With the video as context, o
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by edanm 2y ago
It seems to me that both groups are arguing for what is better for them, i.e. in a partisan way. Instead of any group trying to decide "what should actually be done" and trying to make that happen. Since the topic of discussion is
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by edanm 2y ago
Wonderful, wonderful book. One of my favorites. It's old, but the beginning especially is just a non-stop adventure. It always drags a bit for me after the first third, but picks up again and continues to be great throughout.
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by edanm 2y ago
Great choices! I've read Vonnegut sporadically and decided this year to read through all his books. Sirens of Titan is an old favorite I've read multiple times, but I reread it about two weeks ago, and Slaughterhouse Five a few mo
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by edanm 2y ago
HN discourages using +1 comments, you can upvote instead.
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by edanm 2y ago
I prefer his autobiography ( https://xkcd.com/917/ ). Seriously though, this question is unanswerable, but your answer is probably one of the few books I'd get behind as an answer to this.
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by edanm 2y ago
I'm pretty sure the author is specifically referring to the framing of P vs NP used in the video, not to the problem itself, since a bit into the article they write this: "I think that the framing with inverting a function f is qu
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by edanm 2y ago
Yeah. That's why a technical solution makes sense - like a ten year plan to get everyone a valid id that they will be able to use in the future, or something like that.
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by edanm 2y ago
This is one of those things that just seems super-weird from an "outsider-to-the-US" point of view. I understand why this has become a partisan issue, and I understand that by now, any move anyone makes on this point has actual po
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by edanm 2y ago
> But if someone is motivated enough by the scant risk-reward balance of fraudulently voting, they’re not going to be deterred by having to buy a fake ID. Buying a fake ID is orders of magnitude more difficult than looking up a name and
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by edanm 2y ago
I think ~0% of people will be coding without LLMs in some form in a few years. How many people are still coding in assembler?
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by edanm 2y ago
> That is not true. We can hear them out and then apply our logic, look at the things presented and can absolutely evaluate them. We don’t have as strong tools as people in a court case do. For example we can’t subpoena them, nor can we
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by edanm 2y ago
> As the audience, with no horse in this race, I’m glad he keeps talking. You really shouldn't, IMO. For one thing, what parent poster is saying is that he might be violating someone's privacy. I get that that's fun from t
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by edanm 2y ago
Why?
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by edanm 2y ago
So now every company does a technical screen that weeds out a large percentage of people, then randomly chooses to waste some more people's time by dragging them through an interview. Everyone wastes more time but they can say they int

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