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A Hellthread about Names(eldritch.cafe)
1 points by enkiv2 7y ago|0 comments
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by enkiv2 7y ago
Is this actually a common problem? Back when I started paying for a membership, I only really ran into 1 or 2 premium stories a month (out of the hundreds I read)...
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Asymmetric Weapons Gone Bad(slatestarcodex.com)
3 points by enkiv2 7y ago|0 comments
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by enkiv2 7y ago
Ads are costing you more money (in a less directly-obvious way) than a subscription would, while providing less value to everybody down the chain, because of the cycles & network traffic involved. Adtech is basically a form of gambling
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by enkiv2 7y ago
This is sort of a grey area. If your images are low-resolution & your book is educational, I don't think anyone will sue (although Oracle might if they don't like you for some other reason, & a couple other vendors have
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by enkiv2 7y ago
Also, note: One way to interpret Kay saying "I invented objects" is that he is claiming to have invented the first conception of objects that anybody gave a damn about (which is absolutely true). Even though C++ doesn't have
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by enkiv2 7y ago
The reason folks are concerned about the use of the term is that earlier systems that were described as OOP (like Smalltalk) are blamed for the sins of later systems that were also described as OOP and became more popular (like Java). This
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A libertarian case for social justice(medium.com)
2 points by enkiv2 7y ago|0 comments
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Cheshire ReCAst(voynichportal.com)
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by enkiv2 7y ago
A proper takedown: https://voynichportal.com/2019/05/07/cheshire-recast/
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by enkiv2 7y ago
The best thing you can do for your career is learn things that don't apply to your career. After all, it's impossible to predict unknown unknowns, which makes accidentally having already learned something nobody else valued enough
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by enkiv2 7y ago
The thing about GPT-2 is that it's only a marginal improvement over a markov chain, and much worse than paying somebody on mechanical turk a quarter of a cent per hour to write lies. It doesn't actually hang together -- it only
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by enkiv2 7y ago
I recommend folks who read this also read Ted's responses to it. (He considers it a hatchet-job, & while I'm less convinced than he is about the intent of the author, it has drastically warped the public understanding of Xanad
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by enkiv2 7y ago
I second the recommendation of Intuition Pumps. To that, I would add Metamagical Themas by Douglas Hofstader & Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson. (Wilson gets a little hippieish, but he does a better job of knocking down unjustif
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by enkiv2 7y ago
I highly recommend learning PROLOG & understanding how to write your own simple planner system. The hairiest real problems are hairy because they're best suited to a declarative style (and programs written declaratively can be made
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by enkiv2 7y ago
I'm still working on developing my soft skills, after decades of focused attention on them. (I've gotten a lot out of transactional psychology in particular: I always used to turn people off by talking too much or too little, so t
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by enkiv2 7y ago
It's probably a mistake to call this a prediction. Aside from the stuff about the masks, this actually did happen when Bell introduced videophones (a few years after their demonstration at a world's fair, where the tech got a lo
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by enkiv2 7y ago
I'm a left-anarchist. I tend to find a lot of political & economic perspectives I see on here naive: folks have a faith in market solutions without a coherent understanding of how markets operate and under what circumstances the th
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Market Failures in the Attention Economy(kortina.nyc)
2 points by enkiv2 7y ago|0 comments
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In defense of a nuanced understanding of the enemy in a networked age(medium.com)
1 points by enkiv2 7y ago|0 comments
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Avoiding the gravity well of webbiness in gopher(medium.com)
2 points by enkiv2 7y ago|0 comments
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I Still Use Medium(medium.com)
1 points by enkiv2 8y ago|0 comments
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Inertia and Institutional Damage in Politics(extranewsfeed.com)
1 points by enkiv2 8y ago|0 comments
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by enkiv2 8y ago
Capitalism transforms functionality from a cardinal concern (how much of the thing works, & how useful is it) to an ordinal one (which implementation is least-bad). Ordinal concerns are easily gamed: no matter how easy it might be to do
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by enkiv2 8y ago
I usually put the process PID in the names of my temporary files, in order to avoid overwriting stuff. (If you're liable to do multiple runs with the same process, you can generate a random number at the beginning of the task -- or get
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I Still Use Medium(medium.com)
2 points by enkiv2 8y ago|0 comments
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On the User Agent(medium.com)
1 points by enkiv2 8y ago|0 comments
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Inertia and Institutional Damage in Politics(extranewsfeed.com)
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by enkiv2 8y ago
Maybe the software industry will discover constraint programming the way that it discovered functional programming over the past decade. If it did, that would almost immediately increase programmer productivity for non-performance-critical
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On the user agent(medium.com)
2 points by enkiv2 8y ago|0 comments

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