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by evdev 6y ago
I was going to rant, but this: > The energy-driven reduction of entropy is easy to demonstrate in simple laboratory experiments, but more to the point, stars, biological populations, organisms, and societies are all systems in which ener
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by evdev 6y ago
In my experience what we have in a lot of places are cultures of anti-competence. In a competence culture, you try to understand your sphere very, very well, including not only the current facts of the matter but how those facts might chang
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by evdev 6y ago
> But subscribers to a scientific worldview often make a more ambitious claim: that the best theories are isomorphic with the fundamental nature of the universe. This is not an "extra" claim on top of conservation laws/fun
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by evdev 6y ago
Rabbit MQ is a traditional message broker; you use it when you have lots of messages you don't particularly want/need to be stored persistently, and where you want/need to take advantage of the routing feature--that you put k
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by evdev 6y ago
It begs the question to just assume there is a "feudal society" that needs to be "run". For instance, why not have a "first citizen" who is selected to manage internal coordination and external strategy, but mu
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by evdev 6y ago
There is a sleight-of-hand in "meritocracy" evinced by the Scott Alexander quote--we ask "who should do surgery, the best surgeon or the worst?" and agree that surgeons should be chosen by "merit", or better ye
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by evdev 6y ago
Meta comment, but I would love for there to be more insight into the sociology of Hacker News. I feel like in the last couple of years we've seen a stark decrease in the frequency of "What to expect when you're expecting (t
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by evdev 6y ago
It seems like there's something deficient in the way we tell the story of the history of software architecture (to the extent we tell a story at all) in terms of the name-brand techniques and technologies involved, rather than in the a
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by evdev 6y ago
... "natural selection" IS the mechanics. The reason it's convincing is you can imagine what would arise, systematically, from imperfect reproduction under forces of selection, NOT because it's an attractive theory you s
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by evdev 6y ago
It's cargo-culting physics to assert that there are a set of "high level" laws in some area without having in hand the reductionist mechanics. This cart-before-the-horse is so pervasive in social sciences, and developing scie
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by evdev 6y ago
The problem with this way of thinking is, fundamentally, you don't determine what is self-contained . (What you can do is remove unnecessary coupling, but you're doing that anyway...)
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by evdev 6y ago
It's abstract, but I'll try to get something down. First, look at what happens to the system from the outside, say a web request that leads to a web response. In between, information is gathered from other areas (databases, progra
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by evdev 6y ago
I think to truly be an event-driven architecture you need to go a step or two further and be data-driven . In other words, the appropriate way to describe your system would not be (subscribable) relationships between a set of components th
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by evdev 7y ago
I think if your concept of nihilism holds that Socrates believing that justice is inherently good is nihilistic, it's not a very useful take on nihilism.
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by evdev 7y ago
I think what the tweet is saying is the engine is actually Cassandra but the node management is shared with DynamoDB?
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by evdev 7y ago
The content of this whole wing of thinking is "you have to have a brain-like system to have a brain-like thing". Which, fair. But what's crazy-making about it is that people have decided this sort of insight says something ab
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The Church-Turing Thesis and Physics – Scott Aaronson(video.ethz.ch)
2 points by evdev 7y ago|0 comments
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by evdev 7y ago
Added note: I shave peak load for a living. Yes, this article is pretty much misleading end to end, and not taking into account the cost of heating is the keystone. Everyone who thinks about this issue should stop cherry-picking some partic
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by evdev 7y ago
For a breakdown of the reasoning behind the project, if you haven't already seen it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0KuAx1COEk
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by evdev 7y ago
I got burned doing 80-90% of the four-person semester-long software engineering lab. I think it boils down very simply: the intra-group dynamics can't be opaque to whatever mechanism regulates the group. Hence making the group dynamics
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by evdev 7y ago
https://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&...
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by evdev 7y ago
Am I missing something, or hasn't energy per capita in the developed world already stopped growing? As well as population growth in rich societies?
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by evdev 8y ago
Demanding "plane-ness" is the mistake here: you're throwing in a kind of glib idealism. If instead you demand "the possibility of forming lots and lots of electron bonds in a shape capable of performing flight" then
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by evdev 8y ago
You could do the overlapping space part of this in the game Descent/Descent 2 since building the levels involved actually directly creating the space partition data structure. I always thought it was incredibly cool and underused.
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by evdev 8y ago
Yes, it's my favorite game of all time. No, I'm not sure you can really "get" the experience today. One thing older games were able to do was use time and boredom(!) for effect in a way that mostly doesn't exist now
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by evdev 8y ago
A run down of the various options, from a pro-tokamak perspective: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0KuAx1COEk
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by evdev 8y ago
Why would you require this? Concepts can either be a part meaningfully differentiated from the whole (neocortex, hypothalamus -> the whole brain) or an aggregate that while reducible to more basic parts is meaningfully differentiated fro
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by evdev 8y ago
I think it largely comes from uninterrogated/unrevised dualisms applied to the scientistic world. I think of Rosenberg's eliminativism as follows: a) Platonic realism is the only way our semantic categories/abstractions could
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by evdev 8y ago
Also my design as a kid, turns out I'm Russian??
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by evdev 8y ago
Thanks for your comment. I also am guessing that the wall between the worlds of "create table" and "insert" is pretty ingrained in the SQL developers, so solutions where inserts actually create database objects isn'

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