falcor84

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by falcor84 10mo ago
> Ubisoft claimed the decision to close Halifax was made “well before” this decision and said it “fully respects” employees’ right to unionize. Funny. It immediately made me think of the "Separate but Equal" doctrine - as if th
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by falcor84 10mo ago
Some interesting ideas there, but it would have been much better if he actually started by presenting and giving evidence for there being a problem other than "I want a space for my truth". In particular, he mentions "Allow
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by falcor84 10mo ago
Isn't just living in a society inherently being mind controlled? The whole idea of Socialization [0] is a form of mind control, and obviously schooling is a harsh implementation of it. Everything in our society controls how we see and
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NASA considers evacuating ailing crew member from International Space Station(arstechnica.com)
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by falcor84 10mo ago
I really like that one, but look at it in reverse - when faced with a task and wondering whether to do it now or postpone it to tomorrow, ask yourself "When faced with it tomorrow, am I as likely to postpone it again?" if so, I st
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by falcor84 10mo ago
But that seems to be measuring "superintelligence" rather than just AI, no?
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by falcor84 10mo ago
I'm not a fan of Microsoft, but I don't think that they, or anyone, should be disallowed to Embrace new technologies. There has to be a better approach to antitrust.
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by falcor84 10mo ago
Yes, I have no idea who's this magical "we" in your "We can simply". To me this seems like a textbook coordination problem leading to a tragedy of the commons- even if you got 99.9% of the world into your "we&q
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by falcor84 10mo ago
It's from Joel Spolsky in that post linked by the grandparent, from 2006. And that's exactly what I'm saying - it was one honking great idea. Microsoft saw how central the web is becoming, and integrated it into the OS As for
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by falcor84 10mo ago
> how many billions of dollars has Microsoft lost, in R&D, legal fees, and damage to reputation, because they decided that not only do they have to make a web browser, but they have to give it away free? Microsoft made many mistakes,
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by falcor84 10mo ago
Astrology is more than 4000 years old, what concrete results did it provide?
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by falcor84 10mo ago
What's the difference between tech bros and corporates? Isn't being a tech bro almost by definition about getting to the point where your can sell out your company and your principles?
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by falcor84 10mo ago
Well, here you said it; is it over now?
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by falcor84 10mo ago
It's not an entirely different problem because the main method through which moderators are mean is in closing new questions as dupes. A more positive q&a community might "steel-man" the question and try to find what&#x27
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by falcor84 10mo ago
I don't. What (and when) was it?
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by falcor84 10mo ago
I would assume that it's because in fintech it's more common than in other domains to want to revert a particular thread of transactions without touching others from the same time.
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by falcor84 10mo ago
I still put "Max" as the second worst (after "X").
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by falcor84 10mo ago
There's this giant gundam they retired last year, and I shudder to imagine what mecha they're building now - https://www.tokyoweekender.com/entertainment/tech-trends/yok...
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by falcor84 10mo ago
I wonder how hard it would be to have an IDE extension that would automatically show you a recursively inlined version of the function you're hovering over when feasible and e.g. shorter than 20 lines.
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by falcor84 10mo ago
I wonder how hard it would be to build an IDE "lens" extension that would automatically show you a recursively inlined version of the function you're hovering over when feasible and e.g. shorter than 20 lines.
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by falcor84 10mo ago
I strongly disagree. If you're using something like Claude Code to generate the code, it has significant context about the task, which from my experience provides very useful (albeit overly verbose) comments. I sometimes edit/rewr
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by falcor84 10mo ago
Yes. Obviously no one is claiming that Claude Code literally made a year pass in an hour as if it were Superman spinning the Earth faster. Can we just keep the goalpost put for a second? P.S. EDIT: The big question will soon become - how te
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by falcor84 10mo ago
Of course, the good old CLOACA protocol (CLacks Over Avian CArrier), with the HTTP and DNS tunneling being OPTIONAL.
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by falcor84 10mo ago
Why would it? Cargo Cutlting is when you believe that doing something symbolic will have a tangible effect on the world (e.g. bring you cargo from the sky), but this is just intended to be symbolic.
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by falcor84 10mo ago
I'm not familiar with any place where civilians vote whether their country will go to war. Who here on this thread voted for the US to go to war against Venezuela?
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by falcor84 10mo ago
I'll bite. Yes, I believe that even if you as a civilian personally voted for someone who ended up being a horrible genocidal dictator, that doesn't make it ethical for the other side to target bombs at you; warfare should be dire
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by falcor84 10mo ago
What kind of argument is that? All civilians should be protected.
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by falcor84 10mo ago
I just found this October 2011 post reporting about this change as it happened (4 months after G+'s launch in June 2011): https://waxy.org/2011/10/google_kills_its_other_plus/ According to Wikipedia, G+
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by falcor84 10mo ago
Oh, I wasn't arguing that it isn't "easy to spend $100s per dev per day". I was just asking what the use-case for that is.
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by falcor84 10mo ago
But history shows that it is inevitable. Can you give me an example of a single useful technology that humans ever stopped developing because of its negative externalities? > "We didn't have a choice! It was INEVITABLE!" T

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