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by fallous 9y ago
Indeed, but unless you're all operating from a common shared set of principles and a goal there is no argument about means and you're not actually debating but instead just having a pep rally reinforcing tastes. I believe green is
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by fallous 9y ago
Note that being comfortable with differing opinions and being comfortable with certain forms of creative debate are two different things. A debate should be a voluntary contest between parties and is only possible if they both share and ag
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by fallous 9y ago
I'm beginning to wonder if Facebook has begun to realize that being the source of ads while temporarily beneficial to their bottom line is actually destroying their long-time value to advertisers. Chasing eyeballs for ads necessarily
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by fallous 9y ago
I'd say that a bad marriage is a zero-sum game, but a good marriage results in both sides ending up better than they started. I don't know you or your wife and can't presume to tell you how or whether to fix the situation (as
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by fallous 9y ago
In my mind Meltdown is a failure of implementation due to the choice to violate the logical design. If the logic of your design says "do not access ringX memory if you are not executing in ringX" then don't do it. Intel ins
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by fallous 9y ago
Sun (something or other)... they were an Apple reseller that not only did the refurbs but also wrote the software that allowed the Lisa to run 128K ROM Mac stuff.
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by fallous 9y ago
Actually there was a patch for the Lisa that allowed it to run Mac OS and software (maybe called a Mac XL?). I believe it was a combination of ROMs and disks but it's been a day or two since I dealt with that so I may be mis-rememberi
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by fallous 9y ago
Depends how "old" the school of morality you're subscribing to is I guess and the strain of philosophy. Considering major Western Philosophies... New Testament circa 33AD not so much, pre-Enlightenment Catholic Church probab
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by fallous 9y ago
The New Yorker turned into Pat Robertson and the 700 Club so quickly I didn't even notice. Robertson divined the nefarious gay-agenda purpose of Teletubbies and now Ms. Tolentino discovers the totalitarianism that is Thomas & Frie
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by fallous 9y ago
The inverse of course is to remember that new technology is hot, cutting edge, and cool... thus good! Old technology is just tech that has managed to solve problems for years, survived many users, grown through numerous changes in applicat
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by fallous 9y ago
Odd that as a child growing up in the 80s every kid in my public school (in rural Kansas no less), as well as the surrounding schools I encountered, was taught programming in 6th-8th grades and also was required to take at least one high sc
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by fallous 9y ago
Two things jump out at me initially. First, the assertion that cargo-culting is bad is hardly revelatory, regardless of the paradigm. Secondly, the five point list at the end of the diatribe is exactly what any transition from legacy mono
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by fallous 10y ago
That was the key to things like Eliza... set the expectations and staging so that the user adopts a mental model that fits the constraints of the tool. Too many times we try to be too clever or throw technology at a problem that is more ea
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by fallous 10y ago
The absence of a clear product definition and strategy is hardly unique to large teams, and in fact will manifest itself more fatally in small teams in my experience. I may be suffering from a bout of biased sampling but it certainly seems
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by fallous 10y ago
There are really only two things an employee can provide that makes them worth hiring. First you have to produce more value than your expense, which is the baseline minimum and for some roles is usually sufficient to at least qualify as a
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by fallous 10y ago
I'm inclined, via intuition rather than data, to think that things like paranoia, conspiracy thinking, etc are akin to auto-immune responses like asthma where the absence of real threats causes the system to become hyper-sensitive and
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by fallous 10y ago
Yes, from a sheer mechanical perspective, but there's a reason the brain is predisposed to detect certain forms of signals within the noise of our sensory inputs. If you're wired to be more inclined to detect things like movement
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by fallous 10y ago
Yeah, this is the impetus for things like sympathetic magic and other misapplications of correlation (or causation).
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by fallous 10y ago
Actually it does in that it explains the brain is wired as well as trained to detect certain patterns, and even in the absence of a true signal it will try and detect the signals it expects and produce spurious results.
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by fallous 10y ago
Hard sciences also have to deal with naming conventions, but manage to do so without resorting to the recommendations provided by the parent. The periodic table for example manages to do quite well with one or two-letter variables, which th
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by fallous 10y ago
Because people who don't actually know how to build websites are fooled into thinking they have a tool that will fill that knowledge gap, despite the security implications that they are oblivious to.
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by fallous 10y ago
Know what you know, know what you don't know, and strive to move the latter into the former by asking questions. Someone unwilling to ask a question when they don't know something is a quick way to get me to fire you when that va
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by fallous 10y ago
To be clear, I understand the student in question cannot have access to an actual 6502-based machine but a simple 8-bit computer (without a lot of custom chips for graphics/sounds/etc) is easily understandable by a reasonably inte
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by fallous 10y ago
You're not limited to "a machine that executes code" (even as simple as a Turing machine) and "reading your program in your head." Most 8-bit processors were easily comprehensible by people, and could be represente
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by fallous 10y ago
Start with learning symbolic logic. I'd then suggest learning something like 6502 assembler on a simple machine that existed (in order to attain predictable results and in order to have reference materials based on the programming res
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by fallous 10y ago
This, I suspect but do not know, may be a failing of the current direction of NL AI solutions. Selecting and using datasets to train NLP systems is a hard thing, especially if you truly treat it as a pattern to be learned rather than an en
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by fallous 10y ago
Many people already treat other humans as an enabling "bot" of one kind or another, think of the job of an executive assistant or a performer who needs the feel of an audience but has no personal relationship with any members of t
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by fallous 10y ago
Your "friend" the Amway sales rep or annoying insurance salesman who always tries to bring conversations back to their bottom line. Same with "friends" that are obsessed with politics and all things devolve into their
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by fallous 10y ago
It's the jump from word-as-sound to word-as-symbol, which I think a lot of people never make, partially because it's not particularly useful in their lives. I suspect those involved in programming skew very much towards the word-a
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by fallous 10y ago
I think many people do have brains that operate this way, probably because their understanding of language is grounded in conversation as a first experience. I suspect this is the reason you see confusion with "your, you're"

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