fatherzine

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by fatherzine 3y ago
"as long as people are just units inserted into well-defined slots, the machinery doesn't need to care who they are." -- nailed it
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by fatherzine 3y ago
Unlikely it will ever get better. First to market with a prototype tool, gains market share and momentum. Eventually the enthusiasm fades off and people start hating it, for good and sometimes bad reasons. Yet users are stuck because change
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by fatherzine 3y ago
children are taught to eat with a spoon. to tie their shoelaces. to read. to write. to play sports. to play an instrument. to dance. to perform a job. it takes effort, but the rewards are worth it, primarily for the children themselves. sam
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by fatherzine 3y ago
the ability to withstand temporary discomfort for a higher end is trainable. most people do not know any better, and telling them to not even try is rather not charitable.
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by fatherzine 3y ago
possible, but uncomfortable -- nailed it. life is not supposed to be 100% comfortable. traditional spiritual practices bake in periods of discomfort for a reason.
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by fatherzine 3y ago
1. sedentarism + unhealthy diet 2. magic pill 3. ??? 4. profit!
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by fatherzine 3y ago
"people had fewer than 3-4 hours per day to actually work" had the same experience. the unwritten expectation was to pull 8 hour coding days /plus/ all the Scrum overhead. if you don't like it, there's 1000 guy
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by fatherzine 3y ago
great look, decent code. examples at https://penrose.cs.cmu.edu/try/?examples each example has three tabs: .substance => data .style => low level 2d vector art .domain => data ranges heavy l
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by fatherzine 3y ago
on 4, the fun way of doing it is teaching / helping others doing it. coincidentally, that's the most common path to escape the toxic loop.
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by fatherzine 3y ago
populations are governed the S-curve, which approximates an exponential in boom times. for humans, the exponent is biologically limited by the speed of raising children into reproductive adults, which is ~20-25 years. financial and technolo
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by fatherzine 3y ago
i generally agree with the sentiment, yet sadly this topic has been politicized. we apply partisan blinders depending on which political faction is perceived to have promoted a concrete course of action. for one example, while i have been o
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by fatherzine 3y ago
our economic system is a scam to fleece populations by shifting value attribution from moving atoms to moving money. 'brightest' minds have a vested interest to keep the system going, after all it pays their bills.
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by fatherzine 3y ago
Measure time-to-results = compile-time + execution-time, for jit/O0/O2/O3. Fairly basic.
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by fatherzine 3y ago
there is more to life than economics
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by fatherzine 3y ago
great points. thanks for the link, too. the abstract reads great, sadly the rest is paywalled.
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by fatherzine 3y ago
That's a fun list. Random pet-peeve. "Human ancestors almost went extinct 900,000 years ago. “A new technique analysing modern genetic data suggests that pre-humans survived in a group of only 1,280 individuals.” Another interpret
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by fatherzine 3y ago
"14% faster than LLVM -O0" is fairly misleading too. How does the generated code compare with LLVM -O2/-O3? These are SQL queries, which are usually fairly short programs, where I would presume the cost of compiling is neglig
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by fatherzine 3y ago
the slogan is generic enough to cover anything from curl to jdbc. be more specific.
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by fatherzine 3y ago
mistral
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by fatherzine 3y ago
the system, as flawed as it is, is very effective for its purpose. see eg "success is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration". on a darker side, the purpose is not to be fair to any particular individual, or even to be conducive to
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by fatherzine 3y ago
spoiler alert: facebook was always about fakes
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by fatherzine 3y ago
"new technology is disseminated quicker" as in "microbial dissemination"
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by fatherzine 3y ago
build a paperclip optimizer
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by fatherzine 3y ago
after wwii, vietnam, desert storm and the ongoing ukraine war, i have a sense that people vastly underestimate how much personnel and ordnance is necessary to wipe out the military capacity of a country with 100m inhabitants. a realistic co
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by fatherzine 3y ago
Don't Look Up
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by fatherzine 3y ago
by users, worldwide JavaScript 17M Python 15M Java 14M PHP 8M Go 3M ===== Excel 750M
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by fatherzine 3y ago
i have no beef in this argument, except to note that if one wants to study hunter-gatherer societies, one does not dig three rotten sticks from the ground and wildly extrapolates some cockamamy just-so story about the lives of that society
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by fatherzine 3y ago
ChatGPT. Gemini. We just don't know it yet.
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by fatherzine 3y ago
100% Very hard to turn down the volume as an individual actor. It's a social dilemma (sic). I remember a recent poll indicating students would pay for /others/ to use their devices less. It is no random accident that the Chur
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by fatherzine 3y ago
Excellent idea. minimum / median / x% quartiles.

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