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by feoren 2y ago
What percentage of these great works have been downed out by the noise, never given serious attention, and been lost to time? Because that percentage is about to go way up.
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by feoren 2y ago
You can represent any arbitrarily large number with a single symbol without positional notation, though. Let's use *. The number 3 is ***. The number 9 is *********. That interpretation of GP's comment (which, on re-read, is proba
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by feoren 2y ago
> What if there is a beaver that never halts or loops A Turing machine with finite states must eventually either halt or loop. Those are the only options, because there are only finitely many configurations it can be in, and each configu
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by feoren 2y ago
No, Log10(infinity) = infinity. It allows us to represent numbers using log symbols. Symbols required = O(log10(N)). Or put another way, the max number we can represent with S symbols is exponential in S. N = O(exp(S)).
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by feoren 2y ago
> Not because they're bad people or anything, just because it's too opposed to their incentives What a ridiculous turn of phrase. "I kill and eat other human beings, not because I'm a bad person or anything, just beca
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by feoren 2y ago
Genuinely great responses. I'm not sure "it can be generalized to an undecidable problem" really explains why it's hard though, as the 5n + 1 problem is very easy (to prove false) and generalizes just the same. And all
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by feoren 2y ago
Auto-dialers are just a tool too, and there's a reason they're largely illegal.
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by feoren 2y ago
I really hate that attitude. It's so self-defeating. The only way to ever advance your career is by becoming a worthless little middle-manager parasite? I'd rather quit. I know that's the common belief: just program long enou
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by feoren 2y ago
"Good educators" are not solving difficult problems, they're teaching about long-standing solutions to long-understood problems. Long-standing solutions to long-understood problems in software engineering are called "pac
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by feoren 2y ago
Nobody could easily explain why early (1950s - 1970s) fusion reactors were so difficult. It must have been that everyone was stupid and creating their own problems. No one can explain why the Collatz Conjecture is so hard to prove. It must
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by feoren 2y ago
I'm also very excited for Arcologies. Well, not the dark one with a Morlock-like race wandering its labyrinthine tunnels. The bright ones with lots of greenery. Or maybe I just want more Singapore.
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by feoren 2y ago
That shows such a poor understanding of exponential growth that it makes me think this person should not be teaching physics. First of all, exponential growth basically doesn't ever actually occur in nature: everything has a carrying c
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by feoren 2y ago
Loaning money at 8% interest to informed parties is OK. Loaning money at 200% interest to vulnerable people is usury and should be illegal. Where in the middle is the right line to draw, legally? Does the intent of the lender matter? Does i
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by feoren 2y ago
> If you think this, you need to severely re-examine your biases My biases are in favor of processes, systems, and laws that produce outcomes that are long-term beneficial to the country and its people, rather than short-term beneficial
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by feoren 2y ago
> can't reach any other country which might support you Isn't the obvious move here for Ukraine to airdrop pamphlets saying they'll warmly accept any defecting North Koreans?
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by feoren 2y ago
> If that is the case it isn’t the job of the Supreme Court to change them. The Supreme Court changes laws all the time. Where is the line between "interpreting what laws mean" and "deciding what laws mean", i.e. chan
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by feoren 2y ago
This is the problem I have with any study of "systems". It all just feels like overly ornate verbiage for "hey, this thing kinda looks like this other thing if you squint". It's very difficult to distinguish that im
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by feoren 2y ago
Terraforming (B) would require more resources, probably by several orders of magnitude. It would be badass, though.
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by feoren 2y ago
> A liberal secular state must respect the will of its citizenry, whatever it is No. A tolerant, secular, liberal state should not respect the will of its people if the will of (the majority of) its people is to become an intolerant, rel
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by feoren 2y ago
And the bedrock of religion is forcing your beliefs upon others. Hence the tension. It's like the paradox of tolerance.
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by feoren 2y ago
"Product designers" are also made fun of by the people doing the actual work. I agree that it can be difficult, but those difficult decisions are worked through by the people with their hands and eyes on the actual thing (or on
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by feoren 2y ago
All of the answers to these problems are trivially easy. I maintain my stance that "game designer" is not a real job and is just a fanciful cushy position for people who were already privileged in life to pretend like they're
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by feoren 2y ago
> It's not like anyone is confused about what "bear arms" means. Did you intentionally avoid the actual term whose meaning there is legitimate argument over? It's "well-regulated militia", and there absolu
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by feoren 2y ago
You're right that the original 4 corners are arbitrary. The hole isn't physically present in the actual space. In fact the word "hole" comes from visualizing the space embedded in a higher space, which we know is not nec
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by feoren 2y ago
No, that is a mistaken visualization that comes from embedding the donut in a higher space. No embedding is necessary, nor does anyone think the universe is embedded in anything larger. Think about PacMan, or the old Asteroids game, where g
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by feoren 2y ago
"Make frequent small queries and let a smart cache do the right thing every time" sounds like "make a perpetual motion machine". It just sounds like a fundamentally difficult problem with unavoidable tradeoffs. I admit I
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by feoren 2y ago
The people buying up their 5th investment property are taking up a lot more that 65 square meters. This feels like the usual "you should all just get used to living in poverty so that the few can exploit you more." If everyone got
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by feoren 2y ago
Hot take: already own a house and live somewhere with a livable minimum wage. You are the one who sounds like you are completely unaware of your own privilege. You just said that where you live, if you were on minimum wage, you could "
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by feoren 2y ago
You sound like you think you can tell the difference between human-written and LLM-written resumes. Spoiler: you can't. So you've put up yet another arbitrary hoop to hiring for no reason, just like everyone else. Getting hired at
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by feoren 2y ago
> Also, remember that games are not very long-lived pieces of software. You build it, release it, maybe patch it, and move on. This was true a couple decades ago. Nowadays many games are cash cows for decades. Path of Exile was released

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