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by feoren 3y ago
Yes, NYC looks and feels like an aging, antiquated city to me. I'd put D.C. above NYC -- it feels cleaner, newer, more efficient. Even London somehow feels less aged than NYC. Sydney, Helsinki, Copenhagen, and Amsterdam are a tier up a
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by feoren 3y ago
Look, it's fine if you want to be hobbyist making some personal website that doesn't store PII or take user submissions. But we're talking about career software developers here. If you want to make a career out of it, this at
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by feoren 3y ago
> Harping on binary We're "harping" on it because it's so basic . There are a hundred equally basic things you should also know. > Most of the problems software engineers are solving today are business problems de
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by feoren 3y ago
> So, should this new programmer start there, or start with binary? The new programmer should start with the life skills. As a toddler. They should also learn the alphabet and how to wipe their own ass. Why do you think this is a gotcha
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by feoren 3y ago
Do you realize that once you write code to solve a problem, that exact problem never needs to be solved again? Either you're solving new problems (and "new" can be slight -- new situation, new context, new hardware, new peopl
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by feoren 3y ago
> nonexistent "problem solving related to binary" Are you joking? Without understanding binary, you can't understand: - Numeric types, which numbers can be represented exactly, their failure modes, etc. - Bit-field flags,
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by feoren 3y ago
> Novel applications are patentable. If they're non-obvious. Remember, the challenge was: show me the strongest, most defensible examples of software patents you can. GP did a great job coming up with 3 very strong examples of paten
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by feoren 3y ago
-- Method for node ranking in a linked database (PageRank) An application of Bayes' Theorem (1763) and heavily related to Markov chains (1906). Build a Markov chain of simulated users clicking around the internet and build its weights
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by feoren 3y ago
I came here to say "can we worry about building programming languages in twenty-four years instead, please?". Someone who has gone through your list is exactly who I want actually building the next generation programming languag
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by feoren 3y ago
It's all bullshit. When my company switched to "flexible time off", they also instated an annual goal for number of hours billed, and surprise surprise: to hit the annual goal, you have to take basically ZERO time off. Previo
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by feoren 3y ago
Yes, the two problems really can solve each other. Or should I say: they could solve each other. But they won't, will they? Because the positives all happen to a small group of people (those who already own everything) and the negati
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by feoren 3y ago
> In compact mode, they (new/old) have a similar number of posts on the screen (old: 11, new: 9) Old reddit has 25 posts per page and my screen can fit 14 vertically at once.
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by feoren 3y ago
> it will preserve the value proposition of AI while avoiding a machine just being milked What's the point of a dairy cow that can't be milked? The whole point of AI is to milk it. > the user is doing more thinking and due
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by feoren 3y ago
> the actual reason (Black men tend to be larger and faster, which are useful) If that's the case, why aren't NHL players mostly Black? Being larger and faster helps there too. I actually agree that small differences in means o
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by feoren 3y ago
Emissions are something we have (relatively) direct control over. Realize that these models do take into account cascading effects like triggering ocean methane releases. They do take into account nonlinear effects of different GHGs. They
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by feoren 3y ago
HoMM 3 is on Gog and it works fine on Windows 10. Gog is great at retrofitting old games to work on modern machines. Quest for Glory IV is less buggy in its current form on Gog than it was on original CD!
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by feoren 3y ago
Yes. Google preventing page-clicks by showing their half-assed, confidently wrong summaries that they scraped directly from the top results? Yes, that's copyright infringement. Simply linking to the site with a short preview is not.
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by feoren 3y ago
I don't take it as a given that it's necessary to use copyrighted works without permission to get most of the benefit of LLMs and other AI. There are many options: 1. The benefactors of these models can offer to pay a small fee to
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by feoren 3y ago
Your suggestion to someone whose multi-decade career was ended by AI is to play career whack-a-mole, try to guess which careers won't be next to be killed off, go back to school for several years, and pray?
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by feoren 3y ago
> a lot of songs are incredibly similar to older songs (see ed sheeran v marvin gaye), and they're not infringing They're really not that similar. The Marvin Gaye family lawsuits are absolutely frivolous and a stain on his lega
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by feoren 3y ago
I strongly doubt anyone will care about how many years you've trained as an author if you blatantly rip off Harry Potter and sell it. Who cares? Why would that even come up at trial? That has nothing to do with anything. It's just
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by feoren 3y ago
> Keep in mind that success at this endeavor means that UBI becomes possible UBI is already technologically possible. Yes, as automation becomes even more powerful and abundant, the feasible payouts from UBI will increase. That's ne
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by feoren 3y ago
What if Greg is an online repository, crawling the web and storing and distributing copyrighted materials verbatim? Stripping out attribution? With ads and/or a paid subscription fee? > Should you have to pay royalties to everyone w
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by feoren 3y ago
If I listen to 1000 pop songs and then write my own that's different from all of them, that's not copyright infringement. If I listen to 1000 pop songs and then write one that's nearly exactly the same as one of them, that ab
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by feoren 3y ago
> With Supreme Court, I assume good faith. I haven't seen anything to the contrary Really? You haven't seen anything to the contrary? You haven't seen a supreme court justice being literally bribed for decades? You didn&
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by feoren 3y ago
> in a decade or two Argument: AI has a possibility of destroying everyone's jobs so they can no longer make a living and the world is extremely uncaring toward people with no income and so they will die penniless on the street and
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by feoren 3y ago
Yes, all this AI generated content is only more , and only adds to the total body of creative works that humans can enjoy (if you're rich). Humans are still free to pursue their own creative passions, and can get the same fulfillment
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by feoren 3y ago
I'd want to see a fine of 20% of revenue if around 5% to 10% of its revenues came from illegal activities. If that's the case, maybe the company should be killed. The fine must be a multiple of the gains or there's no benef
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by feoren 3y ago
Let's say a train ticket costs $10. If you board without a ticket, the probability of getting caught and having to pay a fine is, let's say, 10%. Do you see why the amount of the fine must be greater than $100? Otherwise the optim
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by feoren 3y ago
> While I always felt that I want to achieve more than these regular old CRUD apps, no “10xer” would implement them faster/better A "regular old CRUD app" doesn't exist. Poor development teams end up translating all r

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