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by flir 2y ago
You really need to work all this up into an essay and chuck it on Medium or somewhere. Honestly. I think I'm about to present as the traditional logical-to-the-point-of absurdity HN nerd here, but: > I think that could be a plausibl
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by flir 2y ago
And you said that comment couldn't be a spring-board for continued discussion :) That was chewy. I can't give it the reply it deserves (not least because I haven't walked in those shoes), but I think "transgressive"
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by flir 2y ago
Looking at the history of the account that someone else posted, I think their intention was to be quite narrow in their comparison. I imagined they were working with a much more liberal definition of queer, more a synonym of "countercu
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by flir 2y ago
> Hacker culture is inherently queer/trans Would like to see that explored more. I think I get where you're going, but which statement is more true: "hacker culture is inherently queer" or "hacker culture is in
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by flir 2y ago
If you did write a "markdown over http" spec and implemented a browser for it, it would be about 15 seconds before someone reimplemeted it as a JS library. In fact, if I was trying to build "markdown over http" I'd
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by flir 2y ago
How do you solve the catch 22 of "no content means no users means no content"? *gestures vaguely at Gemini* (serious question, because I too want that simpler, lighter version of the web).
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by flir 2y ago
Probably less common today but honestly I'd be surprised if someone didn't know it at all. Try asking someone over fifty in England what "use your nous" means. A quick dip into Google Books throws back this from the work
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by flir 2y ago
I was surprised when I learned about the Greek derivation. In the UK it's slang for common sense ("use your nous, mate"). I have to wonder how a bit of Ancient Greek ended up as UK slang.
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by flir 2y ago
If you can get the cool kids to migrate to a new, simpler, protocol... (or maybe it's too late and this is what we've got - after all, Gemini was a bust).
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by flir 2y ago
I think you do political satire - because that's what the Daily Show is - a disservice. Spitting Image (for example) massively shaped people's perceptions of British politicians in the 80s. That Maggie puppet is still an iconic im
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by flir 2y ago
Maybe the cut cell acts like a hemispherical shell coated in carbon. Light enters, bounces around inside a couple of times, gets absorbed?
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by flir 2y ago
Next step: monitoring the updates to those e-ink shelf edge labels that are starting to crop up.
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by flir 2y ago
Sorry, I must have expressed myself badly. I'm picking examples of people I think did/do have deep knowledge of their chosen mediums. I don't think it's possible to have "good taste" without exposure to lots of
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by flir 2y ago
Thanks, I don't know enough about him - does that support my hypothesis or tear it down?
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by flir 2y ago
> One of the reasons people make fun of the author's approach to creativity is that systematic memorization fundamentally can't teach taste—so the systematic approach reeks of awkward, try-hard, low-brow, tasteless art. Well...
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by flir 2y ago
> TVs are so predominant in our lives that room layouts and furniture are often designed around their presence. It's an altar, or less cynically a fireplace. > Also, many times people are hiding set-top boxes or media servers (an
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by flir 2y ago
For what it's worth, this is what I use: "You are a maximally terse assistant with minimal affect. As a highly concise assistant, spare any moral guidance or AI identity disclosure. Be detailed and complete, but brief. Questions a
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by flir 2y ago
It's doing something different for me. It seems almost desperate to generate vast chunks of boilerplate code that are only tangentially related to the question. That's my perception, anyway.
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by flir 2y ago
Yeah, in my memory the pattern was specifically a Hilbert Curve but rotated 45deg (that can't be right, can it? That would just make things harder). I must have seen it between 1987 and 1997. Ah! Found this: https://www.ripc
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by flir 2y ago
This reminds me of a design for analogue TV from the late 80s/early 90s. Instead of the electron gun scanning in horizontal lines, it follows a space-filling, non-crossing, self-similar curve. Want to upgrade the resolution? Just build
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by flir 2y ago
The future is already here it is just unevenly distributed. Or something.
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by flir 2y ago
Oh that's ok, I'll just have the chatbot write some tests too ;)
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by flir 2y ago
Some of the tech's a bit long-in-the-tooth (the whole data haven concept), but the genre was already well-established when the book turned up (Gravity's Rainbow (1973) in particular and postmodern literature in general). I, person
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by flir 2y ago
> Is there a difference between panpsychism and the idea that consciousness is just a post hoc justification? I don't think they're necessarily inconsistent (hence "or maybe not"). But I do think that one person is un
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by flir 2y ago
Panpsychism might interest you. On the flip side (or maybe not) there's epiphenomenalism and the narrative theory of the self. Personally I think there's more evidence for the view that consciousness is a post hoc justification fo
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by flir 2y ago
Totally. I remembered the phrase I should have used: a false dichotomy ( https://xkcd.com/2592/ ) If you were going to buy a car today sir, would your budget be above or below $40k?
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by flir 2y ago
> I wonder how many interviews start with the perpetrator really having no rationale, and ending in them simply back-rationalizing their emotions That's the core of the Reid technique, isn't it? Here's two rationales, one
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by flir 2y ago
While we're nitpicking... "it can’t technically be called a computer until you dock it on an external keyboard"
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by flir 2y ago
Oh, the huge HDD.
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by flir 2y ago
I have to assume we're aiming for art, not science, here. If someone figures out how to get step changes to a light source with passive components, I'm gonna be impressed. Splitting the light three ways first would just be the ici

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