fungiblecog

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by fungiblecog 6y ago
Because when your entire culture is based around the idea that making as much money as possible is a virtue greater than all others, there will be plenty of people breaking your systems in order to make as much money as possible.
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by fungiblecog 6y ago
Maybe in the Hacker News echo chamber this all sounds plausible. But where I live in the real world all I see is software getting worse and worse. It doesn't do ANYTHING automatically anymore and can't be scripted, every 'app
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by fungiblecog 6y ago
Just give us a ‘download all’ button with the ability to resume in the event of a failure. RSync has been around for a long time why reinvent the wheel for every different service. Welcome to Modern tech - constantly reinventing (square) wh
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by fungiblecog 6y ago
No. They are vibrations of the electron field. There are no point particles in the standard model.
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by fungiblecog 6y ago
Why so surprised? 80% of 'enterprise software' is similarly terrible. Nobody involved in the business of creating this crap gives two shits about users or quality except for a few developers that nobody listens to.
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by fungiblecog 6y ago
I think the "hoax" is conflating ML with a general artificial intelligence
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by fungiblecog 6y ago
I’m not sure why free will is considered such a mystery. In a completely deterministic universe my actions are determined unambiguously by a) the current state of my brain and b) the inputs I receive from my senses. Asking if I could do som
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by fungiblecog 6y ago
The problem is the insistence on the existence of particles at the quantum level. We know that quanta propagate like waves, but interact with classical level systems in discrete units. So we need to stop believing in discrete particles with
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by fungiblecog 6y ago
It would be funny if it wasn't so depressing the way that right-wing extreme selfishness is so often justified by trying to make a false equivalence with unselfish left-wing ideas. Wanting people to be less shit to each other - and to
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by fungiblecog 6y ago
This. When in Wales always make sure they know you're not English. You'll get a MUCH warmer reception
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by fungiblecog 6y ago
Good taste cannot be reduced to simple rules. Hence, some authors who make a virtue of avoiding adjectives produce great works. Others who make a virtue of using copious adjectives also produce great work. The point is that whatever their s
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by fungiblecog 6y ago
The problem is the insistence that there are two distinct particles that have an independent existence and properties. There isn't. There's just a quantum field which when it interacts with other fields in a measuring apparatus pr
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by fungiblecog 6y ago
Seriously, if you were going to fix it you'd pick a random looking sequence, not something that would draw attention...
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by fungiblecog 6y ago
Anybody who uses a "smart assistant" is either easily amused or likes to suffer... They are the embodiment of why the current AI fad will end up like the last one. No intelligence at all.
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by fungiblecog 6y ago
The way to improve writing is to learn to write, not to lean on the crutch of an 'app'. The 'app for everything' mentality is turning people braindead.
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by fungiblecog 6y ago
What you're describing is not a false positive as it is usually used. A false positive is a test that returns a positive result when the person does not actually have the virus. What you're describing is that most of the contacts
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by fungiblecog 6y ago
Managers are terrible everywhere
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by fungiblecog 6y ago
And you don't even have to be good with computers to read Hacker News...
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by fungiblecog 6y ago
The FSF is fine with charging for software. That's why they say "free as in freedom not free as in beer"
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by fungiblecog 6y ago
What makes it true is the enormous weight of evidence.
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by fungiblecog 7y ago
I doubt a valve is novel enough to be patented, and the 3D design was reverse engineered so it is not covered by Copyright. I doubt these guys have any kind of case that would stand up in court
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by fungiblecog 7y ago
The parentheses give you Macros, a completely uniform calling convention, and the "everything's an expression" programming style. These are arguably the things you cannot get from a non-lisp language. Almost everything else v
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by fungiblecog 7y ago
Contractors can set their own rates. These drivers are employees.
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by fungiblecog 7y ago
But they're not being asked to produce a justifiable answer. This is multiple choice with only 1 'correct' answer. The only way to really test comprehension is through essay questions but then the complaints on subjectivity a
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by fungiblecog 8y ago
At the scale of the brain we do.
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by fungiblecog 8y ago
I find this attitude really tiring. I'm a contractor and I work with people all the time who feel like they must avoid improving anything because if they do they'll be out of a job. It's nonsense. It's the same as the lu
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by fungiblecog 9y ago
So if you commit massive fraud you get a slap on the wrists. Meanwhile people committing minor crimes (in comparison) are incarcerated.
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by fungiblecog 9y ago
So gambling is your solution? It's easy to identify Amazon after the fact just like it's easy to identify the winner of a horse race. Go back to the dawn of Amazon and invest $100 in some of the other startups that look just as li
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by fungiblecog 10y ago
And you don't find that extremely funny? I think finding fault with this kind of opinion is a symptom of the modern concept of "taking offence". Ie nobody can express an opinion without also showing that they respect others&#