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by harpiaharpyja 3y ago
I'd be interested in seeing a wider range of answers to the original question as well.
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by harpiaharpyja 3y ago
With the resources available at that level the only limiting factors seem to be leadership and what's actually possible. So I think it's fair to hold them to a high standard.
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by harpiaharpyja 3y ago
> "That's not the (only) problem, it's that no one can describe what AGI will really look like outside of vague and circular definitions." Not so much unlike the time travel and rayguns, isn't it?
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by harpiaharpyja 3y ago
I'm pretty sure he came to that conclusion using context.
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by harpiaharpyja 3y ago
No, if you read the article the question is not "why you should use async in Rust" or anything like that. It's literally "why async Rust" as in "why async Rust is the thing that it is," why it is that way,
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by harpiaharpyja 3y ago
If dinosaurs (birds) can be warm-blooded, I guess mammals can be cold-blooded too.
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by harpiaharpyja 3y ago
This is a huge equivocation by TFA. When we think of banks failing we typically think of situations where banks can no longer honor deposits. What the article describes is nothing of the sort. It was a strike, which is a breakdown of operat
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by harpiaharpyja 3y ago
Exactly what I was looking for, thanks!
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by harpiaharpyja 3y ago
Is there a more technical explanation anywhere? I would like to know what they are not what they are used for and why they are so great.
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by harpiaharpyja 3y ago
Exactly. I think what we are seeing is the result of decision makers at these businesses now having to report to investors who are essentially outsiders to the community. Their only stake or interest in the operation comes from having dumpe
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by harpiaharpyja 3y ago
This "for profit" thing seems like the wrong framing. Customer goodwill and community are extremely valuable. It seems like what we are looking at is more about short-termism and the distortive effects of suddenly (post-IPO) havin
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by harpiaharpyja 3y ago
The world would be a pretty different place if the organizations that make up the government of countries always did what was in the best interest of their country...
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by harpiaharpyja 3y ago
Thanks. Another example, at first I thought barking 5 meant "less barking" because that's more desirable. But when I went to do further research on a breed I found it was the opposite!
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by harpiaharpyja 3y ago
I love the concept... but in that price range, I'm no longer comfortable just carrying it around with me, which partially negates the reason for getting it.
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by harpiaharpyja 3y ago
Is there a description of what the different attributes are and what the numbers mean? I'm having trouble understanding what "Mental Stimulation" is, and what a high or low score means. Or shedding. Does a high number mean mo
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by harpiaharpyja 3y ago
I'm still not sold on the idea that "personalization" improves the "user experience" of search. When I think about what I actually use search for... it's highly situational. It depends as much on day-to-day and
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by harpiaharpyja 3y ago
Exactly. Why can't it return a RaycastResult or whatever.
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by harpiaharpyja 3y ago
This really seems to give words to a feeling that I've had, which is that technology has been steadily getting worse - i.e. less useful and more user-hostile - over the past decade or so. It's too bad, because there was some amazi
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by harpiaharpyja 3y ago
The truth is that either one can be done wrong. Unfortunately organizing your code along the right lines of abstraction is something that just takes skill and can't easily be summarized in the form of "just always do this and your
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by harpiaharpyja 3y ago
I remember picking up this sort of advice from a professor way back in college. It's a godsend. Structure the problem as data flowing between tasks and connect them up with queues, avoid sharing state. It's just a better way to de
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by harpiaharpyja 3y ago
This seems like an important point. Either this element is being exaggerated, or some aspect of their society itself is enabling this at a fairly deep level.
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by harpiaharpyja 3y ago
I feel like the entire industry has adopted Python's approach here, so probably Python doesn't stand out on this point as much as it did in the early days. Compare Python to C/C++, where even just getting a working binary fro
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by harpiaharpyja 3y ago
I'm guessing this is sarcasm?
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by harpiaharpyja 3y ago
I personally don't understand guess culture. It seems really broken. It seems like it should be a communication nightmare. Humans are already predisposed to confuse reality with their own stories about reality, we shouldn't encour
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by harpiaharpyja 3y ago
So it's China then?
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by harpiaharpyja 3y ago
Software "maintenance" is kind of a self-fulfilling prophecy. It's not required to break the old in order to make something new, but unchecked scope creep results in what used to work not working anymore, and thus the artific
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by harpiaharpyja 3y ago
You can't use uBlock Origin on iOS?
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by harpiaharpyja 3y ago
Thank you, this is important information that anyone planning to fly an ultralight without a license (or with one, but presumably in that case you would know already) should know.
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by harpiaharpyja 3y ago
Utterly horrifying. God help any country that resembles the one described in this article.
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by harpiaharpyja 3y ago
Yes, this is not an uncommon usage of the word.

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