hyperpallium2

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by hyperpallium2 6y ago
Are you actually trying to [hammer a nail]? If so, you shouldn’t use a [screwdriver], you should use a [hammer] instead. EDIT code formatting now wraps on mobile!
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by hyperpallium2 6y ago
The old saying is XML is a markup language, JSON is an object notation.
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by hyperpallium2 6y ago
Regarding the self-model, when we "identify" with a person, a fictional character, a group, an idea or an ideal, how literally true can it be?
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by hyperpallium2 6y ago
Where there's fight, there's food.
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by hyperpallium2 6y ago
user find bug, dev fix bug. happy path! other path: dragons be here The tree or tributary structure of software suggests that deeper, more fundamental, more general bugs will be revealed first and frequently. And logically will be fixed at
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by hyperpallium2 6y ago
transistors/mm^2 seems like a harder-to-game metric, and more in line with Moore's Law. Though it was "number of components per integrated circuit" https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore's_law So...
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by hyperpallium2 6y ago
Though China's trajectory is to not need the USA.
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by hyperpallium2 6y ago
edge-AI! They're also building an ARM supercomputer at Cambridge, but server-ARM doesn't sound like a focus. I'm just hoping for some updated mobile Nvidia GPUs... and maybe the rumoured 4K Nintendo Switch. They say they wo
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by hyperpallium2 6y ago
Interpreter bug report = litigation. Expensive, time consuming, personally draining and uncertain. Only the wealthy can even begin. Worse, e.g. insurance companies strategically litigate to establish a line of precedent favourable to their
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by hyperpallium2 6y ago
Open source interpreter, but only wealthy users can submit bug reports. "Bug or feature" is from their perspective.
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by hyperpallium2 6y ago
I think a common trigger may play a role, e.g. evocative weather/smells, a related news event, similar life changes. The key is a subtle trigger, so you don't consciously register the connection.
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by hyperpallium2 6y ago
There's the story of Jobs throwing a prototype iphone in an aquarium, for bubbles to reveal excess space. They'd be nervous wasting 0.2 cm^3.
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by hyperpallium2 6y ago
Probably similar story to them slowing down old iPhones: there's a legimate and an illegimate motivation. But honesty had to to be forced out of them.
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by hyperpallium2 6y ago
There's a related problem: for most phones with removable batteries, you can't buy replacements. And each model is carefully designed for a unique battery and terminal geometry. This doesn't prevent battery recycling, but i
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by hyperpallium2 6y ago
You didn't consider the actual argument: > we don't want to get used to treating beings who look, seem and feel human, as non-human. Doing so might enable you to counter it. Or at least, understand where others are coming from.
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by hyperpallium2 6y ago
No need for decephalization! Babies up to the age of one year have not yet formed minds. And, the leftovers after research and harvesting are a most delicious nourishing and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I m
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by hyperpallium2 6y ago
As public infrastructure, government funded? Lots of problems...
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by hyperpallium2 6y ago
> ... over $3,000 in my Patreon account. Funding was—and still currently is—a problem
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by hyperpallium2 6y ago
Is Bloom's "Two Sigma" phenomenon real? If so, what do we do about it? "the average tutored student was above 98% of the students in the control class"[1] As a tutor, my goal was to identify gaps and misunde
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by hyperpallium2 6y ago
The obvious issue is whether you can think openly when you can get in trouble for it. Einstein was not a conformist. Could he have survived such an environment? Or would they beat him down, or would he leave? Consider Li Wenliang, who first
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by hyperpallium2 6y ago
Clarify: actually within an afternoon, not looks-like an afternoon (include debugging, testing, docs, api design, etc see Brook's 3x). So, e.g. leftShark().
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by hyperpallium2 6y ago
(not OP) Another clarification: before you said "non-earth life". Panspermia[1] implies Ceres and Earth life are related, so that native Ceres life is hard to distinguish from Earth's (and arguably is the same as Earth life
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by hyperpallium2 6y ago
C-like http://james-iry.blogspot.com/2009/05/brief-incomplete-and-m...
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by hyperpallium2 6y ago
Yes. But will they then innovate at the same rate?
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by hyperpallium2 6y ago
> To the best of my knowledge, I have ever dreamed. This typo sounds profoundly, of a butterfly; vague and formless, overgeneralizing.