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by icambron 2y ago
An alternative possibility is that many other the signs around the camp were made by prisoners over the normal course of their labor and thus this one did not need to hide its authorship. The deception is in acting like it was always there
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by icambron 2y ago
It's pretty strong evidence! We understand the basics of how humans (or living things in general) are constructed, and in that framework, built out of physics and chemistry, there's no space for special magic stuff; anything biolo
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by icambron 2y ago
Even if we grant all of this -- that humans are good "axiom generators", that AIs are not, and that this is important -- it is totally unconvincing because it conflates current AI tech in practice with computers in principle .
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by icambron 2y ago
I took high school bio in the US, and mostly agree with both of these: > you are taught many of the concepts and underlying reasoning that the author bemoans not having learned > there is sometimes a bit too much of an emphasis on rot
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by icambron 2y ago
Not every criticism comes from a place of personal offense, and it's unreasonable to cast things you disagree with as its author having a case of the vapors. He's not insulting me and I'm not insulted; instead I think the art
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by icambron 2y ago
I've only had a chance to listen to the beginning of it, but I share their disgust with the NYT article [1]. In any other field, journalists feel responsible for simplifying and explaining. Professionals in science, law, or medicine ar
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by icambron 3y ago
That seems extreme. In both JS and Rust, it’s not unusual to not await the promise/future immediately and just deal with the returned promise directly. Presumably that’s why neither language awaits for you automatically. I would be pre
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by icambron 3y ago
IMO your prior on this should be that it's most likely just someone innocently updating a dependency.
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by icambron 3y ago
> No, that regex being used as a part of your build pipeline’s transitive dependencies’ codebase is not actually something which can be exploited for a DoS attack. Yeah, issues in dev dependencies are such a headache in the JS world. The
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by icambron 3y ago
For Andromeda, that gap is about 24. Despite the mind-bogglingly large distances involved, there's a funny sense in which inter-galactic space feels less empty than solar space or inter-stellar space.
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by icambron 3y ago
I think I followed the whole thing, and quite enjoyed it. But not very HN.
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by icambron 3y ago
The idea is that the cost of autonomous car use will be much lower than taxis, because there are no labor costs. If you have to get to work every day, taking a taxi (if you can even find one) is much more expensive than buying a car and amo
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by icambron 3y ago
Completely agree about the headline and lead, but if you slog through it, the article did an ok job explaining the concept: > The trick is to create a certain kind of reflection. First, imagine a regular spatial reflection, like one you
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by icambron 3y ago
I can't speak for the Prettier folks, but as an OSS maintainer, I'm more interested in the problem being solved than everyone using my particular solution . I actually don't benefit at all from you using my code; I did all
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by icambron 3y ago
This is what the SameSite setting on the cookie controls
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by icambron 3y ago
It's more that Ruby has a bunch of pre-existing quirks related to the various things you can pass to a function (positional, named, blocks) and even what functions are (methods, blocks, closures) and that quirkiness creates complexity
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by icambron 3y ago
I wish the article had spelled this out a little better, but the reason many businesses have open source licenses for their software is to assuage their customers’ concerns about lock in and permanence (will your startup be around later? Wi
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by icambron 3y ago
That is what’s rare, but you’re missing something important: the reason the repeated noun is there to begin with is to avoid ambiguity about what, exactly, is being granted, since there are multiple available antecedents. The errors? No, th
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by icambron 3y ago
The horrifying part of this is > Instead we would measure stories delivered, or it may have been story points (it turns out it doesn’t matter), because these represented business value. We were using something like Jira, and people would
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by icambron 3y ago
The comparison seems strained to me too, but I assume the article referred to Kinbote there, not Shade.
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by icambron 3y ago
It’s a radio telescope; they are detecting Voyager’s radio transmissions
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by icambron 3y ago
If you haven’t read Pale Fire, I really highly recommend it. It is really two stories in one: a wonderful epic poem about love and loss, and also a heartbreaking tale of about a sad, lonely guy who lives off his grandiose delusions. The two
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by icambron 4y ago
You can imagine the pivotal moment here, where someone (according to Wikipedia, it was Immanuel Kant, which is a neat fact all by itself) said "hey, that band of faint stars could be a gravitationally rotating disk seen from the inside
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by icambron 4y ago
There haven't been that many billion-year periods. The big bang was 13.7 billion years ago.
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by icambron 4y ago
I agree on the morality points. But the interesting thing is that this isn't true: > It enriches homeowners Homeowners own the land, not just the building. If your property is worth X dollars when anyone buying is only allowed to (r
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by icambron 4y ago
I also get subpar audio latency from huddles. But I use it anyway because of how low-friction it is to start chatting with someone
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by icambron 4y ago
I took a class from Saltzer in 2002 or 2003 and it was spectacular. A sort of survey-level runthrough of software architecture and system design. He seemed to really enjoy teaching it too.
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by icambron 4y ago
This is why it is simpler to set time limits and let the kids do what they want. It’s too much management and friction and negotiation otherwise. For now, I’ve done so anyway: games (even dumb ones) are fine but video is only available unde
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by icambron 4y ago
We seem to manage nuclear very well, and one piece of evidence is how horrifying it is that four people died in this story, and the degree of concern it generated. Nuclear stuff is like airline safety; there's a good cultural and gover
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by icambron 4y ago
Seconding about lock mechanism. The first filter I looked for.

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