inawarminister

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by inawarminister 4y ago
I believe this is sufficiently exhibited by 18th-19th century imperial powers that have telegraphs and able to have the centre dictate unit movements and campaigns to the peripheries. Compared to previous eras where the local potentate is t
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by inawarminister 4y ago
That is also correlated with the multiple of tropical diseases wiping out traders and settlers until the 1800s or so. Tsetse flies in East Africa killing cattles and horses... Allowing local hunter-gatherers to survive herders and farmers e
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by inawarminister 4y ago
If you're not interested in learning about CS in Uni-level, how about looking at other fields? I'm an economics bachelor myself, learning everything about s/w dev outside of college, but I find applying what I've learned
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by inawarminister 4y ago
Bollywood is crazily popular in Asia. Even in India's enemy like Pakistan. China is investing a lot in Confucius institutes and their own films as well. We'll see more after they wake up from the zero Covid stupor soon.
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by inawarminister 4y ago
Their social norms are different than liberal anglophones?
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by inawarminister 4y ago
Most of the world are not anglophones or European.
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by inawarminister 4y ago
Ah, why would we need that kind of stuff when God has granted every animals their own places in the hereafter?
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by inawarminister 4y ago
Ah, looking like is not enough, as we know from the fates of children branded as changelings....
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by inawarminister 4y ago
"Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven" - John Milton. Seems a lot of people agree, what with the popularity of portal fantasy and isekai reincarnation stories. Magic does make living in them more convenient than real hist
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by inawarminister 4y ago
I've sent Elon an email asking for internship, though sadly I can't move to Sanfran and live in the office floor for 12 weeks like @geohot can. Still...
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by inawarminister 4y ago
Twitter? It was not profitable in 2020 and 2021. Jack did do good in 2018 & 2019 though
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by inawarminister 4y ago
I'm having a good time doing Data-Oriented Programming (which is applying Clojure-style programming to other languages, in my case Python). IMO, chaining functions together rather than mutating objects and variables seem to be the most
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by inawarminister 4y ago
Eh, NASA would have wasted the subsidies on pork anyway. There's a reason why Boeing's Starliner is in very huge conondrum right now, while SpaceX and the other NewSpace firms are progressing rapidly...
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by inawarminister 4y ago
Yes and? They're still smart guys. To be honest I don't see why you anti-Musk crusaders bother so much, let people's accomplishments speak for themselves. Sure, go laugh at Musk's and other self-appointed Ubermen when th
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by inawarminister 4y ago
Geohot innovated removing iPhone sim lock (remember AT&T exclusivity>) at age 17, jailbroken PS3, and built an Autopilot-quality hardware by himself. He's now livecoding a ML library on Twitch. Lex Friedman is Lex Friedman. So n
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by inawarminister 4y ago
That reminds me of the story of an Old Believer Russian family that moved to Siberia around the 1920s and was only found again by Soviet miners in 1970s. The patriach of the family was not educated, but he and his children managed to infer
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by inawarminister 4y ago
Hehe, Joachim Meyer (1570) showcased techniques where he used the floppiness of his longsword (trainer; Federschwert) to cut around blocks and guards. Here's the technique if anyone wants to see that. [0] https://www.youtube
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by inawarminister 4y ago
There's also CLOJERL - Clojure on BEAM (Erlang), and recently CljDart, clojure to dart transpiler was released and seem to have a lot of momentum.
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by inawarminister 4y ago
You know, being able to do all things human can do... with text input and text output? Why does that reminds me of Unix Philosophy where everything is just text files? I wonder if someone has experimented with one of the LLMs to get them to
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by inawarminister 4y ago
The main issue is that GitHub is used by OP's company as a work service. There should be expectation that if a company is still trusting someone as an employee - then for WORK he should be allowed to use whatever business tools the com
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by inawarminister 4y ago
That's the explorers, yes, but the settlers? Remember that the 1700s was so cold relatively, the soldiers march even in summer with thick jackets and smokepipes. Though, there was also the introduction of potato, which led to massive d
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by inawarminister 4y ago
Yeah, I don't know why you guys don't talk about the macro climate of the era. The Roman Warm Period (coming around Caesar era to 400s, explaining the Migration Age) The Medieval Warm Period And the inverse, the Modern Cooling Per
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by inawarminister 4y ago
I kinda wonder if you can encode knowledge in Lojban and have a more efficient language model using it then only translate to English at the output (if needed). Is there any study on the informational density of Lojban/loglan?
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by inawarminister 4y ago
Yeah, I've been needling people in Discord servers by writing up Interlingua and most of the time most people are able to read it and respond back in English or Romance languages Si solmente nos ha un sorta de interlingua traducentes d
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by inawarminister 4y ago
Indeed, but from the other way around. Tolkien hates industrialization, he hates technology as a whole. He hates GRRM-esque "Does Aragorn have a tax policy that make sense?". So he would hate Thiel and Luckey for their technology
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by inawarminister 4y ago
>(Seriously, we can't, because we laid off all our writers.) I wonder if Musk is going to have GPT-3/GPT-J with some volunteers supervision to alleviate that. Hmm. The "context" feature that hit White House and Elon M
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by inawarminister 4y ago
The Emperors have no clothes.
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by inawarminister 4y ago
Sounds like Mastodon/Fediverse blocking of entire instances, which is workable. Kind of fun to see Elon's Twitter taking and implementing ideas from the Fediverse to be honest.
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by inawarminister 4y ago
WeChat for Anglosphere/the West could be a great innovation, to be fair. WeChat in China, LINE in Japan, Gojek in Indonesia... A lot of those platforms are crazy profitable
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by inawarminister 4y ago
AFAIK Africans, that is, the Bantu and related West African peoples, went directly from Neolithic to Iron Age, skipping Bronze. For Mediterranean, it's mainly because the whole region, Iraq, and Northwest India/Pakistan were alre

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