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by inimino 7y ago
Two minor points: They are both real files. The symlink may be created first. "Source" and "target" are confusing names because the target of the ln command is the file it creates, which is the symlink that points to the
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by inimino 7y ago
> I think here should be “maker” roles where you can bypass the hard CS stuff and just crank code I would call these "user" roles. And perhaps there is a space for a "professional software user" career as we continue
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by inimino 7y ago
Alternative title: everything that was wrong in my development environment and process in a week as a professional software engineer. If you are "googling" to find out React dependencies, GraphQL-related React errors, Apollo relea
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by inimino 7y ago
Ah, so... you think more people should be working on this? I'm under the impression everyone in those poor countries with high birth rates is already working to move themselves or their country into a better economic position, and when
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by inimino 7y ago
Height? Are you sure that if you control for height you can explain away the entire effect? I think there might be a little more to it than that.
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by inimino 7y ago
Delusions of grandeur? If you work your whole life doing all the things people tell you to, and do them well, and you expect some reward beyond a pat on the back, is this a delusion or a reasonable expectation? The one that wants to be a le
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by inimino 7y ago
> highest income demographic Yes, concentrated in a narrow band around upper middle class professional jobs. The point of the article is that some people want more than that, and can't figure out why they aren't getting it. Wel
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by inimino 7y ago
No, the point of the article is that the ones who succeed within the Asian narrative don't end up getting everything they want or expected.
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by inimino 7y ago
Not really hard to take issue with once you see how it's done, no.
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by inimino 7y ago
What about it?
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by inimino 7y ago
I really don't think so. The cheap and easy thing has always been to burn the fossil fuels, cut down the forests, fish until there are no more fish, and hunt until there are no more prey. The only hope for the future is if we care for
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by inimino 7y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite It's the canonical story in the history of automation and jobs. You're one of today's lucky ten thousand :-)
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by inimino 7y ago
I was referring to the famous quote from Dijkstra: "The Fathers of the field had been pretty confusing: John von Neumann speculated about computers and the human brain in analogies sufficiently wild to be worthy of a medieval thinker a
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by inimino 7y ago
If your private definition of intelligence excludes everything machines have already been made to do, I suspect it is indeed pointless to discuss machine intelligence with you. Personally, I'm not hung up on whether or not submarines c
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by inimino 7y ago
Or even more powerful: the other groups will learn , and the cultural practice will spread faster than genes ever could.
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by inimino 7y ago
And for all we know, it still is.
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by inimino 7y ago
Someone has to know what other people ate, know what of what they ate killed them, remember that, pass it on, and be believed for that to work. It's easier if the person gets sick and doesn't die, and then they themselves can tell
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by inimino 7y ago
Hunter-gatherer societies hunted and gathered by definition. They had no such luxury of a choice of meats, just "what was killed today" or "nothing". They would have had no such luxury of being picky about which of the e
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by inimino 7y ago
> Dogma is rapid in industries filled with compartmentalizations. Yes 100% agreed. > To best avert disaster tech needs to first be open to the public and submisiable to regulation. But we know that's never gonna happen with defen
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by inimino 7y ago
Something I didn't see in the article or mentioned in comments here, much to my surprise, is the simple fact that "the dose makes the poison" as the saying goes. In hunter-gatherer societies they would have consumed a wide va
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by inimino 7y ago
Then they'd stop eating it, evolve to metabolize it, or go extinct.
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by inimino 7y ago
And don't forget--nicotine.
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by inimino 7y ago
The phrasing suggested they thought most readers would recognize the name.
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by inimino 7y ago
Congress isn't gonna pass legislation to ban the military from suggesting stupid ideas, or the executive branch from approving them, because that itself would be a stupid idea that reduces American defence readiness and suppresses wort
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by inimino 7y ago
quote from the actual article: > Unlike the game of Go, which the current world champion is a supercomputer, Alpha Go Zero, that learned through an iterative process, in nuclear conflict there is no iterative learning process.
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by inimino 7y ago
Theory: they know something about AI that we don't and because of what they know, decoded to scare all the world's AI practitioners into getting their shit together at the same time. Alternate theory: they are idiots. Alternate th
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by inimino 7y ago
Yes, that would be deciphering in a sense... in a sense to use "decipher" for "translate" is already an analogy, since "cipher" means to calculate or to write in a code, and "decipher" means to revers
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by inimino 7y ago
These things are contextual. "x increases three times" means 3x to most people. This is different from "increases by 300%" which usually means 4x. The article says "by a factor of up to three" in the first sent
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by inimino 7y ago
Kids out of high school would have been parents already or within a few years in most of human history. We keep them infantilized but that is a feature of our culture, not what kids are capable of. You could say a 30 year old isn't a &
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by inimino 7y ago
> before showing up!!! Not only overdressed, but at entirely the wrong time of day as well!

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