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by javajosh 3y ago
Upon further reflection the idea of inanimate objects "wanting things" is what I find most creepy. It's enough to make a person consider monadism seriously. The notion of inanimate objects modifying spacetime just by existing
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by javajosh 3y ago
Yes, it is creepy. And now that you mention it, Fermat's principle (the principle of least time) is creepy too. Why is physics so weird ? It's like everything is choosing things all the time! And it gets worse with quantum effect
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by javajosh 3y ago
The fact that matter warps spacetime still blows my mind. We can basically neglect the effect on light near Earth, although it's still present. But that "gravity" is merely what we call the minimizing the action of matter nea
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by javajosh 3y ago
I'm new to the term SPAC and had to look it up. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/spac.asp Based on the definition, is it proper to call it a "merger"? It seems more like what SPACs do is "a
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by javajosh 3y ago
This is good advice, but the problem is that there is so much good advice about webdev (and everything) that one tends to form a FIFO queue in one's brain such that the advice is inevitably lost.
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by javajosh 3y ago
Thank you for the response. I will spend some more effort reading your site and related documents. I have a similar problem communicating the value and content of a project myself in the p2p web space. I'm not as far along as y'al
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by javajosh 3y ago
Or even worse than before - and the sad part is that no-one intended that to happen. All bespoke software is effectively an experiment that may fail. I've become a lot more wary of the "failure is good" mantra that SV is famo
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by javajosh 3y ago
Technical and smart. Otherwise you end up with fix tech debt, fix tech debt, fix tech debt ...death.
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by javajosh 3y ago
This subject is near and dear to me, but after clicking around for a few minutes I was left none-the-wiser about what it actually is. Is it a client? A server? A protocol? Your home page encourages the user to play what looks like a child&#
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by javajosh 3y ago
You highlight the difference between zealous advocacy and debate. The advocate cannot admit the flaws of their own position, or the merits of the other position. You characterize the left in a moderate way, and the right in an extremist way
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by javajosh 3y ago
Another example of the fundamental attribution error on the right. In the same way, many on the left believe that having money means that you've stolen it and don't deserve it. So it cuts both ways.
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by javajosh 3y ago
>perhaps it's just empathy Any system can be hacked, including empathy. We call it "fraud" and unfortunately it seems that the number of humans who can keep two concepts in their head at the same time are vanishingly rar
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by javajosh 3y ago
I don't think it breaks trust, if you tell them what's going on. "Hey kids, I'm going to give you a problem that went unsolved until Newton. I don't expect you to find his answer, which I'll teach you later, bu
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by javajosh 3y ago
I think this shows a lack of self-doubt, which can be deadly. Those problems acted as verification to yourself that you understood the theory and its application. If you truly understood the material, then the problems would be zero effor
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by javajosh 3y ago
Yes, and I'd take it further. What I'd like to see more of in physics texts is presenting a problem before offering the solution. Too often you get what amounts to a laundry list of techniques and ideas, which are the components
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by javajosh 3y ago
Yes, and one should be very wary of someone who speaks in absolutes. That said, there IS a valid point to be made to highlight the inordinate success of modern physical theories. It's annoying when the only physics news is sensationa
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by javajosh 3y ago
Humans, arguably some of the smartest and most capable who've ever lived, have worked tirelessly over 400 years to produce the corpus. I don't think you can really learn it all in 9 years - I think a normal bright person will take
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by javajosh 3y ago
Let me humbly suggest that people use actual files for their noise needs. The two apps that work in tandem are syncthing and vlc. Syncthing gets the file from a desktop to your phone. VLC lets you play the file on your phone. (Getting a fil
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by javajosh 3y ago
>Don't buy anything from WD. I don't doubt your bad experience. But do you really think that there do not exist other customers of other vendors with similar, or even worse, stories? The tacit assumption is that if even one s
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by javajosh 3y ago
I think management often believes it's existence is justified by "protecting" the engineers. Of course, they are protecting them from other managers. So it's an arms race - or more technically, going from the good Nash e
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by javajosh 3y ago
We can and should do both. Our emphasis should indeed be on not shitting the bed. But we should also look for new beds. The big problem is that Mars at its best is worse than Earth at its worst. The Earth in "The Road", or almost
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by javajosh 3y ago
If by "interesting" you mean "fantastic" then I agree. Some of the best world-building ever.
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by javajosh 3y ago
It's like the anti-fundamental attribution error. I like it!
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by javajosh 3y ago
I always liked LeGuin. If you like her, maybe you'd like Louis McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan Saga, which is an interesting combination of an unusually vulnerable protagonist and a traditional space opera setting. She's got som
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by javajosh 3y ago
With a character named Jiro Protagonist, this is a clue that perhaps it is less cyberpunk and more of a satire of cyberpunk. It's very good, of course. Also recommended from Neal Stephenson: The Diamond Age. His world building is alway
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by javajosh 3y ago
The Road by Cormac McCarthy. He passed away in June 2023 and I read this shortly after for the first time. A powerful work that, despite the world building, focuses on the love between a father and son. It's a shocking novel in many wa
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by javajosh 3y ago
I feel that I had reasonable skepticism based on the consequences to the scientists if they turned out to be wrong. Korea is not known to be a particularly forgiving or understanding culture, and I suspect that all of these men will be work
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by javajosh 3y ago
>a video by fireship dev ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-GSGH2RxJs ) That's a great video explaining the core use-cases of htmx in 100 seconds. Would be great if all projects had such a thing! Htmx reminds me of
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by javajosh 3y ago
For those who didn't know (like me) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_gallop Also, lol
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by javajosh 3y ago
I think once a pattern of behavior is established, this should reasonably inform your interpretation of their behavior. This is the "Boy who cried wolf" lesson. So, if someone lies a bunch, and they say something, it makes sense t

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