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by javajosh 3y ago
I was going to post the same thing! But I'm glad I didn't because now I get to post on the remarkable coincidence that the price is almost exactly the same - $5000 in today's dollars. It's an interesting sum, from the pe
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by javajosh 3y ago
Sort of agree with the grouchy old fart take here, except a) it really is lovely to look at and b) I'm very curious to know how it would sound. If you didn't want to build it, how would you approach modeling the sound? I'm no
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by javajosh 3y ago
They outsourced "home".
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by javajosh 3y ago
Yeah I don't quite understand how the physics curriculum is set. There is more and more physics discovered over time and yet the time you get to study remains the same. 4 years is not enough time to learn the math and physics you need
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by javajosh 3y ago
>The title of this article is essentially meaningless. It's worse than that, it's creepy. What is a single-player offline game phoning home anyway? On every play? It's crazy how much software companies get away with thes
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by javajosh 3y ago
Not stealing it, copying it. And your loved ones will be glad to have a copy after you die. You're welcome!
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by javajosh 3y ago
As long as the paychecks aren't hallucinations I'm good with it.
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by javajosh 3y ago
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/java/openjdk/download
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by javajosh 3y ago
What about ARIN and IANA? Eventually there is some central authority associated with the internet, IP address blocks and DNS root servers.
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by javajosh 3y ago
Yes. Humans have fantastic audio and video processing abilities, particularly picking out signal from noise. Even now human operators listen to sonar signals on submarines. There's a reason for that.
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by javajosh 3y ago
I find this really hard to believe. If it were really possible then people could do it with their ears, and they would be doing it and showing off that they can do it. The human ear (and brain) are really, really good at finding patterns
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by javajosh 3y ago
>Despite our self-proclaimed intelligence, humans are apt to believe remarkable fallacies based on a paucity of correlated information rather than rigorously seek to determine causal foundations. Hey! I thought we're not supposed
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by javajosh 3y ago
I've read everything. I probably read the Foundation series before you were born (assuming you're 20-something). In fact, Asimov certainly knew that FTL was fraught - but he was writing for a living, and FTL was in vogue and he us
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by javajosh 3y ago
Love that book, but it's fantasy. It's a cool idea that is impossible to rule out without literally going to every part of the universe and doing experiments there. But that's impossible, so it's unfalsifiable. In fact,
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by javajosh 3y ago
I know exactly which FTL method will work.
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by javajosh 3y ago
Sadly, I've come to believe that any story with FTL in it must be classified as fantasy. I might be willing to accept natural wormhole travel. Even with generation ships, authors vastly underestimate the difficulties of traveling inter
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by javajosh 3y ago
Instead of passing a law, the French government should publish a blacklist and encourage their citizens to use it.
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by javajosh 3y ago
>Raw is an extreme case of a an extreme horror movie I was only commenting on the setup, not the movie itself. I didn't know what it was and when the horror started I stopped watching it. The other poster who considered it a rec
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by javajosh 3y ago
Congrats Rich! You've been a big inspiration to go off and try new things, and to not be afraid to explain and explore the nuanced underpinnings of your design.
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by javajosh 3y ago
And 90% of the time I see young people together they're all on their phones. There's an arms race to prove who cares less about the person in front of you, by checking your phone, and we're all winning.
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by javajosh 3y ago
> alcohol at home is extremely cheap Even on the street its cheap! it's funny when you are choosing a drink its like "Well I'll save some money and get a beer" because Coke is more expensive at your typical Doner spot
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by javajosh 3y ago
It may also be a money thing. The bars in Germany are either affordable and filled with old regulars waiting to die, or expensive. If you have an expense account, the clubs are great! But if you don't, they'll break the bank.
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by javajosh 3y ago
I noticed this when I watched "Raw" recently [0]. It was remarkable because it portrayed horny young students hazing each other and desiring each other and plenty of unselfconscious peer pressuring, which was itself depicted as co
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by javajosh 3y ago
modulo the trust you have in the admins and hosts, yes.
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by javajosh 3y ago
In terms of basic tech, other than CRISPR what are you thinking of? Smartphones + internet are important, but are more combinatorial. Early quantum computers are cool, but niche (and even if perfected, seem to have application for breaking
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by javajosh 3y ago
HN is like a blog, except that you don't have final cut.
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by javajosh 3y ago
You're not supposed to actually install it and use it, just comment on how cool and open Facebook is, especially in comparison to OpenAI. So, user error.
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by javajosh 3y ago
And https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riders_of_the_Purple_Wage
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by javajosh 3y ago
>more than 50% (maybe more than 75%) of jobs will be make-work that just serves to employ people so that society doesn't fall apart. Yes, and then firms like OpenAI come in and automate those BS jobs, and take away all the societa
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by javajosh 3y ago
The idea generalizes. Imagine an archiver which applies a transform to a site. Adding semantic markup - or censoring parts that someone finds offensive. If the original author agrees, they might offer an api so the transformation is linked

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