javajosh

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by javajosh 2y ago
My cynical understanding of category theory is that it's the mathy Peter principle: category theory is when meta mathematics starts to lose all value. Except two professional mathematicians, of course, in which case the value is almost
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by javajosh 2y ago
Wow what a cool writeup. Two things stuck out for me (I'm only halfway so forgive me if you address these issues). I have two comments on processing the 511.org data. First, you generally want to use a streaming parser rather than one
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by javajosh 2y ago
I imagine that would do. I've never done it but I suspect there is a dispute process, even if it is corrupt (for example, administered by the collections agency).
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by javajosh 2y ago
Yes, but you can challenge the bill. Otherwise anyone could send anyone to collections for anything.
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by javajosh 2y ago
Interestingly, I don't think a court would look kindly on intentionally obfuscated or difficult cancellation procedures imposed on a contract unilaterally. And I don't think the cost/benefit ratio favors a firm taking someone
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by javajosh 2y ago
Practical advice. But we need to address the underlying problem. I mean, if people were getting mugged 50% of the time, it would be practical to take hand combat lessons. But in that case, too, you'd want to address the underlying caus
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by javajosh 2y ago
We expect to get paid for satisfying someone else's requirements. We do not expect to get paid to scratch our own itches.
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by javajosh 2y ago
>Why are we so charmed by bullies? If you've watched someone use restraint but sometimes that restraint seems to lead to bad consequences, then it can be a relief to see them finally lose restraint. E.g. the good guy who never kil
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by javajosh 2y ago
Although I downvoted you, I admit having a grudging admiration for people like you who are openly and smugly conceited. Honestly, that's much better than those who hide their real sentiment in a cloak of high-emotional IQ yet sociopath
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by javajosh 2y ago
You could certainly use military drones to map out trails and mark sections for cleaning. Beating milspec drones into plowdrones, etc.
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by javajosh 2y ago
Great idea, please consider publishing it. I've often wanted to do something similar, and in reverse (that is, now that the outcome has happened, check predictions). Not to get too far afield but online discourse really undervalues suc
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by javajosh 2y ago
That error mode (and it is one) doesn't seem so bad, relatively speaking. Personally I find puzzles interesting and while the value is deeply questionable (I mean, how often do you implement binary search or a novel hashing algo at you
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by javajosh 2y ago
AI and new tools have broken the system. The tools send you email saying things like "X corp is interested in you!" and you send a resume, and you don't hear back. Nothing, not even a rejection. Eventually you stop believing
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by javajosh 2y ago
No, this is a wrong argument. We can specify arbitrarily low temperatures by hypothesis, obviating the objection. If you want to get pedantic you could note that measuring something that is, say, 10^-30m is unphysical - not even laser inter
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by javajosh 2y ago
If it were not so you could encode an arbitrary amount of information into the specific length of a one dimensional object. It would be like a physical Taylor series, but since you can go arbitrarily small you can encode arbitrary coefficie
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by javajosh 2y ago
Does the name "Bram Stoker" not carry any weight?
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by javajosh 2y ago
I am a bit confused about this advice. Who's decisions? The tool makers? Or the users? In general, this seems like an oversimplification. It's more useful to first understand what kind of document you are writing: learning, goal-o
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by javajosh 2y ago
>they get their person in, pass bylaws empowering them and dis-empowering the board (the board usually lacking sophistication), and have deeper pockets for any legal struggle than any co-op member does. Sounds like an opportunity for a
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by javajosh 2y ago
>Japanese workers clearly need to assert themselves. I would hesitate to make such an assertion without deeply understanding Japanese culture. There are always trade-offs. The Japanese people have a very unique culture with a lot of po
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by javajosh 2y ago
Cool. Also may be useful to read Zel'dovich's second paper on the phenomena. http://jetp.ras.ru/cgi-bin/dn/e_035_06_1085.pdf Interestingly, in his paragraph about previous work, he did not mention Yarkov
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by javajosh 2y ago
Perhaps the real solution is to default to "busy" and only show "available" on a trigger, like web-browsing or staring into space.
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by javajosh 2y ago
You're right! Oops.
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by javajosh 2y ago
But it is always legitimate to wonder about where the culture's attention is cast, and why. The present always holds great sway on how we perceive the past. Consider the example of Karl Marx, who's ideology fed his historical narr
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by javajosh 2y ago
I suspect that a lot of the recent dirt about Columbus comes from documents involving his (and his decedents) court case to assert ownership of the New World. In particular, I suspect that the most damning accusations come from briefs filed
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by javajosh 2y ago
One must deal with humans as they are, not as we'd wish them to be. The correct solution is that externalities associated with consumption should be priced in by fiat. The government has the (uneviable) task of protecting the environme
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by javajosh 2y ago
Indeed. Erbsenzähler comment: "eine" is the singular "a" for a feminine object, "zwei" is actually just "two". "Ein" is "one".
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by javajosh 2y ago
More like a crew of a spaceship dismantling their life-support system to create disposable junk.
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by javajosh 2y ago
>What would be the benefit... It is interesting that you ignore the benefits the OP describes and instead present a vague and fearful characterization of the costs. Your reaction lies at the heart of cargo-culting, the maintenance of p
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by javajosh 2y ago
Subjectively, I find that the infusion of AI content makes the general internet experience worse. Have you ever researched something to find a video that is AI generated with an AI generated voice? It is the SEO spam of video. I think that
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by javajosh 2y ago
Cloudflare is shrewdly calculating that there is a lot of latent, unexpressed hate toward patent trolls but that most people don't want to make a career out of it, but might very well make a little hobby out of it, and so they get to t

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