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by javajosh 3y ago
Look, if 10-year-olds think it's wrong for them to be allowed to work at low-paid and dangerous jobs, then they should have voted for someone else.
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by javajosh 3y ago
Good heavens, for 10 years after college I was having "aha" moments about physics and math. Looking back I don't see how it could have been any other way, and it's crazy to think you can recapitulate 300 years of science
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by javajosh 3y ago
Well, physically, you really need three independent machines. Which means three copies of the file, three processes, three verifications, and so on, and a way for those processes to communicate with each other and "vote". Then you
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by javajosh 3y ago
Physics guy here. Isn't the solution to simply duplicate the code and compare it before execution? Do it 3 times and use the majority. This could be the preamble to any quine. (I realize though that, like most physics people, I enjoy w
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by javajosh 3y ago
Fascinating, but ultimately could be healthy for the org. Everyone makes mistakes. What's not okay is to make a mistake and not admit it or correct it. Whoever among the Rust leadership misrepresented themselves to RustConf as represen
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by javajosh 3y ago
I think you'll find that the "screen brain" effect dissipates after about 20 minutes of discomfort. I've noticed this effect with novels and text books. Note that I don't think it's a great idea to just "r
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by javajosh 3y ago
>That's not practically possible unless you choose to live alone in a controlled box. You omit a wide variety of possibilities, and claim there is only one possible approach, and so construct a straw-man. Options range from introd
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by javajosh 3y ago
"No communication with me without my consent," is something I want in society, and that is violated by virtually all advertising, everywhere. I wish this was the social norm. The compromise is what the OP did, reactive, only-reall
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by javajosh 3y ago
Also, speaking fees are, funnily enough, not campaign contributions.
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Mine doesn't do that. I have a laserjet.
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by javajosh 3y ago
Is (small) evil in the service of good still evil? You're better off just getting a Brother all-in-one. Those things are tanks and Brother, for some reason, seems to have executive leaders with ethics. Their scanning software is also t
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by javajosh 3y ago
Nowhere does it say that a crime must be surprising in order for the perpetrator(s) to be prosecuted.
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by javajosh 3y ago
In fairness they must have spent at least $10B on truly amazing interior design and designers. At least, I hope so. In earnest, I've never seen a bad WeWork interior, and I'm glad those folks got the work.
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Freedom and security exist in perpetual tension. This is why we need to take security breaches in stride, put them in perspective. Imagine giving up 5% growth because someone killed .000001% of your population! And yet, that's exactly
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by javajosh 3y ago
>He shouldn't take this personally Yes, but that makes it worse, not better. There's no reason behind it, it's just suffering for no reason. It's "Brazil" and not "1984", and I don't thi
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by javajosh 3y ago
Interesting - I predict the opposite effect. Ultimately the use of AI for programming is still a human-computer interface, and both sides will need a coordinate system to communicate, which is the framework. I mean, until we get super AGI i
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by javajosh 3y ago
Thanks for that, there's a lot I don't know. I still don't quite understand what they are talking about with "Laptop 13". Is that just a new motherboard in the same chassis? that's not clear from the marketing.
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by javajosh 3y ago
Just a reminder: I may not have read every resource on the internet about this subject, and you can share information without attacking the person for not already having it. And it's not clear to me that I can fix these problems, and I
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by javajosh 3y ago
Will you ever stop iterating on the chassis and focus purely on the replaceable components? Seems to me that a reparable/upgradable laptop doesn't matter if you keep changing the chassis such that in order to enjoy new features yo
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by javajosh 3y ago
The US should offer to pay for relocation of all TSMC personnel and rebuilding of all fabs here on US soil. I'm not sure there's much of an upper limit to what this would be worth. $2B? $10B? Something like that. Of course the pat
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by javajosh 3y ago
I like Ableton, but the better way to get started making music is with your voice, singing with songs that you like. Sing the melody, and also the bass and harmony parts. If you have a phone you can use the voice memo app to do two-part stu
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Ask HN: Visualising LLM Execution on a GPU?
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by javajosh 3y ago
I'm not saying the content is bad. I'm saying the expectation to get paid for content is bad. Grant is still going to do 3blue1brown even if he doesn't get paid because he cares about math and about teaching math. If he quit
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by javajosh 3y ago
>...a stab at the value of youtube as a job in society Yes. Not to pick on youtube - it's just the strongest of the group of entities of which I'd include buzzfeed, vice and the rest. The world is saturated with entertainment
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by javajosh 3y ago
>"So what do we do for money now? I get this feeling when youtubers complain about being demonetized. Like, why were you monetized in the first place? Shouldn't this be a hobby for you, where your day job is actually helping
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by javajosh 3y ago
Worth noting that we make things illegal when we feel they should be illegal, and for no other reason. In a democracy the feeling turns to a vote which turns to legislation. In this case, we would pass a law making executives personally cri
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by javajosh 3y ago
Just imagine what an AI CEO would make.
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by javajosh 3y ago
This has to do with why people specialize (and the right chunk of stuff to specialize in) - it's determined by the time you have to dwell in the info-place of a thing. No-one, not even the smartest human, can dwell in more than a f
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by javajosh 3y ago
Can anyone shed light on where the complexity is coming from? Even 360kloc for a chat client seems excessive - its original size, 1.7Mloc, is hard to accept. How does it break down - e.g. 120kloc UI, 120kloc networking/data, and 120klo
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by javajosh 3y ago
Because they haven't bought ARIN and ICANN yet? Sorry, that's a bit too cynical perhaps but it's the same reason Google spends perhaps hundreds of millions of dollars on Chromium that they give away: vertical integration. Th

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