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by javajosh 3y ago
Over time I've learned to stop taking people like Julia Evans for granted. Sometimes it feels like the Internet is an endless supply of brilliance and generosity and talent. But its not true! Not everyone creates, and not everyone who
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by javajosh 3y ago
Humanoids aren't 'symbiotic' with Minds. They are thoroughly unnecessary but the Minds keep them around for amusement and company. They are pets. It's a critical problem with his universe, even though it is a lot of fun
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by javajosh 3y ago
>I never said any of that. Ah, but you did, and you stepped in something that a lot of scientists (and devs) resent, having others assume that they are robots, without heart or passion or insight. What you said was even worse, one grou
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by javajosh 3y ago
>The humanities are broadly trying to answer “what does it mean to be a human, and how should we live?” That's quite condescending. Scientists must not know how to live, or what it means to be human, since they don't have an
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by javajosh 3y ago
Another quote which gets to the heart of it, I think: >I remember G.H. Hardy remarking to me in the 30's with some mild puzzlement: 'Have you noticed how the word "intellectual" is used nowadays? There seems to be a
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by javajosh 3y ago
Go with postgres. Unless you need php/wordpress, then pick mysql.
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by javajosh 3y ago
The most expensive things you can buy are bought at auction.
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by javajosh 3y ago
Strong disagree. I bought an OP-1 and it felt like a cheap plastic toy. It's a cool UX concept and I'm glad they exist, but I wasn't impressed. Give me a (relatively) cheap Yamaha or Roland or Nord keyboard any day of the wee
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by javajosh 3y ago
FYI it's svelte over mongo.
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by javajosh 3y ago
jart's url is cool https://justine.lol
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by javajosh 3y ago
Great move, Rich! It's quite enjoyable working without sourcemaps. I'll add that IntelliJ+Copilot makes writing solid JSDoc very fast and easy.
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by javajosh 3y ago
File this under one of those rulesets that needs updating since "behavioral norms" is no longer really a thing in the world.
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by javajosh 3y ago
A really smart intern.
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by javajosh 3y ago
I have a suggestion for Google: make an interactive graphical mind map representation of your products and shows relationships between them. Have that be the response to google.com/products. Add layers, like for a map, that show old an
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by javajosh 3y ago
> QM is whack Very much so. But I also think it always had to be that way. A universe of infinite classical regression (atoms made of atoms made of atoms...) would be more insane than whack .
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by javajosh 3y ago
It comes down to personality- some optimize to avoid failing, others optimize to achieve success. And ne'er the twain shall meet.
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by javajosh 3y ago
Wonderful story of comraderie on the high seas. It's one of the best things about cruising. Its as close to space travel as you're going to get, and you really stop taking humans for granted out there. I've been sailing my wh
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by javajosh 3y ago
>It also includes an energy storage system that will allow it to control how much electricity it produces at any given time. Does anyone know more details about this? I'm thinking it's a monster flywheel. Which would be very
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by javajosh 3y ago
You've been on this site 8 months and yet you haven't read the guidelines: Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes. Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not les
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by javajosh 3y ago
Hey, we were having a similar convo on a different sub-thread and in one comment I addressed these concerns: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35817197
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by javajosh 3y ago
What's the difference between not caring what other people think and sociopathy? There are two error modes: Listening too much to people and not listening to them enough. Maybe it is some sort of mental or personality failing on my par
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by javajosh 3y ago
Maybe but this is a very popular activity, examining others for thoughtcrime. Those who can't do teach. Those who can't teach administer.
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by javajosh 3y ago
Is it? https://equitablemath.org/#about As a liberal, am gonzo for diversity. As a capitalist, I recognize that talent is very rare and I think it is foolish to reject talent based on irrelevant personal details. As an int
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by javajosh 3y ago
JN is an escape hatch, similar to those built into programming tools. You really cannot and should not take away the ability of people to step back from a situation and realize the the law, when applied, leads to a perverse outcome that is
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by javajosh 3y ago
Not a good framing. The government is not static to be loved or hated. It is rather like a cyborg who has behavior modifications and parts added and removed over time. It's a mess and a kludge and it does things we don't like, doe
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by javajosh 3y ago
>a sad, lonely guy who lives off his grandiose delusions So, a story about the modern internet.
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by javajosh 3y ago
There are too many situations in our society where money wins because they hire better lawyers. The solution is not to make more money to hire better lawyers, but to change the system so such a step isn't necessary. I don't know i
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by javajosh 3y ago
The browsers have been very good incorporating ideas from the community into the browser, and strengthening the standards every time. Things started getting really good with ES6, HTML5 and CSS3, and when IE went entirely away, and most brow
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by javajosh 3y ago
Oh the comparison to PDF was perfect. PDF and Metal have the same recent ancestry with postscript. What ugly prejudices so many people on this thread seem to have. And how trivial and nonsensical. All I said was she should not have omitted
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by javajosh 3y ago
These are all tools programmers use to draw to the screen. In the browser there are now 3 such tools: svg, canvas, and webgpu. svg's primitives are shapes and you program it with js and dom. canvas primitive is a 2D array of pixels, an

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