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   by jes5199 3y ago

   I hope it’s not hard for Tesla to pivot back to making normal cars with reasonable interfaces. the EV transition is coming no matter what, and nobody else has ramped up their production capacity enough, so we’re going to be mostly stuck wit
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   by jes5199 3y ago

   for now
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   by jes5199 3y ago

   okay but what about $6k on an EV. There’s a point where you have to say, okay, I’ll figure out charging
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   by jes5199 3y ago

   I hear that “the future is hybrid” talking point a lot lately and I think that means Toyota is successfully controlling the narrative, but that’s not the “future”, it’s the present. Hybrids just don’t benefit enough from Wright’s law to s
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   by jes5199 3y ago

   I recently learned this was originally a book! https://www.amazon.com/Encyclopedia-Integer-Sequences-N-Sloa... also, the author, Neal Sloane is a regular on the youtube channel Numberphile, which always has fun patterns to
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   by jes5199 3y ago

   yes, this is what we thought robots would be like before we had LLMs
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   by jes5199 3y ago

   I think it's a short story with a slow-motion text reader
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   by jes5199 3y ago

   he _was_ a donor. he's not likely to be a donor in the future. so why bother?
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   by jes5199 3y ago

   man, I work in python but I really don’t enjoy writing scripts in it. Everyone here acting like it’s a scripting language. Culture shock.
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    by jes5199 3y ago

    I found a video of Fadiman discussing it (in the middle of a long rambly talk) https://youtu.be/KtL5fafpRKc?t=538&si=ZyxdmUwSWfubn2UE
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    by jes5199 3y ago

    I think the closest thing I know about is Harman and Fadiman's 1966 study where they gave mescaline to a diverse group of professionals to see if it could help them find creative solutions to problems they were stuck on at work. Appare
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    by jes5199 3y ago

    people have been trying to measure those effects since the 1950s - Oscar Janiger, James Fadiman, were/are some of the big name researchers trying to quantify it. but it's remarkably hard to measure "creativity".
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    by jes5199 3y ago

    ah, statecraft
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    by jes5199 3y ago

    Shatner has often been critical of the Trek ethos. I saw him give a talk in the 1990s where he said "it seems to me that technology is an evil demon come to destroy us all"
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    by jes5199 3y ago

    this is a short term problem. Solar and batteries are continuing to get cheaper fast, and production is ramping up. Even natural gas will be a stranded asset in a decade
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    by jes5199 3y ago

    01, like from the Animatrix ?
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    by jes5199 3y ago

    well, I've published iOS apps but every time I have to go through the app review process I ask myself: is this really worth it? To have an inscrutable and vaguely hostile process tell me whether my customers are allowed to run my code?
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    by jes5199 3y ago

    I like DOT a lot. Way back in the day we had a semi-serious proposal to use it in the Puppet configuration language to describe dependencies
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    by jes5199 3y ago

    RDF is an XML standard, isn't it? there was a XML era for collections and dicts, too. That is now largely considered to have been a mistake
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    by jes5199 3y ago

    Textual array literal: [1,2,3] Textual dict literal: {"a": 1} Textual graph literal: ???
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    by jes5199 3y ago

    I think this is a cop-out. Someone in the 1990s could have written the same thing about collections, or dictionaries, but we eventually came up with good-enough compromises that Python, Ruby, and Javascript all basically do the same thing.
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    by jes5199 3y ago

    no, it can’t actually be made simple. Qbits are fundamentally unfamiliar. They have restrictions like “you cannot copy them” and “all operations must be reversible”. And what you get at the end is basically flipping a weighted coin, where t
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    by jes5199 3y ago

    I like the idea, but there’s no reason to commit these back to the repo. In fact, you could just make a code-viewer that generated fresh explanations whenever you open the file a lot of generative AI is like this. Oh, it made a beautiful pi
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    by jes5199 3y ago

    I’ve spent the last 12 years doing payments-and-billing-focused engineering for various companies. Most engineers, in fact, do not want to do this work. It’s like specializing in plumbing for septic tanks, most people have an innate sense o
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    by jes5199 3y ago

    I think the warnings in this article are reasonable if you don’t think there’s transformative tech around the corner that is going to lead to huge societal changes. And even if there is a big productivity boost from AI or anything else, the
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    by jes5199 3y ago

    creepy
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    by jes5199 3y ago

    are you recorded at your work?
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    by jes5199 3y ago

    I am impressed! It’s startling how small things have gotten
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    by jes5199 3y ago

    perhaps film photos are undersaturated and blurry
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    by jes5199 3y ago

    cost curves suggest solar+battery will be cheaper than coal by the end of the 2020s, if it’s not already