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by jes5199 3y ago
Eastern Standard Tribe is a weird one because its predictions turned out to be rather short-term, half of the ideas seem obvious now and half seem foolish
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by jes5199 3y ago
is there legal jargon for this distinction?
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by jes5199 3y ago
Pascal was one of my first languages and I love it for that, but I can’t imagine going back to it. It never had a modern ecosystem and the OOP stuff was super janky
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by jes5199 3y ago
interesting timing, I've been thinking about _why lately; Brett Victor's recent update https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36596095 gave me _why vibes. a thing I realized recently is that _why's disappearanc
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by jes5199 3y ago
math is like writing a novel, though
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by jes5199 3y ago
as a solo developer, git commit -a -m “wip” every few hours
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by jes5199 3y ago
we should probably implement a lot of the hallucinated methods - consider them the obvious missing pieces of our APIs
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by jes5199 3y ago
we’re all on HN aren’t we? isn’t it a forum for confidently being wrong?
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by jes5199 3y ago
I think of GPT as a new UI paradigm. It was not obvious why the world needed GUIs, or touchscreens, but they took over pretty quickly. Conversational interfaces could disrupt them both.
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by jes5199 3y ago
homework never had much value, anyway, it’s nice to see students fighting back
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by jes5199 3y ago
this post is going to age poorly. The energy transition has been accelerating, and we’ve recently hit the point where, in more and more cases, it’s cheaper to switch to renewable than to maintain the legacy infrastructure. We’re already at
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by jes5199 3y ago
add a protractor and a compass too. maybe a level
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by jes5199 3y ago
objectively no, but compared to what it was like in 2007...
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by jes5199 3y ago
yeah, my ESP32 hacking keeps getting thwarted by power supply concerns, I haven't found any solutions that I like
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by jes5199 3y ago
yeah, he says it's obvious but I've read some of the same papers and I just don't have the background to be confident
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by jes5199 3y ago
I have a friend who plays the stock market by reading papers published by publicly traded biotech companies and shorting the ones that seem to be fabricating evidence. This works well enough that he doesn't need a job.
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by jes5199 3y ago
my money is on convergent evolution. trees and crabs and birds on every planet. not sure about primates though
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by jes5199 3y ago
we actually are going to enter a “diamond age” as processes like C2CNT make direct-air carbon molecules cheaper than glass. I don’t know if goes mainstream this year though
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by jes5199 3y ago
increasingly, search is handled by something other than SQL, so this is less relevant than it used to be
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by jes5199 3y ago
75 is a fairly mild dose, and people can placebo themselves into some pretty extreme states
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by jes5199 4y ago
the thing is, even the brightest of us are still terrible. There’s no such thing as a good software developer
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by jes5199 4y ago
I’ve used car stereos where the physical volume knob was so laggy and buggy that sometimes it would misread its own input and change the volume in the wrong direction unless you turned it very slowly while watching the display to see if it
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by jes5199 4y ago
the RethinkX paper says that most farmed meat will be replaced by cheaper precision fermentation proteins by 2030 https://www.rethinkx.com/food-and-agriculture
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by jes5199 4y ago
he hasn’t given up on VPL, though, only few years back Vi Hart’s eleVR team was working on “sculptural” programming languages within VR, at Microsoft Research under Jaron. (…but I think that team disbanded a couple years back)
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by jes5199 4y ago
what makes me sad is that Thomas Buchler seems to have been more afraid of people stealing his work than of it being lost. There’s something deeply ironic about coming up with a new system for teaching an ancient tradition, but refusing to
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by jes5199 4y ago
so, there’s an old version on archive.org that was pretty easy to crack a serial number and run in a VM. It uses the older, low-quality Hebrew synthesis that was cobbled together from German and French phonemes. I have physical CDROMs and s
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by jes5199 4y ago
I’m late to this thread but I actually cracked Trope Trainer open so I can help with the speculation. The interface to from Trope Trainer to the DECtalk DLL is just strings of ascii phoneme names and pitch and duration information. The code
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by jes5199 4y ago
I worked with Bob at Square around 2011. Somehow we always came down on the opposite sides of tech decisions - but I still think about those arguments, his point of view was always something I could learn from, even if we didn’t reach the
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by jes5199 4y ago
typed Python is becoming more common, and it helps. It’s not as mature as Typescript, but it’s getting better
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by jes5199 4y ago
I’m also a fan of Kufic engraving, like on this 13th century astrolabe https://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/astrolabe/catalogue/backReport/Astr...

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