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541.
by jimbokun 5mo ago
Lewis and Tolkien hanging out at pubs in Oxford remains the apex of nerdy Christian geekery.
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
And many will still remember Tolkien fondly.
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
So maybe you didn’t lose your faith as thoroughly as you suppose.
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
EVERY progressive needs to read this quote. It’s my biggest frustration with so many expressing progressive beliefs. I’ve lost count of the times a progressive expresses unwillingness to address problems at a smaller, local or personal lev
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
His words on this topic make a hell of a lot more sense than any of the people running technology companies. And many politicians, too.
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
Being better off materially yet more “dehumanized” are not mutually exclusive. Social bonds and connections are integral to human flourishing yet are rapidly degrading and being replaced by digital pacifiers.
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
It’s a black box in the sense that we know the process used by LLMs to “reason” is very different than how humans reason and make decisions. The whole point of “jury of your peers” is that your guilt or innocence is being decided by people
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
There’s also a distinct joy of wondering through a library looking at the spines of books on the shelves, occasionally pulling one down to scan the table of contents, and taking one or a few of those to a table to read a couple pages…
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
I agree that UX in the LLM age has been woefully under explored. I feel like whole new paradigms are waiting to be explored, but right now everyone is just trying to shoehorn AI into a corner of existing UIs.
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
Less than 1% of the population is going to engage in the kind of collective action you want them to.
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
And your copium is posting to HN explaining to everyone how they are Doing It Wrong.
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
This is a pretty hyperbolic description of someone customizing an old laptop to work the way she wants it to work.
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
What in the world do you need to be able to write with pen and paper? It’s pretty much the single function of pen and paper.
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
Common Lisp supports many data structures besides lists, and the same is true of many other Lisps as well. And Unix is easily the most used family of operating systems on Earth. Every iOS and Mac OS device has a Unix at its core, same with
555.
by jimbokun 5mo ago
> It's a language like any other. Infact it's far less verbose and shorter to read. If you've spent enough time with an arraylang you start to recognize "words" or sequences of glyphs as some complex function[1].
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
It’s hilarious to me all the progressives like yourself absolutely losing their shit over someone saying they want government to be more effective and accomplish things instead of just spending tons of money and nothing actually changing.
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
Dilbert beat you to it: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/488178/what-does...
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
Those law suits are made possible by the regulations.
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
Napoli: simplest possible ingredients, locally grown, from that amazing volcanic soil, for dirt cheap prices. It’s all about the Marinara and the Margherita. In America it’s generally lots of ingredients piled on, with prices spiraling out
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
On the flip side if a small part of the company is suddenly making a ton of money, urge investors will demand it be spun off into a separate corporation to “realize its value.”
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
Napoli doesn’t get any consideration?
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
TikTok attention span at work.
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
God forbid people learn about the world outside their everyday experience.
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
1. It’s hilarious that your version of “cool” Japan was immeasurably worse in terms of things like misogyny, racism and war crimes than modern Japan. 2. Post WWII Japan set the benchmark for pulling its people out of poverty in an astonish
565.
by jimbokun 5mo ago
If anything Korean culture might be even cooler than Japanese culture in the US right now.
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
The recent Abundance movement on the left argues strongly that progress has been held back by over regulation and bureaucratic processes.
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
I suspect that’s related to China’s lower levels of individual freedom relative to Japan. Censorship does not fit well with producing powerful and influential cultural exports like manga, anime and video games.
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
China being an autocratic, authoritarian system with galling human rights abuses may have something to do with it, too. (For the record, I would put Japan above both China and the US at the moment in that regard.)
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
And arguably growth could lead to better overall stability in the long run, as people find employment in new companies at higher wages over time with lower overall unemployment.
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
Interestingly this article argues very strongly that you cannot have some of those things without taking all of them. That the various aspects of corporate culture reinforce each other and make performance worse if taken piecemeal.

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