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by jordwest 2y ago
> There is not doubt in my mind that if we somehow implemented a UBI in a way that would not just result in inflation of rent and everyday goods, the vast majority of people would simply stop working, get bored, depressed, and more likel
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by jordwest 2y ago
In my experience, that attitude for me was due to the devaluing of spirituality and the resulting overemphasis on rationality. Funny thing is in hindsight, I didn’t realise how much my “rational” attitude was informed by the Protestant work
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by jordwest 2y ago
That’s me, thanks for the mention! In hindsight actually I’d probably have put a little more of the computation side in the video. Based on comments I’ve received I think a good portion of the audience is just looking to get something worki
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by jordwest 2y ago
User: How do I make white bread? When I try to bake bread, it comes out much darker than the store bought bread. AI: Sure, I can help you make your bread lighter! Here's a delicious recipe for white bread: 1. Mix the flour, yeast
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by jordwest 2y ago
> In almost all cases we found the inverted version more sound. Sound as in true? Or sound as in more comfortably fits one's current set of beliefs? Many of these quotes are getting at the unexamined assumption that happiness can be
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by jordwest 4y ago
I think you're right, we're going to need to completely rethink our economy to decouple the idea of human effort (Unfortunately I can't see how that's going to happen without everything first falling apart). A single bar
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by jordwest 4y ago
Nope, literally just copy pasted the text from the front page with this prompt. > I'm going to send you a list of headlines from Hacker News, I'd like you to choose one of the headlines that you're best placed to comment o
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by jordwest 4y ago
[ChatGPT]: The call for a more sophisticated debate about AI reflects a growing awareness of the technology's impact on various aspects of society, including ethics, privacy, and the job market. It is crucial to engage in nuanced discu
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by jordwest 4y ago
Curiously, I just asked GPT4 to choose any headline from the HN front page that it feels it's best placed to comment on, and it chose this one. > I'll choose headline number 4: "We need a much more sophisticated debate abo
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by jordwest 4y ago
I've experienced this in a similar workplace before and did lead me to spiral and exit, to me it was absolutely exhausting keeping such a ruse up. There was something about it that felt so inauthentic, a bit toxic positivity, a bit hid
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by jordwest 4y ago
Reminds me of the Blaise Pascal quote: > “All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” Doing nothing is uncomfortable, because you might accidentally discover a truth about yourself that
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by jordwest 5y ago
I had a similar feeling of terror as a kid, thinking about death and eternity one night in bed and suddenly experiencing terror. The best way I could describe it was this vast eternal concept of nothingness forever that scared me with the i
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by jordwest 5y ago
Interesting, thanks! Will definitely give it a read.
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by jordwest 5y ago
Leninism, Marxism was founded at a time when the labor equation was very different. Back then, generally there was a fixed ratio between labor input and productivity output. So communist ideals were about how to centrally distribute that pr
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by jordwest 5y ago
> They require an army of engineers to build/operate/maintain them. Yep agreed, but there's a key difference. Unlike most other jobs, your labor continues to provide the company profits even after you leave. I think that&#
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by jordwest 5y ago
Frankly I think we're already at the tipping point for that. If I think about it, how many jobs are actually involved in: * Providing food * Providing shelter * Providing healthcare You could argue just about everything else
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by jordwest 5y ago
These discussions are always focused on the "robots". What about the spreadsheets, the computers, algorithms, industrial control systems, Python scripts, voice recognition systems, data pipelines, software powered gig economy, alg
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by jordwest 5y ago
> It's written in JS which means that it's way smaller There's nothing inherently large about WebAssembly, it's just that most practical wasm demos bundle emscripten (essentially an entire OS's standard library)
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by jordwest 5y ago
I don’t know if this a generally accepted definition, but to me spirituality is guided only by direct first-hand experience, while religion is a set of beliefs from some other humans or books written by humans. Spiritual teachers are trying
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by jordwest 5y ago
Same here. I’ve been thinking it’s a sort of “escape from the void”. When there’s nothing that particularly needs focus, there’s a feeling of wanting to escape from the discomfort of the silence. When I truly have no plans, I find myself
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by jordwest 5y ago
I agree with you, I think design patterns can be useful, but they’re so often sold/taught as being a sign of good code in and of themselves and that’s why they’re so often misused.
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by jordwest 5y ago
The problem with design patterns is that it's far too easy to "apply existing solutions" to problems that don't exist. Design patterns can definitely be useful, but only when used sparingly and if they really are the sim
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by jordwest 5y ago
Are all these recent cease and desist letters the early sign of a company in its death throes? One can only hope…
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by jordwest 5y ago
Creator of NFE here. Given this news I feel it's just a matter of time before we go the same way as Unfollow Everything. So many users tell me they avoided deleting Facebook thanks to News Feed Eradicator, so killing it would really be
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by jordwest 5y ago
As an extension developer, yes please do this. I get constant offers to "purchase" my extension from shady marketing companies, and it's obviously quite lucrative for them based on some of the offers they're making. If e
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by jordwest 5y ago
Thanks, this explains a lot for me. I love thinking about things and learning things, but doing it too much is just exhausting. I still have hobbies that are technical, but the parent poster's description sounds like a recipe for burno
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by jordwest 5y ago
Not GP but as someone who loves Rust and spent a lot of time trying to use it as a FE language, I settled on F# for my own frontend projects. It has many of the nice things Rust has (discriminated unions, pattern matching, ML inspired synta
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by jordwest 5y ago
This selector has saved me an inordinate amount of time hacking together UIs quickly: .vertical-stack > :not(:last-child) { margin-bottom: 8px } Just add the class to a parent and all the children will have spaced betw
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by jordwest 5y ago
Great point about starting with a specific vertical. Creator communities (youtubers etc) is an area I had been thinking to focus on, though this space is mostly dominated by Discord at the moment. > Centralised always wins My dream isn’t
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by jordwest 5y ago
I want to bring back old school distributed forum communities but modernise them in a way that respects attention and isn’t a notification factory. Mastodon is a pretty inspirational project but the Twitter influence shows, I miss the long

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