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by jrowen 2y ago
It's not even the perfect, it's the pointless. A new society that completely lost touch with ours is about as knowable as what's on the outside of the universe. How does that even happen, by the way? Humans survived but someh
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by jrowen 2y ago
Downvoted but relevant...nothing says corporate bullshit like a niche programming language with logos and merch featured far more prominently than examples or explanation...
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the pictures were, subjectively at least, better. I'm in love with this phrasing.
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I'm not familiar with his work but from a quick search it seems that he's a hustler and is very "eye on the prize." I would think that your characterization of his process is too blasé and that there's actually more
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by jrowen 2y ago
I think the issue, in the author's case, is that they don't have any projects they truly and completely believe in. The part where they sit down and browse through their archive of unfinished projects is telling. To really get one
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by jrowen 2y ago
I mean, anyone's free to create whatever art they want on their own time and dime, and accept that it may or may not resonate with others and their pocketbooks. If you're applying for a specific thing for someone to give you money
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by jrowen 2y ago
I just had a thought that "intelligence" could be a misnomer or red herring in all this. A lot of modern AI seems to be built around "getting the right answer," performing measurably better on some task. But that's
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by jrowen 2y ago
I wonder if we could develop any kind of rigor around knowing what certain systems are capable of, or at least some kind of framework for testing things out and being able to catalog and compare them. I believe the sims need to tend towards
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by jrowen 2y ago
But it may be that the best you can do with a simulation is make arrangements seem interesting It may be, but is there any evidence of that or reason to believe it? How would one even go about defining that problem or proving that? With c
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by jrowen 2y ago
My first question would be, how exactly does the brain work? What inputs does it take, what outputs does it generate, what all is it capable of? My guess would be that the brain is too simple and kind of locked in or highly limited. I think
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by jrowen 2y ago
The complexity and detail in our universe create an incredibly vast search space, which may hinder development rather than promote it. To speed it up we need to be able to narrow the search space by cutting some stuff out and simplifying th
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by jrowen 3y ago
I constantly marvel at infrastructure. Growing up as a "STEM" guy, the world of "construction" was kind of looked down on. Later on, as I started to build physical things, and realized how much time, effort, and planning
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by jrowen 3y ago
Lesson: Don't develop innovations that are too advanced for management to understand, because they will pass and let the rest of the world eat their lunch.
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by jrowen 3y ago
This is wild. Ethereal Panda? Labyrinth Chollima?! Why are we modelling threat actors/"adversaries" as a video game bestiary? Or meteorological phenomena in the case of MS?
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by jrowen 3y ago
This same Mafia does everything they can to make sure that web/Safari experience is as poor of an experience as possible so that users prefer native apps delivered through the app store. Can you expand on this? I prefer to use the we
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by jrowen 3y ago
It's symbiotic because Apple needs apps to sell iPhones in the first place. And developers need a solid platform with users willing to pay money. I feel like you have the wrong answer to the chicken and egg problem. The first iPhone
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by jrowen 3y ago
You might be interested in the similar story of Jerry Rawlings of Ghana, as told here by Matt Lakeman: https://mattlakeman.org/2023/10/09/notes-on-ghana/ His recent "Notes on [...]" series desc
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by jrowen 3y ago
I think he meant simply that they still have a strong cultural allegiance to France and thus prefer the French spelling of the name (despite having been independent for quite some time). Not that that preference (or insistence on it) is in
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by jrowen 3y ago
I sometimes think about how much roads influence our thinking and mental models. They represent abstract structure and organization that we have embedded into the physical world. If someone asked you to draw a map of your hometown, you woul
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by jrowen 3y ago
In 5th grade, around 1998, a friend and I spent a few lunchtimes in the library decoding the Ultima Online rune alphabet from known town names on the paper map. In retrospect we probably could have just looked it up online but I think we ha
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by jrowen 3y ago
It seems like a situation that would benefit from separating the logical/structural definitions from the layout/presentation rules, much like HTML and CSS. The structural side would be clean and easy to maintain and all the fiddly
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by jrowen 3y ago
What is the meaningful distinction between "many accelerators globally follow the YC template" and "everyone's copying them"? Does it work better though? Barring some statistical outliers such as unicorns, VC backe
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by jrowen 3y ago
I mean, if everyone's copying them, it's hard to argue that they haven't hit on something that works better than the known alternatives. Have people tried remote accelerators? If they're viable and competitive then they
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by jrowen 3y ago
I mean, we all make choices and sacrifices. Having a family is a serious commitment. There's a limited amount of time in everyone's day, you can't commit yourself to everything, and I think it's reasonable that starting
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I think it's always going to be an emotional/tribal thing. Some people are wired more socially and get value from the bustle and serendipity of an office, some people prefer to be more alone in their comfort zone. What do you have
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by jrowen 3y ago
> They'll sell their privacy and rights gladly for a tiny bit of perceived convenience, entertainment or status. How does that mean they have no spine? It sounds like they made a decision on what was more valuable to them. You could
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by jrowen 3y ago
At the end of the day, it's all emotional and biased human beings subjectively evaluating/judging other human beings. This guy that worked with Tim believed that he added great value to the team. A manager came to a different conc
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by jrowen 3y ago
Is there a reason you're so intent on being a killjoy? Is there really an important point being made here? Don't worry, they do not falsely believe that they invented and built AWS. This story is basically akin to someone who work
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by jrowen 3y ago
I'm really confused by the "sanitising" comment - I understand "engineered" to refer to the whole manufacturing process, the fact that it resembles and functions similarly to "raw" solid wood but has been
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by jrowen 3y ago
I agree that the voting can feel icky. It's just too low-content and ambiguous to be that useful of a signal. I think number of replies would be a better signal, but it's also easy to post something inflammatory and get a ton of k

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