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by klodolph 2y ago
Yes. I think it’s a garden path sentence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden-path_sentence “3M Execs convinced a Scientist…” ok “3M Execs convinced a Scientist PFOS Found”… ok, the PFOS found the scientist? “3M Execs
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by klodolph 2y ago
“Everything everywhere is securities fraud” —Matt Levine https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-06-26/everyt... The basic idea here is that you lied, the share price went up because of your lies, and
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by klodolph 2y ago
I wonder if this has something to do with the SAT requirements… https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/4/11/harvard-sat-act... Harvard stopped requiring the SATs, and then started again.
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by klodolph 2y ago
> Parts of the Rust community are toxic indeed, but I've been around long enough to recognize the same pattern in communities of other hot programming languages or frameworks in their up-and-coming phase. Yeah. I think there’s also
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by klodolph 2y ago
And then there’s Discord, which also takes over from existing forums, but which has the additional distinction of being a complete pain to search.
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by klodolph 2y ago
Yeah. I want to know how well these joints will last in different scenarios and how the tradeoffs are. I’ve seen YouTube videos where people test different wood joints to see how much load they can withstand, but I assume the results will b
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by klodolph 3y ago
> That’s like saying spheres aren't real because no perfect sphere exists. This analogy is deeply flawed. For spheres, we at least have some kind of mathematical model for what a sphere would be. For a “neutral point of view”, we do
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by klodolph 3y ago
Yeah. Armchair photographers fighting over cameras by looking at the specs and comparing photographs under a microscope. There’s a tradeoff here between making a small, portable, inexpensive camera that you want to carry with you, and makin
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by klodolph 3y ago
I don’t think journalistic neutrality is either possible or desirable, the more I think about it.
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by klodolph 3y ago
> Can you clarify how this isn't what you mean? How is what you're saying different from what I interpreted it as meaning? No, because that’s just an argument about “who said what” and nobody cares about that stuff. If you had
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by klodolph 3y ago
> If you call people something, perhaps it's important to actually know what that thing means? “Quackery” is not some technical term here. It is a mistake to rely too much on technical definitions of words. If you rely too much on t
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by klodolph 3y ago
I think it’s easy to get turned off by Žižek’s kind of bombastic approach to explaining philosophy to lay people. It’s also, I’d say, hard to develop sympathy for continental philosophy, especially if we are American, and a lot of his posit
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by klodolph 3y ago
> I can see how you would find that unproductive, but I don't know if it really counts as quackery. Oh, here’s the thing—it’s not actually important to argue about what the word “quackery” means. I’ve explained what I meant by “phil
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by klodolph 3y ago
Ok. I think the distinction is important, and relevant, and even critical. It is a distinction I will continue to make. I put the concept of “philosophical zombies” as quackery. At best, the p-zombie thought experiment shows that we haven’t
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by klodolph 3y ago
Could you elaborate on how Kant does work that seems to be little more than the obfuscation of trivial or false ideas?
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by klodolph 3y ago
I picked the wording of my comment carefully… “quack philosophy” is what I said, not “quack philosopher”. That was very, very intentional. I don’t think I have ever described somebody as a quack philosopher.
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by klodolph 3y ago
You’re not alone. I think a lot of people, especially in STEM, pooh-pooh philosophy at first. The problem is that in any field, if you start digging to understand the underlying concepts of that field and how they are defined, at some point
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by klodolph 3y ago
Yeah, I completely agree. RISC vs CISC needs to be buried. It’s interesting to hear stories from the actual designers of CISC chips, because they talk about the things that they did to try and make their chips faster and more useful. “Lots
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by klodolph 3y ago
Yes, I didn’t watch the entire hour-long video recorded from a live stream. This is not a tight, edited, informational video. It’s not even a scripted presentation. It’s two guys reading an article and reacting to it. They spend some time t
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by klodolph 3y ago
You’re not alone. I think it’s really common to question yourself and ask, “Is this how I should be feeling? How I’m supposed to be feeling? How I’m supposed to be acting?”
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by klodolph 3y ago
I got tired of the video because they never got to the point. Here’s the article: https://hackaday.com/2024/03/21/why-x86-needs-to-die/ The article is, uh, well it’s bad. I’m a little hesitant to respond
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by klodolph 3y ago
Maybe it’s written in “pure Java” in the sense that the Minecraft source code is all Java. (Maybe. I don’t know.) However, it definitely has dependencies that are not pure Java. I think Minecraft used to use LWJGL, I’m not sure if Minecraft
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by klodolph 3y ago
That’s undoubtedly some redundancy in the underlying data, not in the encoding itself.
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by klodolph 3y ago
I know that this is picky but the old Apple Human Interface Guidelines specify things like how much distance you put between different elements! Try it out. Go for the 1992 edition of the HIG, for this System 7 look. Like, when you have a d
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by klodolph 3y ago
High, generally. The US has the highest incarceration rate in the world, and US sentences are an outlier in terms of how long they are (they’re not the longest, but the whole picture is kind of shocking).
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by klodolph 3y ago
25 years is a damn long time. I don’t know how that can “seem low”.
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by klodolph 3y ago
The story I like to tell for the Newton is that it was launched before the technology was ready yet. Like the Sega Game Gear. Old video phones. All those tablets that launched before the iPad. They’re good ideas, but they shipped a few year
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by klodolph 3y ago
Yes, since I can afford it. I feel bad for all the people out there who are students or otherwise under budget constraints. I go on Reddit or Discord and hear stories from people who are stuck on computers with 4GB RAM dating back to 2015 o
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by klodolph 3y ago
I think this is less about the utility and more about showing off unusual ways to use the TypeScript type system.
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by klodolph 3y ago
I guess you’re a lot easier to satisfy than I am.

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