lectrick

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by lectrick 11y ago
I think one of the points of human experience is to figure out how to reduce ALL human suffering, this included.
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by lectrick 11y ago
Very difficult to watch the embedded video. But of course I did, as I need to know everything. Was brought to tears though, FYI.
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by lectrick 11y ago
Killing is a pretty strong word. I'd say "euthanizing." But perhaps part of the reason for existing is to be a constant reminder for researchers to get on that gene therapy research...
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by lectrick 11y ago
Somewhere, someone at Valve is noticing this and pitching it around as a new service idea :O
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by lectrick 11y ago
You are a gentleman for redistributing the credit. I have unfortunately worked for people who would not have. Regardless, thanks for your contribution to privacy, and may whatever karma exists rain invisibly on you ;)
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by lectrick 11y ago
Good. The quicker they go, the sooner they will hit the wall. ;) (hell, there already ARE walls. Subjective value, beauty, etc. is irrational.)
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by lectrick 11y ago
We have determinists ready to ascribe all consciousness, life and life experience to biological mechanism and yet we still don't know the answers to fundamental questions such as this one.
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by lectrick 11y ago
I have a possible diagnosis- Technical debt has reached critical mass!
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by lectrick 11y ago
I think we just need to build smarter. I've become disillusioned with the "runaway state" problem (as well as spaghetti-dependency problems) in OO languages which contributes to bugs and general nondeterministic behavior as w
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by lectrick 11y ago
Just a minute ago they tweeted about it: https://twitter.com/united/status/618769524544942081
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by lectrick 11y ago
I have a nagging (intuition? feeling?) that software safety/reliability/security needs are going to explode soon (because unreliabilities multiply in non-resilient systems interacting with each other) and that these are simply for
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by lectrick 11y ago
I have to say that in this case you're wrong. The Apple Mac Plus in my parents' closet, which I still fire up from time to time to play Dark Castle ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCkbp4wurW0 ), had a zero latency
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by lectrick 11y ago
Vintage Macs also had 0% (seemingly) cursor lag and 0% cursor flicker. Took Windows 20 years to finally have a usable (coming from a Mac at least) mouse cursor.
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by lectrick 11y ago
The Apple Macintosh did this in 1984 (with the mouse cursor). Jobs understood the importance of this... If you get a chance, find an old Mac and just move its mouse around. There is absolutely zero lag. For a while it was the #1 reason wh
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by lectrick 11y ago
Does the law create the criminal by perverting incentives, driving up price due to risk in a market that refuses to go away even when made illegal (see Prohibition)... or are sociopaths simply drawn to any high-risk/high-reward/no
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by lectrick 11y ago
> but I'd put good money on them already having some skin in the game The article says that they cannot find a money trail to these guys.
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by lectrick 11y ago
> Sex-based difference is the biggest taboo of our time. The problem is that correlating things with sex (even when such a correlation seems apparent) is just as bad as correlating things with race, ethnicity, religion, age, index finger
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by lectrick 11y ago
No True Scotsman fallacy. Pessimistic bitterness. Is insane enough to read Kafka fucking four times. Appeal to some ominous nameless oppressive judgmental force in order to discourage (perhaps this was informed by all that Kafka reading).
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by lectrick 11y ago
> In just finished reading the trial by Kafka for the fourth time Well, if you weren't bitter and depressed enough after the 1st time, having 4 readings under your belt would go a ways towards explaining the nihilist pessimistic emp
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by lectrick 11y ago
Assumes the will of a single man would have been enough to rescue an entire economy based on what looks to outsiders like an ingrained culture of laziness
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by lectrick 11y ago
See also "why I use integers whenever possible"
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by lectrick 11y ago
I... guess I am. Is that OK? :) I like Erlang too... but I was one of the folks for whom the syntax turned me off originally. I can't explain why, especially if you're one of those developers (bless their pure-engineering hearts)
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by lectrick 11y ago
I don't see a loss. I see a win. In Elixir, I have the full power of Lisp-level macros, in a functional immutable pattern-matching language, with a ridiculous level of concurrency (you can spawn a million or so processes in a second on
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by lectrick 11y ago
Yes, I was riffing on Lisp not really having a "syntax." The fact that Erlang's syntax is (disclaimer: subjective) awful just adds further grist to the Elixir mill, assuming you think Elixir's syntax is (disclaimer: subj
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by lectrick 11y ago
> but in Erlang you don't want to touch that feature with a ten foot pole. It's hairy and incredibly annoying to work with It's pretty much the exact opposite in Elixir. The only thing you really have to wrap your head aro
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by lectrick 11y ago
After learning about Elixir ( http://elixir-lang.org/ ) and playing with it some, I now want an Elixir job. (I'm skilled in Ruby, and Ruby already back in the day wanted me to get a Ruby job... which I finally did) One n
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by lectrick 11y ago
Can you summarize how they quantitatively measure aspects of tech debt? Because that seems to be a hard problem and I kind of don't believe that they have pulled off this feat
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by lectrick 11y ago
Mac Bolo was one of my first networking games and it was incredibly awesome
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by lectrick 11y ago
private prisons seem to be the perfect example of when ethics are more important than profit motive And when all costs (even extraneous societal ones) are considered in an all encompassing cost model, outlawing them would be the optimal cou
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by lectrick 11y ago
The problem with private prisons is the conflict of interest. As a private for-profit prison employing what is effectively cheap slave labor, you have zero incentive to actually reform or to reduce the amount of people who become imprisoned

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