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by magpi3 2y ago
This always made sense to me. Think of Super Mario Bros. No way you come up with something like that from a top-down design document. Probably slapped Mario on a screen, played with the physics a bunch, and threw a lot of different stuff at
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by magpi3 2y ago
If I am limited to looking at pictures, then I am at the same disadvantage as the LLM, sure. The point is that people can experience and understand objects from a multitude of perspectives, both with our senses and the mental models we util
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by magpi3 2y ago
Could it tell the difference between a dishwasher and a picture of a dishwasher on a wall? Or one painted onto a wall? Or a toy dishwasher? There is an essential idea of what makes something a dishwasher that LLM's will never be able t
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by magpi3 2y ago
I did it in 2006. I stayed at hostels in different cities and it was a three week trip. It was fun
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by magpi3 2y ago
You could also start at the bytecode level so that the specific language itself is less relevant.
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by magpi3 2y ago
If you ever feel like you want to beat your body up a little, it is very easy to find seasonal work at UPS (or I guess amazon) during the holiday season. I worked for UPS unloading trucks one holiday season. We would work 8 hours straight,
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by magpi3 2y ago
This happened to me, and I actually did it. I burned out of an IT job and joined an intentional community where I worked with people with disabilities on a farm. There was also a vegetable garden and a craft shop. I lived there for two year
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by magpi3 2y ago
The discipline that competitive sports instills in a person still translates into other areas of their life. My athletic career hit a dead end too, but staying with a sport and grinding out progress over the years taught me something that I
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by magpi3 2y ago
With all due respect to everyone here, the most expressive solution is a photo album (or multiple) where you put pictures, little notes and drawing with your handwriting, etc. for the child to discover as they get older. I suppose the total
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by magpi3 2y ago
Moving to China and learning Mandarin. Trying to express myself in a foreign language has easily been the most intellectually humbling experience of my life.
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by magpi3 2y ago
Making OS's more secure definitely slowed them down. I remember that there was a noticeable difference between a fresh install of Windows XP and an installation that had been uploaded with the latest service packs after everyone became
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by magpi3 2y ago
Anything involving life or death decisions
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by magpi3 2y ago
i stands for index. j and k because we can't use i anymore, and maybe because they are close together on the keyboard
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by magpi3 2y ago
I usually go to https://archive.is/ , copy in the link I want to archive, submit, wait a minute, and then you receive the link to the archived article.
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by magpi3 2y ago
Perhaps scarcity is the reason why humanity hates to share. But in a post-scarcity world, I imagine later generations used to that level of security (and with no memory of scarcity) might begin to think differently. I do agree that the fir
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by magpi3 2y ago
> I imagine a lot of humans will be left to die Which would mean discontent and rebellion. I don't think any significant portion of the population would just die quietly. And from what you described, you are probably talking about 5
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by magpi3 3y ago
It's been hugged to death perhaps. The site is also hosted on github here: https://osj1961.github.io/giam/
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by magpi3 3y ago
At least according to https://gptzero.me/ the submissions are AI Generated.
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by magpi3 3y ago
The same phenomenon exists in teaching. When I student is failing, a teacher constantly has to challenge themselves whether or not the failure lies with their approach. I think students are set up to fail all the time. But with 60+ students
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by magpi3 3y ago
There is always a need for both short-term and long-term thinking. If I am running a company, I am thinking short-term (at least when it comes to tooling). If I am dreaming or doing cutting edge research, I am thinking long-term. I think we
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by magpi3 3y ago
That is short-term thinking for both linux and lisp. In the long-term, we need more experimentation, more creativity, and more risk-taking. Always. And what better place for that than on HN (at least for discussion purposes).
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by magpi3 3y ago
It's logical and it makes sense. I would argue, at first glance, that C's hello world (#include <stdio.h>, int argc, char ** argv, etc) would be more confusing to a total newbie. Java's even more so.
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by magpi3 3y ago
Yes, and I think I really see this with authoritarianism and authoritarian impulses, both in politics and in organizations. The people who oppose authoritarianism often end up recreating it in their own image & ideology.
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by magpi3 3y ago
This is still the best explanation IMO: https://www.dreamsongs.com/RiseOfWorseIsBetter.html
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by magpi3 3y ago
But what about if the "parent" is the body tag? https://jsfiddle.net/6fmu2z8s/
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by magpi3 3y ago
> probably a question of taste I just think it's more a question of the mental model that is in your head. Learning languages is the same. A language can have a syntactical/linguistic feature that seems very strange when you ha
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by magpi3 3y ago
Yes, I have the same intuition. Sites scroll downward, the height of a website is never really fixed, but there does seem to be some assumption that the width of a website is fixed. At least when I approach it with this mental model in mind
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by magpi3 3y ago
I agree with everything the author said. Also, I would add that if you are taking a course that requires writing, make that writing a daily practice, or at least a few times a week. Make time for it and do it. I used to take courses where t
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by magpi3 3y ago
Yes, I look at note-taking as a skill that essentially is summarizing what you are listening to, writing down questions, etc. It should be an active process, not a passive one. But this is a skill that takes time to cultivate. Writing down
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by magpi3 3y ago
I've lived in China for the past 5+ years. The news here almost feels like instructions on how to feel and what to consider important. A lot of American media is click bait nonsense but the genuine article exists. This article is proof

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