mihaic

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by mihaic 3y ago
The big issue I see with this type of personalization of UI is how much worse I would become at helping others to get things done, since my muscle memory for an interface would have been made for my UI. This lack of shared similarity in the
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by mihaic 3y ago
"Fair" is always impossible, but the goal is "fairer", which really is possible if we accept that lawyers and big corps have to have it slightly worse so everyone else has it significantly better.
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by mihaic 3y ago
As in any article that overlooks the great Ron Cobb, I just wanted to point out that his designs were influential into shifting the direction of how sci-fi should look. It always takes more than the people who's names are mentioned to
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by mihaic 3y ago
This reminds me that my Gmail account is over 19 years old, and I'm still being asked for my birthday to confirm I'm over 18. Could you at least try a bit harder to justify abusing my data, dear Google?
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by mihaic 3y ago
While I understand you mean well, the option of writing a letter in 2024 seems more like "let them eat cake". Hearing the voice of a loved one, and especially seing them has a different effect on people.
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by mihaic 3y ago
You're mixing up matters of logic and fact (how old the universe is) with matters of personal preference (like what I want to eat, should flying cars fill the skyline of my city). People can be trusted a lot more in the second category
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by mihaic 3y ago
Yeah, the story is always more complicated than what you generally hear. I've never read about the eastern connection to the Enlightenment in any place, but lots of references pop up. A translation of the play Shakuntala by Kalidasa se
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by mihaic 3y ago
Sometimes truths have to come from the outside for them to be accepted by the closed minded. As the Enlightenment already absorbed eastern concepts into the western plane to some degree already (see the roots in Hume for instance), the rela
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by mihaic 3y ago
Who We Are and How We Got Here by David Reich is I think a great book if you're interested in human migrations.
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by mihaic 3y ago
What you're doing is bad-faith arguing. There's a clear difference between someone doing something in a very limited capacity and a company that's basing their entire revenue on the same thing. For instance, me recommending t
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by mihaic 3y ago
In many places it is illegal to ask someone to drive if that's not their explicit job. Either way, not sure how you can equate asking something of an employee and asking the same from a gig worker. Uber has broken the law in plenty of
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by mihaic 3y ago
Because others have not been properly punished that means he doesn't have to be punished as well? Not sure I get your logic.
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by mihaic 3y ago
Thank you for that, very interesting read. I've become convinced that the thinkers of the 60s and 70s pretty much figured out how technology would corrupt society (see for instance Lewis Mumford, Marshal McLuhan), but there's no m
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by mihaic 3y ago
The more I dug into it, the more movie soundtracks were all rooted in the Vienna scene, with Wagner at the base. Max Steiner and Erich Korngold are for me better examples of this influence, since Steiner in particular pretty much invented t
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by mihaic 3y ago
"You don't know any better than the freak market!"
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by mihaic 3y ago
Weird critique of my critique. Almost all people have two lines: the first is "I don't like this, it's just not my thing." and the second is "This is bad and the world would be better without it". Your argument
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by mihaic 3y ago
But the execution matters. For some reason, the way he does it feels like old-time carnavals employing "freaks", so it's not just entertainment or philanthropy to me.
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by mihaic 3y ago
The article meanders quite a bit, and I feel lacks a proper critique of what's wrong with MrBeast. I have a strong disgust for most of the things he does, and it's taken me a bit to put into words where that comes from. It's
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by mihaic 3y ago
I think something like this was a lot more common knowledge around 20 years ago, and now seems like mystic arts. It just takes a mindset of thinking that everything is bytes and binary, and after you've seen a couple SWAR snippets of s
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by mihaic 3y ago
Yeah, I think at some point we all have some internal wiring that is hard to change, while other parts are flexible. For instance, I'm fine to write C++, Javascript or Python (with types at least). Ruby or Rust for some reason do rub m
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by mihaic 3y ago
Interesting, for all the examples you gave, I'd prefer to see a keyword, since you'd need to use a lot of symbols for a lot of different things in this way. I do find arrow notation or other symbol for lambdas fine, since it'
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by mihaic 3y ago
I'm not sure how many codebases started after 2010 I've seen that have "pcmpeqd" as a method name. This is something I think makes sense only in highly optimized code, but in business logic it's a pain to read.
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by mihaic 3y ago
I know it's not very FP, but you might explicitly not want to return anything and just modify the data.
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by mihaic 3y ago
> Have you tried Ada? I have tried Pascal in that sphere, which was on the too verbose side. Arrow notations like in JS/Typescript are fine to parse for me. Some clear symbols are actually easier to read than an unpronounceable alph
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by mihaic 3y ago
I've written a bit of Rust, and I was left with mixed feelings, that seem to be still the same here: - loved the memory safety patterns when compared to the horrible things that you can do with C++ - found almost every thing where it w
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by mihaic 3y ago
I don't think that anyone but Elon ever means X.
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by mihaic 3y ago
What you're doing seems to be the opposite of anthropomorphization (is there a term for that?) You seem to be considering humans by forcing them to fit into the observations of LLM outputs. > Our intelligence is social, an environme
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by mihaic 3y ago
I've only read one of her books some 20 years ago, but that was the sentiment I had at the end, that I wasn't given enough to work with and the ending itself felt unsatisfactory. That's why I don't even remember the name
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by mihaic 3y ago
What do you use it for? I mean, for what kind of payments? It sounds to me like the investors are being grifted.
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by mihaic 3y ago
What is it then if not a grift? It makes promises without absolutely any basis in exchange for personal information.

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