mkoubaa

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by mkoubaa 2y ago
That's a 20th century solution. The right thing to do now is to shutter the company and make all it's patents and designs public domain
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by mkoubaa 2y ago
Unrelated (sort of). I wonder if there will be UX implications 10 years out when most people who use computers grew up with Roblox and Minecraft.
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by mkoubaa 2y ago
Does anyone think Omniverse can become a viable alternative to Unity?
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by mkoubaa 2y ago
Is this sarcastic?
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by mkoubaa 2y ago
Why don't people just copypasta the library into their codebase with the license header intact and keep it out of npm
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by mkoubaa 2y ago
I'm almost as severe. I look for an unsubscribe button in the email. I click it. If I am not immediately unsubscribed from everything, I mark the email as spam.
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by mkoubaa 2y ago
If you won't enjoy writing a book you won't write a book and you'll never taste the enjoyment of having written a book
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by mkoubaa 2y ago
Because if your users want python, you have to convince them they don't want it. If you fail, you'll have made optimized code that nobody uses. Another strategy is to actually serve your users
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by mkoubaa 2y ago
As a counterexample, I've been promoted for reducing tech debt
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by mkoubaa 2y ago
There are lot of things that are bizarrely still hard in 2024. Formatting floating points as strings with maximum precision, for example. I sometimes find myself rooting for another AI winter so that more talented computer scientists have n
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by mkoubaa 2y ago
The parties don't have to agree. The states set the voting rules and can do so by referenda
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by mkoubaa 2y ago
It wasn't his face the party wanted to save
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by mkoubaa 2y ago
This is what happens when you start to believe in the pretense
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by mkoubaa 2y ago
This was a forgone conclusion since the debate but there needed to be prolonged drama to save face
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by mkoubaa 2y ago
Of course not. Thats the point I was making
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by mkoubaa 2y ago
Airport staff don't maintain infrastructure, at best they maintain front ends to it
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by mkoubaa 2y ago
I've always wondered about the feasibility of using GMO mangroves or similar highly propagating or migrating species as a carbon sink
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by mkoubaa 2y ago
Do you think that your understanding of the current notation has influenced the way you think about music subconsciously? I assumed you learned the two together rather than in sequence.
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by mkoubaa 2y ago
A lot of the discourse and debate on wealth is missing this fact: Wealth != Long term stake in a speculative asset. This is true, even if they are measured with the same unit (USD).
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by mkoubaa 2y ago
It took me a couple years to realize this too. For the past five years I abandoned all structure. I use a literal log file. Chronological from top to bottom, with paragraph breaks for each workday. Higher than necessary verbosity, no points
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by mkoubaa 2y ago
They interact with pixel buffers as a mathematical array. To call them blind is to confuse what they doing with the experience of sight...
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by mkoubaa 2y ago
"Hey I ran out of arrows" is a different construct than "there is such a thing as a number that is independent of particulars like arrows and zero is one of those numbers"
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by mkoubaa 2y ago
Some living languages in amazonian tribes don't have a word for left or right. Their directions are downriver, upriver, towards river, and away from river. The language we speak and the concepts we are taught literally form into struct
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by mkoubaa 2y ago
What adds to the absurdity is that an ancient spartan or dalmatian would have seen folks like Socrates as foreigners, and so people who descend from ancient Spartans would have no reason to feel proud of the achievements of Greek philosophy
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by mkoubaa 2y ago
I think the term tenacious fits better than persistent here. Another thing that I think distinguishes a tenacious person from a stubborn one is that when two tenacious people collaborate, magic happens. When two stubborn people meet, they c
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by mkoubaa 2y ago
Why does it exist? Because it's legal and profitable. If you don't like it, try to convince regulators that it shouldn't be legal and provide a framework for criminalizing/fining it without unintended consequences, and t
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by mkoubaa 2y ago
In any case this isn't exactly a testable hypothesis
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by mkoubaa 2y ago
I think people who are eager and happy to do repetitive tasks are adapted towards agriculture as opposed to hunting.
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by mkoubaa 2y ago
Yes exactly. Though I would expect that they may be more neurotypical on average than modern humans
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by mkoubaa 2y ago
Writing arose independently. The cognitive ability necessary to invent writing may have existing for much longer

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