mmirate

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541.
by mmirate 9y ago
> constructive One cannot "construct" anything from a foundation that is so thoroughly wrong that it crumbles at the slightest touch. Is it then so wrong to give that foundation a hardy poke, rather than making a vain attempt
542.
by mmirate 9y ago
> In general this focus on the mind, on the internal Layman here. Upon seeing a black box that performs tasks that are otherwise intractable, isn't it all-but-natural to desire to crack the box open and figure out how it works? (n.b
543.
by mmirate 9y ago
Right, that's why I recently started checking people's profiles before posting a dissenting reply, and not making the reply if they've enough karma to downvote me.
544.
by mmirate 9y ago
My prior expectation of almost any of the aspiring business-owners that you describe, is that they do not have the knowledge necessary to successfully run their business.
545.
by mmirate 9y ago
> You must be a professional pilot. Yes, I bet that's it. I won't claim one way or the other, but let's presume that this person is a professional pilot. Does that not make their opinion/analysis more valuable, rath
546.
by mmirate 9y ago
Normally I would think that > hundreds of millions of dollars in my rolling stock would refer to the aircraft ... except that's a nearly 1-order-of-magnitude overestimate of it's value (a single $100M, not multiple).
547.
by mmirate 9y ago
Isn't this problem theoretically also suffered by e.g. ~5-person contract/consulting shops?
548.
by mmirate 9y ago
On the contrary. I can't imagine experiencing the emotions of all the people in 10000AD; at our current population growth rate, 10000AD will witness an unfathomable number of human beings! Being concerned about all those people is fa
549.
by mmirate 9y ago
In other words: "this entire HN submission is spam".
550.
by mmirate 9y ago
Isn't this a result of referential transparency, not Turing-incompleteness?
551.
by mmirate 9y ago
- invent a wheel from scratch ... oh, nevermind, sorry, I failed to notice that you said coursework/internship, not portfolio.
552.
by mmirate 9y ago
It's been well-tested enough not to matter. Plus that testing would need to be duplicated. Very costly. Uch.
553.
by mmirate 9y ago
Even further, it's almost like that attitude is the Nash equilibrium of human life. (And if it is, then we cannot expect rational people to deviate from it without significant imposition of force upon them.)
554.
by mmirate 9y ago
Yet. First it will be extra features and conveniences to miss; after some time (cheaper hardware etc etc) it will become feasible that all nontrivial Amazon interactions must go through Alexa.
555.
by mmirate 9y ago
"Hard problems"? They're mice , for crying out loud!
556.
by mmirate 9y ago
> 20 year old that sees themselves as having 80+ years left Any such 20-year-old is delusional; becoming a centenarian (let alone having good enough health to appreciate it) is not much more common than winning the lottery, at best.
557.
by mmirate 9y ago
I'm guessing they assumed that BSD would have a lesser chance of having drivers for the hardware in their router (or if their router is ARM-based: specifically supporting the router's exact+particular system board and configuratio
558.
by mmirate 9y ago
> establish a theory around whether designing any given system will improve someone's life That would be sociology or one of its siblings, no? ... or, at best, the piddly "ethics" course that gets tacked on to most undergr
559.
by mmirate 9y ago
Hmm, looks interesting, but it's quite unfortunate that making the compilation process be useful at runtime-error-removal is merely optional ("strong mode"). So one wonders how many shops write enough "prototype"
560.
by mmirate 9y ago
Well then, so much for it being Computer Science ...
561.
by mmirate 9y ago
> fragile ... was the keyword, or at least that was how I read it.
562.
by mmirate 9y ago
Agreed; "patented" or "patent-pending" is better read as "immediately stop reading this, cast the entire concept out of your mind, and don't ever think about this general problem-domain again, or we might be ab
563.
by mmirate 9y ago
Python is still dynamically typed, though at least it is less weakly-typed than JS. While the benefits of moving any distance away from JS's weak-typing are certainly obvious, why stop at Python rather than a language which is both str
564.
by mmirate 9y ago
Mods, please append " and Electron" to the post title. Should save lots of people a click.
565.
by mmirate 9y ago
(Being a superior being, such a sibling would deserve their existence more than I do mine.)
566.
by mmirate 9y ago
Bandwidth and latency aren't exactly favorable on any sort of satelite internet connection. How will the Elon Musk brand change this?
567.
by mmirate 9y ago
Even though I've no disabilities per se , I would gladly trade my own existence for that of a genetically-superior sibling.
568.
by mmirate 9y ago
With all this talk of automation, intelligence is all that's useful.
569.
by mmirate 9y ago
Ah, in this case we have an isomorphism to the argument between "no child left behind" and private schools.
570.
by mmirate 9y ago
Yes, there do exist violent collectivist groups which have the uncanny ability to have their antics be broadcast on the news. Also, they each care specifically about their own race and racial identity, not about whether or not their childre

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