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by munchler 3y ago
Talk about burying the lede. We've discovered faster-than-light communication... and we're using it to make tamper-proof ID tags.
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by munchler 3y ago
Significant doses of a psychoactive drug on a regular basis.
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by munchler 3y ago
> And 1-3 espresso shots if I go into the office. I consider the coffee experience positively euphoric. Almost spiritual. As someone who doesn’t consume caffeine, this sounds a lot like addiction. You can keep the ritual and ditch the ca
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by munchler 3y ago
I mean you can have a conversation with it in English. You can use slang, idioms, misspellings, invalid grammar, and it will track you just fine. This was a sci-fi dream a decade ago and now it’s reality.
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by munchler 3y ago
> It’s not that Sora is generating new and amazing scenes based on the words you’re typing — it’s automating the act of stitching together renderings of extant video and images. I think this is untrue. Sora is doing way more than stitchi
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by munchler 3y ago
That is straight out of an Orwellian dystopia. Report anyone without a smartphone directly to the Ministry of Truth.
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by munchler 3y ago
Theorem provers like Lean are awesome. As a software guy who admires mathematics from a safe distance, the Curry-Howard isomorphism is one of the most beautiful and surprising things I've ever seen. Programs are proofs!
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by munchler 3y ago
Yeah, I’m not a Lisp fan myself. I was comparing Python to functional languages, like Haskell or F#.
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by munchler 3y ago
I'm not saying Python is always crappy. It's just easier to create crappy code in Python, due to dynamic typing, rampant side effects, null values, OO madness, etc. If your team has the discipline not to do that, great.
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by munchler 3y ago
I agree with you about the upfront costs. As a functional programming fan (F# in particular), I can’t deny that it sometimes feels like puzzle solving. Fun, but not easy at first. On the other hand, you can quickly throw together some crapp
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by munchler 3y ago
If, like me, you don’t know what PV stands for: A photovoltaic (PV) cell, commonly called a solar cell, is a nonmechanical device that converts sunlight directly into electricity.
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by munchler 3y ago
Not only that, but also claiming that Rust is somehow superior to other statically-typed languages in this regard. I think functional programming language like Haskell, F#, etc. deserve more of the credit here.
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by munchler 3y ago
I think VSCode is a big part of the story here. Having a Microsoft IDE that works on Linux makes it much easier to develop portable .NET code.
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by munchler 3y ago
.NET supports asynchronous code very well, so that hardly seems like a likely reason for rewriting in Rust.
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by munchler 3y ago
I wrote a program to explore. Here's a "first discovery": 'Jupiter' + 'Muddy Date' = 'Muddy Planet' 'Foghorn' + 'Planet' = 'Jupiter' 'Fog
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by munchler 3y ago
If starting from nothing isn’t possible, how did the top-level universe start?
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by munchler 3y ago
Most writing these days is also done by pressing buttons.
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by munchler 3y ago
A lot of people are interested in the process behind good writing, up to and including what word processor or analog technology the author used.
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by munchler 3y ago
Yes, but you don't need a social network graph for the cases you describe. As you say, they're obviously the same story with some names changed. This article seems to claim that two stories had the same social graphs, but weren&#
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by munchler 3y ago
The whole point of jury deliberations is to discuss and debate the case. It would be counterproductive to keep one’s position secret during the process. Multiple votes, including informal straw polls, are often necessary.
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by munchler 3y ago
> You may not be able to do all write operations while spoofing (e.g., updating payment methods), but most operations are read, and even the write ones are reversible. Don’t let this scare you, embrace it. Yikes. I would not allow admins
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by munchler 3y ago
Because Earth is currently a single point of failure. If we want humanity to survive planet-wide catastrophe, we need to send human civilization to other planets.
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by munchler 3y ago
Because blackmail is an effective salary negotiation tactic?
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by munchler 3y ago
> The only justification for human spaceflight at all is that humans can fix things that a robot can't yet. That is a justification, but surely not the only one. For example, humans will eventually want to colonize the moon and othe
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by munchler 3y ago
Do you have any actual children? This is lousy advice. A parent's job is to love their children and provide opportunities for growth, not to teach them to "succeed at work". I can't think of anything more dreary than tha
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by munchler 3y ago
> Why teach someone a language they can’t use at work? Not everything is about work, especially for children.
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by munchler 3y ago
Survivorship bias in effect. Old furniture that lasts decades persists in our memories longer than crappy new furniture that we get rid of quickly. I suspect people who shopped 20, 50, or 100 years ago were also convinced that the quality o
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by munchler 3y ago
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by munchler 3y ago
With WFH, you’ll have unused offices no matter how cheap the rent. There are simply more offices than workers to occupy them. At some point it becomes immoral not to let people live there instead.
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by munchler 3y ago
Hard disagree. With WFH, cities now have beautiful but empty office buildings near public transportation. Those should be turned into housing first.

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