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by munificent 2mo ago
> But from the inside observed by oneself, it feels quite similar, besides the fact that sleep is initiated by oneself, and the wakeful state transition for sleep is more gradual than for anesthesia. Have you been anesthetized before?
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by munificent 2mo ago
I mean, it's also a selfish expectation to be able to survive a couple of days without services. As a general rule, people prefer not to die. My point is just that a cheap battery backup does not have a significant effect in the resili
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by munificent 2mo ago
> It is socially irresponsible that as soon as a service goes out that you are immediately in an emergency. You should not offload basic resiliency on to emergency services. Sure, but that's not a remotely accurate description of
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by munificent 2mo ago
I listen to a lot of ambient and other genres that are AI-amenable. I still try to avoid listening to AI generated music. Knowing I'm sitting there consuming the uncaring out of a machine just makes me feel sad and alone and I'd r
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by munificent 2mo ago
Going forward, I suspect one of the main employment opportunities left for humans in the AI era is "scapegoat". Corporations don't want to take any responsibility for anything. AI can't be responsible. So there's
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by munificent 3mo ago
> Where will we be in another 4 years? Possibly somewhere amazing, but see also: https://x.com/pronounced_kyle/status/1768852493092680036
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by munificent 3mo ago
<3
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by munificent 3mo ago
As a user and consumer of objects, sometimes I want a meaningful experience with a thing made lovingly by human hands. I will take a dinner cooked by my friends over take-out any day of the week even if the restaurant makes objectively bett
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by munificent 3mo ago
Why bother having Copilot write documentation ahead of time? For the people who need it, they can just ask Copilot the one targeted question they have in that moment and it will serve them a textual answer to exactly that. Having an AI writ
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by munificent 3mo ago
"Musician" is the obvious answer but so many people who make electronic music are hesitant to call themselves that, maybe because they think you have to have mastered some physical instrument to call yourself that?
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by munificent 3mo ago
Oh yeah, Quincy Jones was a genius. I listened to the whole "Off the Wall" album a while back with headphones on and it's just a sonic masterpiece.
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by munificent 3mo ago
I make electronic music as a hobby, and I feel the same way about the term "producer". I understand the history behind where that term came from. (The people who were making musical decisions while standing behind the mixing board
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by munificent 3mo ago
I think you may be underestimating how much photographers and cinematographers also compensate for this by choosing subjects and lighting carefully to re-convey a sense of depth lost by stereoscopic vision. This is, I think one of the big
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by munificent 3mo ago
Yeah, something the article doesn't mention is that videogames have to overcompensate with things that provide the illusion of depth because the viewer is missing their usual stereoscopic vision. The game is already at a disadvantage
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by munificent 3mo ago
Your comment is very assertive, but also doesn't offer much in the way of science. Being able to compile ML quickly in the 90s tells you little about being able to compile Roc or some other language today because the language design en
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by munificent 3mo ago
Good article. Some related bits that other languages do: Swift is able to avoid monomorphizing even when the type arguments have different GC shapes and allocation strategies. To do that, the dictionary (what Swift calls a "witness tab
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by munificent 3mo ago
My restorative mode is also "turn self towards sun, don't do anything unnecessary".
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by munificent 3mo ago
Dueling is a very different phenomenon. Duels were typically done away from urban centers and involved only the participants. They were not done to annoy other random people. I'm no expert, but you could do a whole deep dive on the soc
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by munificent 3mo ago
How is it possible for deciding whether or not to build on the labor of some other organized group of people to not be politics?
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by munificent 3mo ago
> Someone putting performance exhaust on their cool car isn't likely to disturb me in my home. We are not all so lucky. I live one door down from an avenue that does sometimes get these kinds of vehicles and it 100% disturbs me in
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by munificent 3mo ago
> they will finally get the respect they deserve. I believe this is a big part of it. With the rise of corporations and media, we have seen a loss of any sort of public commons. A consequence of that is that I think many people here in
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by munificent 3mo ago
This is a good time to point out that slippery slope is a fallacy. Saying, "Experiencing some friction is good for building character" is not equivalent to saying "We should demolish all technology and force babies to survive
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by munificent 3mo ago
I mean, he's 83. No one's battery runs forever.
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by munificent 3mo ago
Everyone lives in a world deeply affected by social media. Even if you've never looked at a screen your entire life, you have spent thousands of hours talking to and being informed by people who did.
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by munificent 3mo ago
> Anyway, telling agent to NOT do something is always worse than telling agent to do something. > That's why you should say something like "Use constants instead of magic strings/numbers" rather than "Do no
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by munificent 3mo ago
> and the latter is neither unique nor particularly widely used (hot reloads have to tangle with state and patching, so resetting the world for ease of reasoning is considered a best practice for a reason). For what it's worth, ho
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by munificent 3mo ago
When you buy a book, it doesn't include the typewriter it was written with.
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by munificent 3mo ago
Because big companies can spend way more on marketing than you. If a big company decides to make a game very similar to yours, they can make theirs win by throwing more money into marketing than you can. Do you want them to spend that marke
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by munificent 3mo ago
All of this is true and has been true for decades in the game industry. The other side of this seesaw is: Games are fundamentally in the novelty business. Players like some amount of familiarity, but they want new experiences. Every game
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by munificent 3mo ago
> No screen glow, no keyboard, no chat UI. Is this not just... a chat UI?

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