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by nlitened 6mo ago
> does it taste as good as espresso? Coffee is an acquired taste, I think. People conditions themselves to like the bitter taste of coffee over time. I remember hating the taste of coffee (or beer, for example) in childhood.
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by nlitened 7mo ago
> Slippery slopes are a logical fallacy How is this a counter-argument? I often read this, as if there's some international trusted organization of logical thinkers that has approved inclusion of slippery slope to a list of logical
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by nlitened 7mo ago
If I had to guess, I think it’s marketing — just like adding weights to the insides to make them feel more “premium”. I’d guess that the target audience would argue that real lossless music experience requires high-bandwidth wires, and is n
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by nlitened 7mo ago
Unless somebody from management AND engineering goes to jail, it's literally just cost of business.
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by nlitened 8mo ago
Cameras are cheap, but, as I understand: 1) it's not cheap to produce lidars at a stable predictable quality in millions; 2) car driving training data sets for lidars are much scarcer (and will always be much scarcer due to cameras&#x2
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by nlitened 8mo ago
Even if so, it doesn't mean that capital deployment efficiency and expected payoff make equal sense in all directions. Then again, it's good that we have self-driving companies with lidar and without — we will find out which appro
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by nlitened 8mo ago
If your vision is good enough to drive in rain/snow/fog, you don't need lidar in clear conditions. If you planned to spend $10B on vision and $10B on lidar — you would be better off spending $20B on better vision.
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by nlitened 8mo ago
As I understand, lidars don't work well in rain/snow/fog. So in the real world, where you have limited resources (research and production investment, people talent, AI training time and dataset breadth, power consumption) tha
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by nlitened 8mo ago
> Countries rise to power because they are in the right place at the right time, even if monarchs and nationalists will always attribute it to God preference Isn’t it literally the God’s preference of a country for this place and time, f
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by nlitened 8mo ago
I would guess that you just remember at which file offsets you need to insert what, and which offset ranges you need to delete from the original file — and on file save you just do a single linear sweep to update the file contents on disk.
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by nlitened 8mo ago
Sir, your top three comments in the comment section are about how not important the compensation package is for you
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by nlitened 8mo ago
I wonder if there is an example of a country that doesn’t have resources, so “powerful countries” cannot “take” them? Or every country has resources, and weak countries are those that prefer to sell them for cheap rather than work on making
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by nlitened 8mo ago
As far as I understand, bad faith actors already have wide possibilities for disruption and abuse. This system allows for better good-faith coordination for mutual benefit.
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by nlitened 9mo ago
From what I see, the code is incorrect in reading “messages” from TCP socket stream, and will be failing randomly in production with messages longer than 1500 bytes, and also sometimes when even shorter. Instead, the TCP socket must be trea
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by nlitened 9mo ago
> because government will have more money now Ah, so your idea is the good old “only the emperor who controls the violence apparatus should have a lot of money and power”? It’s not a very original idea, and it has been tried many times,
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by nlitened 9mo ago
Your move is sinking a civil cargo ship in response to an attack on naval bases? Ok
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by nlitened 10mo ago
You actually don't have to maintain the fork and/or update to latest version if you don't need new features.
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by nlitened 10mo ago
It’s up to the application to change this parameter on per-socket basis
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by nlitened 10mo ago
> If your SaaS can’t compete on the service part, the software part ain’t gonna make or break you. Oh, your bootstrapped team can’t simultaneously develop from scratch and support the new open source software project AND outcompete a mul
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by nlitened 10mo ago
I think the major problem with your described system is how you quantify wealth. For example, you start a startup, get almost no salary, but you raise a 20M investment on 100M valuation — with your proposed method of calculation, the govern
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by nlitened 10mo ago
So why would anyone start businesses or continue doing business in such a country? You’re literally just describing an end to private property, where a privileged government representative can take anything you have. The “government job” wi
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by nlitened 10mo ago
They should just start compiling Tor with Fil-C — free memory safety, no new bugs from full code rewrite
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by nlitened 10mo ago
Also “Rewrite it in Rust”. P.S. it’s a joke, guys, but you have to admit it’s at least partially what’s happening
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by nlitened 10mo ago
I also love the approach of ClickHouse with LowCardinality(String). Flexible, clear semantics, high performance
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by nlitened 11mo ago
> The two aren’t in conflict; often they reinforce each other I’d think they _are_ inherently in conflict. Every person has 24 hours per day, and they can spend them on researching and doing what’s right or on reaching consensus. There i
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by nlitened 11mo ago
I don't have any experience with STMs in other languages, but as far as I can see, the ideas are very similar in Haskell and Kotlin implementations, for example, so I guess the downsides are the same as well
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by nlitened 11mo ago
I think STM looks pretty cool in toy examples, but in practice it's pretty bad. Very difficult for me to make strong logical argument about this, just based on how it feels. In Clojure, there are first-class STM primitives with retriab
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by nlitened 11mo ago
I am confused with your position. On one hand you seem to think that eugenics is bad and wrong, on the other had you have a preference on what people should and should not have children — but isn’t it literally eugenics?
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by nlitened 1y ago
“If you want to become a philosopher king, first become a king, then a philosopher”
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by nlitened 1y ago
> Human language has roughly, say, 36% encoding redundancy on purpose. The purpose is being understandable by a person of average intellect and no specialized training. Compare with redundancy in math notation, for example.

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