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by nnq 7y ago
ok, so Atom is dead
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by nnq 7y ago
Maybe bitcoin and crypto are not valuable... but the mathematical ideas of blockchain are, after the bubble dies they'll just become boring pieces of crucial infrastructure that sit in the background but they'll be there, it'
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by nnq 7y ago
> somebody read about drop-shipping and thought "How can we do something like this, but make it even more pointless and wasteful?" ...what's pointless and wasteful about dropshiping? In an ideal case the manufacturer has n
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by nnq 7y ago
We suck at estimating in general. In tech we suck bigtime! Whether it takes 50 or 500 years, the point is that we'll totally missestimate it and when it does finally happen it will totally take us by surprise... and likely we'll
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by nnq 7y ago
Bingo! That's why communism or centralized socialism can't work with humans at the top. And the alternatives with AIs at the top would either not be a world worth living in... or would soon end up not having much use for humans :|
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by nnq 7y ago
> the ridiculous "on the computational capacity of the universe." I'm really interested to know more about the critic of this paper. Please detail or share some links. (Note: not part of of the academic field, and I real
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by nnq 7y ago
You're actually advocating for an "actor model" yourself, you know :) The actor model of "actors as services" and "messages as API calls" that has practically won in the real world. It also has the advanta
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by nnq 7y ago
Muh. It's OK to be one of those endless-pleasers-and-thankers, that's how you are... but stop being so fucking condescending about it! ...some of us "other kind" of people actually consider excessive politeness as offe
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by nnq 7y ago
...practically makes sense, but it's also kind of the very definition of NIH!
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by nnq 7y ago
> Julia seems like a much better target for this Exactly, at least from an outside perspective, why tf?! It seems like people love so much bolting stuff to "classic, conservative" languages that they do it even if it's 10x
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by nnq 7y ago
What are you coding it right now? Haskell? F#? OCaml/ReasonML? ...maybe Go? Or Rust? ...because in almost all other languages the issues mentioned by OP are valid! You can use "exceptions for business logic" and have invisi
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by nnq 7y ago
1000x times this!
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by nnq 7y ago
Hopefully a (theoretically) infinite amount (assuming infinite time) ...theories should continuously be re-tested, although it probably makes sense to spend an exponentially lower and lower amount of money on re-testing theories we know are
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by nnq 7y ago
> 10 percent higher than the designed speed ...wasn't smth like "doing research on a live production system to get X% higher than designed output" what the Cernobil engineers were trying to do? Hope their sticking to tra
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by nnq 7y ago
> I think it's called growth-economy More like "growth-economy with massive hidden externalized costs" - from the obvious like pollution and climate disruption, to subtle ones like economic pato-incentives that distort mar
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by nnq 7y ago
...that's one of the reasons why I think 60% of the time we're applying machine learning "at the wrong end of the problem". We should: (1) pick a set of goals we deem worthy (2) use machine learning to find patterns o
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by nnq 7y ago
> Racial profiling is just a slur for pattern recognition ...?! Did you really write that?! Do you really believe that? WTF, man! Do you realize how that would sound in any other context? A few steps down this line and you'd use mac
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by nnq 7y ago
> Should performing `thing[7]` put 1-6 in memory and turn the object into a generator-list hybrid You're right here. Probably can't work like that since generators are too general, you can't expect them to be rewindable or
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by nnq 7y ago
It is annoying! And doesn't always save memory. In theory a "sufficiently smart language" should have a feature to understand that `thing[3]` can be translated to "call `next()` 3 times and gimme the last thing"
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by nnq 7y ago
Wow. I find these places amazing. I don't understand how they can "work". Like in... why do people stay?! Russia's a huge country and with free movement you'd imagine such places would get depopulated quickly...
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by nnq 7y ago
Why would you care about "good", a relative notion that means different things to different people, over reduction of friction , a clearly beneficial thing that accelerates technical and scientific progress? If we could only &quo
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by nnq 7y ago
> For some topics that makes sense Bothsideism is always good fun. It makes 100% sense if your purpose is simply humor. Discourse is mean to be polluted, heil post-truth!
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by nnq 7y ago
They all suck. C#'s Linq seems cool but I don't live in that ecosystem. Also Cypher fro graph DBs or better still Gremlin are nice and more elegant. But I'd just want to write code like: (employees * addresses)[employee
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by nnq 7y ago
SQL is the most WTF notation/language I've ever seen... How the hell did someone start from the beauty of relational algebra and end up with the this misordered confusing and verbose abomination that we've all standardized u
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by nnq 7y ago
> for a defintion of work 99% of us use For this definition MacOS, Windows and Linux all work just fine. I prefer to use a combo of MacOS + Linux because for ME Windows doesn't work , always gets in the way, not just the OS but a
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by nnq 7y ago
> it should take time and effort to talk to people all over the world No, it shouldn't, that was the whole point of the global Internet (ignoring its origins), to drill into people's thick skulls that in the end we're all
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by nnq 7y ago
Lighter - SURE! Thinner - who cares?! Between current thickness and 2x-ing it it would be just as ergonomic...
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by nnq 7y ago
> Why so much "new" is actually worse these days.. New stuff in general is not worse. New versions of old things quite often are! So upgrade your taste and try new things instead of newer versions of the old things you know y
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by nnq 7y ago
no == there, not that strong of a claim, just "if [A], then more likely [B] than without prior [A]" ...if you have endless time (or a few PhD students you can task to research literature for free) and patience search for studies a
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by nnq 7y ago
> went in with a constructionist perspective and it didn't work out I have no knowledge of OLPC, but it seems obvious to me: successfull autodidacts in societies where self-directed-learning is not commont (probably most societies

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