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by norir 3y ago
The real victims here are all the heroic MIT geniuses with unkempt hair who won't get their shot now.
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by norir 3y ago
Good thoughts overall. I will assume Sagan has deeper thoughts on religion than what he writes here, but I found those parts superficial and overly simplistic. The problem I have with his perspective is that we know from Godel's incomp
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by norir 3y ago
Very nice. In my experience writing both prose and code, rewrites are usually better than edits. Strangely, this tool reminds me a bit of how Fossil does not have rebase. The history is useful for context, but it shouldn't be edited.
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by norir 3y ago
I think an interesting approach might be a hybrid system that works with both touch and physical buttons. The bottom of the screen could have some generic buttons that could be used to navigate the interface eyes free with some optional aud
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by norir 3y ago
> The sole point of a business existing is to make a profit. From some angles, it seems like the sole point of most businesses is to keep people busy and employed so that they don't actually try to meaningfully change their circumst
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by norir 3y ago
My crude reaction to this piece is that it feels like they are describing a technique for finding a local maximum for any coding problem. It is an unsurprising result but it seems like it would be hard to avoid getting stuck in a low valley
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by norir 3y ago
> That's not enough to demonstrate that AI is just hype. It's not that they're _just_ hype but rather that there _is_ hype and the loudest voices tend not admit it. To give a specific example, I find the idea that LLM base
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by norir 3y ago
I mean you could have made a similar argument about the productivity benefits of smoking cigarettes 100 years ago. Just because a lot of people are doing something doesn't mean it's valuable or that we have an accurate picture of
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by norir 3y ago
> It increases the SLOC by 30% and reduces code coherence just so that a test can run in 20 milliseconds instead of 2.1 seconds. There are people who cargo cult and people who do things for a reason. It may not always be obvious which ca
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by norir 3y ago
This is somewhat inefficient but zero indexed strings can easily be simulated in lua: local array = function(backing) local res = { len = function() return #backing end } setmetatable(res, { __index = function(_, k) return
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by norir 3y ago
Yes, it is very easy to remove the entire standard library from lua. Could compute time be handled with signal handlers in at least some cases? If not, one (admittedly somewhat hard) option is to write a small lua to lua compiler that injec
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by norir 3y ago
I personally don't really believe this kind of business is good for society so to me this is a more feature than a bug. Obsessive guarding of IP secrets seems to be correlated with paranoid and selfish antisocial behavior, which is ess
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by norir 3y ago
I really disagree strongly with the take on bash. The best solution is not to add tooling on top of bash or memorize its idiosyncrasies. It is to not use bash. That is the only way to escape its pitfalls.
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by norir 3y ago
My reaction is based on the tone of the book as much as cultural expectations.
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by norir 3y ago
Since you're interested in Reich, I'd say yes. There is an undercurrent of sexual energy throughout the story that I find uncomfortable given that it is a son telling his father's story. I just skimmed through and early on th
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by norir 3y ago
I love Cloudbusting but have to admit that some of the stories of his treatment of his son in A Book of Dreams were quite harrowing to me. He also is quite admirable to me in many ways so I guess, as always, it's complicated!
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by norir 3y ago
> Your argument ends up being that successful things are bad, because humans are just idiots and thus if something is successful it is because it is just liked by idiots. I mean I'm not sure that this is that far from the truth in s
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by norir 3y ago
For me, the idea of robots being necessary to provide needed therapy that otherwise would be unavailable is enough to induce existential despair. I really can't imagine it as a viable long term treatment. Much of the point of therapy i
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by norir 3y ago
The article would have been stronger if it had benchmarks showing the performance improvements of this technique. My intuition is that the memory overhead of strings is not the main performance issue with most compilers.
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by norir 3y ago
> Specifically, I think they are less concerned with (say) specific Excel code leaking than with the knock on effects of a cheap perfect substitute. Is there any evidence that an LLM could actually generate a perfect substitute for excel
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by norir 3y ago
I actually am not convinced that this is a good format for intellectual discussion based on past experiences I've had. If you have, say, ten people and are meeting for three hours, that gives 18 minutes of speaking time at most if spea
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by norir 3y ago
Yes. The other day I saw a modern looking bike with a chris king headset and I smiled. I wonder if there is an opportunity for a rogue group of manufacturers to essentially open source road bike designs and more or less freeze certain stand
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by norir 3y ago
Yes, the missing part of all the transportation debate is how existing driving conditions in many areas make motorists miserable even in the absence of cyclists. There are many people who are driving teetering on the edge of explosive rage
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by norir 3y ago
Your opinion is not universal.
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by norir 3y ago
I have an even better idea: main(): int printf "hello" 0 ;)
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by norir 3y ago
I agree that Nestor's book should not be considered canonical but this sentiment goes way too far in the opposite direction. I have seen enormous improvements in my overall wellbeing since I started focusing on my breathing about four
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by norir 3y ago
> The near loss of texts in the Nag Hammadi library and the fragmentary transmission of Parmenides (or Sappho, Thales, Manetho, and countless others, for that matter) is not about book burning. I can't speak to the reasons for the l
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by norir 3y ago
A little of both. I do sometimes feel like "this is a post for xxxx" vs. this is a post for norir. I'm not comparing myself to him, but kierkegaard used pseudonyms to write most of his works in personas that he considered dis
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by norir 3y ago
I only post things I believe to be true but I am not always successful at communicating my thoughts and feelings. The response lets me know if I was effective or not. I also have blindspots and recognize that I may not be seeing the whole p
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by norir 3y ago
Most of the early christian texts were suppressed and destroyed. In the 1940s some ancient texts that had been buried for nearly 2000 years were found in Egypt and not realizing their value, a family member used many of them for kindling. B

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