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by oofbey 4y ago
A lot of this rant reminds me of the justification for crypto. The techno-anarchists are terrified of authority they can’t hack around. The fact that some governments abuse their power implies no authority should ever have any power. If we
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by oofbey 4y ago
We can all hope as much.
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The whole path of the video is define by a single complex number, with absurdly high precision. It’s just zooming in on that point.
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by oofbey 4y ago
I’d guess you need some kind of floating point bignum to do this. You can cache/memoize repeated Evals of the same point. But I think it would have to be the same point to some pretty tight tolerance (determined by screen resolution at
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by oofbey 4y ago
Diet research is super hard. But the current consensus is that nutrients are best obtained from natural sources.
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I think the kids who never really used XML might find it quaint and charming.
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It wasn’t “people” who saved JSON from this nonsense. It was Douglas Crockford, alone. I have been frequently annoyed at him for not allowing comments in JSON, but the explicit reason was that people were using json comments to encode all t
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by oofbey 4y ago
On the flip side, if your workload can be parallelized across thousands of cores, python has about the best CUDA support anywhere.
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by oofbey 4y ago
It’s not impossible to happen that fast. A SAFE takes almost no lawyer time to prepare, and sometimes investors think there’s good reason to move that fast. But the fact that it does happen sometimes doesn’t mean that’s “normal” in any wa
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by oofbey 4y ago
I totally have this problem with yaml. I wish vim had a line-these-things-up button, kinda like how % lets you bounce around in parenthesis - something like that for leading-whitespace alignment.
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by oofbey 4y ago
Ruby and Python are incredibly similar in raw functionality, but extremely different in culture. e.g. Both languages allow monkey-patching, while one community thinks it is a great productivity boost making it easy to build cool language t
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by oofbey 4y ago
I prefer Python over Javascript in almost every way. But python's async is a dumpster fire. It's quite natural in Javascript. Unfortunately Javascript makes you do almost everything async, no choices. Which makes you think that
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by oofbey 4y ago
True, and, C++ is popular in that people use it. But I don't think many people really like it.
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by oofbey 4y ago
JavaScript is popular because of browsers not because it is in any way a good language. Name another popular language with half its quirks. WASM will eventually spell the end of JavaScript’s hegemony as it becomes easier to build web apps i
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by oofbey 4y ago
They're taking a loss on every unit sold. They can afford to this because they have a firehose of cash from FB, and they believe this is the "next big thing" so they want to establish dominance. Sadly, it's almost cert
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by oofbey 4y ago
No I'm pretty sure his only interest in VR is to control our dopamine channels as completely as possible. He may be a nerd, but he's Machiavellian to the core and will do anything he can to amass power to control other humans. T
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by oofbey 4y ago
Sorry, I still don't get it. It's a timestamp plus a random number. As their references show, plenty of people have figured out this is a fine strategy. I could explain to an intern how to build this in 10 seconds with "us
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by oofbey 4y ago
I really don’t understand why we need standards for UUIDs. I get that with cryptography it’s super easy to make subtle mistakes. But UUID4 (the most commonly used variant these days) is just a long random number. Except for a few bits wh
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by oofbey 4y ago
Not "must" but bayesian statistics would argue it likely. Just as it would be highly unusual for somebody who generally supports progressive social ideas to loudly oppose language changes which are generally agreed to be anti-rac
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by oofbey 4y ago
Stackoverflow and it’s dozens of sigs seem fine. What do you think is the exception? Not mainstream? I’d argue it’s good community policing with a carefully Maintained incentive structure.
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by oofbey 4y ago
Just looked at the earnings report and I have to agree with you. Windows + Office was 25% of MS's revenue in 2021, but I suspect you're right that the big majority of that is not consumer-driven. FWIW just 2 years back, Windows
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by oofbey 4y ago
Zuckerberg flagged it LOL.
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by oofbey 4y ago
Fair counter-point, but that's a pretty different situation. I should have said "MS has no reason to make Apple's laptop hardware more attractive." In 2014 when Office was released for iPad, the Surface had negligible
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by oofbey 4y ago
TBH I have a hard time understanding why people choose to run windows at all, except for playing games. If you're stuck using windows because the corporate overlords insist, then yeah that sucks. Also you can always run windows in a V
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by oofbey 4y ago
Balmer or not, Microsoft is still in direct competition with Apple for much of its core business. So encouraging customers to buy a laptop where they get $50 for the windows license and if they're lucky another $100 in software sales,
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by oofbey 4y ago
Microsoft and Apple are traditional enemies. Microsoft has no reason to make Apple's hardware more attractive to customers. The thing I don't get is why a consumer would want this. You want an _extremely expensive_ windows lapto
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by oofbey 4y ago
The article makes the point with evidence that just filing criminal charges will change corporate behavior regardless of how a judge rules.
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When you’re conditioned to think of yourself in a superior class of people, I can easily see how that mindset carries over to nonprofessional circumstances. Also it’s not recruiting or hiring that I think is relevant. Those activities mostl
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by oofbey 4y ago
Google’s culture is dominated by arrogance. Management repeatedly tells employees they work on the world’s hardest problems using the world’s biggest computers and the world’s smartest people. Doing anything less is “ungoogley”. It doesn’t
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by oofbey 4y ago
That's a surprisingly balanced position. When you say he's not toxic, do you mean that he doesn't yell or act sexist? Or that he's actually an honest, upfront businessperson? Because things like systematically lying a

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