patrickmay

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by patrickmay 3mo ago
I like your metaphor but I'd argue that trusting programmers with power is the Light Side. Relevant PG: https://paulgraham.com/langdes.html
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by patrickmay 3mo ago
"The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians." -- George Orwell
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by patrickmay 3mo ago
I find the Nolan Chart ( https://www.theadvocates.org/political-type-comparison/ ) to be a better version of the 2D compass. You're absolutely right that more dimensions would be better, but finding the right ortho
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by patrickmay 3mo ago
> If we are all subject to the same monitoring and there are no exceptions, that would be fair. It might be fair, by some definition, but it would still be wrong. The government shouldn't be monitoring us to the extent required to
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by patrickmay 4mo ago
Have you tried nailing 95 theses to their doors, by way of introduction?
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by patrickmay 4mo ago
Allman FTW! (With you on spaces, though.)
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by patrickmay 4mo ago
Many of these are beautiful, but it's missing one of the best ever written, by Olin Shivers in the Scsh Reference Manual: Who should I thank? My so-called ``colleagues,'' who laugh at me behind my back, all the while becoming
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by patrickmay 5mo ago
This is the answer. Stop operating in authoritarian states and ignore their laws. If those states want to censor what their population can see, it's on them to establish a firewall.
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by patrickmay 5mo ago
I was also expecting a story about a physical railway being shut down.
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by patrickmay 5mo ago
Stein's Law: "If something cannot go on forever, it will stop."
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by patrickmay 5mo ago
Who doesn't love capybaras?
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by patrickmay 5mo ago
> Part of these "corporate" datasets include deep knowledge of the world's best literature and philosophy Part of those datasets also include 4chan.
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by patrickmay 6mo ago
Exactly, well said. "The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise." -- Edsger Dijkstra
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by patrickmay 6mo ago
No major party. There are smaller parties who oppose mass surveillance.
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by patrickmay 6mo ago
“The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.” ― Alexis de Tocqueville
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by patrickmay 6mo ago
> Personal information usually does include photos of someone in public without their consent This is not the case in the United States. There is no presumption of privacy in public. In fact, there is a whole genre known as "stree
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by patrickmay 6mo ago
Here's a good summary of the limited evidence for the benefits of strong type systems: https://danluu.com/empirical-pl/
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by patrickmay 6mo ago
I came here to comment "We already have Lisp."
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by patrickmay 6mo ago
I find that using Control Panel for Twitter (not affiliated, just a happy customer) to see only the Following tab in reverse chronological order makes X tolerable. There is no benefit to For You.
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by patrickmay 7mo ago
As a (sometime) TPM, you are the kind of PM I've been looking for.
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by patrickmay 7mo ago
I'd bet if you read the Dragon book (yes, I'm dating myself) you'd have something working in less than three months. More importantly, you would understand every bit of it.
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by patrickmay 7mo ago
Congratulations on finding out that you have good taste by default.
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by patrickmay 7mo ago
> Sometimes we use . . . Oxford commas. Good writers ALWAYS use the Oxford comma.
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by patrickmay 7mo ago
I'm sorry you're going through this and I'm impressed that you are in touch enough with your feelings to articulate it. There's a lot of great advice in this thread. The best I have is to 1) Join a gym and go consistent
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by patrickmay 7mo ago
I understand and appreciate your perspective. I do, however, disagree with your priorities. I mostly read here, but when I participate I want to interact with humans, not chatbots. I would much rather read a human comment with typos and
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by patrickmay 7mo ago
You're giving me flashbacks to PGP key signing parties. I do like your idea, though.
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by patrickmay 7mo ago
I use em-dashes, but I use them incorrectly, with a space before and after, because I think it looks better. I'm waiting to be flagged as an LLM.
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by patrickmay 7mo ago
I regret that I have but one upvote to give to this comment.
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by patrickmay 7mo ago
If you're selling Ape Coding merchandise, send me the link!
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by patrickmay 7mo ago
> Just as we don't use mainframes for computation anymore outside of niche tasks like 3D render farms. The entire banking sector would like a word.

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