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by philipov 3y ago
Independent of us, something may or may not exist, but until it can be interacted with, it is not real. It remains hypothetical. You can't do anything with it, only the idea of it is real. (Edits to make my argument a bit less snarky
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by philipov 3y ago
Didn't I already defeat you the last time I played Final Fantasy?
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by philipov 3y ago
String theory isn't yet reality, it's just a sometimes-useful thought experiment. Something doesn't become real until we can interact with it experimentally.
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by philipov 3y ago
How does that square with the junior job postings that want at least ten years of experience with some technology?
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by philipov 3y ago
No, there are three plus one dimensions of reality.
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by philipov 3y ago
I think maybe GP is getting you confused with the person who brought up the suggestion it's expensive in the first place, before we started looking into what the numbers really would be. While the initial statement of that sounds like
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by philipov 3y ago
And Google is making exactly the same calculation. Maybe they'll do something to fix it after a hundred people die because they can't call 911 and it blows up nationally.
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by philipov 3y ago
So how do you explain Unity and Reddit and Twitter and Wizards of the Coast all belly flopping their PR this year? I'm sure they care, in some abstract sense, about PR (well, not Musk). I just think they're out of touch and incomp
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by philipov 3y ago
If Google, of all companies, can't afford the necessary testing equipment for a critical function, who can? If they thought that emergency services would make them money, they could have a lab in every office. But it won't, and so
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by philipov 3y ago
> Again, a test lab should help towards these things, but I doubt Google has one accessible to the average engineer working on the dialer. And why not? It seems like the real real problem is #4: Management doesn't take seriously
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by philipov 3y ago
Are you telling me the Rain Follows The Plow folks were actually on to something?
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by philipov 3y ago
I don't have an opinion on whether there should be a right to be forgotten or not, but it doesn't do the thing you described. We need GDPR or a similar protection. And to do that, it needs to be regulatory legislation, not court r
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by philipov 3y ago
I'm building out menu systems and information panes for a hobby game right now, and was just starting to wonder about how to make them draggable, so this is exactly the topic I needed. Thank you!
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by philipov 3y ago
Your hyperbole comes across as quite feverish as well, you know. Are you sure you don't belong to a rival pseudo-religion?
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by philipov 3y ago
Again?! Didn't this same thing happen last year or maybe the one before?
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by philipov 3y ago
The embarrassment is staggering; I bet that's why zeke is using a faux name.
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by philipov 3y ago
At first I thought this was referring to Folding Ideas' 2022 documentary on NFTs, "Line Goes Up", but it turns out this new book was just released. Here is the documentary for those interested: https://www.youtube.
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by philipov 3y ago
The voters don't get what they want, they get what you offer them. With a good marketing budget, you might be able to convince voters to want what you're offering them. That's called Manufactured Demand.
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by philipov 3y ago
The part about voter apathy towards primaries is important. It means that the sort of people who vote in primaries don't represent an unbiased sample of their party: they skew towards the extremes, because those people can be more easi
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by philipov 3y ago
I think I might call RedBlobGames the #1 website on the internet for learning game algorithms and data structures. Amit is the best!
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by philipov 3y ago
Saying someone is "tracking attendance" doesn't mean "there is hypothetical data out there that could be used to track attendance." It means they are generating those reports and using them. The "another story&
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by philipov 3y ago
Maybe your sample is biased towards companies that track individual badge-in rates.
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by philipov 3y ago
It looks like a cloud-only app. If it doesn't run entirely locally, it's useless to me. Shipping my data to an external data processor is a security risk I'm not allowed to take.
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by philipov 3y ago
It's no coincidence that the most important fields of math are well suited to solving physics problems. Looking back through history, so many of the most famous mathematicians were also physicists. Math was invented to solve two kinds
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by philipov 3y ago
Wow, really? You've never heard of Ed Witten?
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by philipov 3y ago
I really enjoyed this talk on the history of big-retail lobbying. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fj0dBCooWGo It has a lot to say about the notion that corporations are beholden to shareholders to maximize profits. Who they
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by philipov 3y ago
Dude needs to raise the wages of people who can't even afford a $200 fire pit.
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by philipov 3y ago
I hope he does a series like this on civic governance in Han China next!
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by philipov 3y ago
Do you remember before Steam won, there was also Stardock. They're still around now because they make Galactic Civilizations, but back in the day, they were also one of the early innovators in having their own store launcher for distri
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by philipov 3y ago
Offtopic: BDFL is a funny initialism. Although it means Benevolent Dictator For Life, its visual similarity to BOFH evokes a second meaning.

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