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by pohl 3y ago
Well put. On the other hand, I pray that the industry doesn’t ossify right now around Facebook’s dominant framework. Sweet Jesus, anyone but Facebook.
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by pohl 3y ago
It was clearly a response, yes, but an answer is always better than a response. Thank you for answering!
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by pohl 3y ago
It's great that you responded to the question. Is there a reason you didn't answer it, though?
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by pohl 3y ago
Any sufficiently advanced mathematics is indistinguishable from magic, where "sufficently advanced" turns out to be a low bar.
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by pohl 3y ago
That would be the charitable possibility that soligern pointed out. I'm still weighing P_I_Staker's interpretation, pending clarification.
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by pohl 3y ago
We’ll see. The longer my question goes unanswered, the less likely it is that your overly generous interpretation holds.
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by pohl 3y ago
the same people Unpack this. Which people, precisely, do you mean?
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by pohl 3y ago
I know, right? It could mean anything, like — just as a random, top-of-mind scenario — being in a coma through the ages of 18 to 39.
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by pohl 3y ago
I've saw a prank like that on a small scale when I was a kid who liked to go play some old Trek game on a line-paper-printer-terminal — in a computer lab in a state college — that was dialed into a machine in a bigger city. Around me,
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by pohl 3y ago
My device is as worthless as a brick, but only for the 2 or 3 seconds it takes for the tip of my finger to travel to this reset button over here... <Tongue in="cheek"/>
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by pohl 3y ago
…my last account was banned for merely expressing my opinion… Nebulous anecdotes such as this always made him curious: opinion regarding what, precisely? “David Lane’s 14 words and 88 precepts, perhaps?” — he wondered to himself, unable t
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by pohl 3y ago
Could you elaborate on that? It sounds like you’re saying that Google and Apple have no product management and they’re just shipping random features every year, but that sounds bonkers so I must be misunderstanding.
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by pohl 3y ago
they just leech We prefer the verb “lurk”. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lurker
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by pohl 3y ago
How would you explain the fact that the “Spanish flu” was recorded? Covid surpassed Spanish flu as the deadliest disease in U.S. back In September 2021.
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by pohl 3y ago
I was with you on the first part. If this proves room-temperature/ambient-pressure is possible at all, that is huge. Not so sure about the "won't be long until it's optimized," though. There are a lot of examples wh
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by pohl 3y ago
Getting a proposal for a sufficiently flaccid variant approved by the Unicode Technical Committee was too big a lift.
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by pohl 3y ago
Dude has a Wikipedia entry. It may shed some light on your questions, which I’m sure you’re asking in good faith. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaron_Lanier
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by pohl 3y ago
It has everything to do with price, however — and, therefore, "fair price".
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by pohl 3y ago
So my side project is like Narcissus having a wank, then.
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by pohl 3y ago
I think it’s the absence of pro-authoritarian payouts that one would want, not the presence of an account who is not.
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by pohl 3y ago
Prototyping is a tiny fraction of product development.
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by pohl 3y ago
Anecdotes of this form without specifics (what school, what years, which professor, what research) always have an untrustworthy odor.
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by pohl 3y ago
It’s not clear what outcome you’re referring to. You say it’s “been a force for…backlash…” So is the outcome you think he’s focused on is to stop that? Or to redirect it to his own interests? Are either of those good outcomes?
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by pohl 3y ago
Either way, he decided, “You gotta commend Elon for doing everything in his power to wipe this nuisance website off the face of the earth.” You do not, under any circumstances, gotta commend Elon.
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by pohl 3y ago
Well, except for the context where google's cloud infrastructure code were precisely what they meant by "systems" back then.
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by pohl 3y ago
Pike later expressed regret about using the term "systems programming" so loosely. I believe it was during this panel discussion: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/events/lang-next-2014/pane...
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by pohl 3y ago
Honestly, I was thinking older than that, like the S&L crisis in the 80s. What I remember most from the crash you referenced is that the Dodd–Frank regulations getting rolled back not long after. An ounce of prevention, ya know.
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by pohl 3y ago
I also don't think that "the smooth running of the financial system" is the most important responsibility Anyone old enough to live through the financial institutions collapsing, one after another, like dominoes would proba
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by pohl 3y ago
That is absolutely true. It's crickets when things go right.
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by pohl 3y ago
No, I hadn't even heard of that genre. They sound potentially fun, though, since at least they have an environment to explore.

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