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by pshc 5y ago
I have also been thinking about building something like this. I believe there should be a presentation layer separate from the code. Give people tools to build an empty building (or city) via floorplans; allow them create pleasing spaces in
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by pshc 5y ago
It isn't helpful to engage in one-upmanship when it comes to people's individual trauma. It's alright for people to share their suffering and receive compassion without having experienced the absolute worst possible torture.
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by pshc 5y ago
25 years of plentiful SQL injections and XSS, and 25 years of posters rushing to PHP’s defense with variants of “you could do this in any language. All languages are potentially insecure.” At a certain point it turns from tragedy to farce
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by pshc 5y ago
Thoughts, feelings, and sensations come and go in the mind, whereas "You" are made of pure perception. You are the presence of awareness, the self that knows, that observes the mind, body, and world. ... at least that's how R
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by pshc 5y ago
Oh, you're right. The blog says the Rust code won't be ready until next year.
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by pshc 5y ago
At least it’s open source: https://github.com/facebook/buck/blob/master/LICENSE I do agree. Facebook doesn’t get a pass regardless.
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by pshc 5y ago
It’s the 10% that gets you. To safely operate a car in all reasonable situations might very well require Strong AI. The car needs to be able to problem solve and make inferences about road conditions up ahead.
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by pshc 5y ago
It’s Stroustrup’s Full Employment Theorem in action.
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by pshc 5y ago
I’m also not an expert but I believe that AR is that much more difficult because any latency between the projected image and the real world will show up as displacement when you move or turn your head. Whereas in VR, because the world is ob
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by pshc 5y ago
Oh no, you're right! Humanity is monstrous. Maybe we should start putting the wolf back into the dogs.
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by pshc 5y ago
That’s true, but I’m not sure if obedience is the primary reason for their popularity? I would argue it’s primarily out of love. There are probably a small minority of dog owners who do it solely for the utility, or just to exercise dominan
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by pshc 5y ago
Do you want the obvious explanation? Because the string was passed into the format string parameter of some sprintf-like, a common mistake in C usually caught by warnings but seemingly ignored or suppressed in this case. edit: turns out fro
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by pshc 5y ago
For many people a dog is there to be a warm cuddly friend who is excited to see you and loves you. It’s a personal relationship. A robot that does exactly what you program it to do doesn’t hit the same notes.
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by pshc 5y ago
Why would Rust do anything weird when presented with the string "%p%s%s%s%s%n"?
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by pshc 5y ago
You are making a false equivalence—not all languages are equally busted. Any sanely designed modern language does not allow this to happen. Accidentally parsing a string you didn’t mean to parse is a fault of C’s outdated API design, a desi
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by pshc 5y ago
A counterpoint I read on HN back in April, wherein the author decries expensive office chairs, and recommends exercise balls and tub chairs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26919449
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by pshc 5y ago
I want to work at the graph level, not the text level. My belief is that we could avoid a lot of artificial complexity and yak shaving around parsers, name resolution, and particularly collaboration/version control if we worked at this
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by pshc 5y ago
You make a good point. We ought to be working in AST-land rather than spending time arguing about delimiters. It's legacy and it's a classic example of the bikeshed effect. That being said, it's still an open problem to devel
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by pshc 5y ago
We're supposed to squat, not sit, when eliminating.
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by pshc 5y ago
I guess the buck stops at Blue Checkmark providers really.
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by pshc 5y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but being offline is not a slashable penalty. You would slowly lose ETH and eventually be ejected, but not slashed like a malicious validator would be.
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by pshc 5y ago
I suppose they are voting on fork chains in that sense, true.
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by pshc 5y ago
Can you elaborate what you mean by “the most say”? The nodes aren’t voting on political proposals. So long as one entity doesn’t control >50% of the validating nodes, it doesn’t really matter, does it?
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by pshc 5y ago
You could easily burn five years trying to fix `contenteditable` and get nowhere. There's too much legacy and impedance mismatch. Better to start fresh at this point.
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by pshc 5y ago
Criticism of a product or trend is not the same as criticism of its creator or users--if it even is valid criticism rather than social noise
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by pshc 5y ago
Could you elaborate what you mean by broken? I like private registration myself. IMO they should just do away with the address fields, in this age of doxxing and swatting.
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by pshc 5y ago
Virtual reality, being so latency-sensitive, is always going to be hungry for faster raw serial execution. It seems like something that ought to parallelize alright (one GPU per eye!) but my understanding is that there are many non-linearit
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by pshc 6y ago
bcrypting 533M phone numbers alone on my PC would take about (edit: 185) days straight by my calculations
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by pshc 6y ago
React needs to borrow the idea of 'zero-cost abstractions' from Rust. Too often I've seen five divs used to add five layers of behavior where one (or zero) divs could have had the same effect.
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by pshc 6y ago
Is that the whole argument--that it isn't nice to call people names? How about addressing the substance of the complaint?

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