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by psyc 9y ago
I might use this in future critical discussions of AI. “It’s not really intelligent.” Yeah, well, neither am I. On a more serious note, it seems obvious to me that technology is incremental, and we are where we are. Given 20 more years of p
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by psyc 9y ago
While reading this article, I imagined an Eternal September writ large across the whole industry. Maybe in the beginning it was a few idealistic visionaries, who attracted other idealists who could get behind the vision. Then it succeeded w
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by psyc 9y ago
I cannot recall an instance where virtual methods were definitely my best option. I have used them sparingly, but I suspect further review would reveal a perfectly good alternative. I have always considered them one of the least readable co
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by psyc 9y ago
My takeaway from this thread: People are tyrants. They want the freedom to enjoy their own lifestyle, but are not tolerant, and so do not want liberty generally. The want to use the State to force people with different values to refrain fro
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by psyc 9y ago
Don’t need to ignore all downsides in order to prioritize values.
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by psyc 9y ago
That you believe you can judge any developer by how they use their text editor is one of the most pitiful things I've heard on this topic yet. Every time I begin a new job, I pray I'm spared crossing paths with people who think li
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by psyc 9y ago
This might help: https://youtu.be/3PWWtqfwacQ
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by psyc 9y ago
I didn't notice any control for whether the couples went to the same school. It's a well worn trope within Christian circles that people go to christian colleges to find a spouse.
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by psyc 9y ago
I was confused until I noticed the "x" in front of "add".
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by psyc 9y ago
I think that reaching for legislation as the tool to minmax any desirable societal metric is a bad doctrine. That does not mean I am against every possible instance of it. DUI is very immediate. It's like putting one round in the chamb
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by psyc 9y ago
I have commented before about A/B testing the law to achieve statistical outcomes, and I absolutely do see a problem with it. It tosses principles and liberties out the window. Legislating things that are correlated with the thing yo
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by psyc 9y ago
"It is a bit string" is true. "It is a top secret document" is also true. Why would the law look at only the first and not the second? I sometimes make the joke that unicode sequences make people extremely angry. It&#x27
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by psyc 9y ago
Not the point. It isn't that SO is meaner to marginalized people because SO knows who they are. It's that marginalized people are more sensitive to being excluded, and less likely to voluntarily endure the hazing.
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by psyc 9y ago
I remember 2002-era Wikipedia. I personally found its openness far more valuable, but then other people became obsessed with making it just a bigger, hyperlinked, traditional encyclopedia. I believe something was lost.
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by psyc 9y ago
I'm in that third group because I perceive SO as a 'no good deed goes unpunished' culture. I already went through that with Wikipedia, and I've got better things to do than fight insiders.
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by psyc 9y ago
My grandparents enjoyed home ownership in a very nice neighborhood, in what is now an extremely high COL area. They had every modern convenience of their time period, sent their kids to college, and retired on-time without a care. Neither a
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by psyc 9y ago
It doesn't sound to me like you did anything wrong. I think what I have in mind is more subtle than just asking questions. I don't have any objection to being asked questions in general. I would prefer you ask questions appropriat
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by psyc 9y ago
Parent said: > If you can't answer it, or don't want to answer it Here is how I would rank answers from best to worst: 1. Give the correct answer to the technical question asked, and some background about when to think twice
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by psyc 9y ago
It is far from a settled question whether depression is best framed as a medical problem, for everyone.
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by psyc 9y ago
I've suffered from depression on and off all my adult life. I've tried about a dozen medications, and seen many therapists, with negligible results. The first thing that ever helped me was meditation. I found that the proximate fa
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by psyc 9y ago
http://www.linfo.org/inode.html I swear this is about the 20th time in a week I've seen a good comment (the parent) in the gray. Unless I'm imagining things, this has been happening with extremely noticeable incre
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by psyc 9y ago
I doubt it's sarcasm. I've often lamented that as a 30-year 'veteran' I'm still often treated as though I'm probably incompetent, until proven otherwise beyond a reasonable doubt. Some people do ignore my CV. I
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by psyc 9y ago
Perhaps it is rooted in the role of fitness in biological evolution.
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by psyc 9y ago
The word game can be extremely broad. Life is complex enough that an individual can select their own rules and conditions. There is no activity involving choice and constraints that I can unsee as being fundamentally a game.
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by psyc 9y ago
The google query turns up unhelpful SO answers. I’ve noticed you seem to have a pretty fixed idea of the categories questions and answers fall into, and the overall rightness of the state of SO. There isn’t much I can say. You might even be
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by psyc 9y ago
The very assumption that there is a larger solution behind my question, and that I am really looking for a best practice with regard to this putative solution, is itself a hasty conclusion. I'm often searching a question because I
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by psyc 9y ago
I spend the most on buying free time. If I didn’t value my free time so much, I would try to buy income generating assets.
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by psyc 9y ago
I've given coding interviews for 20 years, and I'd estimate 9/10 candidates have been competent whiteboard coders. I don't have any explanation for the extreme discrepancy between my experience, and the "hardly anyo
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by psyc 9y ago
SO is, if it ever gets around to listening to the recent outcry, and stops doubling down on the narrative they have going, which is something like, "Actually, the problem is you are a n00b, and we haven't communicated our godly et
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by psyc 9y ago
What strikes me as a paradox is the premise that answerers do not have time to 'do my homework' or 'Google that for me' but they do have time to understand my complex real-world constraints in enough detail to make this

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