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by pygy_ 10y ago
Robots are not the maximizers. People are at this point still driving the demand side of the equation, that's true, but there's not reason why they can't be replaced as well on that end. The economy is a self-maximizer, boots
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by pygy_ 10y ago
I'm not so much scared of "go kill these people". More of "stop feeding them, we need to repurpose arable land for energy production" at a point where we won't have the know how to produce food for everyone by
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by pygy_ 10y ago
Humans in space in my eyes make as much sense as motorized fishbowls on highways. We're even less competitive compared to robots in non-terraformed environments.
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by pygy_ 10y ago
The human bits are being gradually replaced. First strength, then dexterity, now smarts. We are still, to some extent driving the demand side of the equation with our various needs (see Maslow's hierarchy), but it looks like finance ha
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by pygy_ 10y ago
Another way to look at it: how do you expect people with zero economic power to be able to afford even a robotic servant? Social security is beneficial to capitalism right now because people still have economic power. Paying a small portion
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by pygy_ 10y ago
None, it's just that "the market"/"the economy" as a self-maximizer process will select robots that feed it. Humans are just no longer the fittest links in the chain. I'm not afraid of super-Einstein evil
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by pygy_ 10y ago
No need for a robot army. Sabotage the electric grid, then watch a continent starve in a single month. I've heard New Zealand is highly prized by the powerful. That being said, their days are probably numbered as well.
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by pygy_ 10y ago
With capital becoming self-sufficient and human labour non-competitive, why would you think robots would serve us on a large scale? What's the incentive to serve and feed idle meat bags? Automation is destroying the only power that peo
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by pygy_ 10y ago
In general, geographic separation leads to speciation. It can be rivers (IIRC for example bonobos and chimpanzees live on different sides of the Congo river). Another interesting example is I think seagulls along the arctic circle that are
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by pygy_ 10y ago
That's not LuaJIT
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by pygy_ 10y ago
Makes sense :-)
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by pygy_ 10y ago
Did you kill your own comment? It was marked [dead], not [flagged]... I just vouched for it to reply, I'm a bit surprised that users can hide a mod's post...
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by pygy_ 10y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=13648333 maybe? I think that's how the mods access it IIRC.
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by pygy_ 10y ago
In French "trompette" (trumpet) is a diminutive form of "trompe" (trunk, but it also has other meanings: [0] and trompe d'Eustache , trompe de Fallope (Eustachian and Fallopian tubes)...). [0] https://
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by pygy_ 10y ago
Not sure why this was downvoted, it is a legitimate question. https://pijul.org/faq.html#did-you-solve-the-exponential-mer... answers it, at least partially. There may be a more comprehensive comparison, though.
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by pygy_ 10y ago
Vision and language are processed by distinct brain areas, which mature at a different pace. That doesn't rule out the possibility of grammar-like processing in visual areas.
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by pygy_ 10y ago
http://www.threaditjs.com/ implements an HN-like app with user submissions, threaded discussions and backend communication with various frameworks (Angular, Backbone, Ember, Mithril, React and Vue). Kind of like TodoMVC, bu
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by pygy_ 10y ago
> Yes, but images produced by humans are a tiny fraction of images processed by the eye. Processed by the eye, yes, but that rises to 100% for images processed by the brain. The brain appropriates images by imparting its processing on th
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by pygy_ 10y ago
Parallel career paths!
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by pygy_ 10y ago
Tell that to the surplus horses that bootstrapped the pet food industry when Ford democratized cars...
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by pygy_ 10y ago
They have lookbehind lookup that's only coming now in ESNext , and, more importantly, recursion, if I understand properly[0]. Maybe more things, I stopped reading the docs at that point to comment here. They have other features absent
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by pygy_ 10y ago
But even in chrome, several tabs can share the same process, which means that information can be leaked, cross-tab.
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by pygy_ 10y ago
As long as we discuss noops, JavaScript provides one out of the box as `Function.prototype`. It can be called and does nothing. No need to create a new function object when you need a noop.
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by pygy_ 10y ago
There are unofficial typings, which will likely be merged at some point. The v0.2 branch had typings, but v1 is a rewite from scratch and those don't apply anymore.
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by pygy_ 10y ago
Many thanks :-)
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by pygy_ 10y ago
Do you know how we ended with the w-g mapping between Germanic languages and French? - William => Guillaume - War => Guerre - Wasp => Guêpe - Waffle => Gauffre All of these 'g's are pronounced as in "gas. "gu
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by pygy_ 10y ago
It's at least partly a matter of affordance. You could soft-deprecate .unwrap() and .expect() (emit warnings at compile time, it will be annoying but not fatal), and provide a new version of expect with a name that's more cumberso
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by pygy_ 10y ago
I understand the intent, but usually the programmatic object is the subject of the sentence, the method is the verb and the parameter/argument is the grammatical object. Here, the programmatic object is the grammatical object. That&#x2
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by pygy_ 10y ago
Rust n00b here (I read a lot about it but haven't written a line yet), but wouldn't `.orPanic('error message')` be a better name than `.expect('error message')`? The latter seems backwards.
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by pygy_ 10y ago
Which would be useful as long as you're not crossing a border or leaving your computer unattended. Even if there's a hardware switch, it still enables two strike attacks :-/

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