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by rabbits77 3y ago
The article seems to be attacking MVPs which are not "viable". In the included graph of the development of a car I have seen version which show exactly the preferred path of development skateboard --> scooter --> bike ... as
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by rabbits77 3y ago
When Paul Graham is saying this is a talk he gives to 14 and 15 year olds, let's think of who those kids are exactly. There is zero chance he is giving this advice to a general audience at some arbitrary high school, much less students
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by rabbits77 3y ago
I can't remember not being disappointed in pandoc. I used to try pandoc first for file conversions but at this point I try it last, only after exhausting format specific tools first. For example, the conversion from latex to html in pa
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by rabbits77 3y ago
Under the existing DST system (1 hour difference from Standard Time) they currently go to school (wait, children in school in the summer?) 3 hours after sun up but that's not seen as a problem?
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by rabbits77 3y ago
More than safe, it would be the best option to abolish it completely. In brief, our bodies evolved in the the movement of the sun, not numbers on a clock, so called solar time. Standard time aligns the numbers on the clock the best with sol
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by rabbits77 3y ago
I hope it’s not too controversial of an opinion, but the audience for written long form software engineering content is very small. In the 70s through the mid 90s, before the WWW v1.0 bubble taught the world you could get rich quick in soft
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by rabbits77 3y ago
the point was that largely those two of the seven you mentioned are already long gone. the five remaining are probably fine. those unfortunate two lost their jobs 10 years ago to existing automation and process improvements. call centers, i
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by rabbits77 3y ago
The article makes a bold claim and then provides scant evidence. One of the cases it highlights makes mention of "no code tools", but nothing to do with the actual AI they claim is at work. Let me provide a counter point: I work f
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by rabbits77 3y ago
TIL that I need to now shred my secret documents before throwing them into the burn barrel. Also, possibly, mix the resulting ashes into a slurry and dump into the sea.
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by rabbits77 3y ago
There really is no Perl Leader these days. The language is run by a “steering committee”. The community has a couple of shining stars such as Mohammad Anwar who runs The Weekly Challenge https://theweeklychallenge.org/ and
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by rabbits77 3y ago
I don't think that is the case, especially not in Japan which was in the middle of heavy investment in AI via the FGCS. FGCS ran from 1982 - 1992 and promoted both hardware and software research into the development of high performance
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by rabbits77 3y ago
From the article > The presumed software release timespan (at least 33 months between August 1986 > and May 1989) is particularly odd considering this is an extremely rare and > unknown system. I wonder if there is a connection t
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by rabbits77 3y ago
The joke really only works if you use his first name! The complete joke is that "by value" means pronouncing first and last name to sound like "Nickles Worth".
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by rabbits77 3y ago
That’s actually an extremely attractive proposition to work in a Perl shop. It’s the same deal as Lisp or Haskell or Erlang shops: you know you’ll be surrounded by top notch talent!
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by rabbits77 3y ago
A parsimonious explanation is that Altman fabricated progress and/or was covering up serious flaws in the system. Consider the recent revelation of Cruise’s use of human pilots for “driverless” cars. Does OpenAI have an army of “mechan
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by rabbits77 3y ago
I can’t see why this should not be the case. Logic Programming languages like Prolog can be used for general purposes. The main catch is that you need to be really good at Prolog to use it to full generality. But if you’re willing to put in
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by rabbits77 3y ago
After Doug Lenat passed away recently I also got the impression that Cycorp has been sustained for the past four decades with that exact business model. At the end of the day customers have a working solution, but it’s all developed and ope
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by rabbits77 3y ago
This reminds me of one of the wildest stories I ever read on the internet. Person flew to Cameroon to intentionally infect himself with hookworms to treat asthma. Reports positive results! So much so that he started a business selling kits
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by rabbits77 3y ago
I am surprised how much of this hit home! I would have assumed that although the same age as these people that I’d somehow not be able to relate since I was an overworking software engineer at the time. Things like finishing a Masters degre
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by rabbits77 3y ago
Anecdotally, most people use SML as part of academic projects and when they do to use it for commercial projects end up going to Ocaml or Haskell. That is because of the wider ecosystem of projects to support practical things like talking t
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by rabbits77 3y ago
Probably the next best thing is Mercury. https://mercurylang.org/ I'd also say that if you get a chance to definitely learn Prolog! One nice thing about Prolog is that you can start more from an application angle and e
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by rabbits77 4y ago
GNU Prolog is an excellent choice for everybody. I once considered switching back and forth to SWI if I ever needed some convenient module GNU lacks. The need never really arose!
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by rabbits77 4y ago
The difference is that a clinically recommended vegeterian diet would be rich in nutritive foods high in fiber. The recommendation wouldn’t just be to not eat meat and, like, eat all the processed sugary junk you want.
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by rabbits77 4y ago
I suspect many employees at Meta have trust funds or other family wealth they can rely on. They don’t even need to work, but will spend a lot of time studying up for what is perceived as a high status place to work. While talented I doubt t
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by rabbits77 4y ago
If you believe that current AI implementations are capable of this sort of “everything we can do but differently” then I would be curious as to why nobody has made any progress whatsoever in the understanding of consciousness? Are we to bel
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by rabbits77 4y ago
You should know that Sir Roger Penrose wrote a book over thirty years ago that asserts human like intelligence is non-algorithmic, that is, unable to be simulated on a Turing Machine. Hence, the article linked to is probably right. I, much
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by rabbits77 4y ago
Yes, as a former paperboy I can say newspapers (obviously!) don’t have some bespoke assembling process for each customer that would allow for this level of individualization.
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by rabbits77 4y ago
Yes! The committee approach does not seem to work well. The “benevolent dictator” is really often just a solid CEO type: sets the vision, acts as head salesperson, and has the final word on all important decisions. What happened with Perl i
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by rabbits77 4y ago
Neo4j is, mostly, a very different kind of graph store. A Labeled Property Graph, and not a Semantic Knowledge Graph which is the kind of graph commonly associated with RDF. I write “mostly” because recently neo4j has a “neosemantics” proje
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by rabbits77 4y ago
I have also really enjoyed Oracle Free Tier services. Across all the cloud providers I consider them the absolute best. I have not paid Oracle one single dime in over two years and have done things I’d have been happy to pay for. The value

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