ravi-delia

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by ravi-delia 3y ago
There was a straight decade where HN was covered, nay choked, by "Why Go" articles. This ended under two years ago. Swift doesn't get the same coverage, but pretty clearly falls into roughly the same category for everyone but
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by ravi-delia 3y ago
Lisp functions are generally not pure! Common lisp, the language this article is mostly talking about, is very comfortable with state. CL, like most lisps, often encourages a functional style - everything is an expression, and usually you&
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by ravi-delia 3y ago
The company make a browser, Nyxt. I assume OP is talking about that. Works OK on every system I use, but who knows
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by ravi-delia 3y ago
Somewhat! The authors talk about the longevity of CL, which is less a fact about lisp than an accident of history. Janet, for instance, is obviously quite new. Elisp is quite old, but I wouldn't use it for non-emacs development. Scheme
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by ravi-delia 3y ago
It's possible that you have experienced an enlightenment that I have yet to, but ultimately I like lisp because parenthesis are pretty, I hate remembering syntax, keywords/symbols are nicer than immutable strings, and typing out c
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by ravi-delia 3y ago
There's a place for both even with a REPL I think. Sometimes when I'm tracking a bug down or writing a new function against an old one, I find that I'm writing little one-off functions or worse, replicating a function body li
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by ravi-delia 3y ago
I've definitely come around to unit tests, but I think that whether they're good in all circumstances is a matter of taste. Obviously you want to have good test coverage by the time the codebase is starting to solidify- I assume t
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by ravi-delia 3y ago
That's the key to the whole song and dance- the reviewers also know its bullshit. The actual hurdle is getting grant funding, which takes a more talented bullshitter. But of course you only need one sorry soul to write the application,
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by ravi-delia 3y ago
Honestly, anyone who can't do the three sentence real world applications routine is either ambivalent enough about a life doing research that it wouldn't make sense to reorganize around retaining them or is so bad at politics (not
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by ravi-delia 3y ago
Some big assumptions there chief
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by ravi-delia 3y ago
Underutilized for the time being one assumes
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by ravi-delia 3y ago
Worth drawing a distinction between the farming of the past and the farming of the present. Until the agricultural revolution humans sat right up against the population ceiling- the only reason hunger wasn't the leading cause of death
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by ravi-delia 3y ago
I think I'm making two assumptions here, and they explain the bulk of our disagreement. First my intuition here is that in most situations, we should expect any specific example brought to our attention to be actively misleading. Out
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by ravi-delia 3y ago
My thinking is that the article isn't really investigating the largest number you can share in 64 bits- as you say, it's sort of meaningless. Instead, like the biggest number game, it's a lead in to talk about some neat topic
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by ravi-delia 3y ago
Very true, but in all fairness the proposed solution of using Turing machines is pretty reasonable. I think the title is a play on Scott Aaronson's "largest number" game.
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by ravi-delia 3y ago
> the evidence that a bad trip can potentially cause permanent damage is useful and relevant. I would argue that this is not true in isolation! I guess it's not technically wrong, in that a new article is not 0 information, but with
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by ravi-delia 3y ago
I mean maybe? Depends on how willing you are to trade small risks for small benefit. But we have no real bounds on upsides or downsides, and no real probability of any of it. I don't know about you, but my prior in situations such as t
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by ravi-delia 3y ago
But that's exactly what I'm talking about! In no sense does this article "challenge" random people on HN, because there's nothing to challenge at all. Some people did say they liked LSD, which is as true as it ever
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by ravi-delia 3y ago
Fairly interesting post, especially for those who weren't aware that hallucinogens sometimes cause minor hallucinations indefinitely, but arguments like the conclusions section are why we need to, as a society, beat "the plural of
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by ravi-delia 3y ago
What are you talking about, I never use vim any other way!
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by ravi-delia 4y ago
Yep, I somehow internalized that there were 100,000 words (on reflection, I couldn't name a tenth of that in one sitting), but also halved the result, and the error canceled out a bit. Terrible.
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by ravi-delia 4y ago
Oh yeah rereading it's clear they meant specific equations, not just using Latex expressions as the corpus
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by ravi-delia 4y ago
My God, where on Earth did I get 100,000? I mean that's a lot of words, plausibly more than I will ever hear. And how did it just cancel out anyway so I got roughly the right entropy? This will frustrate me until I understand how I fuc
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by ravi-delia 4y ago
Unless the parent edited, I don't believe they claimed it wasn't illegal. I mean we're here because the title of the article says as much. But you can pass any law you want, and it'll still be very easy to press a person
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by ravi-delia 4y ago
Oh granted. Maybe head transplants are on the table, but certainly a brain without a peripheral nervous system filling it with data would go into shock immediately. Even if not, there isn't a less pleasant experience I could imagine.
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by ravi-delia 4y ago
I guess what I'm trying to say is that you can pick anything to fall under the umbrella that you want and one of two things will be true; it will happen almost entirely in the brain, or it will also apply to a thermostat/ChatGPT,
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by ravi-delia 4y ago
I mean 40 bits is better than a correct-horse-battery-staple format password by a little bit. The space of all interesting equations is presumably tiny, but I do think I could memorize a random twenty-expression password almost as well as I
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by ravi-delia 4y ago
Honestly that's a pretty good idea, since there are still enough latex commands that you're sitting pretty even with a latex-augmented dictionary attack. Still though, I've never had trouble memorizing 5 word passwords even w
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by ravi-delia 4y ago
Oh yeah, my assumption is that it's 4 words chosen from a 100,000 word dictionary. I honestly have no idea if it's a reasonable estimate but it stuck in my head from XKCD's original correct-horse-battery-staple comic. Of cour
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by ravi-delia 4y ago
Grammatical English has about a bit of entropy per character (Wikipedia has it between 0.6 and 1.3). Most passwords won't be fully grammatical, or even close, but it's a decent worst-case bound for passwords chosen by English spea

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