reggieband

12 ms·

61.
by reggieband 5y ago
I have been revisiting an idea I've had many times in my life that is tangential to Paul's "Smart" vs. "New idea" differentiation. That is the difference between "Knowledge/Intelligence" on one a
62.
by reggieband 5y ago
I don't like to be too negative, but this article feels like a senior partner or committee brainstormed article topics and assigned it to someone else. It's almost like someone started with an outline of the headers of each articl
63.
by reggieband 5y ago
I worked on a mid-sized online game a few years ago and we experienced several DDoS attacks. I recall one employee tracking down the specific botnet that was rented for the attack against us and we calculated the attacker probably spent a c
64.
by reggieband 5y ago
As an aside, if you like graphic novels and philoshopy then I highly recommend Logicomix [1]. This work heavily features Ludwig Wittgenstein. I can't claim it is historically accurate but I do think it is quite an interesting read. 1.
65.
by reggieband 5y ago
I absolutely hated reading "On Certainty" but in a sort of good way I suppose. It is a frustrating experience that I wouldn't recommend to anyone. Wittgenstein spends a bulk of his effort on two questions, roughly, how can he
66.
by reggieband 5y ago
In the early days of the Internet I recall warnings that once these companies successfully grabbed all of the users then they would turn from benevolent to even worse than the existing media companies. I was watching YouTube last night and
67.
by reggieband 5y ago
This isn't exactly what I'm proposing since it seems to be based around sharing my code. I may be misunderstanding the documentation and examples however. Live Share appears to be me inviting people to connect to my personal sessi
68.
by reggieband 5y ago
I've had this vision for over a decade and it is awesome to see we are finally making measurable progress towards it. What I'd really like to see is a WebRTC type interface that overlays this to provide some kind of collaborative
69.
by reggieband 5y ago
I believe the amazing content and algorithm go hand in hand. It isn't like humanity suddenly became more creative in 2019. TikTok has two things going for it that I believe create a feedback loop. First, their algorithm is good. Those
70.
by reggieband 5y ago
This does not match my experience using TikTok. I have an heuristic I follow whenever content I do not want appears on my FYP. I immediately scroll. I don't let the video get 10 seconds in, I absolutely do not let it finish. I do not
71.
by reggieband 5y ago
I want to spoil a magnificent movie, the Russian classic Stalker [1]. If you haven't watched the film and want to one day, please stop reading this comment. It is a deep film with many themes but one main theme involves a curious plot
72.
by reggieband 5y ago
I like to think of TikTok as the crack cocaine of addictive social media. I used to think my dopamine receptors were burned out by the constant barrage of memes I received from reddit, Facebook and Twitter but TikTok proves they can refine
73.
by reggieband 5y ago
I'd like to subscribe to this newsletter. Mathematicians using sets to argue about the size of uncountably infinite Reals feels like the old joke of philosophers arguing over how many angels can fit on the head of a pin. I often wonder
74.
by reggieband 5y ago
One of the more interesting sayings I have come across lately is: People overestimate how much they can get done in the short term but they underestimate how much they can get done in the long term. I see this all the time with friends who
75.
by reggieband 5y ago
It's also how every supermarket in the neighbourhood in Barcelona I lived in worked. You could either buy pre-packaged produce (like two apples in a styrofoam based covered in plastic) or go to the produce section and point at what you
76.
by reggieband 5y ago
It's funny because when I read something like this (and your pretty harsh replies) I feel attacked! I mean, there are a lot of reasons you might say this including but not limited to: you weren't alive (or were too young) in the 7
77.
by reggieband 5y ago
> All citizens of Canada live immensely higher standards of living than they would otherwise under the Colonial umbrella - including aboriginals. I mean, that was a typical argument in favour of slavery. After the apartheid ended in Sout
78.
by reggieband 5y ago
I think I was sloppy in my comment and you linked two ideas that I didn't necessarily want to link. That is, I don't want to imply: "a traditional life off the land" and "the kind of society and life that Native Ind
79.
by reggieband 5y ago
> a “fix” for the victims or descendants of victims would require massive wealth transfers My take on this, as a child of white immigrants, is that the Native Indian population would prefer something other than money. I think this kind o
80.
by reggieband 5y ago
I try not to be paranoid about it, but there are several governments that I just don't talk about online. They are known for aggressive Internet task forces and have histories of taking actions. I don't see any benefit publicly vo
81.
by reggieband 5y ago
I very often type out comments on HN and then delete them. As Snowden alludes to, everything we submit to public forums is logged and stored. There is no doubt in my mind these comments are easily associated to my real identity with very li
82.
by reggieband 5y ago
That article and the effect they are suggesting aren't in contradiction to the initial justification. There are two different arguments. 1. Individuals are more likely to act more violently if they already have two strikes against them
83.
by reggieband 5y ago
I'm hazy on where I heard this justification, but I recall some argument that the rate of violent criminals who recreationally use drugs is very high. That is, if a violent criminal is caught walking down the street and is searched the
84.
by reggieband 5y ago
> I started to feel a deep feeling of disgust. I skimmed the article very quickly since I didn't like the authors writing style. That line at the end struck me though. I'm not against cynicism in general but it is particularly
85.
by reggieband 5y ago
I am absolutely no expert in any of these domains but the level of confusion described in these comments seems a little exaggerated. Is it so hard to see what is going on here? A data lake is a centralized repository where all of a companie
86.
by reggieband 5y ago
I recall an incident while I studied Spanish. An older woman in my class was nearly in tears of frustration as she angrily demanded of our teacher why they use "estar" to denote locations. For example "París está en Francia&q
87.
by reggieband 5y ago
I didn't meant to imply that Category Theory addressed the obtuseness of Set Theory. Rather, I was alluding to work in Category Theory that helps to redefine our ideas of equality and equivalence. A discussion of that is available in Q
88.
by reggieband 5y ago
I'm not sure if it is what you want, but Intuitionism [1] is one area that challenges modern fashions in Mathematical thinking. It suffered greatly under the formalist approach lead by David Hilbert and still has little main-stream sup
89.
by reggieband 5y ago
Reminds me of the classic stack overflow answer to "RegEx match open tags except XHTML self-contained tags" [1] 1. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open...
90.
by reggieband 5y ago
Video for reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8esnpGdkyY0

More ›