rjknight

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by rjknight 3y ago
Developers get more expensive every year, and compute gets cheaper every year. This is a good trade-off to make!
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by rjknight 3y ago
But this is how all victories work, whether it's a war or a sports competition or market share. You get to be the undisputed champion for a while, until eventually someone else comes along and beats you, or circumstances change so that
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by rjknight 3y ago
Funnily enough, your complaint here is that although it may be simple, it is not necessarily easy, while the talk is an argument that we should prefer simplicity even at the cost of some (temporary) un-ease.
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by rjknight 3y ago
Creating that kind of quiz feels like it's within the reach of today's better LLMs.
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by rjknight 3y ago
In practice "lived" means "subjective" - those aspects of the experience that are only observable by the person having them.
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by rjknight 3y ago
For $20 more, you can get a glass version: https://lifestraw.com/products/lifestraw-home-glass-pitcher
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by rjknight 4y ago
These people, from whom we get the modern usage of the term "therapy": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therapeutae
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by rjknight 4y ago
It can perhaps be inferred from the fact that Atomic Semi's Twitter account follows only two people: Sam and Jim, and retweeted this post from Sam: https://twitter.com/szeloof/status/1628528981430657026
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by rjknight 4y ago
Clunky, but I read that as "the nearest coast to Moscow".
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by rjknight 4y ago
It's possibly that Chapman is arguing against a straw-man of Yudkowskian rationality, but it's also the case that many people really do seem to believe in something like that straw-man, and so it's necessary to argue against
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by rjknight 4y ago
Superficial imitation is not the same thing as deep understanding. Nostalgia for the past isn't the same as respect for the lessons that it can teach us. A real understanding of history is one that can teach you something important a
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by rjknight 4y ago
This really wasn't true for earlier developments like Photoshop, though. People assumed that it would remove the need for specialist graphic designers, but in reality it made graphic designers much more productive and drove the avera
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by rjknight 4y ago
Their principles are fine. It's just that hard-coding a list of English-language bad words, then matching on them in an extremely naive way, is not an excellent way of manifesting those principles in code. The Scunthorpe Problem[1] has
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by rjknight 4y ago
Ukraine is at war with Russia. Japan has a claim over the islands, which are currently held by Russia. For Ukraine, formally recognising Japan's claim to the islands might achieve a few things. First, it might cause Japanese public opi
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by rjknight 4y ago
McGilchrist did publish a 30-page summary called “Ways of Attending”, which might be better. It seems to cost as much to buy as a full-size book, but perhaps some Googling can reveal a cheap copy somewhere.
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by rjknight 4y ago
You have to learn the browser layout model , yes - you need to know what flexbox is, or how padding or transforms or line height works. But Tailwind provides sensible defaults for how those things are applied, which removes a lot of potent
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by rjknight 4y ago
I remember a mission where I had to visit Tel Branora, a Telvanni tower (I think it was the beginning of the quest line to become head of House Telvanni). As it happened, the weather was foggy, so I got quite close to the tower before it su
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by rjknight 4y ago
I can't really see which bits of web3 are meant to threaten the existing web, or are more dangerous to it than the existing threats. The balkanization of the web seems like a threat that gets bigger every year. Surveillance gets worse
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by rjknight 5y ago
I think this depends a lot on the mindset of the listener. Am I just looking for some good music to have on in the background while the bulk of my attention is on something else? Or am I looking for a connection to an artist, a set of emoti
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by rjknight 5y ago
If you're interested in this topic, I can very strongly recommend the documentary "Cane Toads: An Unnatural History". There seems to be a copy on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SBLf1tsoaw I
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by rjknight 5y ago
This basically goes back to the conflict between idealism and materialism. The article is putting forward an idealist position - that ideas (lore, memes, culture) matter, and in some cases matter more than material facts. In this view, ther
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by rjknight 5y ago
This is true, but the set of custom controls is quite small. Controls that were built-in to, say, Visual Basic 4.0 in 1995 are not present in today's web browsers. Re-implementing built-in controls (the example of a <select> box
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by rjknight 5y ago
To add to this a bit: if increased atmospheric heat is _causing_ the release of greenhouse gases, then directly reducing the temperature of the atmosphere might be the only way to slow down that release. Secondly, since there is a positive
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by rjknight 5y ago
If they're exceedingly rare now, despite having become more and more common, what were they before? Super-exceedingly rare?
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by rjknight 5y ago
> That is called "barter". From the Wikiepdia page on "Barter"[1]: > In trade, barter (derived from baretor) is a system of exchange in which participants in a transaction directly exchange goods or services for ot
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by rjknight 5y ago
The "lone academic" factor is undermined by the fact that the book in question was a collaboration between /two/ academics, one of whom is a professor of archaeology.
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by rjknight 5y ago
Yes, incidents of barter will pre-date incidents of spending money. That part is obvious. But this does not imply that there was a widespread "barter system" as the primary means of trade and cooperation, which was then replaced b
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by rjknight 5y ago
The point is presumably to phase out existing taxes on energy usage, or generic corporation taxes, in favour of new taxes on carbon emissions. What this means is that if there are two businesses which both consume lots of energy, but busine
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by rjknight 5y ago
So, what we have is the artwork. The artwork, as a digital artifact, continues to exist as long as there is a copy of it anywhere. A copy that was hosted at a particular URL may cease to exist, though. "Buying a URL" doesn't
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by rjknight 5y ago
This might depend on your jurisdiction, but in general legal systems are quite lazy: if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's a duck. If it's something that I have exclusive control over, and I paid someone else money

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