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by ryandv 2y ago
> Smalltalk was one of the first Object-Oriented Programming Languages out there. It's where ideas like inheritance and message-passing came from (or at least where they got popular, from what I understand); It may be worth pointing
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by ryandv 2y ago
Setting aside the utter fecklessness if not outright perniciousness of cybersecurity products such as this, I hope this incident (re-)triggers a discussion of our increasing dependence on computing technology in our lives, its utter inescap
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"We're only backdooring your machines for your own good! We are the good guy experts, we promise."
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Absolutely shameful display of how the cure can be worse than the disease. It's nonsense snake oil and security theater such as this that throws the cyber"security" industry into disrepute. One may as well have just installed
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> But consider the average person, not me or you or the hackers. Forget the average person - even as a technically adept person who has tried to "mindfully engage" with technology and minimize his use of it as much as is reason
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What say you of all the remote workers who now need such devices in order to do their work from home? Should they decide to return to office?
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With strong, expressive type systems such as those offered by Haskell, Rust, TypeScript, etc... I find that you front-load all of your debugging to compile/typecheck time. Instead of needing to experiment with your code at runtime thro
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by ryandv 2y ago
> This runs your frontend and backend code (yes, http servers) in a local browser backed filesystem This runs your development environment in the browser. Why not just run natively on the operating system, which already gives you filesys
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> The result shows that the LLM has a hard time generalizing to new (basic!) problems that were not in its training set; this suggests it is memorizing solutions rather than understanding the mechanisms [...] I am once again reminded of
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Presuming that those languages exist within OpenAI's training dataset. Try to have a conversation in Rinconada with ChatGPT; my last attempt led to its admission that it had no proficiency in this language. You will have to find a nati
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There are two views of writing: one, as the production of a literary artifact that has value in its own right and stands alone as the embodiment of a complex idea itself; on the other hand, as a process and tool for thought, where the liter
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You can already see echoes of this in the software community, which was historically populated by such "weird nerds" and computer geeks who traded off social tact and grace for a childhood, or even a lifetime, spent understanding
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by ryandv 2y ago
To this list I would absolutely add Julian Jaynes' "The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind." > simulations of conscious thought entirely via prediction language tokens Jaynes goes so far as to a
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by ryandv 3y ago
Elegant. For whatever reason I elected to roll my own graph implementation in my own solution, with predictably terrible performance characteristics: using adjacency lists (instead of matrices) and BTreeSets to model "merged" vert
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by ryandv 3y ago
The min-cut problem was in fact the last problem for Advent of Code 2023 [0]. Many algorithms were too big-brained for me, but I was able to find "A Simple Min-Cut Algorithm" [1] which was relatively easy to understand. It uses ma
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by ryandv 3y ago
> They fail to grasp that there is a difference, treating real people like they are Reddit accounts. That's exactly correct, and now we are one step closer to understanding the precession of simulacra of identity. The crude maps of
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by ryandv 3y ago
Advertising is one of the main reasons modern social media is experiencing continued enshittification in this era. Noam Chomsky in his "Manufacturing Consent" wrote of three "filters" that determined which content would
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by ryandv 3y ago
> These days you have carry an entire encyclopedia with you in order to back up every last thing you say and if you utter anything that isn't deemed 100% perfect by those listening, the social scorn will fall upon you. This is an im
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by ryandv 3y ago
Perhaps in a fascist or authoritarian society. For social democratic nations that have been educated out of such bigotry and have responsible people wielding these tools using due process, I don't see the problem.
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> If people think that they're being surveilled (whether or not they really are), that changes how they think and act. They can never really be themselves anymore. Are you suggesting people cannot be themselves when they are being w
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by ryandv 3y ago
> Imagine we all had cameras attached to us streaming every moment of our lives to a server 24/7. You'd have suddenly eliminated nearly all crime outside those of passion, because the chances of being caught would be essentiall
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by ryandv 3y ago
Also see Fowler's book Refactoring [0] where "Primitive Obsession" is listed among many other code smells in Chapter 3. [0] https://martinfowler.com/books/refactoring.html
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by ryandv 3y ago
There's two aspects to GP's comment. > Even in the best case, readability just becomes a Pareto frontier[0], given by expressive limits of the dominant programming paradigm > People forget that readability isn't a funct
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by ryandv 3y ago
To add to this list, there is also "Principles of Eventual Consistency" [0] for getting down to the mathematical formalisms. In addition, Lamport's paper "Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System&
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by ryandv 3y ago
I will take a layman's crack at it. The paper discusses how crises and times of high stress and/or prolonged periods of social isolation, sleep deprivation, etc. can precipitate a psychological state (with accompanying neurochemic
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As a younger and far more naive kid I was drawn to Aleister Crowley for the motto he espoused in his "magickal journal," The Equinox: The method of Science, the aim of Religion. Much of his writing proposes a few experiments you c
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Is that what it says? Emphasis mine, > _Inspired by_ research with serotonin 2A receptor agonist psychedelics, we highlight how activity at this particular receptor can robustly and reliably induce pivotal mental states, but we argue tha
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It's my view that it's this psychological transformation that is the end goal of many spiritual traditions; Jung's "process of individuation," various notions of "enlightenment," the alchemical "Great
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One advantage of the DNS01 approach is that you can also order certificates for standby instances behind a load balancer, all fronted by the same domain name. Since the standbys are not serving traffic, you can't get an HTTP01 challeng
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by ryandv 3y ago
> People change. The fact that your entire life's story, your narrative, is also forever preserved in the archives of the net, also lends credence to the illusion of a permanent, unchanging, fixed and immutable self. People don&#x27

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