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by saulpw 1y ago
Now you can live a philosopher's life, like Diogenes!
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by saulpw 1y ago
Marijuana possession was the number one crime and is now legal in a majority of states. This seems like the high-order bit.
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by saulpw 1y ago
1 year for a human is like 10 in AI-years.
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by saulpw 1y ago
Purism is a scam company. I preordered their Librem phone in 2017 and waited YEARS for it to be ready. When I finally gave up and asked for a refund--which they had allowed per their original terms--I was told I had to wait until my spot
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by saulpw 1y ago
Humility is a good thing to strive for. It's clear to me from your comments that you stop short of the amount of humility that would improve your writing. It's not my responsibility to argue with you about it though, and I'v
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by saulpw 1y ago
Sounds like you've never managed tens of thousands of nodes in a distributed system. It's not trivial.
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by saulpw 1y ago
> In Economics 101, I learned that in a free and fair marketplace, it was impossible to maintain an outsized profit, because competition would always show up to take part of that profit. This is all "perfectly spherical cow" ec
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by saulpw 1y ago
VisiData makes a lot of things easier.
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by saulpw 1y ago
It's not organized well. As the reader I had to do too much work to discern your point and what was relevant. I'm sure it's obvious to you the writer, but one of the foundational skills of a good writer is empathy for their
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by saulpw 1y ago
Seriously. I've taken to thinking of most submitters as adversarial agents--even the ones I know to be well-meaning humans. I've seen enough code that looks obviously right and yet has some subtle bug (that I then have to tease a
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by saulpw 1y ago
Like most estimates, these seem off by about 3x. At least if you're writing it for the first time.
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by saulpw 1y ago
As the parent comment said, he stood out for dressing nicely those years ago. Wearing jeans in the 2000s was not just tolerated or accepted, it was expected. I remember feeling wary of engineers who dressed up for interviews then, like th
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by saulpw 1y ago
Perhaps you should use 'sentience' or something more precise to mean 'qualia-experiencing'. The word 'consciousness' is quite overloaded and thus trips people up who haven't thought about this as extensive
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by saulpw 1y ago
I find it interesting that the 6 replies to my comment assumed that I was talking about myself, when in fact my comment specifically was talking about other people. I can and do write just fine, thank you. But I have sympathy for people w
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by saulpw 1y ago
This is pretty reductive. Many people want to pump some new thoughts they had into an AI to generate something tolerable to post on their blog. The writing isn't the point; the thoughts are. But they can't just post 200 words o
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by saulpw 1y ago
Yup. I use 3x5 notecards. I like their "heft" and the fact that I can't lose a physical card like I lose digital content.
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by saulpw 1y ago
That is a fun fact, but it's not universally true. If that "work" includes endothermic reactions, like hydrolysis, then it would run counter to your heater. But off the top of my head I can't think of any household or b
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by saulpw 1y ago
Thanks, I guess that particular history and analogy would not be known universally :)
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by saulpw 1y ago
The traitorous four.
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by saulpw 1y ago
It was self-sustaining for months, until I fell off the horse due to being unable to eat (broken jaw). If you find some equanimity in this life you can rest assured that peace will be tested frequently :)
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by saulpw 1y ago
Because you don't just hurt, you suffer. Across the spiritual spectrum people report that "enlightenment" brings a radical reduction or elimination of self-inflicted suffering, and a profound inner peace. This jives with my
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by saulpw 1y ago
It's magnitude notation. ^X is short for 10^X.
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by saulpw 1y ago
Here's all you really need to know about logs when estimating in your head: The number of digits minus one is the magnitude (integer). Then add the leading digit like so: 1x = ^0.0 2x = ^0.3 (actually ^0.301...) pi = ^0.5 (actually ^0
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by saulpw 1y ago
Oh, I see, thanks for clarifying.
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by saulpw 1y ago
This may be true but for the wrong reasons: as the AI bubble bursts it will suck any remaining air out of the economy.
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by saulpw 1y ago
TFA says "seven-digit combinations of numbers and letters".
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by saulpw 1y ago
25^7 is 6 billion, and there are fewer than 200m people in Japan. That's enough for one character to essentially be error correction.
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by saulpw 1y ago
This looks great, but alas, it is for Mac (Apple Silicon) only.
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by saulpw 1y ago
Because, as has been mentioned innumerable times in this thread, going through all that extra effort does not get you more money. It gets you more stress and a target on your back when you make a mistake.
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by saulpw 1y ago
> What if there was something wonderful and curious that you could explore and someone else would actually pay you money while you were exploring that thing? The days of patronage are basically over; no one pays you real money to explore

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