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by sctb 2y ago
To add to this: I think pg does drill down, but what he does more than most is make the effort to bring those insights back up.
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by sctb 2y ago
Explicitly yes: > I mean new things in a very general sense. Newton's physics was a good new thing. Indeed, the first version of this principle was to have good new ideas. But that didn't seem general enough: it didn't inc
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by sctb 2y ago
I remember encountering this file in Red Hat Linux circa 2000: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Linus-linux.ogg . It sounds much clearer nowadays, but still to my ear it's roughly halfway between lih-nucks and le
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by sctb 2y ago
My general understanding is that "mind" is an objective concept; people have minds that cognize and think and learn and so on. Some minds are apparently more capable of those things than others. When speaking about intelligence, i
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by sctb 2y ago
> It's like Cypher in the Matrix writing about the relative benefits of changing his dinner from steak to something cheaper. Now how can we take the rest of this comment seriously with a sentence like this?
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by sctb 2y ago
I'll give you my understanding, which isn't exactly Christian or Buddhist or whatever—it's just how it seems to me, and YMMV. The word "soul" describes the fundamental sense of self experienced by a human person. We
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by sctb 2y ago
My dictionary says this about "protocol": > [In computing:] a set of rules governing the exchange or transmission of data between devices. In the article, pg says this: > The reason is that it's a new messaging protocol
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by sctb 2y ago
It seems to me as though one can talk about the good old days, talk about progress, talk about things getting better, worse, or anything in-between. There are countless examples to draw from and endless lines of reasoning. Sometimes it&#x27
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by sctb 2y ago
May you never have to write one again, but if you do, it might be helpful to think of the cover letter as a reflective writing exercise. You might be able to gauge your level of interest in a particular role by how easy it is to write about
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by sctb 2y ago
Recently discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42675538
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by sctb 2y ago
Cymbals aren't like speakers, microphones, or rooms, whose inputs are audio and can therefore be modelled with IR via an impulse input. (Well, you can model a cymbal with IR and use it as a reverberator, like a speaker.) AFAIK, what yo
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by sctb 2y ago
On the main page for this year there are all kinds of media available, audio, video, slides, transcripts, Q&A: https://emacsconf.org/2024/talks/ .
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by sctb 2y ago
> Since C doesn't support continuations, it is not possible to have continuations and at the same time generate "natural" C code. Since CHICKEN actually does this, I'll add the proviso of "without a GC or costly
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by sctb 2y ago
"Does a [robot] dog have Buddha nature?" I could be wrong, but I associate Japanese animism much more strongly with Shinto than with Zen Buddhism.
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by sctb 2y ago
From the linked interview at https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/25/24108872/bluesky-ceo-grab... : > And so, mid-2021, they interviewed me along with some other folks and then chose me to lead Bluesky base
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by sctb 2y ago
I'm not sure how this article relates to the dark forest hypothesis, or really anything else for that matter—I can't see the thread. Can anyone summarize?
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by sctb 2y ago
For more information, there's a recent talk on Project Lilliput by Roman Kennke: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHJ1moNLwao .
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by sctb 2y ago
> "[...] Reading him simply makes one realize that stream of consciousness springs not from consciousness but from a word which alters or redirects one’s consciousness." This has a slight ring of Derrida and/but I find it
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by sctb 2y ago
No problem, said von Neumann. https://www.scottaaronson.com/qclec/27.pdf
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by sctb 2y ago
No, it's fine because the 'next' struct member is just a pointer which has a known representation.
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by sctb 2y ago
That's also dang.
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by sctb 2y ago
> It feels like the concept of qualia is a last-ditch attempt by humans to make themselves feel special. I don't think so, I think fundamentally it's just a concept used to express a more generalized form of perception (i.e. no
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by sctb 2y ago
Not sarcasm: I'm sure it would be frustrating to see so much scientific and commercial effort going into treating TIID pharmacologically when you believe the solution is trivial. But you could also consider all of these developments as
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by sctb 2y ago
Discussed a couple days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41799068
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by sctb 2y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vgoEhsJORU
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by sctb 2y ago
I like dynamic languages too. But I don't like the idea of "optimization", and I would be super interested in a dynamic language that didn't attempt to divorce performance from correctness. The worst part about jumping t
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by sctb 2y ago
> This makes all logical thought impossible, and means there cannot be correct or incorrect thinking. No, this is conflating paradigms. If this were true, you would expect the same Buddhist texts not to mention "right" and &quo
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by sctb 2y ago
Here's an interesting experiment you can do around retrospective perception and timing: clap your hands once, listening for the sound of the clap. Notice what it's like to remember the sound of the clap for a minute or so. Now, cl
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by sctb 2y ago
Do you have a sense of how different mTOR-related interventions stack up? As in, metformin vs rapamycin vs intermittent fasting?
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by sctb 2y ago
MacPorts is a noteworthy project that seems to use Tcl in its sweet spot.

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