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by sdwr 2y ago
Yeah the escalating difficulty is very well done, the tension ratcheted up bit by bit. Got to 21
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by sdwr 2y ago
> When you have an argument like foo=obj.whatever(), the obj.whatever() is evaluated at the time the definition of the function is being processed, not at the time when the function is being called. This can't be correct, surely? Wh
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by sdwr 2y ago
There's no bell curve. Insurance is hedging against the value of something you have an interest in (which takes the form of a bet against that thing). Gambling is betting on a thing. So a short option on a stock (betting against it) wo
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by sdwr 2y ago
AI, taken seriously, really is wrap-around mobius-strip God 2.0 Like, the idea of a global integrated organism that integrates information at the speed of light, and had perfect recall, is basically Genesis.
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by sdwr 2y ago
> What do they imagine it is about modernity that is doubling our life span? If you take away the knowledge and the medical advances and the social technology, the big difference is food acquisition. Pre-industrial revolution, most peopl
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by sdwr 2y ago
"policing of the world" is already politically fraught. The classic leftist argument is that America entered unjust foreign wars for political points / foreign resources / dick waving.
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by sdwr 2y ago
I remember reading that one too, the child commanders were hyper-precise with their motion controls, getting down to microns of accuracy. I'm sure there was a plot or something too
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by sdwr 2y ago
I've seen a few of your posts, but never understood how your system works. Is it a random walk over a fully controlled program (with save states)?
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by sdwr 2y ago
If I had to guess, "memetic drivel" gives off the same subconscious signals as safe, healthy communities. Demonstrating that the speaker is at ease, receives broad support from listeners, and can say things without fear of reprisa
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by sdwr 2y ago
Fantastic book, from what I remember it was more of an autobiography with some math sprinkled in. But he's a really good writer and seems like a wonderful person.
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by sdwr 2y ago
A bit morbid, but very true. You have to be exceptionally disciplined to keep a codebase tidy.
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by sdwr 2y ago
Language skills, not language skills!
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by sdwr 2y ago
It's interesting that your memory focuses on what the men were doing, and hers on the woman's hero story. I liked the Hannibal TV show (at the time). Is it worse than I remember?
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by sdwr 2y ago
There's definitely room for a good product here. Idk about advanced use, but from a naive view, git UI and vscode blame plugins are awkward to use.
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by sdwr 2y ago
I'm sure there are marketers on Reddit, but the nature of virality itself makes it pretty robust against attempts at manipulation. (You have to astroturf really hard or be a part of an existing wave, astroturfing reads different, so th
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by sdwr 2y ago
Makes more sense than "because they're 5% faster than microkernels"! That would also explain the current crop of microkernels - once the tech has been ironed out, architecture isn't life-or-death anymore.
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by sdwr 2y ago
Had to scroll a long way to find this, I suspect this is far more important than any technical issue. Having an "owner" is a strong incentive/coordination point to get stuff done. You need the right owner, but the 95% of proj
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by sdwr 2y ago
I could see it turning into a failed Microsoft acquisition. They were first out of the gate, and set the bar high with a live model everyone could talk to. What happens if chatgpt is good enough to get everyone excited about AI, but not goo
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by sdwr 2y ago
One answer I haven't seen yet is that the makers and the owners of the game are often different people. The makers of the game might have creative sympathy or want to inspire future creators. The owners of the game want to protect and
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by sdwr 2y ago
There's a big difference between returning a list of results vs a paragraph of information declaring an answer. An incorrect or tenuously related result coming back as #5, or even #1, is less "wrong" than "the answer&quo
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by sdwr 2y ago
I believe it! Seems reasonable it would take that long for a sole proprietor to spend the price of a house (?) on transporting a gimmicky, delicate machine by boat, ending up an ocean away from anyone who could service it. The only other pe
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by sdwr 2y ago
These people are claiming emotional territory that doesn't belong to them. Usually, they have precalculated that they can "get away" with it, which means they see you as weak. Three options: - Give up, cede the ground, and mo
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by sdwr 2y ago
This is the guy with 7 years of experience in a 2 year old language. The tone is actively offensive in how it tries to assume a position of casual authority over a field that is just coming into existence.
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by sdwr 2y ago
If dunkaccino taught me anything, it's that selling out is over, and the real crime is being boring or produced by committee https://youtu.be/AeLuQQH1OHA?si=ByEk41ZBPtp74e0i
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by sdwr 2y ago
You can simplify the "human hand" to a rigid metal sheet that comes down from the top and stops on the highest object. Still constant time, but no "parallel processing" needed. The point is that reality itself is highly
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by sdwr 2y ago
I think you are hung up on the visual representation. Last week, the post about jailbreaking ChatGPT(?) talked about turning off a direction in possibility-space to disable the "I'm sorry, but I can't..." message. In a r
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by sdwr 2y ago
Lighten up ya dingbats!
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by sdwr 2y ago
Not OP, feel free to correct me, but Godel proved that any formal system of logic can be shown to be logically inconsistent at at least one point. "Formal system of logic" maps well onto Turing machines, and Turing machines map on
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by sdwr 2y ago
> If I type “Create an Orc,” then I don’t want to be asked 20 follow-up questions to exactly specify the nature of the Orc; I just want it to take a guess. This is the exact point where everything falls apart. Good games have simple rule
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by sdwr 2y ago
Grandiosity is a big ego without results - Bitcoin got the results! There's the interesting moment when making a project, where you believe it could be successful. Most stuff doesn't make it, most creative work is internally rewar

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