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by sdwr 3y ago
Someone could just as easily say "Everything is money" Everything that we have, do, eat, wear has monetary value. People learn to live within their means, but still, it takes a certain privilege to say "life is more than just
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by sdwr 3y ago
I remember watching a conference video featuring Moxie - he was the golden child, and there was an older guy saying "We've been doing cryptography for so long... how do we get paid?" Sounded very much like a inner circle back
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by sdwr 3y ago
Sartre and Hegel are pretty solid, the rest feel tenuous at best
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by sdwr 3y ago
The emotional tone, low latency, and active listening made for an amazing experience. I wouldn't touch Alexa with a 10-foot pole, but this is the good stuff. A little more emotional depth, and this could work as a conversational partne
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by sdwr 3y ago
> Firebase offer subscription models to database changes, but falls short when dealing with complex queries involving joins or group-bys. Firebase is the only tool here I'm familiar with, and this makes sense to me. It's real t
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by sdwr 3y ago
Would setting constraints in the browser be feasible? Being able to define edges or midpoints that other elements can use for positioning. I guess it's way more complex than HTML rendering already is
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by sdwr 3y ago
Clicking the "Generate" button replaces my cursor with a text cursor, so I don't see what the new cursor is.
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by sdwr 3y ago
Pop music really does do this as he described. There are lots of songs that play with expectations of timbre in the same way that normal music plays with expectations of pitch. When I get mentally crystallized, I hear music as proof-of-work
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by sdwr 3y ago
It doesn't even work as described for popularity - one word starts at 49,999 and one starts at 0.
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by sdwr 3y ago
These two comments together explain what was mysterious and spooky.
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by sdwr 3y ago
Reminds me of those logic games that operate in (virtual) physical space https://store.steampowered.com/app/300570/Infinifactory/ The feeling being squished into a corner by your own rat's nest is really
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by sdwr 3y ago
> some of the decisions they've made in the name of self-respect have come across to me as instead being facile or purely vindictive at best, or psychologically unsound at worst That's the crux. Self respect means valuing your
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by sdwr 3y ago
> People with self-respect exhibit a certain toughness, a kind of moral nerve; they display character, a quality which sometimes loses ground to more instantly negotiable virtues. > One tends to think of it only in connection with hom
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by sdwr 3y ago
As a lifelong nerd, programming gets a bad rap, and no respect, for the right reasons. Programming is to engineering as math is to science. Namely, it's made up. Less basis in physical reality. Same reason learning Elvish isn't as
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by sdwr 3y ago
Is it lobsters? I'm guessing it's lobsters
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by sdwr 3y ago
It would probably look like an InfiniteCraft-style model, where conversation possibilities are saved, and new dialogue is computed as needed. Small, bounded conversations, with problematic lines trimmed over time, striking a balance between
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by sdwr 3y ago
Being worried about a hardware backdoor in your network card is more about technology fetishism than realistic threat analysis. It's like suburbanites being worried about home invasion. Sure, it's technically possible to happen, b
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by sdwr 3y ago
I take it to mean that his viewpoint is pre-decided and unchangeable. Weird phrasing though, I've only heard it in a positive context.
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by sdwr 3y ago
That's so stupid! I love it!
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by sdwr 3y ago
Sounds about right! If you take an analogy from poker, bankroll matters - some strategies you can only play well-capitalized.
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by sdwr 3y ago
The point is "a" fourth dimension vs "the" fourth dimension. Our 3D space uses all 3 dimensions interchangeably. It makes sense to talk about "the" 3 dimensions of space. If you look at 3D + time, time acts dif
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by sdwr 3y ago
Ahhh, perfect pedantry. Constructive, illuminating, accurate, and (most importantly) calling the OP wrong.
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by sdwr 3y ago
ChatGPT has a naive optimism. It reaches for airy, meaningless, slightly metaphorical statements right away (when asked to support something, not when explaining). It also uses simple, but very clean grammar, and has a bit of a thesaurus fe
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by sdwr 3y ago
This is called having an editor, who takes a pass through and says "I don't think everyone knows what Takis are, let's change the language to be more accessible"
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by sdwr 3y ago
"Underwater basket-weaving" was a derogatory term for impractical university classes back in the 70s (?) and Mongolian is a stand-in for mongoloid, which fell off the euphemism treadmill as a descriptor for people with Downs syndr
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by sdwr 3y ago
Yeah, that's a simple example. Pancreatic cancer would be at the other end of the scale: - it's internal - nobody really knows what their pancreas is supposed to do anyway Plus the normal problems with self-analysis: - distinguish
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by sdwr 3y ago
The core steps to paying attention to yourself: - notice - fill in the picture - use it to inform your decisions For example, my oral health fluctuates based on what I eat. Too much sugar or sweet carbs, and my gums start feeling itchy and
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by sdwr 3y ago
Yeah, very true. Obviously you can't do everything yourself, but a lot of people have gone the other way, and given away responsibility for their health to the professionals and the numbers. The numbers don't tell the whole story,
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by sdwr 3y ago
This is really distasteful to me. All the time and effort spent optimizing a corner of the rules of a specific dataset of a game. It strikes me as wasteful in the same vein as Bitcoin mining, but more than that, as running contrary to what
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by sdwr 3y ago
Where it turns into mania, in my experience, is when you start doubling down repeatedly. If your good feeling comes from believing that you are making a huge change in your life, you get anchored to the rate of change, and start needing big

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