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by sebastialonso 4y ago
For the most part, that's how reality seems to work, so it's probably right.
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by sebastialonso 4y ago
Of course it is, it's Paul Graham
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by sebastialonso 4y ago
Great summary, thanks!
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by sebastialonso 4y ago
> Specific mmathematical, causal or superdeterministic models are always falsifiable I request further elaboration here, please. Examples would be great. > than the fact that logic is not falsifiable What?
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by sebastialonso 4y ago
I'll look some videos from a while ago. Again, great series, hope you keep publishing!
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by sebastialonso 4y ago
cool series. In my opinion, Chaitin constant is the best example to understand incomputable numbers, hopefully author can include it later.
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by sebastialonso 4y ago
Is superdeterminism even falsifiable?
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by sebastialonso 4y ago
To further drive the point, almost everyone seems to be conveniently missing a great benefit of libraries: they tend to be greatly battle-tested, most of the successful ones. The moment people start realising their own (and most likely crap
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by sebastialonso 4y ago
Beware of anecdotical arguments, they aren't arguments.
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by sebastialonso 4y ago
What a weird decision to store dates in tags, it looks like bad design. Fully agree with the primer to data architecture, I've seen people almost getting to the point of writing DSL over tags. Madness!
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by sebastialonso 4y ago
can you actually share what "current AI models" are then? Not trying to be rude, but you just said "na ah" and then refused to argument any position.
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by sebastialonso 4y ago
this is the kind of arguments I come to Hacker news to read about.
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by sebastialonso 4y ago
I agree with the overall spirit of your reply. I'd just add that framing "technical debt" with "bad code" is, ironically, what bad engineers tend to do. Easy to solve debt tends to be about "bad code". Fun
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by sebastialonso 4y ago
I hope you're correct. There's no actual decent alternatives to Starlink for rural settings where I live.
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by sebastialonso 4y ago
I think the only problem is chastising a cartoon from the 60s targeted to kids for not including some sort of crusade as the current fads demands.
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by sebastialonso 4y ago
You are completely right about the potential magnitude of the hack, but my first approach was purely as an individual consumer, this doesn't affect me. Seeing this as an engineer...yikes
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by sebastialonso 4y ago
Personally the path of becoming an excellent engineer is the best path (possibly hardest) to take on any situation, precisely because of the versatility in scenarios like this. I'm by no means an excellent engineer, but I like to plan
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by sebastialonso 4y ago
Context is king. It's the abstract of a paper, not simple Wikipedia. Everyone reading the paper itself is expected to either know or make the effort the become knowledgeable enough to understand. In any other context, I'd agree bu
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by sebastialonso 4y ago
that first paragraph is peak Hacker News lol
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by sebastialonso 4y ago
As a Chilean, I'm dreading the day their country finally collapse. We will have an unprecedented migration event from our neighbor, we are definitely not ready for that.
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by sebastialonso 4y ago
Also keep in mind that "big tech" doesn't mean a bigger number of engineers. In my experience with Big Tech, even if engineers make a reasonable part of the workforce, non-tech sectors are always bigger.
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by sebastialonso 4y ago
It's almost like the free market is not the silver bullet algorithm many seems to think it is.
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by sebastialonso 4y ago
imo having an open mind means rather exclusively to allow the possibility to be moved by scientific evidence. Not just believe for the sake of it or because of some kind of bias If we don't keep an open mind, in this sense, we'd s
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by sebastialonso 4y ago
Love this iceberg with explas for PLs. Does anyone know another one?
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by sebastialonso 4y ago
Agreed, but I didn't mentioned changes, I mentioned interaction. Reading data in this case.
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by sebastialonso 4y ago
I feel like I've accidentally stumbled into a secret club. What's the deal with this Pynchon fellow?
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by sebastialonso 4y ago
Real world experience at the scale Uber works with, directly contradicts this, in my opinion, naive approach.
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by sebastialonso 4y ago
Agree with the spirit of this observation, but at the scale we work with at Uber, at comes a point in which "too much" decoupling starts biting you in the ass. Sounds kind of bizarre actually, but this is a particular characterist
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by sebastialonso 4y ago
Quite common to hear comments like this, from people who have never worked at the scale in which the annoyances of monorepo are eclipsed by its advantages. I'm not saying anything particular to you, but it's quite hard to get to t
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by sebastialonso 4y ago
That is certainly not the "mathematical point of view" of what language is. Not sure if I completely agree with the other commenter, but languages are not just "a set of words".

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