sebastos

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by sebastos 4y ago
That's exactly the kind of fatalistic attitude that's being criticized here though. If you can recognize that you're surrounded by garbage, you can decide that you want things to be different. If you decide you want things to
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by sebastos 4y ago
To be honest, I think you are exactly on the right track. We _do_ have reduced faith in democratic structures. Allow me to steelman this position a bit for you though. I think the root, gut feel that many Americans have is that they are sic
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by sebastos 4y ago
I am enjoying the cognitive dissonance of Musk skeptics who hate his huge wealth and influence, yet loudly insist it would be a practical impossibility for him to spend 10% of his net worth. Which is it? Does he wield more power than any on
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by sebastos 4y ago
Yeah, this is a more nuanced critique that could definitely have teeth. That said, I'm kind of skeptical that it's really true that shareholders are keeping the whole enterprise afloat? Here I admit I haven't delved deep into
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by sebastos 4y ago
I've just outlined for you a long list of ways in which getting an Uber is superior to hailing a cab. Some of those differences are realized by simply having an app that goes along with the service. Some of them are realized by having
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by sebastos 4y ago
I have absolutely no vested interest in defending Uber, but every time one of these threads pops up I feel compelled to throw cold water on it because this website is so damn obsessed with predicting Uber's doom. I have comments that a
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by sebastos 4y ago
Which works perfectly when you fly to a new city and need a ride out of the airport, right?
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by sebastos 5y ago
You're 99% there: there is no reason to want inflation or deflation. But the final wrinkle is that if your wealth is sitting around as money, it's not "doing" anything. One concept I've had in the past is a currency
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by sebastos 5y ago
I replied to somebody else farther down along the same lines, but I do think the question of what id -would- have made with modern tools at their disposal is really interesting. Because in a lot of ways, id’s story is partially one of quadr
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by sebastos 5y ago
Well, I think it's awesome that somebody tried it. I'd feel bad if the creators saw this thread and felt like HN was rejecting their project or something. I was just curious if anybody else felt the same way I did about how old ga
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by sebastos 5y ago
Is it okay if I occupy the following ideological niche: 1. I love original doom. 2. I am very excited about what ray-tracing can do for games. 3. I have a ton of respect for doom modders and the doubtless huge amount of effort that went int
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by sebastos 5y ago
Yes - I see other posters trying to spin the article to make it only an argument against "old" RPC solutions (CORBA I guess?). This seems to be an attempt to leave an escape hatch for their pet RPC solutions that happen to be more
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by sebastos 5y ago
It's kind of interesting that there's some kind of conservation rule at work there. The amount of effort you have to expend must scale with the number of bits you want to convey correctly _and_ the number of people you successfull
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by sebastos 5y ago
If deficiency to tensors and differential forms is a reason not to be taught, then why do we learn about vector notation? Oh right, because it's a natural language for talking about geometry and mechanics, by far the most common and im
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by sebastos 5y ago
IPFS's design makes it so that it's all of those things, or none of them. Picking one of them doesn't fit the shape of the technology. IPFS is basically the answer to the question "what is the RIGHT way to decentralize t
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by sebastos 5y ago
I think the reason it's like this is because the C++ maintainers are super focused on noticing whenever there is a choice to be made, and being careful not to make it for you. Given the option between foisting situationally bad perform
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by sebastos 6y ago
I find comments of this type bizarre. C++20 is trying to make the language -less- complex by deprecating the aspects of it that make things gross. Yes, for it to still be C++, you have to "add" the modules feature to the compiler,
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by sebastos 6y ago
I'd never quite thought about it in these terms before, but the way you laid it out makes it obvious: there's no replacing politics. At most, you can hide it. The reason it cannot be replaced is that there will always be resentmen
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by sebastos 6y ago
Yup, this is well known in the small UAS industry at this point, and I was part of a lab that lived through that "wtf, how does nobody talk about this" experience. It seems like many folks in the space have learned this the hard w
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by sebastos 6y ago
Without electronic speeds, it's kind of like inventing a printing press that's slower than writing by hand. The invention isn't much of an invention until the whole thing is electronic. Reading off a tape doesn't cut it.
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by sebastos 6y ago
Unless, unimaginably, you need to keep your code on-prem... I know, I know. Unthinkable.
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by sebastos 6y ago
Ok, now I'd like to update a dependency. In docker world, I create an MR that updates the dev container and deploy container dockerfiles at the same time, check that it runs tests, and merge it in. I push a new version of the dev docke
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by sebastos 6y ago
Yeah, I see your point, and I have to admit that it's been kind of a turnoff as I've been considering DDS for my own company. The other thing it does is create incentives to create optional paid add-ons. Then you find the support
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by sebastos 6y ago
Thanks for the insight, that makes sense! Perhaps this is too unhip, but I wonder - have you ever dealt with the OMG's Data Distribution Service (DDS)? I used to think it was too fuddy-duddy to even glance at, but the recent adoption o
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by sebastos 6y ago
Well, I started to read the article, thinking that it might refer to sending, you know, telemetry. The hackernews link was titled like this: >Don't Use Protobuf for Telemetry so I thought I had a shot of reading something relevant t
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by sebastos 6y ago
Damned if you're not the most patient self-advocate for an open source project I've ever seen. I feel like I can always count on finding The Kenton Varda in the comments whenever a protobuf discussion comes up, graciously discussi
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by sebastos 6y ago
This over-assuming-of-shared-context is one of my pet peeves on this site. Based on the average post you see on Hackernews, it's a virtual certainty he means "snooping on users of a program". I can't explain why, but it
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by sebastos 6y ago
Is that an accurate TL;DR? I'm pretty sure no... It's not saying you need rewards that are infinite in value per se. It's saying that you might have more situations that need to be differentiated from each other than there ar
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by sebastos 6y ago
?? Current reinforcement learning algorithms don't score an action by producing a line of text that is read by a human. It assigns a value by writing a floating point number into a register on the computer somewhere. If it were otherwi
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by sebastos 6y ago
You can add "-v" flags in the .devcontainer/ json file that map host stuff in so that you get all of that stuff!

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