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by sfpotter 3y ago
Absolutely patronizing writing style. Total contempt for his audience. Good stuff. Anyway, the answer is obviously “no”.
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by sfpotter 3y ago
Apple Watch was useless but looks cool and is just a watch so people bought it as a fashion accessory. This is useless but looks dumb so will flop.
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by sfpotter 3y ago
Hard to compare. They’re completely different in terms of plot, mood, style… everything, really. Roadside Picnic has the signature Strugatsky Bros dark comedy running through it, while Stalker really has no comedic elements whatsoever. I pr
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by sfpotter 3y ago
Why do you think software engineers getting paid less means everyone will be getting underpaid? How are you deciding what the correct level of pay is?
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by sfpotter 3y ago
You think that my desire for people to be paid relatively equally so that they can pursue what satisfies them is odd?
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by sfpotter 3y ago
What's your point? We should all find ourselves alienated as we turn cranks for the rest of our lives, under the assumption that we are maximizing societal value according to some arbitrarily imposed norm which is beyond our ken and ou
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by sfpotter 3y ago
My mother has been a nurse in demanding and intense units for nearly 45 years. She finds the work very satisfying and is reasonably well-paid. I know a number of lawyers who find their work intensely meaningful and are willing to put up wit
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by sfpotter 3y ago
Did I say that programming isn't meaningful? No, I obviously didn't. But thanks for your hostile and blinkered response. I can think of examples of people in my life who have these professions on either side of the coin (find it m
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by sfpotter 3y ago
I think the last point is really important... how many people really want to work at a tech company? There are many other jobs that frankly provide significantly more meaning and personal gratification to the person doing them. Doctor? Teac
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by sfpotter 3y ago
Answering these questions can be difficult. Not everyone has the same amount of information and context. E.g., if you've never played chess against a grandmaster, you might not know just how far you have to go. You might not know anyon
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by sfpotter 3y ago
Culture is dead. Nothing is new anymore, everything is now just a variation or an amalgam of recent culture. Software and hardware history have an element of the new about them if you didn’t experience them yourself, hence their enduring po
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by sfpotter 3y ago
I've always been very interested in taoism, but never took it much further than reading the Tao Te Ching and a few other related things like The Tao of Pooh and The Te of Piglet. This form of meditation seems exactly right for me. Do y
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by sfpotter 3y ago
Thanks for sharing your very interesting experiences with meditation. Makes me want to have another go at it. (FYI, you mean to use the word “propel” in place of “propulse” above… they aren’t synonymous, surprisingly.)
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by sfpotter 3y ago
A lot of the people declaring it broken don’t want it to fail.
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by sfpotter 3y ago
You could argue that but you’d be wrong. Several thousand pounds at 20+ mph is unsafe no matter how you slice it.
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by sfpotter 3y ago
All cars are unsafe.
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by sfpotter 3y ago
How did this make it to the front page? Who would ever click through this link? Feudal serf mindset at work, I guess.
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by sfpotter 3y ago
As a mathsematician, I have no problem with this.
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by sfpotter 3y ago
No offense, but if you do understand all that, the answer to your question is obvious and you’re perfectly capable of figuring it out yourself. Whether or not those labels is warranted is another thing, but you can definitely do the legwork
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by sfpotter 3y ago
You just don’t understand (seriously).
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by sfpotter 3y ago
Expressly not the purpose of Cython.
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by sfpotter 3y ago
Authors of open source projects don’t owe you anything. If you want something changed, do it yourself, or ask them. You could even go so far as to offer to pay them. If you aren’t up for any of that, well… not sure what to tell you!
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by sfpotter 3y ago
Is it the way the industry works, or is the way open source works? Pyrex had basically one person behind it (again, from what I can tell), and Cython currently has ~1 major person behind it. Not enough manpower to support such large endeavo
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by sfpotter 3y ago
Cython works and is widely used. Problem is that there aren't too many people working on it (from what I can tell), so the language has some very rough edges. It seems like it has mostly filled the niche of "making good wrappers o
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by sfpotter 3y ago
I'll take the lesser of two evils, thanks.
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by sfpotter 3y ago
A better way to destroy that capital: have it appropriated by the government and used to fund actual science.
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by sfpotter 3y ago
That’s a good thing. Maybe then people will stop fixating on whether it’s sentient and acclimatize themselves to the fact that it’s just an inanimate tool for us to use.
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by sfpotter 3y ago
I totally agree with this. I like the term "criti-hype". To me, the NYT interview with Hinton seems so obviously calculated for this kind of effect. What is much more worrisome to me than any of the supposed abilities of recent ML
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by sfpotter 3y ago
My impression is that the vast majority of people who are currently engaged in the “discourse” surrounding AI do not have the technical background to make this distinction. In my opinion, there’s an element of “the man behind the curtain” w
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by sfpotter 3y ago
I am not advocating that we put the onus exclusively on the consumer.

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