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by sgentle 10y ago
Fun! This is similar to how git stores files internally. You can do some neat tricks like this: $ ls 01.jpg 03.jpg 03_copy.jpg 04.jpg 05.jpg $ git init Initialized empty Git repository in /tmp/test/.
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by sgentle 10y ago
> It cannot reason or make deductions. It can't re-write sentences to use completely different words/structures but imply the same meaning. I agree that it doesn't meet these definitions of understanding. I'm arguing
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Don't worry, I'm not being bamboozled by the word "neural". My argument that there is a definition of understanding that you can derive from a well-known thought experiment that looks like it is met by this implementatio
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by sgentle 10y ago
This reminds me of Searle's Chinese Room Argument[0]: imagine you have a particularly dreary job where you sit in a room filled with boxes of symbols written on paper. Every now and again someone comes in and hands you some new symbols
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by sgentle 10y ago
The "Can I Use?" CLI is probably the highest attention per unit of effort project I've done: https://github.com/sgentle/caniuse-cmd I also made a firefox extension about 10 years ago that let you restart
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Wow, a lot of negativity here. To me it seems like this is something you really want to do and, assuming you have the resources to give it a try, why not? Worst case scenario you go back to what you were doing before but with some new skill
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by sgentle 10y ago
If it helps, the attack you're describing is called sslstrip and was presented by Moxie Marlinspike at Black Hat in 2009: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFol6IMbZ7Y (code here: https://moxie.org/softwa
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by sgentle 10y ago
Interesting to contrast this with articles that paint the various delivery/cooking/cleaning/task runner services as a kind of mom-in-a-box that real adults shouldn't need. Maybe being a real adult is an unwise investment
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Swastika emoji(samgentle.com)
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It may be that they are functionally identical to other fulfilment companies, but if they do a better job of convincing their indie seller target market to use them and respond better to their needs, it probably doesn't matter. > Oh
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> Wouldn't it be great if you could refuse to pay your taxes until you decided your tax rate was “fair”? If by "refuse to pay your taxes" you mean "refuse to pay tax on the portion of your income that you have the leg
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Show HN: A little sliding puzzle game(demos.samgentle.com)
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Understandably, I'm sure there will be a lot of focus on physical and transport infrastructure. I think it would be worth also looking into ways to transform the social infrastructure of a city. I'm sure most people would agree th
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I agree that there are situations where eyes would be bat, just not in the case of seasteading or trying to declare a new micronation in the Danube. Even in the case of Danzig and Crimea, I would argue it's as much about the country do
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by sgentle 10y ago
I find this whole situation has an interesting parallel to international law. Unlike other kinds of law that are backed by the power of individual states, international law exists in this weird zone where it's kind of law, but kind of
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by sgentle 10y ago
I agree. I actually think it's the single most important skill for beginner to intermediate programmers. Not structuring the code or managing complex abstraction, just having a reliable mental model of the program and the environment.
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So, if I understand this correctly, it's the latest in a series of attempts by Alan Kay to find the right home for his vision of a new Xerox PARC. That began with VPRI (NSF funded), then CDG (SAP funded), and now HARC (YCR funded). As
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Show HN: Markov Technology(demos.samgentle.com)
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by sgentle 11y ago
I have found that embracing being dumb can be very useful even later on. I don't struggle with programming anymore, to the point where that "out of my depth" feeling is surprising and scary. Occasionally I run into some new c
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by sgentle 11y ago
This is really good stuff. I'd love if the source material made its way into an online course, video series or book.
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I predict this will be a difficult sell, for the reasons pg outlined in "Why Nerds are Unpopular" ( http://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html ): > Now adults have no immediate use for teenagers. They would be in the w
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The Sorcerer's Apprentice(samgentle.com)
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I was recently reading about some of the interesting work with invertible bloom filters/invertible bloom lookup tables, eg [0] [1]. There might be either a clever way to exploit IBLTs to to make a low-information query of the data (lik
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by sgentle 11y ago
I've always thought there's a terrible and subtle kind of sexism in articles that are about women who do very interesting things, but ignore those interesting things to focus exclusively on gender. I don't think that's a
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by sgentle 11y ago
I've struggled for a long time with the deletionism/completionism divide. I was initially strongly completionist for the reasons many others have said: this could be the repository of all human knowledge, no matter how trivial, an
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by sgentle 11y ago
I think this whole thing is missing the point. People, even young people, are extremely savvy when it comes to figuring out what they need to do to get what they want. What they want is to do well in school. How they do well is to pass thei
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by sgentle 11y ago
I think part of the issue is that our exposure to other people (and other people's opinions) has increased, but our perception of their importance hasn't decreased. Pre-massive-interconnectedness, if you do something good, 9 peopl

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