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by shrimp_emoji 2y ago
Ironic this would be in "The Economist". ;D Manipulating data is all economists do!
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by shrimp_emoji 2y ago
I used to think that was what this song was about: https://youtu.be/wC10VWDTzmU
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by shrimp_emoji 2y ago
It's a horrible goal, too. Programming is way better than (and mututally exclusive with) being in a relationship!
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by shrimp_emoji 2y ago
My withdrawals only kick in on the second day of no caffeine. Also, I feel a cup of coffee on the day I drank it and the day after (with no additional caffeine). :D I guess I'm turbo slow. Although I didn't use to be...
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by shrimp_emoji 2y ago
I think people should be able to instantiate super hot anthropomorphic girlfriends of their choice into and out of real life at will. (Me first; I thought it up.)
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by shrimp_emoji 2y ago
Those numbers are made up, just like all the others.
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by shrimp_emoji 2y ago
Well, Microsoft led by example with #2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20557488
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by shrimp_emoji 2y ago
If porn was like drugs, the analogy might make sense. (If you make that equivalence, you're off the reservation. Or have never done drugs. What's next, video games cause school shootings, Mrs. Gore?)
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by shrimp_emoji 2y ago
I feel like Americans in general are becoming more isolationist. Historically, that's been America's bend anyway. It always took being attacked or being sold on threats by career politicians to get involved in the world. And that&
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by shrimp_emoji 2y ago
The easiest answer: they should have a build and test and packaging system like Cargo built-in. The best you have is a tedious anarchy of third-party systems, of which CMake seems to have come out the winner. I use CMake, but it's no C
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by shrimp_emoji 2y ago
Yeah, it says a lot of good. You can't do it without turning your site into a panoptical dystopia where even more of your personal data ends up with the NSA, third party data brokers, or hackers on the darknet. None of that's wort
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by shrimp_emoji 2y ago
But it's literally referred to as "secondary memory" in ye olde literature (where "primary memory" is the RAM... I wonder why the CPU cache never got a place though).
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by shrimp_emoji 2y ago
> Over many generations we may be able to lower our birthrate to compensate Already on it, boss!
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by shrimp_emoji 2y ago
We evolved to deal with suffering, so, absent suffering, we invent our own. Appealing to worse problems can be an attempt to subvert that mechanism by forcing perspective. Subverting it is good since the mechanism is stupid: it's progr
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by shrimp_emoji 2y ago
Yeah! That's how I'm forecasting the first "superhuman AGI". We don't need a dozen civilizations' training data, either; just enough cheeseburgers. And we have loads of those already. ;D
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by shrimp_emoji 2y ago
Sealab 2021 for real when? It's the perfect training for space colonization, and we gotta get off this rock for our survival eventually. (Especially by the time bioweapons start getting loose accidentally.)
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by shrimp_emoji 2y ago
West coast nerds. Where're the sci-fi references? The only ones I can think of are Elon's drone ship names and some old T-228 SCSI adapter...
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by shrimp_emoji 2y ago
What do you mean "wants to destroy itself"? Why does it "turn self-destructive"? The best interpretation I can make is an allusion to how we're designed to be fundamentally unmaintainable (think Twitch's codeba
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by shrimp_emoji 2y ago
Meanwhile, if you're doing carpet repair for minimum wage, a problem like a flat tire on your shitty blue Subaru feels life-destroying.
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by shrimp_emoji 2y ago
"I AM THE MAN WHO GRABS THE SUN!"
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by shrimp_emoji 2y ago
It was a whirlwind "survey of languages" course. After blowing our minds with functional programming via OCaml, the last segment was traditionally logical programming via Prolog. But he decided to spare us, I guess, and made me fa
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by shrimp_emoji 2y ago
Yeah... I guess Landian accelerationism really is the Tao indicated by the cosmos. Alright, fine, where do I sign up?
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by shrimp_emoji 2y ago
My professor swapped Prolog out for Rust at the last minute. I don't know whether he did us a disservice or a favor.
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by shrimp_emoji 2y ago
Human genetic engineering
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by shrimp_emoji 2y ago
And mindfulness meditation is training yourself to detach your conscious sense of self from those physiological sensations, noticing but not reacting to them at all!
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by shrimp_emoji 2y ago
Nothing compared to C.
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by shrimp_emoji 2y ago
Don't forget the best part: your own executive bathroom . I.e., your home bathroom.
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by shrimp_emoji 2y ago
Yeah! Who's gonna deliver my groceries?!
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by shrimp_emoji 2y ago
> I personally have never been able to translate story points into a reliable indicator You haven't discovered the secret formula: make your estimate and then mindlessly triple it.
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by shrimp_emoji 2y ago
Or they want to motivate the Democrats to do better with a protest vote. That's my plan, anyway.

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