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901.
by shrimpx 7y ago
Big win if you use emacs.
902.
by shrimpx 7y ago
It's mostly a fallacy that a demanded product becomes "developed". Maybe a game that gains cult status and therefore a long tail end of life. But popular web services are in constant churn and in that space it's valid to
903.
by shrimpx 7y ago
It could be a red flag or nothing depending on the development culture around the project and how they assign meaning to these comments.
904.
by shrimpx 7y ago
Can you elaborate on what you ate? Curious.
905.
by shrimpx 7y ago
Or to put it more generally, the second screen is there for when content on the main screen is rubbish. The implication that if you watch a movie you should watch 100% of it without looking away is preposterous, as let's face it a &quo
906.
by shrimpx 7y ago
Sorry for saying "world" and for underrepresenting Moggi's paper, but all those things you're mentioning are side effects and are captured by the same concept, of representing effects by carrying a parameter through a ch
907.
by shrimpx 7y ago
Any state could spy on users but china is known to blatantly do so.
908.
by shrimpx 7y ago
One guy Eugenio Moggi saw that the category theoretical "monad" could formalize "imperative programming" in pure functional languages by carrying a "world" parameter that represents the state being modified. Si
909.
by shrimpx 7y ago
I'm a dummy I'll have to study your statement.
910.
by shrimpx 7y ago
The author thinks they stumbled onto a discovery: > There are plenty of webpages that offer online services where you can type in C code and run it. It is obvious that such systems are insecure if the code running is not sandboxed in som
911.
by shrimpx 7y ago
Put more simply, there's nothing special about -1.
912.
by shrimpx 7y ago
In the limit this doesn't seem like a forward-looking/future-proof move. The gap between technology and consumers is naturally widening as tech becomes more powerful and useful. E.g. smaller scale hardware, more and smaller sensor
913.
by shrimpx 7y ago
I take the parent's comment to mean that everybody has an accent. There's no such thing as neutral or reference-frame speech.
914.
by shrimpx 7y ago
In my view the divide is more subtle, something like the enlightened vs. the unenlightened. The general fallacy is that all poor people can rise to riches. But in reality only the "enlightened poor" are capable of doing this. The
915.
by shrimpx 7y ago
That's true but the real problem is for people who had no access to education and are truly unable. It's a privilege to have the choice to not chase success.
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by shrimpx 7y ago
Americans are generally reluctant to allow rich social benefits that aren't "earned". People who don't earn are called "lazy". In reality they're unable. They're unable because they lack access to goo
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by shrimpx 7y ago
Genuinely curious: given that you grew up in abject poverty, how did you end up with a great education? That to me is the crux of this whole issue at hand. Kids who grow up in real abject poverty have negligent parents, go to bad schools
918.
by shrimpx 7y ago
The crazy thing is that qualia is materialism. This computer you're typing on is a real thing that's also your qualia. The real failure is to say that qualia is a separate thing that doesn't matter in "materialism&quot
919.
by shrimpx 7y ago
I think the best we can do is to build AI that is to us externally indistinguishable from consciousness, or "conscious enough." Which I think is totally doable. But that just represents what we know or recognize as conscious, whic
920.
by shrimpx 7y ago
A core challenge is to grasp your own subjectivity/qualia/mind. If you can grasp it then you can write it down in some form. But the tough part is that "grasping" is a thought production. So how can a specific thought pr
921.
by shrimpx 7y ago
My guess is a few hundred thousand, like 3 or 4. It sounds like an acquihire with a decent signing bonus more than an acquisition.
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by shrimpx 7y ago
I like your description because it (accidentally?) likens the state of mind of wanting to write "cool" and "magical" code with being high on drugs. In my career I've made that connection many times. This team is not
923.
by shrimpx 7y ago
You can easily highlight/make prominent comments based on occuring words in them like TODO, DEPRECATED, WARNING, etc., and some syntax highlighters do this out of the box. Making all comments bold is an overly broad approach to cover t
924.
by shrimpx 7y ago
It's true he's just a comedian, but his comedy goes deeper than your run of the mill midlife crisis jokes at the comedy cellar or whatever. Just like Bill Hicks, he's a political comedian that reveals hard to stomach truths.
925.
by shrimpx 7y ago
It makes sense they're upset. People spend countless hours researching the difference between a ram 1500 and a tacoma sr5 and they slightly prefer the "look" and "stance" of one over the other. One is more "hun
926.
by shrimpx 7y ago
With all due respect, you don't understand his comedy whatsoever. I suspect you believe Bill Hicks is also a misanthrope. These are extremely gauche interpretations, it's like saying Picasso didn't care about painting because
927.
by shrimpx 7y ago
Freedom of speech is not freedom to microtarget billions of people, aided by technology to change their minds to act according to bigoted principles. I'm fully on board with Cohen, except that he doesn't go into enough detail abou
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by shrimpx 7y ago
I just tried typora. One gotcha is say I'm in a triple backtick code block and you accidentally start typing the next non-code paragraph in the code block. There seems to be no way to end the code block (eg the equivalent of typing the
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by shrimpx 7y ago
Pretty closely representative of "cargo cult."
930.
by shrimpx 7y ago
I agree. Frequency of updates also becomes more of an issue as you add workers. Say you have 1000 workers each updating every 2 seconds. That's ~500 timestamp update statements per second which is not trivial in terms of added load on

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