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by slx26 5y ago
Well, many sites include cookies to link devices as required cookies anyway. So even if you reject the rest, you are still accepting some form of "device linking". It's hopeless.
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by slx26 5y ago
I always talked about ideas since I was a kid and got lots of applauses, but no one ever bothered to actually take my hand and try to explore with me. I didn't simply get bored, I ended up in complete social isolation. In my personal c
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by slx26 5y ago
We are in for the journey.
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by slx26 5y ago
The advantage of browsers is that they are becoming the de-facto "universal operating systems". That's why users like them, and that's why devs like them, despite all their defects. I kinda believe in that direction too.
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by slx26 5y ago
Seconding this. I've never played LoL, and it has to be clearly said that the show is perfectly enjoyable without having any background. In fact, the plot twists will be more enjoyable if you know nothing about the game. So if anyone h
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by slx26 5y ago
While the article's logic is a bit lousy, the site is called "my misanthropic musings". Therefore, your expectation of questions being followed by answers seems misplaced. I have experienced the same myself quite a few times.
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by slx26 5y ago
I thought the same as the comment you are replying to, because having your hands free is quite a big deal. I practice parkour, and have zero problems with ladders from a mobility perspective, but they are not practical because you can'
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by slx26 5y ago
Interesting, but it should probaby be divided by the desire / expectations to navigate the power process too. Otherwise, it gets too far away from the common usage of the word.
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by slx26 5y ago
These are all very interesting thoughts, including the comment you are responding too. I just want to make the situation even more tricky and point out that freedom is not only about the amount of choices you have available, so giving somet
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by slx26 5y ago
I do definitely believe people can be too broken to fix in certain ways . I feel like this about some parts of myself. But the thing is, that we can't say someone is too broken to fix as a whole, because the paths to be are virtually
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by slx26 5y ago
Yeah, I'm from catalonia and I'm ambivalent about this kind of usage. On the one hand, you have some meme sites that are cool, but are often just "exploiting" the tld to make for a nicer url. Aesthetics. As a hacker, it
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by slx26 5y ago
I meant "sinking" as "needing / asking for help and not receiving it". I think the broader point I was trying to make is reasonably clear. We could of course go deeper into philosophy territory... but this is "
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by slx26 5y ago
Well, the problem with human imperfection is that you have to be aware of its many faces, because some of them make our societies more miserable. When imperfection affects only yourself as an individual, or those around you only slightly, i
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by slx26 5y ago
I mean, it's a bit the dilemma posed in Brave New World: what if we can create a veil that restricts our views / thoughts, but in exchange grants us happiness? When someone, for any reason, breaks out that veil, the realization th
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by slx26 5y ago
My main worry with WebGPU is the dependence with Javascript. If I understand it correctly, you can't use web APIs nor stuff like WebGPU directly through web assembly anyway, so there's always a javascript glue layer involved. Now,
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by slx26 5y ago
Agree and disagree. On the one hand, I do agree a lot with the idea that software is a moving target, and it's not enough to build, but you have to maintain it. The whole ecosystem is continually changing, needs are changing, best ways
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by slx26 5y ago
Yeah, I always defend there should be a "law of scale". When you start making your own project, taking a risk, spending hours and hours working on something, it's fair for a single individual to have the right to make any cal
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by slx26 5y ago
When he says "Let's Fix the Internet, Not the Tech Giants", in my mind I translate that to: "capitalism doesn't care directly about human well being. Well, that's not cool, but I believe it's better to try
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by slx26 5y ago
It's interesting to think about this: a simple and ordered space is the most seductive platform to start messing with. When something is complex and chaotic enough, we start losing the drive to make it even more complex, as it takes to
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by slx26 5y ago
Sorry, didn't see your reply earlier. Don't have much time to explain, but for context, you probably want to read "a first lesson in meta-rationality" [0]. It doesn't talk much about categorization directly, but it
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by slx26 5y ago
This is basically the problem of organizing knowledge and setting up rules to easily interface with it through computational systems. There was an interesting article that discussed the topic some time ago, but can't find it right now.
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by slx26 5y ago
I'd be happy to see some experiments with ranking algorithms, maybe in a separate site, or as options within HN as someone else suggested. There are some downsides to both, though (potentially low exposure for the first, technical comp
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by slx26 5y ago
And besides general craziness and DSLs as pointed above, you can also easily experiment with relatively complex language-level constructs, like derived attributes or cacheable functions [talked a bit about it here https://news.yc
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by slx26 5y ago
I recommend again reading the article I linked to. The answer to the first part is: this should be an exception (or abandonment, as the Midori team called it). This is an error in the logic of the code, it's a programming error (even i
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by slx26 5y ago
It's good to see so much focus on errors. They are essential when trying to build resilient systems. But our approaches are still very immature. First, to make it clear, this article appropriately points out that exceptions are still n
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by slx26 5y ago
Thanks, that was much clearer. Well, there are indeed many options and paths we could take in the space, so good luck with whatever you end up trying. Only one final note: I'm a very secretive person myself, and even beyond that I unde
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by slx26 5y ago
I find your comment quite confusing. >> A combination of "all categories are fuzzy" and "all models are wrong but some are useful"? Are you talking about my first paragraph or symbolic AI? >> The fallible sen
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by slx26 5y ago
I have spent quite a lot of time thinking about coordination in general. Indeed, knowledge is a vital part of it. The problem that I see is that knowledge is too vague and lossy and changing and incomplete [as I mentioned in this comment h
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by slx26 5y ago
Yeah, sorry about that. I'm generally against obfuscation, but in this case, the "why" of the resulting differences in calculations is well known to most programmers; the big issue is not "why we get different results&qu
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by slx26 5y ago
Some people try to adjust their opinions by getting pieces of information and considering which ones fit and which ones don't within a (more or less) rational frame. In contrast, everyone has their opinions biased by what they repe

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