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by slx26 5y ago
Well, one of the points is that even if things work properly/as expected 99.8% of the time, when you add layer after layer of "works ok most of the time", you end up with a very unreliable system. And given that all computing
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by slx26 5y ago
I think the problem of this essay is that it's overly technical: only those versed well enough in SQL will really care to read the whole thing, and if they are already at that level, either they accepted that "SQL will get the job
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by slx26 5y ago
It's always lack and coordination and power, not lack of will. There might be around a thousand scientists in the world that are relevant enough to be able to contact other big names and try to get the whole scientific community on boa
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by slx26 5y ago
Quite a few good points, and a decent summary at the end: >> Refusing to pay financial debt has ethical implications that refusing to pay tech debt doesn’t have. Paying off tech debt generally involves redoing previous work, destroyin
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by slx26 5y ago
Yeah, the real question shouldn't be whether something looks productive on the short term, but whether it has a good chance to help us move forward or not. Sometimes we move a lot... without going anywhere; and I don't think that&
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by slx26 5y ago
Yeah, to make sense of complex systems they need to be well structured and modularized, and visuals have a lot to contribute here. If you can't fit your structure comfortably in a diagram, your structure is too complex for most people
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by slx26 5y ago
>> For some reason computer people are so conservative [...] Well, one of the underlying reasons for the lack of imagination might be... keyboards . If keyboard keys were small e-ink displays, easily configurable and accessible by pr
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by slx26 5y ago
No one is actively happy about it, but when you account for garbage collection and other runtime stuff that goes into a regular go program, plus no dynamic linking... you have to be happy with the trade-off. It's the right one for most
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by slx26 5y ago
We should keep one morning of school a week, no matter our age, to get together with other humans and discuss about stuff like this. Individual reading and HN comments are fine, but we are missing the best part of learning, which is actuall
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by slx26 5y ago
Can be trusted with what ? Given how complicated life is, I'm actually impressed with how morally people behaves. In that sense, I trust that most people are doing what they can, and they are trying to do no harm to others. But that d
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by slx26 5y ago
https://winterbloom.com/about
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by slx26 5y ago
We have already normalized that governments can't properly manage threats like the current pandemic even when they are part of our present . What do we expect for stuff like global warming that doesn't even have the same level of
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by slx26 5y ago
Echoing the other comment that was talking about stigma... I think we should at least admit that, of course, without execution ideas aren't worth much, but without ideas you don't even have anything to do. And in fact, most of the
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by slx26 5y ago
So, one issue not discussed in the comments is transparency and trust. For example, I can take a look at the js in HN, and I can read what it is and know they aren't doing shady stuff. Of course, this is of interest to very few people,
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by slx26 5y ago
Ah, the eternal question. How do you respond to this? Applaud and encourage even more thorough self-reflection, or criticize because the self-reflection was not thorough enough?
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by slx26 5y ago
Given the technical nature of the puzzles/adventures, I guess that if there's something we could all agree on is that the message about why javascript is required could be a bit more nuanced. Beyond that, sure, it could be done wi
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by slx26 5y ago
Maybe better would be to weight the first 50 votes or so, so if the site has rarely been submitted to HN, every 2 votes count as 3 or whatever variable weight works. The problem is that you can't give blanket +1 votes to submissions fr
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by slx26 5y ago
Very interesting talk, thanks for sharing, it really adds some weight to the intuitive idea showcased in Feynman's note.
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by slx26 5y ago
It's not weird, you simply don't have to prove, pretend nor preserve anything.
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by slx26 5y ago
Not to completely deny your point, but we should be much more careful: in my opinion, a big part of mental illness stigma comes from the inability of society to see a culprit, and instead let the individual become the culprit. We are very b
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by slx26 5y ago
And there might be other benefits besides performance. I'd like to use WASM to be able to reuse server side code in languages like Rust or Go in the client, so you don't have to re-implement algorithms and tricky processing code i
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by slx26 6y ago
We are so busy being busy that we don't have time for interesting things!
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by slx26 6y ago
Well, you can also have both. Most tools should be prescriptive unless you have to go really deep and do your own. If you have the expertise, it might be ok for you to choose the rules of what you are doing. If you are not, being guided it&
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State of AI at the Dawn of 2021(opennars.org)
3 points by slx26 6y ago|1 comments
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by slx26 6y ago
While I agree with what you said, that's only part of the story. The other half is that commercial interests push in another direction. This is true for products like DAWs, plugins and controllers, but also the spaces where music is do
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by slx26 6y ago
The point the article was trying to make, not the tool descriptions. Though to be fair, the point was probably only to showcase some cool ideas to inspire people to consider dev tools more. Maybe I tried to read too deep into it.
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by slx26 6y ago
This is all rather vague. These tools collect dust because software nowadays doesn't only have to be written, it needs to be maintained and adapted. And these examples weren't because they weren't useful enough. Sure, they wo
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by slx26 6y ago
Though I think it's an even more general mechanism of association . And places might also be easy to remember because they also contain many elements we can associate. You can call it the connectedness of a memory. You can also try to
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by slx26 6y ago
Honestly, after "Huzzah!! Yesss! Sing it loud." I simply stopped reading, as I expected a snarky and sarcastic comment to follow. It's an extremely non-neutral way to start a comment, and while that's not inherently bad,
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by slx26 6y ago
Ok, first addressing the common complaints: - Yeah, DAWs suck, poor example, let's ignore this. - The title is probably not very well chosen, as some other commenters highlighted by focusing a lot on creativity on itself. The actual pi

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