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by slx26 6y ago
The problem here is that abstraction comes at a cost, and that cost is so great that we need even crazier abstractions to be able to work around it... and now the suggestion is, as you say, work with a whole engine. Ah, now I can draw a pix
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by slx26 6y ago
A few things: - You can probably just call it essay consistently instead of using "book" so many times. It's only 20 times longer than your blogpost. - You ask for some kindness sharing your posts in your blog, so you could h
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by slx26 6y ago
Well, I feel your reply is somewhat uncharitable. I mean, I said "ideally", and I didn't talk about money disappearing, only about, as you expressed, "money [not] being a problem". Which you might still consider nai
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by slx26 6y ago
I would actually go even further and say that the only restriction we should eventually need is crediting the original author. Potential individual profit (as in economic profit) makes sense in the current world where the distribution of re
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by slx26 6y ago
Moloch does require people willing to sacrifice some values or externalities in exchange for individual benefit. At scale, there's always people willing-to or forced-to or unknowingly doing that. But the examples you write about are mo
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by slx26 6y ago
Just listening to it for the first time, I feel the song is unconsciously inspired by Radiohead's "Idioteque". Lots of interesting recommendations there though!
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by slx26 6y ago
Yes, we are all programming each other and ourselves all the time. You are not the only human with this kind of concerns. When I was younger, I avoided giving my opinion in many cases because I didn't know if it was ok to do that, as i
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by slx26 6y ago
logic applied abstractly leads to maths, maths applied to our surroundings leads to physics, physics applied to our ideas leads to engineering. now let's repeat the process for psychology and enjoy our new engineering discipline, manip
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by slx26 6y ago
One thing is nuance and truth. There's a lot of people capable of intellectual honesty who can argue about a topic with healthy levels of nuance if they are in the right state of mind, if they have time, peace and motivation to do it.
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by slx26 6y ago
Question for people more knowledgeable on the topic: is it reasonable to expect a future where audio, image and video are easy to work with and compression / decompression / encoding / decoding is done transparently by the ha
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by slx26 6y ago
Hope it's not off-topic: what I still don't understand is how with regulations like this an OS like Windows can get away with the things it does. I mean, maybe there's some legal reason, but my common sense can't process
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by slx26 6y ago
I understand why people is downvoting this, as we shouldn't be doing armchair diagnostics based on so little information, but it's worth mentioning that there are technical terms for diminished motivation disorders, which are inde
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by slx26 6y ago
oh, I really like these, well done!
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by slx26 6y ago
Yes, a lot of people commenting here should really go watch the talk Mark Cerny gave [0]. It's clear there's no "big technological breakthrough". SSDs are great but have been around for a while already, we simply had to
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by slx26 6y ago
Can you share the names of those companies, or some of their projects? At least that way people who thinks like you can follow those efforts and try to give them more visibility.
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by slx26 6y ago
I like your comment. I think this point you mention is very relevant for more complex cases: > if you expect that your pledge will meaningfully contribute to the threshold being reached Kickstarter solves the coordination problem for th
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by slx26 6y ago
yep, I thought the same about pre-commitment, but I guess the problem is not software itself: for proposals that don't need general consensus, but only a certain threshold of support, the problem seems to be getting enough attention. K
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by slx26 6y ago
yes, the title and introduction don't seem too compelling from the outside, but once it gets into the topic it's indeed a great discussion of the problem witholding us from a better world. so, I have to ask. maybe we haven'
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by slx26 6y ago
here the beeswax recreation by the archaeologists that appears in the article: https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/recre... to me it looks like a guy that went on a dismembering spree?
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by slx26 6y ago
yeah, the main page doesn't even use css, it's only html tags. you might ask the author to add viewport scaling on the <head>, even if it will kinda break the zen of the html: <meta name="viewport" content=
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by slx26 6y ago
Yes, "completely" was not the appropriate word. I meant it as "it has an enormous weight", rather than "it completely defines (as the one and only factor)". I don't really speak english either. About more
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by slx26 6y ago
I really like it when people try to give practical advice after describing problems. Agree with most of what's written in the post. But I'd like to discuss one part of it: > [...] the major websites of today's web are not
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by slx26 6y ago
"fascinating" might not be the best word for a behavior like this. "smart" might also sound like an hyperbole to many. if you really want to earn more money, this kind of petty tricks are not difficult to figure out. ove
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by slx26 6y ago
Maybe we should have some standards with very simple formats that are "universal" and should be supported everywhere to solve this kind of problems, even if they are not ideal. I understand the pros of complex formats, but then we
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by slx26 6y ago
everything is kawaii until you actually start using the products ^^
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by slx26 6y ago
there's a light mode switch at the bottom, though on the posts it's rather hidden. on the main page it's more accessible.
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by slx26 6y ago
Good time to link to [0]. Even if it happens, it's harder. If you are social and you are not part of a minority, you can always find at least a small group of people around you to socialize. Any excuse will do if your priority is socia
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by slx26 6y ago
not exactly what you are saying, but you might be interested in teardown https://youtu.be/Wc_QC25RM44
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by slx26 6y ago
Hey, the cookie policy on your site appears in black text over a black background on chrome.
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by slx26 6y ago
well, that's the path to coding enlightenment! hahaha, just keep climbing for a few years more

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