solipsism

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by solipsism 5y ago
Wait... Did you not read the comment? It's talking about American culture...
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by solipsism 5y ago
// FIXME(properly document this is row major) Rig up a precommit hook that rejects changes containing the string "FIXME" That simple technique doesn't solve everything, but it goes a long way.
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by solipsism 5y ago
would have been more interesting or laudable. I think it's interesting and laudable that the hardware coped. But yeah, on the face of it this sounds very much like brittle software. For 46 seconds the craft's performance suffere
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by solipsism 5y ago
For your personal, idiosyncratic definition of "intelligent".
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by solipsism 5y ago
The energy and space required are O(n) though.
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by solipsism 5y ago
I know I exist. But that's it.
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by solipsism 5y ago
However, I'm at a loss how you would explain quantum entanglement You seem to be applying the rules of our simulated universe to the universe outside the simulation. There's no particular reason to think the speed of light or an
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by solipsism 5y ago
Yeah, it's remarkable to me that this article could be written to provide advice to "fierce nerds", and not include a single sentence about not being an asshole. I work with "fierce nerds". Some of them are self-awa
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by solipsism 5y ago
I didn't ask for empirical evidence. You call it an argument. It's not an argument. It's just a naked claim, without any kind of basis at all. To ask for support somehow seems to offend everybody. Okay, fine, let's just
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by solipsism 5y ago
If it was common sense, it wouldn't be against mainstream opinion. In our society, you can just say whatever you want without backing it up in any way, and then get irritated when someone asks how you figure.
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by solipsism 5y ago
I think the modern, mainstream opinion underrates oral traditions greatly When you go against the opinion of mainstream experts, you should have some evidence of rationale.
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by solipsism 5y ago
What do you base this on?
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by solipsism 5y ago
That assumes that the crowd is usually right. That's not my experience.
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by solipsism 5y ago
We'll tell a higher-up why his new plan is stupid and that we're not very excited to waste our time it I'm curious how this scales. In your culture, how do you deal with a thousand people in a company feeling comfortable te
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by solipsism 5y ago
You should word it differently because I never would have guessed that is what it means.
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by solipsism 5y ago
What in the world does with C/C++/Java/Javascript syntax mean? Four different languages with four different syntaxes.
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by solipsism 5y ago
FYI I tried to understand this comment and failed. It being one big sentence is probably part of the reason.
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by solipsism 5y ago
like such a beautiful kind of idealism to me dreaming of some alternate reality where GUIs were never invented This is the ideal dream state you send your students to absorb? A bunch of terminal-users obsessed with building everything i
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by solipsism 5y ago
Humans always looking for bright lines of demarcation. Consciousness is not a well defined concept. Any line you draw between conscious and non-conscious is arbitrary. So where do you want to draw the line?
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by solipsism 5y ago
nation-state" is not just a fancy infosec word for country, This is pedantic and adds no value. In what sense could the precise definition of "nation state" matter? in this context everyone understands the phrase in exactly
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by solipsism 5y ago
TIL. Still, I think the strongly in strongly scattering medium is important. It's very confusing to leave it out.
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by solipsism 5y ago
Nitpicking individuals is not likely to address that problem. And it wasn't even close to the subject of conversation. This is simple common decency. It also happens to be HN guidelines: Eschew flamebait. Avoid unrelated controversies
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by solipsism 5y ago
The paternalistic lecturing around here is unreal. Grandparent didn't ask for your opinion about 23andme privacy policies, and it's not remotely on topic.
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by solipsism 5y ago
To have conversations and learn stuff. You can do that without being preoccupied by internet points.
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by solipsism 5y ago
free space (air) Surely that's not the science. Space and air are not the same thing. Air is, of course, a scattering medium.
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by solipsism 5y ago
The second point is strange. It's an argument for not putting personally identifying information in the username. It's not an argument for throwaway accounts. The first argument... well I just don't get it. Why do you care so
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by solipsism 5y ago
Your job isn't to make sure she reaches her utmost potential. Your job is to make sure she ends up happy. Plenty of people have lived incredibly productive, and yet profoundly unhappy, lives. We want to foster an environment that cons
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by solipsism 5y ago
Dunning-Kruger at its finest. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect BTW, why use a throwaway just to make a mildly controversial remark? The internet points aren't real. What's the point
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by solipsism 5y ago
It's kind of strange to wander into a conversation, and then balk at the fact that people expect your contributions to be relevant to the conversation.
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by solipsism 5y ago
Yeah you're right. Sorry!

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