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by stcredzero 2y ago
> All the toxins in the food chain end up in the apex predators Is there an analogy for media and information?
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by stcredzero 2y ago
> > local > For now. Like everyone's music and movie collections.
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by stcredzero 2y ago
Nobody will be able to compete against Apple CPUs while they're 1 process node ahead of competitors though. If this artificial advantage allows Apple to slack off in their other areas of competitive advantage, then this is bad for th
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by stcredzero 2y ago
TSMC being the only game in town is what's bad for the market. Beyond some threshold, any meta-gaming of the market is bad for the market. It's like patents. When they were first instituted, they did some good by incentivizing i
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by stcredzero 2y ago
This risk should be evaluated iteratively. It won't kill Apple if some small fraction of the time, their releases are delayed. Overall, if their record is that they have stuff their competitors can't even get their hands on, they
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by stcredzero 2y ago
What makes Lisp macros so intuitive is not the prefix notation The culture is the ultimate "reality distortion field." Prefix notation would be seen as intuitive, if that were culturally established. We'd see something li
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by stcredzero 2y ago
We could potentially get over the bikeshedding by letting everyone configure their IDEs per their own taste for syntax. We Smalltalkers were discussing doing this at Camp Smalltalks in the 2000's. I'm currently working in golang
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by stcredzero 2y ago
I think there's some connection between your comment: For example, if outside developers had more capability to explore different ways... ...and these 2 sentences from the article: For the sake of this argument, let’s posit that the
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by stcredzero 2y ago
> I tried everything to make it more tolerable, and hot water was by far the best. The effect didn't last forever, but it was remarkable how it a) was actually pleasurable and b) muted the itchiness I've been thinking of a &quo
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by stcredzero 2y ago
I suspect hermetically sealed enclosed mini ecosystems are going to take on tremendous economic and technological importance as we move out into the solar system. I've started to wonder why there aren't more closed loop experiment
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by stcredzero 2y ago
One thing I've noticed about Liu Cixin's books, is that for people who follow futurism and hard Sci-fi beyond the shallow level of a typical mainstream layperson, there are huge glaring plotholes. Here's perhaps the big o
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by stcredzero 2y ago
Law enforcement impersonation is apparently, "a thing." To the point, where police talk about the phenomenon as something they expect to see in the course of a normal career. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6nQyuP
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by stcredzero 2y ago
I keep on noticing moments bad UX creeping into apps, more and more, for little possible benefit. Do frontend people simply not think about 2nd and 3rd order consequences anymore? Here's an example: Disappearing affordances. For some r
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by stcredzero 2y ago
"is it possible to smear paint on the wall without creating valid Perl?" This is just a matter of syntax, right? So could it be determined by a stack machine? Unfortunately, the answer is no. Perl is not context free! https:&#x2F
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by stcredzero 2y ago
Not to be juvenile, but I firmly believe that "computer log processing" is much more comparable to sewage treatment than converting trees into lumber. I now have another facet to add to my appreciation of "Log" from th
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by stcredzero 2y ago
The Post Office leaves themselves open to this, because their site is at a level of tech that makes it hard to distinguish from a spam site from 5 years ago. It's too easy to make the phishing site look more legit than the actual site.
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by stcredzero 2y ago
constrain joints so that they can be cut with a tool on a CNC with the material secured on the machine in a convenient fashion in a reasonable period of time Could one make that a part of the evaluator/fitness function?
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by stcredzero 2y ago
If it's so relatively close Relatively close is still frightfully far away. why wouldn't it be observed optically hiding some known objects? Mostly stars. It's angle subtended is still awfully teeny.
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by stcredzero 2y ago
It's boring? It's like when an old person makes a joke they make every time you see them. It's utterly boring and devoid of joy. Whenever I see this situation, there's the one person who is joyous, and the other one wh
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by stcredzero 2y ago
Here is what immediately comes to my mind. - Figure out a way to parameterize joints - Create an automated evaluator that uses finite element analysis - Evolve joints with a genetic algorithm
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by stcredzero 2y ago
The idea that you just mark your work as MIT/GPL/CC0 may have made open source more popular, but it also ruins lives when that thing you worked on for years and never made you anything makes a random drive-by asshole more than yo
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by stcredzero 2y ago
Indeed, its not about the tech. Changing the business model is key. It might be hard to re-imagine the content industry without the current monopolists. Linux showed how disruptive an open model can be. There is a stark difference betwe
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by stcredzero 2y ago
It was about the status of theories, not the status of reality. What is the difference?
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by stcredzero 2y ago
I was one of the first hires on the Cyc project when it started at MCC and was at first responsible for the decision to abandon the Interlisp-D implementation and replace it with one I wrote on Symbolics machines. Yes, back then one pers
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by stcredzero 2y ago
Would it be possible to attach an LLM to a debugger sessions executing all of the fuzzer seeds, and ask it to figure out how to expand coverage?
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by stcredzero 2y ago
Two weird ones I see here in the office. I have an old HP 1440p monitor that will retain the screen image when I unplug the HDMI cable from my laptop. (My solution is to plug it into a power strip, and I just shut it off when I leave.) Ther
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by stcredzero 2y ago
I am curious. Please give us more information on what you are referring to and your specific point of view.
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by stcredzero 2y ago
embezzlers are far more likely to think that "everyone does it" as well Funny, but I have observed this with regards to lying.
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by stcredzero 2y ago
More like offering a potential counterpoint, motivated by general experience that people generally aren't stupid I would say that everyone is smart and stupid at the same time, about different things at different times. Being a sma
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by stcredzero 2y ago
like a REPL but in the style of Smalltalk image Funny, but in my comment above, I'm referencing a Smalltalk program! Smalltalk environments are actually full of things that are functionally just about a REPL. until I got to a code b

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