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by sullyj3 6y ago
Complexity around memory management and lifetimes is a definite tradeoff that rust makes. A GC imperative language that uses Sum/Product types seems interesting. I guess that would be swift? I'm not familiar.
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by sullyj3 6y ago
The pain of unwrapping a result type? What's painful about it? If, rather than automatically bubbling it up with ? operator, you want to handle the possibility of failure inline explicitly, it's a simple case of pattern matching t
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by sullyj3 6y ago
Man, people are really downvoting accurate information just because the truth hurts.
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by sullyj3 6y ago
It's important to note that you don't need to be able to simulate "consciousness" (raw feels, philosophically contentious, who knows what it's made of) to get "intelligence" (by which I mean powerful optim
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by sullyj3 6y ago
This is one of those cases where the word "just" is doing a whole lot of work. You can't "just" away the fact that predicting outcomes is one of the primary functions of intelligence. If you had a language model tha
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by sullyj3 6y ago
def main(): print("I am conscious")
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by sullyj3 6y ago
Haskell's concurrency has those features! The Async library contains high level combinators for concurrency that are particularly nice to use. (page1, page2) <- concurrently (getURL url1) (getURL url2) https://ha
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by sullyj3 6y ago
Luckily, that very article exists! https://chrispenner.ca/posts/wc Edit: upon reading the article it seems like the'yre different kinds of word counting. Still interesting and worth reading nevertheless!
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by sullyj3 6y ago
C programmers like to talk about discipline, but no human is more disciplined than a compiler.
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by sullyj3 6y ago
They're not wrong, but coming from the creators of AMP this is a bit rich.
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by sullyj3 6y ago
Are you sure the perceived difference isn't from switching from a phone that you've been using for a while to a new one? In my experience, both android and iphones feel blazing fast when you pull them out of the box, and sluggish
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by sullyj3 6y ago
Great explanation, thanks. Do you know of any haskell parser combinator libraries that exhibit the properties you're looking for?
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by sullyj3 6y ago
Exactly. This is why, when someone sees the front page of a physical newspaper in a store, we detain then until they've paid 10 cents for the privilege.
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by sullyj3 6y ago
I don't see that it follows that if you don't have access to something, you can't discuss it. Appreciate your clarification in the second paragraph.
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by sullyj3 6y ago
I don't think this captures most peoples' intuitive notion of consciousness at all. Most people think of it as their directly perceived experience.
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by sullyj3 6y ago
Just as I thought the author was going to make an actual assertion, he goes "When I was in my twenties.." I think that's enough of my attention for now.
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by sullyj3 6y ago
It reads like a caricature of authoritarian propaganda. They're not even trying to be subtle.
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by sullyj3 6y ago
The problem with "shut up and calculate" is that sometimes you forget to take things into account. People objecting on grounds of land use elsewhere in this thread have been worried about the size of the infrastructure and mines s
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by sullyj3 6y ago
I don't understand how you could arrive at that reading. It seems clear to me that GP is worried about the erosion of free speech norms on HN, and isn't claiming anything like what you suggest.
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by sullyj3 6y ago
I'm not advocating they stop showing the links. I'm advocating they show the links without the content excerpts - the use of which, to my understanding, is the justification for being asked to pay. Since the excerpts are the websi
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by sullyj3 6y ago
That discussion wasn't written by the employees of the linked website, why on earth would they be entitled to charge for it? It's like saying record companies ought to get royalties from people who write reviews of their music. Th
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by sullyj3 6y ago
I don't disagree that those constitute legitimate problems that will need to be dealt with. But... why not primarily? The potential annihilation of humanity really feels like quite a primary issue to me. I can't tell if you'r
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by sullyj3 6y ago
What percentage likelihood of being wrong would convince you that caution was necessary? Personally, I wouldn't be very happy with even a 1% chance of humanity being annihilated
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by sullyj3 6y ago
As the saying goes, "sometimes setting yourself on fire sheds light on the situation".
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by sullyj3 6y ago
This is the nature of monotonic improvement. Just because things were substantially worse back in your day doesn't mean those darn kids don't have good reason to complain about the pain points of of today in an effort to make thin
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by sullyj3 6y ago
I think this advice is very much addressed to the kind of person who has no trouble with listening
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by sullyj3 6y ago
Best not to feed the trolls
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by sullyj3 6y ago
Reduce is just a loop that's already been written for you!
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by sullyj3 6y ago
I like articles like this that identify and address information gaps that aren't tackled by standard learning resources. Noticing these sorts of things that are just obvious to experts, because they picked them up over time, but are ne
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by sullyj3 6y ago
Explaining the moves is a very difficult problem, in a sense the "line" (series of moves) the computer recommends as best for both players is the explanation. Translating that information into, say, english, or some sort of usef

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