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I agree with you that just on the basis of this piece, he does not sound accountable and can appreciate given what you've shared about your own history why it might be particularly frustrating. At the same time, there are factual eleme
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Yes, from the outside his fervent desire to donate a kidney looks like a compensation for his rationalism. Personally, I find EA to be uncompelling because it implicitly assumes both that there are objective universal values and that price
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My favorite Thurston Moore sample: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0FoVuUYh4w
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Go is your friend with whom you can talk about the weather and sports but the relationship is ultimately superficial and unsatisfying.
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> If you don't get it I probably don't want to talk to you about it, I might even think less of you as a software developer. The feeling is mutual.
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We don't have to condemn Jefferson as a man to acknowledge that his thinking was influenced by his position as a land owning slave owner. This isn't some minor detail. It is essential to understanding his worldview. I actually thi
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I once led a project that had an android app years ago. Someone on the team brought in guava for a small number of helper utilities. This made our apk exceed the method limit which required some partitioning (forget the details) that increa
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by thefaux 3y ago
Sure. Everything is reducible to lisp. But even though lisp had the same capabilities decades earlier, scala is the language that brought them to the mainstream (which may well because of the historical accident that twitter's backend
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This blend of functional and oo programming was pioneered by scala.
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Long ago I broke my collarbone in a bicycle race. It's a common injury in the sport so I got a referral to a surgeon from another racer who'd had a fracture of his own surgically repaired. To my surprise, she took a very conservat
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Do you have a citation for that number? I'd be somewhat surprised if the median walking distance is actually that high. Walking two miles would take most people 30-50 minutes depending on various factors. Perhaps this reflects my bubbl
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Semantically, sure, they are giving money back but the OP has a reasonable point that a dollar given back today may ultimately cost far more than a dollar in lost future returns.
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I can agree that there should be as much insulation from the political process as possible but I believe lifetime appointments actually increase the politicization of the institution. There have been interesting proposals around, e.g. 18 ye
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Sadly we all too often collectively choose to hurt ourselves rather than raise others up.
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Linus has a terrible attitude.
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Yeah, Scala is absurdly bad for startup time because of poor modularization of the standard library. It's a decent language with a terrible standard library.
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The Prompt Box Is a Minefield: AI Chatbots and Power of Language(theconvivialsociety.substack.com)
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> Already an option O_TMPFILE This is not portable.
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So in a sense llms can democratize the technique Wolfram has been deploying with human labor for years...
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There is something that I find deeply unsatisfying about this. For me, the first draft is as much about working through the problems space and considering possibilities. If I rely on a chat bot, then I am more apt to become anchored to what
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Ticket scalping creates jobs and is a progressive tax on the wealthy. Both conservatives and liberals should love it! /s
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> If we wanted to NIH all the things, we'd have to start doing crazy shit like implementing our own JSON serializers or hand-rolling artisanal CSPRNG/SHA algorithms. These two are not analogous. Writing your own JSON deserializ
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True. In the long run though, I expect we will either build something dramatically better than these models or lose interest in them. Throw in hardware advances coupled with bitrot and I would go short on any of the gpt-3 code being availab
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So bing wants us to hang out with our friends and chatgpt wants us to go enjoy nature. Great advice!
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> even someone like KD was way more significant during that era. Hard disagree. Have you played pickup basketball before and after Steph? I'm not even saying this is a good thing, but Steph Curry has quite clearly changed the way ba
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Doesn't the same logic apply to funneling your money? How would you be qualified to direct your resources effectively if you aren't an expert in the field? How much surplus do you expect to generate that it will actually make a di
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I don't think you can separate the behavior of the voting public from the conditions imposed on them by the capital class and the propaganda they feed us through their media properties.
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> By that structure, the maximum number of people that such a company should have is 7×7×7×7×7 = 16807 That actually sounds like pretty reasonable limit. There are very, very few organizations that should exceed this size in my view. In
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Yes, there are often a lot of organizational barriers that inhibit doing the right thing. Most organizations like to talk a big game about how innovative they are, but they really just want to keep doing the same things that they've al
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I am not making any claims about whether or not these phenomena are extraterrestrial, I truly have no idea. But suppose that there is a civilization that is dramatically more advanced than ours. Perhaps they have uncovered deeper laws of ph

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