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by titzer 11mo ago
We built computers to store information and make that information searchable. Imagine! The place that sells stuff has a list of things...that you could search through...using a computer. Since you have to sell things somewhere, I am pretty
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by titzer 11mo ago
Can't you see the billionaires sprouting in the Spring? Didn't you know they spread their delicate flowers just like Jasmine has for millions of years? /s
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by titzer 11mo ago
Well blow me down, people being skeptical of a study that defied basically all other Science and goes against our entire understanding of how vaccines and immune systems work? Yeah, of course I'd be skeptical. I'd be interested
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by titzer 11mo ago
Yet you wrote: "...it’s one of my least favorite types of people; and that’s precisely my point, old men have been saying society is collapsing since ancient times, yet here we are, with things better than ever" Which is a pretty
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by titzer 11mo ago
> Anyone who learns anything looks back on a naive version of themselves. I remember thinking a lot like you, too. I'm so glad that for the most part in my early internet days (early 2000s), I was pseudonymous. I tended to have very
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by titzer 11mo ago
Just because it says "men" doesn't mean it's about masculinity. Rather, my reading of "strong men" is closer to "people with a strong work ethic, integrity, and zero tolerance for corrupt grifters," a
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by titzer 11mo ago
YouTube has become enshittified at a record clip. Search is useless and shorts have turned it into just another TikTok brain dopamine machine.
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by titzer 11mo ago
You'll get old too one day and it will look a whole lot different watching the younguns stumble through completely avoidable mistakes and forget the long lessons of your life that weren't properly taught or were just ignored. We h
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by titzer 11mo ago
These situations are known as "performance cliffs" and they are particularly pernicious in optimizing dynamic languages like JavaScript, where runtime optimization happens that depends not just on the program's shape, but its
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by titzer 11mo ago
The linker de-duping identical machine code is common, but most frontends that do monomorphization aren't that smart about identical copies, because monomorphization is usually done with source-level types, and there are lots of typefu
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by titzer 11mo ago
It's a long-standing problem in compilers, often referred to as the "phase ordering problem". In general, forward dataflow optimizations can be combined if they are monotonic (meaning, never make the code worse, or at least,
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by titzer 11mo ago
I worry about this too. That is why transparency in all aspects of the qualification process is key. I think said trade school should be free, and even subsidized. We should have a pretty large pool of qualified candidates so that qualifica
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by titzer 11mo ago
> Do it for at most 2 terms and get back to the real world. Guaranteeing they never get good at their job, and institutional knowledge keeps decaying. We need to stop pretending that Congress or any of these elected positions don't
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by titzer 11mo ago
I would like to live in a society with functioning, emotionally-mature adults capable of self-reflection and rational thought. I'm aware that I don't.
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by titzer 11mo ago
It's about time we call people who reflexively believe the opposite of whatever the "left" or the "progressives" say by their true names: right-wing reactionaries.
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by titzer 11mo ago
So...not taking a vaccine because one doesn't like the attitude of people recommending it. Yet the "elites"--whoever the hell they are--have the attitude problem. Do these people also believe the Earth is flat because Galileo
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by titzer 11mo ago
> coastal elite attitude There's definitely a Science communication problem because Science isn't about who is saying the things, but facts speak for themselves. The reliability, repeatability, and accuracy of what people say
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by titzer 11mo ago
In addition to the ludicrous unworkable physics, as it turns out, datacenters need people servicing things all the time . Even if you could get those measly three racks into space, they'd function about a month before some harddisks w
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by titzer 11mo ago
This applies to musicians. E.g. early blues guitarists only had a few licks but they played them so many times they honed them into perfection.
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by titzer 11mo ago
> “Who are you defending yourself against?” To which he answered, to my astonishment: “I don’t know. The world.” Indeed. Moving our every interaction in daily life plus our innermost thoughts to the internet has instilled a low-key fear
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by titzer 11mo ago
It's kinda out of control. Yesterday I was researching the state of the art in audio beat detection because I want to automate a workflow of processing my music collection of over 20,000 songs to detect their beats (and eventually chor
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by titzer 11mo ago
I find it kind of hilarious that a 7 billion parameter AI model is necessary to automate the clicking of webpages. I mean, how broken is the software stack if we can't script things? We jumped the shark, clearly.
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by titzer 11mo ago
We have a research project called WALI (WebAssembly Linux Interface) here: https://github.com/arjunr2/WALI It's experimental, but there is a toolchain that can compile most C/Posix programs and run them on th
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by titzer 11mo ago
Don't use Google Location Service (GLS) on your phone. It's built into Google Play Services, aka the enormous rootkit from Google and does...stuff...with high accuracy location data because lawyers think they can argue in court th
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by titzer 11mo ago
I used a Sun Ray for two summers when interning at Sun Labs in 2002 and 2003. They were kind of awesome and kind of sucked at the same time. First, the display wasn't that great for the time, and they were expensive for what you got. S
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by titzer 11mo ago
1984, yeah right, man. That's a typo. https://yarn.co/yarn-clip/d0066eff-0b42-4581-a1a9-bf04b49c45...
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by titzer 11mo ago
You literally see no irony here? You are doubling, tripling down on some idea you won't even vaguely describe to people, but you are so utterly convinced that it's right you don't appear to even admit the possibility that you
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by titzer 11mo ago
While I generally agree with this, I have mixed feelings. On the one hand, AI could be smart enough to reach the "enlightened master engineer" and can reach super-human levels of...simplification. In some ways, complexity can resu
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by titzer 11mo ago
Let me guess, you have a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.
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by titzer 1y ago
There's definitely a mismatch between expectations between what you inferred I meant and what I really mean. We agree that the majority of people are not going to suddenly stop being zombies if the platform were more open for developm

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