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by titzer 1y ago
I object to YouTube premium as it amounts to extortion. It's a reward for making a product worse. What a perverse incentive system, and we shouldn't let them get away with it.
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by titzer 1y ago
Yes, exactly, like the entire marketing team for buggies around 1910. They really figured out what people wanted.
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by titzer 1y ago
Webpages are dumptrucks for every bad feature anyone ever thought up and are in a constant state of trying to re-framework their way out of the complete mess of utils that get shipped by default. Need a gadget that implements eye tracking v
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by titzer 1y ago
> is actually just a workaround Google suffers through in the YouTube product. It used to be a Google mantra that "focus on the user and all else will follow." They are so far beyond that they've wrapped around. They activ
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by titzer 1y ago
Well, I've been holding this one in for a while but now's the time, so it's flame on. YouTube sucks so bad. On the one hand, you have the amazing engineering prowess, enormous hardware resources, reliability and scaling of
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by titzer 1y ago
No amount of measuring and squeezing--not even years of it--is a subsitute for high-level thinking. And vice versa. Imagine: function F() { for (i = 0; i < 10; i++) { A(); B(); C(); } }
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by titzer 2y ago
Who hired you and why are they paying you money? I don't want to be a hater, but holy moley, that sounds like the absolute laziest possible way to solve things. Do you have training, skills, knowledge? This is an HN comment thread and
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by titzer 2y ago
If there's one thing I've learned over the years is that the easiest way to tell who one's real enemy is to see whom they extend no leeway to, never forgive, equivocate, or apologize for, whom they actively criticize at every
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by titzer 2y ago
> DEI statements Just going to point out that this is absolutely not the same thing as rescinding research grants using some lazy grepping of abstracts like the absolute clown show going on now. > horseshoe theory is true. Had to look
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by titzer 2y ago
The entertaining thing for you is the university response and it doesn't concern you that the government is blatantly forcing ideology on people via every lever of power they can?
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by titzer 2y ago
> a system can have high entropy but be relatively simple. Good examples of these are anything that Kolmogorov-compresses well. For example, by almost any measure the output of a pseudo random number generator has high entropy. Yet it h
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by titzer 2y ago
This theory is absurd. They're unjustifiably generalizing from a single system--biological evolution on Earth[1]. There are literally no other places in our solar system even that are rapidly evolving to more complexity. Lots of dead r
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by titzer 2y ago
So glad I collect physical media of all the good stuff.
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by titzer 2y ago
It's interesting to think of how bird intelligence is related to their perspective. Perching high in branches and taking to the skies allows them to see a large overview of the many activities of other life forms. They can manage to ge
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by titzer 2y ago
If possible, 1) design completely immutable data structures that can be broadly shared and don't need to be copied. If you need mutability, just embrace the fact that someone is going to abuse mutability and 2) try to create abstractio
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by titzer 2y ago
We largely abandoned an unbelievably efficient form of human input in favor of big fat dumb slow touchscreens. Can you imagine where we'd be as a species if we got our shit together 25 years ago and standardized a few of the most impor
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by titzer 2y ago
> nuclear fusion is also pretty basic. Get 'em hot and smash 'em is a remarkably effective method at multiple scales :)
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by titzer 2y ago
They have no problem lying in bold letters and are absolutely not embarrassed one bit when caught out on it.
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by titzer 2y ago
> to make them practical. ..practical to replace commercial airliners, sure. There have been plenty of slow electric planes. In the future, net-zero air travel can only be done by producing jet fuel in a carbon neutral way.
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by titzer 2y ago
Interesting. For Virgil, I started with mostly Java/C syntax, but with "variable: type" instead of "type variable", because it was both easier to parse and was more like standard ML and what you encounter in program
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by titzer 2y ago
As someone who has worked on a systems programming language for a long time, my strongest advice would be to avoid trying to make syntactic or semantic choices that are just different unless they're really motivated by making the sys
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by titzer 2y ago
The last one is better as: SELECT * FROM authors WHERE author_id IN (SELECT author_id FROM books WHERE pageCount > 1000); But I think you're missing the point. The functional/procedural style of writing is sequentialized and po
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by titzer 2y ago
SELECT DISTINCT author FROM books WHERE pageCount > 1000;
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by titzer 2y ago
I'm curious about the choice of Go to develop the new toolchain. Was the support for parallelism/concurrency a factor in the decision?
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by titzer 2y ago
Saying that something "is like XY" when you really mean "is like XY, at least in comparison to C++" isn't what most people mean. C is not a portable assembler. In C, "a += 1" could overflow, and signed ove
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by titzer 2y ago
> while most nuclear powers have dabbled in the idea of 'how could we conceal a nuclear test' Given the sensitivity of global seismometers, I don't think this is physically possible. Maybe you could test one on the far sid
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by titzer 2y ago
It's only been 2 months. America in free fall.
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by titzer 2y ago
Grew up in the midwest and still have a lot of ties there. You left out the absolutely gargantuan amount of right wing crazy propaganda that has all of them hating democrats and "The Left" and "socialists" to death. The
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by titzer 2y ago
We don't have conservatives these days, we have right-wing reactionaries.
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by titzer 2y ago
AFAICT the neural engine has accelerators for CNNs and integer math, but not the exact tensor operations in popular LLM transformer architectures that are well-supported in GPUs.

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