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by vacuity 2y ago
Considering all the "tabs or spaces" flamewars and standardized formatting as with gofmt for Go code, I think this would get restricted at most professional codebases to some person's favored style. Not sure that's a goo
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by vacuity 2y ago
You're being disingenuous. Your suggestion is more like if you wrote yes, that's true but this redundancy is not necessary it's there for historical reasons... without any breaks. That might be exaggerating compared to your a
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by vacuity 2y ago
Yep, I agree that this kind of descriptive representation, role model thing is very real and can have significant effects. It's the best kind of evidence that someone of the same demographic likely can/can't achieve similar t
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by vacuity 2y ago
> a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects and typically causing well-defined symptoms (such as anxiety, irr
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by vacuity 2y ago
Seems to be https://jdsemrau.substack.com/ , also in their bio.
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by vacuity 2y ago
Funnily enough, embyronic processes, which goes along with the zygote naming scheme. Similar idea of a small process specifically for forking, but this is a more comprehensive model. Described in these nicely written comments by others: ht
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by vacuity 2y ago
The ability to directly program for asynchronous phenomena is definitely worth it[0]. Something like scheduler activations, which imbues this into the threading interface, is just better than either construct without the other. The main dow
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by vacuity 2y ago
The issue is that logically correct algorithms can indeed be made, but actually making them work in real conditions is its own problem. It's not necessarily wrong to explore more exotic algorithms, but a focus on algorithms that people
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by vacuity 2y ago
Wish I got a manual on small claims courts when I became an adult. Or sooner. And, like, the resources to exercise it without taking up more of my time or anything. It's a strange imbalance for something that is entirely the company&#x
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by vacuity 2y ago
This isn't schoolchildren all being bystanders or victims to a peer bully. There is a much larger asymmetry in time, money, and credibilty here.
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by vacuity 2y ago
Going off of the maxim "anyone who wants to become president shouldn't be" (or something similar), I wonder if we would be better off with some standard filtering, random selection, and interview by committee like the secreta
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by vacuity 2y ago
I agree with your view, but to refine it: on the flip side, we could change our culture so that normative statements about "this company" refers to everyone in it, starting with the highest responsibility for top positions and tri
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by vacuity 2y ago
And make configs shareable across users.
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by vacuity 2y ago
It's prima facie more plausible for chatbots to cause suicide, considering that chatbots are more personal and interactive than even video games. There's a distinct difference, I would think, between what is obviously fake murder
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by vacuity 2y ago
I've learned that most people don't consider themselves to be "bad" or "malicious" overall. People will earnestly espouse opinions of arbitrary quality, with unknown justification and intent, and expect others
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by vacuity 2y ago
Aside from technical concerns, how do they think this move comes across? People value their privacy in many aspects of their life, even those who claim they have "nothing to hide". Window blinds aren't for keeping people from
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by vacuity 2y ago
I am perfectly aware. But if I thought it was easy, I would've done it already. It's not a matter of whether we can achieve something, but whether we will . As it is, I and probably many others find it hard to devote mental and
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by vacuity 2y ago
If I interviewed someone I considered a "true liberal", and similarly a "true conservative", and we all had lots of knowledge (like scientific studies) and argumentation skills, I expect the liberal would tend to be more
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by vacuity 2y ago
You are right about the theoretical capabilities of the populace, but in practice the psychological profile is such that there isn't much weight to your words. Many people could each think no one else cares because collective action is
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by vacuity 2y ago
If (according to some) a woman wearing revealing clothes deserves to be raped, and (to most, hopefully) a drunk driver deserves imprisonment and paying any victims, what does someone who has knowingly and intentionally participated in a sch
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by vacuity 2y ago
I like to think of it as two intertwined rules: a concrete problem domain has an ideal solution with ideal abstractions for its purposes seek to understand your problem domain to a reasonable extent before writing hard-to-change code
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by vacuity 2y ago
If anything, phonics isn't really abstract, and memorizing probably feels abstract to a young child. It's from the perspective of the learner whether there is a clear, concrete thing to learn or something abstract and general. A c
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by vacuity 2y ago
> I disagree. Our kids will never be morally obligated towards us in any way. We can only hope to have loved and supported them enough for them to love and support us back of their own volition. I agree with this. Kids can't willing
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by vacuity 2y ago
Computer hardware is very fast now, so why does my computer lag noticeably on OS and browser operations? A facetious question, and perhaps it's not remotely a dealbreaker, but I expect better and would expect the same of my own softwar
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by vacuity 2y ago
> Industrialization created the world we all enjoy, the largest population of humans enjoying their lives at the same time as have ever lived. It is indeed true that we have unprecedented life quality among more people than ever. It is a
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by vacuity 2y ago
Indeed. I lost the plot from my original comment, so I'll try to refine it here. I had brought up pollution and exploitation, a broad survey of negative features of our civilization because I think people don't weigh positive and
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by vacuity 2y ago
> But that base is, for the present time, being set by humans. This itself requires explaining too. Axioms can't be justified except by axioms outside of their system, so you're still relying on something to place humans on top
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by vacuity 2y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42300388 Reposting another of my comments to summarize my thoughts. Mainly read the last paragraph in your case. I think you are too optimistic. It may be the case that environmentalism
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by vacuity 2y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42300388 Last paragraph mainly.
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by vacuity 2y ago
Granted, I overstated the escaping pollution part. It seems like people are not alarmed enough about climate change and pollution to believe extinction[0] will happen anytime soon. That would mainly be the motivation for rich people, and no

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