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by vincent-toups 5y ago
This guy's understanding of what constitutes "horror" is really high strung. Like yeah, this stuff might be irritating. Maybe you wanted pinker shutters. But who really cares? Imagine getting bent out of shape about the color
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by vincent-toups 5y ago
Never bothered me. Move the function name into the parens, delete the commas. Nothing to it.
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by vincent-toups 5y ago
The phrase "Congo's Cobalt Rush" seems to presage mostly dark side to me.
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by vincent-toups 5y ago
It is neither his ideology nor his advice that I'm taking exception to. What strikes me as the issue is that he identifies literally anyone who may level any criticism at him as acting in bad faith: purely participating in a game of st
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by vincent-toups 5y ago
This has a real "I've read Rand and I'm using cocaine" vibe.
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by vincent-toups 5y ago
Gonna be honest: everything about this screams "inescapable morass."
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by vincent-toups 5y ago
Such a point of view is pretty much incongruous with contemporary physics. I'm not sure how one would go about even formulating the case. Despite its central presence in physics 101 the notion of force is actually not all that clearly
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by vincent-toups 5y ago
Whether it is pedantic depends on your goals and perspective, but if you are interested in a history and philosophical development of Force that culminates in the observation that gravitational forces are fictitious, I can heartily recommen
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by vincent-toups 7y ago
Try SU(3) Yang Mills!
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by vincent-toups 7y ago
Think of it this way - decoherence depends on regions of the wave function more or less becoming isolated from one another in such a way that the results of experiments for classical things in those regions match our results. The wave funct
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by vincent-toups 7y ago
Only in a trivial sense. Quantum Field theories are explicitly local theories, constructed from Langrangians which purposefully have and express Lorentz invariance, exactly to maintain locality. In any case, quantum field theories are good
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by vincent-toups 7y ago
Absolutely. Its shocking to me that any experienced software developer could even pose this question. The sequence of diffs is much, much, more informative than the current state of the software.
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by vincent-toups 7y ago
I think this is disingenuous - I doubt anyone who proposed letting homeless people use the restroom at Starbucks thought it was a "win win." And I doubt they represented it that way. I'm not familiar with the discourse on the
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by vincent-toups 7y ago
Sleep is incredibly important for kids and its also extremely hard to perturb - if we miss our kids bedtime by an hour he is a wreck.
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by vincent-toups 7y ago
This rules.
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by vincent-toups 7y ago
I'm prepared to argue that a data scientist who doesn't apply this level of rigor to their work is almost certainly doing a bad job, though they may deliver results that are good from moment to moment. The key differences is how t
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by vincent-toups 7y ago
My main gripe with them is that the dependencies between the cells are implicit and the results of each cell are resident in memory instead of a more durable form (like artifacts on disk). The best way to understand why I hate notebooks is
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by vincent-toups 7y ago
Jupyter notebooks are a bitter reminder that worse is better. I'm a data scientist and I hate them.
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by vincent-toups 7y ago
Is it the "right stuff"? One might just as plausibly expect such people to be highly risk tolerant and to end up screwing up really badly as often as they succeed.
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by vincent-toups 7y ago
I don't think anyone is against self driving cars if you assume they will work. Its whether they will work and what happens when they screw up that is the pertinent issue.
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by vincent-toups 7y ago
I guess climate scientists don't use version control?
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by vincent-toups 7y ago
It also makes me feel like I'm programming in 1987. LuaJIT does fine with lambdas and I'd bet good money chibi-scheme is faster than GDScript. Its not a really good excuse.
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by vincent-toups 7y ago
It doesn't have lambda, even the bad lambda from python.
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by vincent-toups 7y ago
I'm planning on using Godot for my next game but I hate the scripting language. It feels ad-hoc and I can't stand the absence of anonymous functions.
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by vincent-toups 7y ago
It often feels as though almost everything on the internet post 2000 or so has been an enormous bait and switch. Build a good service people like, get a lot of people hooked on it, and then gradually fuck it up in an attempt to generate som
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by vincent-toups 7y ago
I thought this was going to be about stockpiling sand because of semi-conductors.
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by vincent-toups 7y ago
Both sets of code samples look silly to me. In scheme all this syntactic nonsense would just be function calls and lambdas.
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by vincent-toups 7y ago
I don't understand languages like Ruby and Perl and their supposed emphasis on "human design." My sense of what a human designed language would be is a lot more like Scheme: extremely simple, fundamental abstractions which, w
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by vincent-toups 7y ago
Yeah, just commenting to say no to installing an app.
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by vincent-toups 7y ago
Its great rhetoric, though. And it will take rhetoric to solve the climate change problem.

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