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by wcarss 6y ago
I don't hear people talk about the design side of services vs libraries enough, but I think it's a huge part of the picture. Many people reach for services too fast because they feel more comfortable thinking about APIs through th
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by wcarss 6y ago
Great post! This motivated more learning for me about ray-tracing and ray-marching than I've ever bothered with, despite over a decade of vague interest. If anyone wants a copy, I ported the diffuse shader code to python 2 and 3 here:
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by wcarss 6y ago
I imagine that the popular view of fusion will be better, because of the impossibility of meltdown and the much easier to manage spent materials. If that translates into less NIMBYism, the regulatory costs should be much lower. If the input
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by wcarss 6y ago
> A sentence with "ought" in it is a signal that what follows is a pointless thought. You can't will things into existence by saying it "ought" to be that way. Thanks for making it clear right up front that any t
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by wcarss 6y ago
That's a really good point! I agree that we should be supportive of parents in the face of circumstances they can't directly control, rather than stigmatize them or hold them to an unfair standard. Thanks for explaining it that wa
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I don't understand what the value to you is here in arguing that we all ought to just settle for less. More space is preferable, better conditions are preferable, and we do have the capabilities to work toward these things for all huma
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by wcarss 6y ago
This mostly makes sense if real estate is already fully utilised, but it isn't. I can't speak to India, but there's a feeling broadly in North America of having "new development" and "expansion" over time.
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The point is precisely that neither of them is an outlier within their respective time -- they are normal people who want "normal" housing: i.e. just enough to raise a family in. The parents born in the 30s-50s could largely affor
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by wcarss 6y ago
Thanks for taking the time. It's an interesting argument that many people live past the point that they enjoy life, but I doubt you are really suggesting we would be right to kill those people without their direct consent. Euthanasia,
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by wcarss 6y ago
I'm brand new to the code, but I don't think it is as simple as you state. The 'one function' you linked to just passes a ReadFileContext into binding.open[1]. The ReadFileContext appears to have its own read that uses i
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by wcarss 6y ago
Why care about the suffering, but not about the extinguishing of a life? If the moment to moment experience of a thing has value, but the thing's actual existence does not, why should (humane) murder not be legal? I do implore you to w
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by wcarss 6y ago
https://github.com/gregsramblings/google-cloud-4-words -> this is where the PDF appears to be generated from, and it has searchable text of the content in its README on the main page, and links to docs on each, and
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by wcarss 6y ago
(Under the original title) I was selfishly hoping this would have links to runnable Amiga demos :) We've had our Amiga 1000 out of the closet for the last 6 months and after our C compiler disks all mysteriously stopped working at once
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by wcarss 6y ago
When did you honestly reach for 'Negro' and feel impeded? In my opinion, trying to use less intentionally hurtful terms when identifying other human beings seems a far cry from erasing all 'potentially dangerous' concept
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by wcarss 6y ago
just a little related: I watched a guy step'n'watch the no-symbols code once after he hooked WINDBG up to an MS Office process that had a paint issue. He narrowed it down to something IME was doing -- I gained nothing but awe.
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by wcarss 6y ago
I feel awkward posting again but I couldn't help but point this out once I had noticed: if you spent $1000 on a coat that's good for 30 years, in 30 years you'll just have one very old coat. But if you spend $100 on a crappy
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by wcarss 6y ago
I don't think I was very clear because I agree with you, but I'm also confused by you -- my age wasn't meant to be a key part of the post. It is there to show that I should still 'have time' to create wealth, but do
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by wcarss 6y ago
> generally look for quality items with lifetime warranties, 1 coat that costs $1000 but lasts 30 years has better ROI than buying a $100 coat every other year. Plus it's less mental strain since you don't have to think about r
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by wcarss 6y ago
Not snark: in the ideal case, that would be the people.
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Just a note on your opening concern: the twitter thread may have opened with the mild statement, "The US government is inviting inflation", but the rest of the thread was quotations from the book 'Dying of Money'[0], a
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by wcarss 6y ago
> "In a world where employees need to show up to 6X Co HQ everyday to work, the cost of living and the cost of hiring is directly linked (6x)." They are not directly linked, and it is a harmful falsehood to perpetuate (sorry
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by wcarss 6y ago
This forwards an over-inflated notion of the cultural and knowledge value that working at a Bay Area company imparts. The Bay Area does not have a monopoly on good culture or experts: at times it may even notably lack them. There are many e
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by wcarss 6y ago
I've actually been working on something like that, with elements similar to the submission idea. My thing is an irc/slack-like chat system, that allows you to leave both text and audio messages (which get auto-transcribed) in the
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by wcarss 6y ago
No horse in the race on either side here but just to answer the devil's advocate: it's pretty easy to imagine a future where China could establish a trade blockade of Taiwan, putting the US in the position of "potentially s
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by wcarss 6y ago
I am not Russian and did not live during the USSR, and maybe you did and experienced some things I know nothing about, but I can say that the claims you've made are not uniformly true across the history of the USSR. One counterpoint is
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by wcarss 6y ago
Super agree that new modes of conferencing software are needed -- I see similar ideas, "drifting locational chats" come up a lot, but it's never seemed to 'fix' things in my experience. I'm personally an advoca
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by wcarss 6y ago
With regard to your juggling KR, I learned by a method of breaking it down that I found very helpful and learned from a book that I can't remember the title of, and would like to relate here. I learned in ~3 hours of low effort while w
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So glad this eventually found its way up to the top -- reading fogus' yearly review has become a fondly held tradition.
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interesting service! Some unsolicited ideas: this sounds like the kind of thing you could take to blogs or newschannels to tell the kind of interesting story: "imagine getting locked out and then getting conned! locksmiths can be shady
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I wish I knew what it was like to have the math background, and don't at all mean to suggest one should not bother, but as a person on a team of people who have made a few production NN models over the past year: it is completely possi

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