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by whatnow37373 1y ago
I'll just conclude this process by positing my contribution: $instance_of_some_witty_template
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by whatnow37373 1y ago
He was not wrong. We forget stuff all the time and in huge quantities. I can't even remember my own phone number half of the time. Those guys could recite substantial portions of the Homeric epics. It's just that there is more to
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by whatnow37373 1y ago
"Having trouble with your algebra? MathWiz is having a 20% discount this month only. Only $24.95 / month. This is an excellent deal. Don't you want to improve? Do you want to let your family down, like they thought you would?
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by whatnow37373 1y ago
I have kids and new computers absolutely suck for introducing them to computing. A C64 would be perfect.
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by whatnow37373 1y ago
I can’t help but notice how all those points are centered around you being the bearer of truth and others being the source of dismay. While these may be easy ways to avoid exposing yourself to sources of discomfort it might also not be a ba
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by whatnow37373 1y ago
Bring out the pitchforks!!
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by whatnow37373 1y ago
Your comment is proof to the contrary. You are thus lying and everything you say or do is now severely tainted. I will now produce a seven-pronged argument for why exactly this type of behavior is the hidden root cause of climate change and
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by whatnow37373 2y ago
So the AGI/ASI problem might solve itself: we slowly become incapable of iterating on the problem while existing AI is not nearly advanced enough to pick up the slack. It’s quite beautiful. Once a civilization tries to build machine in
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by whatnow37373 2y ago
Oh, the Bicameral Mind, how cool would it be if that was real. I also read it. For armchair science: I cannot remember for the life of me. I never imagine scenes like that. Is that strange for you? How is that for you? Do you often do that?
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by whatnow37373 2y ago
I didn’t take it negatively by the way. This is all so interesting and what you are saying is also absolutely not nonsensical. It’s all so hard to put it into .. words. :)
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by whatnow37373 2y ago
I think you have locked on to the LLM-viewpoint quite strongly. I don't think I can agree with a lot of your presuppositions. Like "the rules are just there to make the pathfinding efficient" and "language is just an ext
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by whatnow37373 2y ago
Yes.. we're getting there. "one of the purposes of Sentry is running Sentry-as-a-service". Why? To make the dwarves happy? It's making money. And with it comes a whole truckload of very obvious incentives. Notice I don&#
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by whatnow37373 2y ago
Ah, I see. I meant that when using Sentry someone will have to host it. Not that we can't live our lives without it.
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by whatnow37373 2y ago
You mean like having a different product internally, super optimized etc? Or what do you mean?
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by whatnow37373 2y ago
This is quite a swampy bit of territory you're joining me in here so please excuse the mess. I'm going to attempt a good faith interpretation here so we're clear. I want to understand your position, because I think it's,
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by whatnow37373 2y ago
Your perspective is unique given your circumstances. I can't imagine how it feels to operate in a different mode having traces of the previous one. Very interesting. This issue is very complex. One of the thorny bits is that what you r
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by whatnow37373 2y ago
> I’m not going to run a piece of software that requires 16GB of RAM, has a complex installation script, and is known to be a pain to maintain. This has to be self-hosted eventually either by you or Sentry themselves so the full cost o
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by whatnow37373 2y ago
You convert the language statement into semantic space. That's where you do the theorizing and then you convert it back. I can't think in text space. It's way too slow and I very much suck at it. It's hard to see how thi
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by whatnow37373 2y ago
This is kicking the can down the road. I can ask you: what happens before you have "inner monologue"? Nothing? Words just pop into your head? How do you decide what to "inner monologue"? How can you have "complex
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by whatnow37373 2y ago
While painful I do think that’s a more productive mindset to enter the talk (not debate) with. His reasons for doing so are presumably not all that rational so I’d steer clear off obvious bear traps like rationality. I liken it more to how
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by whatnow37373 2y ago
You are framing it as danger which preloads the discussion immensely. I find this is common in these situations. This already ends the talk before beginning it. Imagine starting negotiations with Putin with “How come you are such a waste of
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by whatnow37373 2y ago
Count yourself lucky you can clearly demarcate the start and end of your system. You view this beautiful system moving in your mind in splendid isolation dancing in synchronized dare I say celestial harmony. What I see is that same thing an
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by whatnow37373 2y ago
Fair enough. It's just that in my experience the "cool bits" are quickly done and then we get bogged down in endless layers of inter-systems communication (HTTP, RPC, file systems, caches). I often see FP people saying stuff
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by whatnow37373 2y ago
Thanks, especially two is very interesting. Admittedly the framework itself is the actually interesting part and that's what I meant with this work being "rare" (I mean how many people work on those kinds of frameworks fullti
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by whatnow37373 2y ago
When I see this list all I can think of is how all these things are just generic, abstract rules and have nothing to do with programming. This, of course, is my problem. I have a strange mental model of things. I can't shake off the fe
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by whatnow37373 2y ago
A general "web app"'s germane parts are: - The part that receives the connection - The part that sends back a response - Interacting with other unspecified systems through IPC, RPC or whatever (databases mainly) The shit in b
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by whatnow37373 2y ago
Yes and I notice you still did not provide an interesting example. Surely parsing packets is not an interesting example of functional programming's powers? What interesting things do you do as a programmer, really?
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by whatnow37373 2y ago
Isn't that obvious? :) I do wonder what happens if one of the tasks to be coordinated is "programming"?
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by whatnow37373 2y ago
It doesn't have to be wrong to be irrelevant. Many things can be viewed as coordination problems. All of life can be viewed as being about coordination between tasks. But I want to engage in good faith and assume you have some way of
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by whatnow37373 2y ago
> The interesting part is what you actually do in the middle to transforms inputs -> outputs. Can you actually name something? The only thing I can come up with is working with interesting algorithms or datastructures, but that kind o

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