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by xelxebar 5y ago
Perhaps it could be more helpful to think of the caricatures as "spherical cow" models the author is using when trying to isolate and illustrate a particular social (?) dynamic. Of course real-world models will be much more nuance
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by xelxebar 5y ago
> All the modern Intel CUPs have a RISC core inside.. This reminds of (yet another) mind-blowing Chris Domas video: https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=jmTwlEh8L7g
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by xelxebar 5y ago
Not OP, but "It's all common sense" is exactly the problem, as I see it. Common Sense usually means Big Hairy Ball of Experience-Grounded Implicit Knowledge Wrapped Up Into Pithy Statements, in my experience. Sure, each point
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by xelxebar 5y ago
> This makes no sense. Statement mis-identifying personal state of mind as extrinsic property? > (rest of comment) Simple assertions about personal world-model? > Or maybe I just don't get the point. Definitely get your feels
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Ask HN: What are some funky, unconventional ideas you have?
11 points by xelxebar 5y ago|12 comments
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by xelxebar 5y ago
It seems like you might be on the odd-parity cycle: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/04/22/right-is-the-new-left/ Granted, parity in this sense doesn't track "reality", but it might be wort
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by xelxebar 5y ago
Author might like to try Guix! It shares all the advantages listed and fixes the main complaint via using Scheme Everywhere. That said, the EDSLs for package and operating-system declarations are pretty darn nice. You don't really need
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by xelxebar 5y ago
> None of this probabilistic reasoning matters in the face of the anthropic principle... In fact, the settings of our universe imply nothing . What a sad anthropic principle that would be! In fact, you can use the fact that humans exist
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by xelxebar 5y ago
Interesting. I've been using Guix for about two years now and really love its approach to configuration. Everything is written in a general programming language, but Guix provides a really nice DSL that covers your package declarations
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by xelxebar 5y ago
Neat! Every now and then I recall tripped out dreams too. In the most recent one I remember, the entire universe was a discrete regular lattice whereby neighboring points would influence the "color" of each other, very much like a
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by xelxebar 5y ago
If you're already comfortable with the Wave Equation, then it's somewhat straightforward. You start with some spacetime geometry (i.e. some "known metric") and then study small perturbations that obey the wave equation.
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by xelxebar 5y ago
Thanks! That's one place in the chain that I paused for quite a while, deliberating what to write down. Overall, the little "causal chain" I wrote down is littered with little (but useful!) fibs, and the one you point out is
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by xelxebar 5y ago
Heh. Though while we're playing Pedantics, it's worth pointing out that the defining characteristic of Heat Death is maximum entropy, not uniform temperature. That said, it's entirely possible that the whole system of Energy
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by xelxebar 5y ago
The current interpreter even has this! In fact, the meat of many (most?) functions is implemented using the (functions underlying the) primitives. It's kind of fascinating to skim through, if you're already familiar with array pro
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by xelxebar 5y ago
Closure, i.e. transitive closure, is just the list of a package's dependencies, and dependencies of those dependencies, etc. If you have package A that depends on package B, either directly or indirectly, then package B is in the closu
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by xelxebar 5y ago
> The people who try to figure out the exact rules of everything ... [emphasis added] Lucky for you, this set is empty. > ... tend to be less effective than... At what? If you're an AI, then you might be overfitting on your tr
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Ask HN: How do you chose a VPS Host?
2 points by xelxebar 5y ago|1 comments
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by xelxebar 5y ago
In the middle of an RV build. Hoping to move full-time into it within a couple months. Neat features: - 3 separate "rooms" - reconfigurable/expandable floorspace - reverse osmosis circulatory water filtration system - 30kWh b
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by xelxebar 5y ago
By the author of autoCAD no less! Thanks for sharing this. You have enriched my day.
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by xelxebar 5y ago
Okay. I only look at CEOs and find that tha vast majority have 2 arms. Can we therefore conclude that having 2 arms is key to making someone a CEO?
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What about the losers? Please fill in this table first, then we can talk about the whys and hows: | # sprinters | # non-sprinters | --------+----------------+-----------------+ CEO | |
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by xelxebar 5y ago
Very cool. Thanks for the pointer. Greg Egan is one of my top favorite SF authors, but I hadn't stumbled across those works yet.
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by xelxebar 5y ago
This series is pretty nifty. It's starting point is the simple, child-like curiosity about big numbers. Numberphile has videos on Graham's Number[1], the insanely larger TREE(3)[2], and even Rayo's Number[3] which might be at
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Ridiculously Huge Numbers(youtube.com)
1 points by xelxebar 5y ago|3 comments
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If you believe it's now worth the time and effort to make such binary distributions, I'm sure the devs would highly appreciate your help and compute power.
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by xelxebar 5y ago
Unfortunately, I have been just ignoring these lately, with the intention of troubleshooting later. Now seems like a good time to at least start taking notes of problematic pages. Cheers.
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by xelxebar 5y ago
I use Nyxt as my daily browser for the most part. After experimenting with lots of alternative browsers (uzbl, qutebrowser, etc.), I find Nyxt to excell in the following areas: - Configuration system is highly organized as well as flexible;
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by xelxebar 5y ago
*Note:* The URL is via an Invidious[0] instance (an OSS YouTube front-end). If, however, the link doesn't work for you, try replacing the domain with "youtube.com" to view directly from YouTube. This series is pretty nifty. I
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Ridiculously Huge Numbers [video](yewtu.be)
1 points by xelxebar 5y ago|1 comments
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by xelxebar 5y ago
The amount of time and care that went into your response is a beautiful thing. Thank you for your contribution. In fact, your comment history is full of these kinds of careful, well-considered responses. It makes me happy that people like y

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