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by xscott 3y ago
What threshold?
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by xscott 3y ago
Dude, I'd totally love to be paid lots of money to work on my pet projects. Just think of the beauty I could bring in to the world. My talents, livelihood, journey and so on just can't find a market though.
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I'm going to ignore everything that sounds too weird to address. Philosophy major? Drinking on a Tuesday? As for laws, we're almost in agreement. People want to argue about rights, but it seems to me the rules are a lot more ab
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I'm guessing they were worried about their source of income, and not Marxist philosophy that came about 100 years later. However my history isn't so hot, and maybe Ned was a philosopher in addition to a weaver, and maybe Karl sho
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So you're expressing humanity with your flowery (or sarcastic) language to call me ignorant, uncaring, and dehumanizing. I want to say that's hypocritical, but it really isn't. You are a pretty good reflection of humanity,
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by xscott 3y ago
IP is a fiction we created to encourage artists to create. Arguably it was a trade off where we encourage producers of creative works by giving them a limited monopoly for the benefit of the consumers. IP is a price we paid for the benefi
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Once upon a time there were millions of people working the fields to make enough food. Nothing has been decimated in the last year or two, and I don't think anything will be in the next two either. But yeah, the world is changing, an
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You're reaching pretty far back to find outstanding examples, and I'll agree they are way above average. However, I'll assume you know that most of Shakespeare's works were based off of earlier works. And I doubt Bach t
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We don't have to treat them the same, but that's the direction I'm leaning. As for society, that's another topic. People really aren't all that nice to each other very often.
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Ok, now that you've clarified: My take was correct, right? Your first instinct was to attack my character instead of discussing the topic, and you knew you had to be sneaky about it to not obviously break the rules. Your empathy isn&
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I don't understand what you're saying. Am I the uncaring ignorant one? It seems unlikely that you're really referring to yourself there, and maybe you're using a rhetorical trick to try and skirt HN's policy abo
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I'll care a little more about the creatives' arguments when they start paying royalties to every drawing, painting, illustration, tv show, or movie they've ever seen. Until then, it's just a cash grab. No individual is
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A billion parameter matrix, if it was square, is 32,000 by 32,000. NVidia's tensor units are basically 4x4 matrix multipliers.
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I don't agree with that. It makes people feel good to say "every little bit helps" as they pretend they're doing their part, but I don't hear anyone saying that halving emissions is sufficient to stop any problems.
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> The reality is that a small handful of industries generate the majority of pollution You can pick your pie chart, and they'll all be a bit different based on the categories they choose. I like this one from 2016 because, even tho
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This one always seems silly to me. If you wanted to use SI units, it'd be meters/second. Or maybe km/sec if you were going really fast. Having hours in your velocity units means you've got a dumb 3600 in there if you
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It makes a mockery of simple models too. Models of double pendulums and three body problems don't match the empirical world for very long.
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by xscott 3y ago
The few times I tried to be blunt it didn't work out at all. Hurt feelings, trust and motivation squashed. But I've got crap people skills, so it's easy to believe the problem is me, not that it couldn't be done better
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by xscott 3y ago
Like I said, I wasn't a good manager, so my opinion doesn't mean much, but no - I don't agree with you. I've seen two strategies that seemed to work for teams. A) foster a healthy culture of people who want to do a good
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I can't help but read that list as "criticize and micromanage them". But I was never a good manager, and I don't know how to do better.
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I already had that bookmarked from using it several months ago to try and figure things out. It's been very helpful. Thank you for creating it!
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> [... WordPress bad ...] Xorg [...] has over 30 plugins on a normal desktop. This isn't a great argument. Python has "plugins" and just calls them "C extensions". Every time someone uses Numpy, Matplotlib, Pan
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You don't need any of it. But if you buy it, you should expect to receive it, and if you don't receive it, you should get your money back.
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If I plotted the number of pedestrian deaths by the kind of phones they use, we'd see that iPhones and Androids are the killers, concluding that BlackBerrys are by far the safest phone to have if you're a pedestrian and don't
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by xscott 3y ago
I can't tell if you're spun up or not, but from the tone and choice of words, this doesn't seem like a friendly conversation any more. Take care, and I won't reply any further.
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Heh, that's probably true about being "production-ready", but I think you're conflating quality with popularity, and there are plenty of counterexamples to that. The point was that there have been good staticly typed la
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ML (later StandardML) is a very nice language which has been around since the 70s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ML_(programming_language) Significantly before Haskell, and certainly worth looking at. I'm not sure
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I agree, but it seems like a lot of times you get: (o foo) (bar o) And I don't know if I'm supposed to click it to change to `foo`, or if that means it is already in the `foo` mode.
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To each their own. I want my 64 bit integers to do what the CPU does, and I could bore you with useful examples where two's complement wrap around is exactly the right behavior. But more importantly, I don't ever want to worry ab
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I think we're getting to the point where C++ users should define two classes: class Integer { // uses unsigned integers for all operations // but converts to signed when you need output };

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