zackmorris

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by zackmorris 5d ago
Ads are money laundering. Are we going to buy insurance after seeing the same ad multiple times per day every day? No. Ask yourself who's paying for ads, who gets paid for ads, who owns both those companies or conglomerates, and how wh
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by zackmorris 9d ago
Ya functional programming is key, as it's equivalent to a spreadsheet or digital circuit. In other words, it removes the element of time and often dynamic state, which imperative programming generally fails to do. IMHO most concurrency
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by zackmorris 9d ago
PHP did extensions and PECL modules wrong, due to its roots as a web server language. With managed hosting, often PHP doesn't offer what we might think of as basic functionality, since the admin didn't install/enable it. So i
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by zackmorris 9d ago
I fell in love with MATLAB (or GNU Octave for free since you really pay for toolboxes/packages) back around 2004, despite it warts. So I second Julia, which is similar, but is a more modern functional language instead of imperative. I
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by zackmorris 9d ago
I've been calling for high-multicore CPUs (at least 100 cores) with local memories for a quarter century now. No winners so far. A Pentium 4 hit 3.8 GHz longer than that ago in 2004, so that's not special. And the estimated price
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by zackmorris 11d ago
This is great! We need something like git blame to show how legislation evolved over time, who passed it, which lobbyists pushed for or wrote it, who benefited by receiving more money/power, and who had to foot the bill. This is becomi
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by zackmorris 14d ago
Since creating AI is/was the last challenge in computer science, it makes sense that it would be the most disruptive to the people and systems behind it. I imagine that many of us went into CS fields after growing up inspired by RD-D2
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by zackmorris 18d ago
When you accept reality, whatever it gives you, you're obviously going to have a far more rational population and better outcomes than one that insists on bending reality to fit a desired narrative, even when it obviously does not. U
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by zackmorris 18d ago
You're not wrong, but it's worth doing a deep dive into recent papers on multidimensional time and its relation to consciousness and free will.
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by zackmorris 18d ago
It's important to distinguish between spiritual energy like prana/chi and electricity. Science will never show that grounding has any measurable effect on the chemistry of the human body. But it also can't show how conscious
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by zackmorris 18d ago
I feel like the currency of the future could be shame. Specifically, that a search engine competing with google could show how poorly each result was found by google, or even use lack of representation on google to rank a site more highly s
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by zackmorris 18d ago
I helped someone day trade 25 years ago and we made 40% in 4 months, mostly on AAPL, and it was easy. Way easier than working the 2 years moving furniture that it would have taken to earn that money, which I was foolishly doing to make rent
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by zackmorris 23d ago
I know it looks bleak right now with wealthy and powerful men tearing down every institution that feminism, progressivism, etc built, but remember that the political pendulum inevitably swings the other way. We can have justice, and we will
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by zackmorris 23d ago
We need something like an open source model or guild for VC, where successful people can put money into a pool that is generally accessible to anyone, with little friction. The idea would be to join the guild and gain access to funding, wit
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by zackmorris 26d ago
The central contradiction of capitalism, according to Karl Marx, is that production is social—it requires the coordinated labor of millions of people—but ownership remains private. We got the first trillionaire while people were still sta
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by zackmorris 1mo ago
Of course the moment AI can be used to earn a residual income from Mechanical Turk, they shut it down. Incentives work both ways. If the exchange rate of human labor to capital falls to zero, then human workers will have no choice but to ex
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by zackmorris 1mo ago
I had this idea 25 years ago, except that I wanted to use the AI available at the time, which would have probably been genetic algorithms. The idea was to write the expected outputs for some input examples and have a Lisp-like language use
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by zackmorris 1mo ago
Can you perform a public service and track which companies reject/ghost the most applicants? That way job seekers can save a lot of time by blacklisting those companies. Because I'm hearing horror stories of people applying for hu
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by zackmorris 2mo ago
Wait till we realize that nobody is buying the software we vibe code anyway. We've seen this game before, with the Dot Bomb and 9/11. A lot of you have 6 figure jobs that will simply be gone next year after the election, never to
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by zackmorris 2mo ago
I thought the article was going to be about countless millions of minds trying to win the internet lottery and merely reinventing the wheel or failing. I'm not worried about AI taking jobs. I'm worried that humanity has lost the a
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by zackmorris 2mo ago
> Apart from increasing society-level anxiety, that focus on the dramatization of nuclear war is considered to have turned people away from nuclear power. Imagine the different potential outcomes had our authors not been so talented. Yo
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by zackmorris 2mo ago
Ya this problem was solved 20 years ago with Varnish cache and Coral cache/CDN. I think what's really going on is that bots expose how underpowered web servers has gotten in recent years. In the 2000s, even poorly-architected PHP
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by zackmorris 2mo ago
I've held the notion that money behaves in a log-linear way for decades, so it's nice to see that formalized finally. A river exhibits different behavior than a lake or the ocean. It's interesting that Daniel Bernoulli (famou
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by zackmorris 2mo ago
For what it's worth, Scheme was the first programming class that I took at UIUC around 1995, as I recall. I had used C++ for several years to make shareware games, so I took a test to challenge some programming courses. I vaguely recal
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by zackmorris 2mo ago
I just favorited your comment, which joins a vanishingly small list of revelations which completely blew my mind
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by zackmorris 2mo ago
Winter sunrise would be almost 9:20 am where I live in western Idaho: https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/local/idaho/locking-the-cl... Our representative Mike Simpson voted for it. He has done some good t
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by zackmorris 3mo ago
It's interesting that this is a parody, but that no real-world alternatives exist. Some come close, ranked from lowest to highest gatekeeping: - https://www.gofundme.com/ (personal / charitable) - https:/&#x
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by zackmorris 3mo ago
The wrong people won the internet lottery. I sympathize with the author. I started with HyperCard in the late 1980s when fax machines were an up-and-coming business. Then learned C, C++ and assembly language before I knew what a spreadsheet
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by zackmorris 3mo ago
The brain’s workspace is sustained by recurrent loops—signals cycling back through the same circuits over time. In contrast, Claude’s workspace evolves over a single pass through the network, with the network’s depth playing the role that
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by zackmorris 3mo ago
Catering to the top of the k-shaped economy is indistinguishable from evil

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