zarathustreal

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by zarathustreal 1y ago
A charitable interpretation would be that they consider justice (consequences that fit the choices one makes) more important than ownership of material things ..and frankly they’re not wrong. No unjust system can maintain itself in the long
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by zarathustreal 1y ago
Boggles the mind that people like this exist, it’s like everyone lives in an entirely separate reality.. how do we fix this?
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by zarathustreal 2y ago
You “asked it” a statement?
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by zarathustreal 2y ago
Since when is “do something on every file in my codebase” considered coding?
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by zarathustreal 2y ago
Don’t they all do this? Surely they’re not just doing naive text, n-gram, regex, embeddings, etc, right?
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by zarathustreal 2y ago
I’d upvote this a thousand times if I could, so many people holding opinions on purely selfish grounds
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by zarathustreal 2y ago
This sounds like a good thing! Sounds like “it’s professional sounding” is becoming less effective as a means of persuasion, which means we’ll have much less fallacious logic floating around and will ultimately get back to our human roots:
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by zarathustreal 2y ago
Interesting.. wouldn’t that lead to an echo chamber?
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by zarathustreal 2y ago
Well I think it’s as simple as P vs NP. This is the primary difficulty with AI and always will be. Solutions are easy to get AI to construct. The difficulty is in verifying those solutions. This can be seen in industry even now, evals are t
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by zarathustreal 2y ago
Yep, same thing happened to us at AWS. Sometimes it’s actually random.
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by zarathustreal 2y ago
There is absolutely virtue in spending willpower to make your body do something it doesn’t want to do - maintaining and developing self control and autonomy. Imagine if there was no way to develop self-discipline, you’d be at the whims of y
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by zarathustreal 2y ago
Right, and the associated cultural impact of increasing hedonism
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by zarathustreal 2y ago
> we don’t have a one-person one-vote system. Correct, and that’s a good thing! Intelligence is not evenly distributed among individuals, and susceptibility to psyops and propaganda is a huge issue. The plain truth of the matter is that
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by zarathustreal 2y ago
All things in moderation, even, and especially, good things. Righteous fervor has killed more than disease and famine combined.
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by zarathustreal 2y ago
I think you’re misunderstanding the “fail fast!” advice. You want to fail fast in development not in production. In production you want maximum robustness. Users would rather see an error saying “whoopsie, maybe try that again later” than
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by zarathustreal 2y ago
> CouchDB / PocketDB aren’t really up to date anymore. Source? I’ve been using CouchDB as my game world DB for years, works fine for me?
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by zarathustreal 2y ago
The return type of a function is an assertion. You’re saying that values of the type exist. The return value is an assertion about the arguments. You’re saying that they imply the result. The issue is that your code is incorrect, in a logic
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by zarathustreal 2y ago
My brother in Christ, releasing a tool for free does not exempt it from criticism
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by zarathustreal 2y ago
Correctness (of a given assertion) doesn’t need to be established to exist
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by zarathustreal 2y ago
At this point, calling it by its correct name (Sum Types) would leave them looking stupid for not using the correct name (Product Types) for their “records”
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by zarathustreal 2y ago
Any hints on why you’re adding so many newlines into your comment?
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by zarathustreal 2y ago
That sounds more like an OOP thing than a type system thing - functional languages make excellent use of type systems without mention of anything remotely sounding like a “Design Pattern (tm)”
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by zarathustreal 2y ago
> You absolutely do lol, or you’re just straight wrong. This is false, an obvious counter-example is an explanation that happens to be coincidentally correct (without being derived from any science) - This seems like an attack on the not
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by zarathustreal 2y ago
Well that depends entirely on what you consider to be the goal - as a software engineer, your role is entirely concerned with engineering excellence. As a member of a team, especially a team of extremely highly paid and highly educated indi
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by zarathustreal 2y ago
You don’t need science to explain how dysfunctional society is. The problem with “soft sciences” is that they can’t produce provably correct information. Incorrect information is worse than no information.
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by zarathustreal 2y ago
I’m assuming by “wrong” you mean “false” and not “morally objectionable” therefore I must disagree. It is an *unsustainable* position to hold that something is bad regardless of whether or not it is true. Basing your morality on potentially
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by zarathustreal 2y ago
My response was about a person that is finishing up the final year for their degree
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by zarathustreal 2y ago
If you don’t have a degree you almost certainly don’t have years of (professional) software development experience. The only exception in my experience (and this helped me get a job when I was a new grad) is having a large portfolio of tang
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by zarathustreal 2y ago
For a more thorough treatment of the subject, I suggest Baudrillard’s “Simulacra and Simulation”
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by zarathustreal 2y ago
Most companies ban giving feedback for the simple fact that the hiring process is not objective and it’s super easy to accidentally incriminate yourself.

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