zshrdlu

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Where do software programming jobs come from? The Tower of Babel(unwindprotect.com)
1 points by zshrdlu 4y ago|4 comments
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by zshrdlu 4y ago
> Don't think the mountains, or the oceans, or the deserts are an idyllic virginal untouched Eden. You're going to end up getting yourself killed like the Into the Wild guy. I don't think they're mutually exclusive.
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by zshrdlu 4y ago
I'm curious: Is "health tourism" a thing for Americans? Healthcare is extremely cheap where I live by comparison.
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by zshrdlu 4y ago
That's my take-away here too.
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by zshrdlu 4y ago
They'll likely bring interstellar guns, germs, and steel. And bibles/qur'ans.
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by zshrdlu 4y ago
As Carl Sagan noted, the opposite is equally amazing. Are we really all alone? Such a waste of space-time ;)
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by zshrdlu 4y ago
Well the economies of far-away places with far-out people don't matter, obviously. More rhino horn soup please!
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by zshrdlu 4y ago
You've gotta learn to stop worrying and embrace the petro-dollar.
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by zshrdlu 4y ago
Have you tried chatting to it? I think it would ease your anxiety. It is impressive, but you'll see what it's definitely not when you actually sit down and quiz it. Still impressed though.
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by zshrdlu 4y ago
Adding to the comments here about incoherent logic. Prompt: Bob has 10 mangoes. 2 of the mangoes go bad. 3 of the remaining mangoes are stolen by a baboon. The baboon eats one of the mangoes he stole and gives the remaining ones back to Bob
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by zshrdlu 4y ago
What a pleasant surprise! I hadn't listened to Symbolic in a while.
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by zshrdlu 4y ago
Nice. Nitpick but the writing sounded off to me. Too much use of the word "social media" where a person would have used "it" or some other language construct.
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by zshrdlu 4y ago
Are you in the US/Europe? Your job market in tech is utterly unbelievable for people outside those regions, even now. It simply rains (tech) jobs over there in biblical proportions.
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by zshrdlu 4y ago
My observation too with 80/20. In fact - the system seems to be designed to work as such. You'd be going against the grain trying to make things anything other than 80/20. The only concern for individuals is: is being in eith
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by zshrdlu 4y ago
I'm surprised the article doesn't mention Dreyfus and his infamous What Computers Can't Do: The Limits of Artificial Intelligence , especially given the bold title. For me, GOFAI was simply the earliest attempts at experimen
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by zshrdlu 4y ago
Yeah the title is misleading, I clicked on it assuming some monumental discovery had been made that I missed being a huge fan of GOFAI.
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by zshrdlu 4y ago
I've ever understood it either. I love s-expressions! But I suppose there must be something to the complaint. If you ask me I'd say Python's space-as-syntax is far more horrible, but doesn't get nearly the same amount of
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by zshrdlu 4y ago
The hijacked cursor is very annoying and disappears as one scrolls. Not sure what it's meant to achieve.
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TV gadget censors bad words with 1980's tech(youtube.com)
6 points by zshrdlu 4y ago|2 comments
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by zshrdlu 4y ago
Channel: Technology Connections
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by zshrdlu 4y ago
Yet the vampires were supposedly more intelligent than their prey!
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The Bizarre and Bewildering UX of Android's SIM Toolkit and USSD(unwindprotect.com)
2 points by zshrdlu 4y ago|0 comments
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by zshrdlu 4y ago
You are overlooking the fact that the same tools could be in the hands of ordinary people as well - like you. It might just be a future whose art you might enjoy.
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by zshrdlu 4y ago
> The word "significantly" is often significantly misused and vague. It might mean statistically significant or significant to the author. State significance quantitatively, e.g. "increased by 42%". Other alternative
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by zshrdlu 4y ago
> I was impressed he managed to write such a complex piece of code without ever indenting anything. I wonder if he'd enforce a 's/^\s*//g' pre-commit hook if you worked with him...
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by zshrdlu 4y ago
Sounds a lot less straight-forward than using the cached result from Google or acrhive.org...
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by zshrdlu 4y ago
I see. Would you consider Las Vegas overpopulated? Nothing grows there, there is no water, everything has to be shipped from outside. If the supply-chain is affected by some catastrophe, people there will starve.
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by zshrdlu 4y ago
I assure you wholeheartedly that brain-drain is not the big problem for Africa it's made out to be. It's a very big red herring for sure.
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by zshrdlu 4y ago
Genuine question: what part(s) of the world do you consider overpopulated?
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by zshrdlu 4y ago
As a black man in Africa, I had not realized that this was not an obvious subtext until I read your comment. Is it not?

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