zwkrt

59 ms·

571.
by zwkrt 8y ago
Didn't you just describe the military?
572.
by zwkrt 8y ago
Can you elaborate on why it was so impactful?
573.
by zwkrt 8y ago
I disagree. The US is "because I can". Japan is "because I should".
574.
by zwkrt 8y ago
You should look at the Construct library, which overloads the '/' operator as syntactic sugar to make s-expressions in it's DSL less paren-heavy. I'm not saying I agree, but it was wild when I first saw it. St
575.
by zwkrt 8y ago
The voight kompff test is still in beta. People change over time and have complex motives which change in different environments. For instance, I know I work harder when my coworkers are more personally friendly, but generally despise work-
576.
by zwkrt 8y ago
It isn't truly a real estate rebrand unless there is some stomach churning cutesy name, like "LoNo"!
577.
by zwkrt 8y ago
Yes my analogy had a hidden variable, but it is "less wrong" than saying that entanglement allows FTL communication, for reasons analogous to those that I provided at the end; entanglement can only convey information as fast as
578.
by zwkrt 8y ago
> similar to how entangled pairs seem to transmit information faster than light If your lover sends you a left-half heart locket through the postal service, when you get it you can assume he has the right-half of the locket "faster
579.
by zwkrt 8y ago
It need not be chrome users, Google could (ironically) get relatively good metrics just by how many times ddg has been googled.
580.
by zwkrt 8y ago
I agree that the current solution is unfortunate, but most customers are seemingly blind to that or more generally demand seems inelastic to that aspect so I didn't address it.
581.
by zwkrt 8y ago
I was taking with a friend who said ,"people use Alexa like a toaster, we haven't found what this interface will be really good at" But what if it /is/ just a toaster? Tech people tend to have high hopes for technol
582.
by zwkrt 8y ago
That doesn't make it any less fun to find out /how/ they are Turing complete!
583.
by zwkrt 8y ago
Well Black mirror process this is untrue. I don't think I could be a writer for that show though, just watching it makes me sick.
584.
by zwkrt 8y ago
It is relatively useful for understanding intentions and make sure that people are talking about the same thing, but overall I agree.
585.
by zwkrt 8y ago
Our species is special because we can communicate our feelings directly through language, and language is also a great tool for applying your own inner feelings. A baby feels hunger and cries. An adult feels hunger too, but also has the cap
586.
by zwkrt 8y ago
Maybe it would be better phrased as "art has the capacity for exploring and engaging with empathy"? Just because someone said a urinal is art doesn't mean that The Brothers Karamazov is less impactful to me.
587.
by zwkrt 8y ago
I agree with you up to the point of claiming that having experiences is not a worthy reason to travel. The issue in this article is that people aren't attempting to 'experience' Rue Cremieux but instead to picture it and make
588.
by zwkrt 8y ago
I think this is the same concept as how people will gravitate in a city to have the worst possible commute they can bear because most people value having a nice home and a nice job over a nice commute. In a similar way services will inevita
589.
by zwkrt 8y ago
Thanks for the links, they helped clarify my thoughts.
590.
by zwkrt 8y ago
The tricky part of philosophy is that sometimes it attempts to overstep the bounds from 'what we can know based on data we can collect' (i.e., 'information') and 'what the fundamental concept/ontology/etc
591.
by zwkrt 8y ago
Wittgenstein teaches us that we invented language to solve a particular set of problems. Depending on which book of his you read, language is designed to either: - talk about the configuration of objects in relation to each other in space a
592.
by zwkrt 8y ago
Does it seem wrong to say the post-processing your phone camera does makes your images fake? What about cropping a photo? Are impressionist paintings fake because they aren't photorealistic? What about Ansel Adams photos, all of which
593.
by zwkrt 8y ago
Look at last commit, look up username, email. Where did their face come into it?
594.
by zwkrt 8y ago
Redis is a general purpose k/v data store that you run in memory. It has support for transactions and atomic operations, and it can be persisted and resumed. You can use it for caching, counting, event sourcing, lat/lng data, pub&
595.
by zwkrt 8y ago
I explain lots of programming concepts to friends/family in terms of Excel. Truly a wonderful program.
596.
by zwkrt 8y ago
Thank you, mobile commenting is a blessing and a curse.
597.
by zwkrt 8y ago
I'll play: So if our governance became static it would be safe to assume that it would be unable to adapt to changing culture. For that government to be continually effective it would then need to enforce that it's constituents&#x
598.
by zwkrt 8y ago
The real point is that no one gets the hidden connection. There are lots of tantalizing clues in number theory that lead us to believe there is some fundamental connection between addition and subtraction but we can't state it outright
599.
by zwkrt 8y ago
I have always had a fantasy of running a private business at a vast deficit but I do not have the means to do so.
600.
by zwkrt 8y ago
Top comment poster here. You distilled the point I was unwittingly getting at: technology is rules-based and as we wrap ourselves in tech we wrap ourselves in rules.

More ›