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by zwkrt 4y ago
That was exactly what I thought too. I kept trying to make the map seem “normal” but no matter when I tried some thing was always blown so far out of perspective it was unrecognizable. Every projection is so far off that it just becomes com
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by zwkrt 4y ago
In the book A Fire Upon the Deep, Vernor Vinge outlines a kind of bleak future for humanity in which societal collapse is inevitable. Despite interstellar communication and wild technology, there always comes a point at which the machinery
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by zwkrt 4y ago
Might be a little bit paradoxical from your perspective but this is very self-centered behavior. If someone tells you ”no”, it’s probably not because they don’t like you. People say no when they don’t want something themselves, and it proba
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by zwkrt 4y ago
There’s a lot of complaining and not a lot of suggesting going on in this article so I don’t take it for very much. I feel like the author got a job and realized that it almost exclusively involves writing glue code and tests and looking at
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by zwkrt 4y ago
Considering the books are public domain you could probably build your own RSS feed in about 20 minutes with a `wget` and a for loop.
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Well if what you do for work is also your hobby maybe that’s the issue. It might be time to “touch grass” as the kids say.
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It seems to me like he’s cheating in terms of Turing completeness because he has a loop that is running this regex over and over again.
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by zwkrt 4y ago
This advice to avoid politics by becoming a people pleaser is not a bad strategy to attain the goal, but it might come at the cost of your sanity. The only way to be not involved in politics is to totally accept the current situation and to
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by zwkrt 4y ago
Do you think that abduction is just a more realistic name for “bayesian inference where I had to make up some of my own priors”? To computer program, playing Wordle seems like a perfect application of completely solid bayesian inference. Al
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by zwkrt 4y ago
I would normally be skeptical of an article that starts with a description of epicycles because it probably means that whatever is going to be described next is totally bullshit. In this case I’m not so sure. As a plebeian normie, it seems
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by zwkrt 4y ago
As a femme gay myself I am feeling the heat, although not as much as my trans compatriots. I think GP is point stands though. The right is being told that a very important thing that they should be worried about is the existence of trans pe
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by zwkrt 4y ago
Huh, I didn’t know about abduction. It’s the form of logic that you use if you play Wordle. You can’t prove that you have the right answer, only that your answer explains everything that you see.
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by zwkrt 4y ago
I know you use the term 'paradox' loosely, but all you are saying is investments pay off, which is hardly a paradox!
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Right but the world is a bigger place than that of capital, customers, investors, and companies. That's the problem. As an example, there are trees, which is a class of thing that doesn't fit into any of those above categories. An
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by zwkrt 4y ago
On a smaller scale, this is how people are able to build fiefdoms inside of companies, become successful local religious leaders, start cults, and maintain abusive domestic relationships. Strong conviction is like a magical spell because it
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There are people who’s sense of self-confidence is so fragile that they cannot allow themselves the possibility of losing or feeling “lesser than” in any context. Cheating and being banned is much better than showing the world your actual s
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Before that though there were interest based papers and local news that was hard hitting and relevant, union papers, private investigation, and generally a high interest in journalism that was worth a damn. As the internet has evolved inexo
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I guess its thinking of overpopulation as a phenomenological effect on the individual vs the global effect of all of us on the environment. Interesting point though, I had never thought of it in that way before. People all over the world ar
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by zwkrt 4y ago
The way I see it is that TikTok is basically a psyops app. We can argue all day whether it is controlled by the Chinese government, by advertisers, by both, whether it is intentional, what its purpose is, etc. But anything that is free and
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by zwkrt 4y ago
I don’t think that people have a distaste for SQL, I think that large companies have a vested interest in trying to sell no SQL solutions because they more tightly integrate into a “cloud” ecosystem. A database solves that problem domain to
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The difference is it in the office you can just actively see that somebody is anxious and you can ask them what’s up.
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Right but now it’s also raining and a full moon and the goblin is a werewolf and wands also have AOE spells that hit multiple opponents, except when those opponents are blocking… Sure, the code kinda sucks either way, but the data oriented
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This makes Roko’s Basilisk very happy https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Roko's_basilisk
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If you or other commenters have problems with this, consider doing some activities that really get yourself in-tune with what it means to be relaxed. A lot of programmers will run or lift weights, and that is a great way to keep your body f
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by zwkrt 4y ago
I desperately wish there were some kind of equivalent to the Bar Association for software. A higher power that can punish blatant ethical violations in the face of the relentless greed of an engineer's boss, company, or industry. I thi
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I completely agree with the sentiment of this post for the purposes of solving business problems, and more generally for making rational decisions in one's life. I find it intriguing though, because I think a way of rephrasing your arg
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by zwkrt 4y ago
I think similarly, but I dont think of humanity as “going forward”. We are right here and stationary, like a flower blooming. If the next step of earth’s unfolding involves humans relinquishing our position to machines then so be it, but it
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by zwkrt 4y ago
As a queer person in tech with definite introverted tendencies, polyamory is kind of perfect. Although I would be more specific and say relationship anarchy[1]. I really can’t imagine how it would work if I was straight though, there’s just
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As I understand it, all of these features are not features that people really like, they are features that 'drive engagement' in that horrible UX A/B testing sort of way. The basic tenet is that if you can increase the anxiet
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I have experience working for a year in a homeless shelter. I think that there is a “papers please” or “a dark room” style game that you could make that would simulate what it is like to try to exist in homelessness. You have very few resou

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