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by zyxley 12y ago
"Scientific parable fiction" is a pretty narrow genre (though I'd personally argue that Yudkowsky does a pretty poor job of it - for example, Harry constantly assuming things without testing them and just happening to be righ
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by zyxley 12y ago
I left this out from the parent post because it's a subjective judgment, but I absolutely disagree that he's a "great" writer, or even anything really more than "serviceable" at best.
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by zyxley 12y ago
Given that the early parts of the story are written in such a way that the narrative treats Harry's behavior as completely right and justified, it seems far more likely to be a retcon done years after the fact than some secret master p
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by zyxley 12y ago
Yudkowsky has already made money off it by gating chapters behind receiving a certain amount in donations, which is part of why I find it really strange that he's apparently now trying to explicitly get Rowling's attention.
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by zyxley 12y ago
We have no way to know if homulilly got drunk and puked on the floor in public, but we do know that Yudkowsky and assorted Lesswrong visitors had a reaction to the Roko's basilisk concept that most relatively "normal" people
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by zyxley 12y ago
But now that we know it exists, you've doomed us all! You fiend!
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by zyxley 12y ago
I'm seriously surprised at how many people here are fans of Yudkowsky, given his lack of any real productive output beyond thought experiments and fanfiction, the distinctly weird stuff he judges as right by taking his philosophy to th
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by zyxley 12y ago
Coworkers? Don't be silly. What you do is take it to a coffeeshop for typing on your iPad.
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by zyxley 12y ago
I wonder if the project runs into any issues of confusion with the relatively popular game named VVVVVV that's been around since 2010. http://store.steampowered.com/app/70300/
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by zyxley 12y ago
> One of the companies I worked at actually made a game out of leaving your terminal unlocked. I can tell you, after a few days of your colleagues kindly laughing at you returning to a screen full of Internet memes, you instinctively Ctr
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by zyxley 12y ago
Limiting refills is just weird when the cup is a larger part of the production cost than the actual drink is.
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by zyxley 12y ago
Most universities don't have a software engineering program, just a CS program. Typically it's one that's heavier on the software aspects than the mathematical part of things.
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by zyxley 12y ago
"A third of the world's gold production", not "a third of the world's gold".
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by zyxley 12y ago
A nitpick: All the animated stuff in the properties sidebar is distracting and feels slow and annoying. Also, I might be tempted to pay $29.99, but $49.99 feels like too much to me for such a niche product, especially since that's more
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by zyxley 12y ago
>The main reason for the acquisition is to give and communicate a clear upgrade path for existing Gitorious users. That's a pretty disingenuous thing to say when it seems like the only reason an "upgrade path" is needed in
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by zyxley 12y ago
>It looks like a race of whether Atom can become ST3 faster than ST3 can become Atom. I'd give the advantage there to Atom, given how sparse and irregular the ST3 change logs are.
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by zyxley 12y ago
I use Crashplan, which is a little slower and clunkier than other services but keeps infinite versions of files, including deleted files (unlike Backblaze).
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"So if you look at line 7, you'll see..."
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by zyxley 12y ago
>ZZT-OOP Now there's a burst of nostalgia.
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>Is it so typically American to eat highly processed foods Yes. >Don't you have a vegetable department in the stores? There are a large number of Americans, especially the poor, for whom the only nearby "grocery stores"
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by zyxley 12y ago
>How would you prefer to have it handled? Something as automatic as possible would be dang neat. If (as is likely) something 'magic' isn't feasible, the second best way would probably be to adopt the method used by some ma
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by zyxley 12y ago
But the state isn't making Bitcoin legal tender, and states don't make dollars legal tender, either. "Legal tender" is something that can be used to pay debts and that a creditor is legally required to accept. Dollars be
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by zyxley 12y ago
>But if I can pack an Oculus Rift headset into my pack, I dunno, a year from now. I suspect it'll take longer than that for the resolution to get high enough to be usable for fine-detail tasks like professional coding.
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by zyxley 12y ago
> in particular thermostats and smart locks for now But what will they actually do ? What are the use cases that you're looking at?
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by zyxley 12y ago
This says it integrates with smart home stuff from the given companies, but how does it actually do that? What sort of features are actually available? Also, the partner logos should really be links. I have no idea what Beep or Emberlight e
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by zyxley 12y ago
One of the things I find really interesting about Swift is that you can execute uncompiled Swift files as shell scripts, similar to how you can with Rust.
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by zyxley 12y ago
It would be interesting to see this baked into a browser-based text editor. Make it fully client side and you can potentially save the git history in localstorage and use it as an offline web app. I wonder if there are any git servers that
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by zyxley 12y ago
Literally the entire reason for the transmission for a combustion engine is to make the relatively high minimum speed of an internal combustion work for lower road speeds, with the pleasant side effect of increasing torque at low speed. Ele
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It would be interesting to see the comparison done again with a subset of e-textbooks actually designed to take advantage of the platform (and not just be an exported PDF dumped into an azw or epub), like some of the better iBooks examples.
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by zyxley 12y ago
I'm very happy to be with a company that has a standard policy of yearly 10-15% pay increases. We tend to do unexciting and sometimes just plain weird contract work for other companies, so my company has to pay us what we're worth

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