FiveDegrees

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by FiveDegrees 8y ago
You may enjoy the game The Witness. The entire game is basically built around inducing that feeling.
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by FiveDegrees 8y ago
I find myself impressed every time I look and find that the Roblox userbase has grown by another zillion and yet nobody I know has heard of it. Filter bubbles are uncanny when you notice them.
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by FiveDegrees 8y ago
I guess this is what's meant by "antifragile" -- not merely durable in the sense of "resistant to stresses", but actively improved by exposure to stress. Clever! I like it.
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by FiveDegrees 8y ago
Is it Dan Kaminsky's DefCon 23 talk? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9wx2TnaRSGs https://dankaminsky.com/2015/08/09/defcon-23-lets-end-clickj...
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by FiveDegrees 8y ago
That Asimov quote is actually pretty damned close to reality. Why is that exchange, of all things, sitting beside Neville "Peace for our times" Chamberlain?
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by FiveDegrees 9y ago
I can only assume they were being sarcastic.
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by FiveDegrees 9y ago
MS is an autoimmune disorder. Claiming that you could voluntarily give yourself the condition through counterproductive meditation is emblematic of the general mystic nonsense of yogiism. You'll never be able to levitate, either.
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by FiveDegrees 9y ago
TTS, STT?
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by FiveDegrees 9y ago
Your comment reminds me of the first half of this essay on Slate Star Codex, up to the comment about Las Vegas: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
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by FiveDegrees 9y ago
Not that I've been able to find.
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by FiveDegrees 9y ago
You are of course entirely right. It may be worthwhile to email Siskind or Pearlmutter on the subject. I believe Siskind has a tradition of naming things after brutal dictators, so I imagine it's liable to not amount to much. Might as
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by FiveDegrees 9y ago
Sorry, what? Even the supreme court of the United States of 'but muh free speech' America has struck down the notion of threats of violence being a form of protected speech. Also, where in sweet jesus do you come from that threats
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by FiveDegrees 9y ago
Have you benchmarked Tile against Stalin∇? https://github.com/Functional-AutoDiff/STALINGRAD Page 3: http://barak.pearlmutter.net/papers/ad2016b.pdf
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by FiveDegrees 9y ago
A huge amount of user-facing software is glacially slow, and not for any particular reason other than indifference. https://youtu.be/k56wra39lwA
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by FiveDegrees 9y ago
They emphatically do not. Ignoring types doesn't give you a type system "for free"; much the same way that building a shelf doesn't make you a librarian.
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by FiveDegrees 9y ago
Taxes?
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by FiveDegrees 9y ago
You might be interested in suitocracy.com
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by FiveDegrees 9y ago
I would strongly recommend the XPS 15 9560 over it, if you don't need it to be able to convert it to a tablet. More performant, cheaper, better screen.
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by FiveDegrees 9y ago
Reasoning from imaginary evidence.
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by FiveDegrees 9y ago
Wizards of the Coast was bootstrapped from a basement. Curiously, they're now a wholly owned subsidiary of Hasbro, which was also bootstrapped -- in 1923.
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by FiveDegrees 9y ago
I hope Jai ends up being made interoperable with C++.
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by FiveDegrees 9y ago
!g still works in ddg though.
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by FiveDegrees 9y ago
I'm looking at you, Slack.
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by FiveDegrees 9y ago
>Alpha Bet How did I not notice that earlier?
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by FiveDegrees 9y ago
Hence the "Drain the swamp" political rhetoric of the last US election cycle.
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by FiveDegrees 9y ago
Vim or Emacs?
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by FiveDegrees 9y ago
You're a Human. Terminal wanderlust is a hereditary condition. https://vimeo.com/108650530
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by FiveDegrees 9y ago
You should have programmers implement paxos on a whiteboard in their interviews.