blacksmithgu

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by blacksmithgu 8mo ago
I have a family member who is quite into "ancient aliens" and who has read all of von Danikens books. The main thing I realized from arguing about it with them was that rigor and science did not really matter and would not convinc
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by blacksmithgu 2y ago
I want to learn how to sleep well again. The difference in how I feel when sleep deprived versus fully rested is staggering.
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by blacksmithgu 2y ago
Everything is peak software. Extremely fast, can be bound to a global keybind to bring up anywhere. I use it so often now that I forget to recommend it to people sometimes.
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by blacksmithgu 3y ago
People would turn to games and other forms of escapism even if the governments were stable and honest and the churches preached only love and acceptance. Reality cannot compete with the sense of progress, exoticness, and control that games
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by blacksmithgu 3y ago
The titan submersible made for good entertainment while the migrant ship did not. This isn't a grand moral failing, it's just business.
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by blacksmithgu 3y ago
I'm sure people have thought about it, it's just hard, annoying, and asking a lot of mostly unpaid OSS contributors. Many mod developers are high school / college aged. Sandboxing Java code running in process requires ugly an
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by blacksmithgu 4y ago
Individual contributor means people who directly write code (individuals who contribute), as opposed to people who manage (managers and project managers).
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by blacksmithgu 4y ago
Being social nowadays is like exercise - it not longer naturally happens frequently in our lives and so we have to consciously choose to do it. Also like exercise, it seems impossible when you start and takes months of effort to really feel
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by blacksmithgu 4y ago
Violent crime in general is dominated by men who have faced "major life stressors"; it's just a fact of life that is unlikely to ever change. Men are much more likely to react to heavy stress violently, and struggle to both f
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by blacksmithgu 4y ago
$10000/video seems crazy to me, but it makes sense if each video is averaging 10M views for ad-friendly content. It'd be interesting to see how many Youtube channels make it to this size, and if there is anything that differentiat
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by blacksmithgu 4y ago
Speak to more humans.
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by blacksmithgu 4y ago
ChatGPT could probably pass most FAANG programming interviews - it's successfully done linked list inversion, binary tree searches, dynamic programming like knapsack, and will even do program design if you ask it how to design a data s
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by blacksmithgu 4y ago
CSV, for all it's faults, is probably the closest thing we have to a "universal 2d table format you can import anywhere."
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by blacksmithgu 4y ago
I messed up the wording on the above comment - I'm only skeptical of all the "performative charity" that you see on social medial.
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by blacksmithgu 4y ago
Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon, or simply the "frequency illusion". Or maybe just dumb luck :)
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by blacksmithgu 4y ago
There is definite survivorship bias; I suspect it's so strong that virtually all "do-gooding" you see on social media is for gaining status. It makes me extremely cynical of charities; perhaps just trying to do good "in
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by blacksmithgu 4y ago
I'm not sure there is really anything to fear here. "Traditional white Christian" is a declining demographic on all three axes, and no amount of pronatalist thought will be enough to save it.
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by blacksmithgu 4y ago
I respect the opinion in this article that Linux should be simple and Rust is adding a lot of complexity to the build and ABI, but the advantage of Rust is not just memory safety. Rust is massively more expressive. You get actual tagged enu
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by blacksmithgu 4y ago
I would say closing that gap is exactly what engineering is - optimizing your existing systems to maximally use the hardware. Its very quantitative and extremely detail oriented; you usually just improve Linux or add system calls for better
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by blacksmithgu 4y ago
I think "systems engineering" has won out over "systems research" - optimizing existing systems instead of creating new ones. Part of it is that we are constrained by our hardware, which forces us into specific paradigms
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by blacksmithgu 4y ago
This is amusing as a thought experiment, but it would end up being new-age feudalism. Can you imagine the crazy tricks people would use to evade taxes? Adopt a child and buy the rights to their tax, then move all your assets to them. Build
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by blacksmithgu 4y ago
No, we don't need more "smart" people working on important problems in transportation, health, education, and so on. We already have plenty of smart people with good ideas, they just have no institutional power to affect anyt
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by blacksmithgu 4y ago
I expected more multi-monitor setups. I feel half as productive with only one screen - how do people do it?
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by blacksmithgu 4y ago
I've noticed a visible split between product-facing teams and customer-facing teams where I've worked. The customer teams generally all used real selfies. The development teams all used random avatars and icons (myself included).
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by blacksmithgu 4y ago
Beauracracies can be extremely cruel without a single cruel person. All is takes is diffuse, disconnected decision making to produce ridiculous rules.
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by blacksmithgu 4y ago
I would say languages hardly matter at all - pick lucrative fields and then just adopt whatever the standard tooling is there. You'll probably have no issue picking up all three languages if you need to.
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by blacksmithgu 4y ago
Not OP, but at at least most corporate pawns are cynically aware of how artificial the system is and that you need to play games to get ahead (or just coast along if you don't care). Academia has a luster of meritocracy when in reality
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by blacksmithgu 4y ago
The issue is that novel paper ideas will be split across multiple years (and even multiple conferences), making it much harder to actually see the whole picture for a reader. Each little piece of the paper will often also be bloated with un
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by blacksmithgu 4y ago
This is not a good deal. The price is not that much cheaper than a 4 year loan (~500 vs 750/mo), you still need a down payment, still pay for power and insurance and parking, and you don't even get equity! I can't see this be
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by blacksmithgu 4y ago
The core problem I see is Rust tried too hard to avoid allocations/copies and a heavy async runtime. The result is confusing and difficult types and very unclear errors due to apis producing ridiculous types like Future<Arc<Box&l

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