codeflo

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by codeflo 2y ago
> You can simulate every molecular interaction in a fire, but that does not mean the simulation gives off the same heat It would to a simulated being standing next to the fire. > You can write a perfectly accurate equation for splitti
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by codeflo 2y ago
> If you scan a body of water, and simulate it perfectly, the resulting simulation will not be wet. It will be wet to the simulated being that's swimming in it. > Consciousness may be a result of carbon being a substrate in the i
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by codeflo 2y ago
If you believe that what we describe as "consciousness" is emergent from the ideas a material brain develops about itself, then it's in fact not logically possible to have a world that is physically identical to ours yet does
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by codeflo 2y ago
As a thought experiment, imagine we were to scan the position of every molecule in the human body to the Heisenberg limit of accuracy. Imagine we were to plug the resulting model in a physics simulation that models every biochemical and phy
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by codeflo 2y ago
Serious question, do you need help?
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by codeflo 2y ago
I don't think this is a slam dunk. For this argument to work, the dart probability must be 100% for any function. This is supposed to be clear "intuitively", and then, by constructing a counterexample using the CH, it's
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by codeflo 2y ago
It seems to be standard in that field, but to be honest, I hate cryptographic notation. AFAICT, about half of the numbers in that pseudo-code count a number of bytes, and the other half a number of bits, and without already knowing the algo
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by codeflo 2y ago
I mean, if you don't understand how specialized inlined code could be faster than a generic function, or how not creating temporary arrays could be faster than creating them, then it's clear that you can't see that there coul
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by codeflo 2y ago
Is your claim that redistributing that space would be physically impossible?
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by codeflo 2y ago
> As far as I know, those aren't wasting the space for a battery. Framework opted for their current battery sizes. I don’t get that logic. There’s extra space; more battery could fit in there. The fact that higher density batteries
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by codeflo 2y ago
To quote myself in the post you responded to "It just wastes space that could be used for a larger battery, while limiting the number of ports that the laptop can fit at any one time." The ports I personally need are HDMI, lots
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by codeflo 2y ago
I don't see why I shouldn't compare them. Besides economies of scale, there's no inherent reason why a company couldn't build a Macbook-quality laptop that runs Linux.
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by codeflo 2y ago
I was in the market for a decent Linux laptop, but after having seen one in person, I'm less convinced. Note: I'm talking about the 13" one. The battery life using Linux isn't good, the screen is isn't that good, th
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by codeflo 2y ago
> Starlink, which is already in black It doesn’t make sense to claim “Starlink is profitable” if the underlying rockets still lose money and you don’t account for that in the claim. > they'll have to invent something which needs
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by codeflo 2y ago
Descriptive of the kinds of workarounds that a lack of proper abstraction capabilities made necessary in ancient Java.
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by codeflo 2y ago
We don’t learn language from textbooks though.
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by codeflo 2y ago
Compared to an LLM, how many hundreds of gigabytes of text do humans need to acquire a language? And isn’t that disparity already proof that some sort of innate structure must be going on?
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by codeflo 2y ago
It’s kind of common to use the TypeScript compiler purely as a linter these days even in a TypeScript-only codebase. You actually want to use a faster transpiler anyway, and when you do, there’s no technical reason not to run the code or th
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by codeflo 2y ago
Shareholder-driven growth targets mean it's no longer good enough to target the 20th percentile users, who might have reading comprehension at a 5th grade level. You have to hit the 10th percentile, or the 5th. Be glad that you still g
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by codeflo 2y ago
It's not "the thing I like", it's the better tradeoff. It's less complex and thus more secure (due to reduced API surface and fewer opportunities to make lookup mistakes or to mistakenly choose the wrong out of doze
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by codeflo 2y ago
Curiously, iOS and iPadOS file systems are case-sensitive. There's less legacy there, so they opted to do the correct thing.
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by codeflo 2y ago
Except at the UI layer (where you can easily offer suggestions and do fuzzy search), the opposite is true. There are so many different ways to do case-insensitive string comparisons, and it's so easy to forget to do that in one place,
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by codeflo 2y ago
Yeah, I see that now. :)
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by codeflo 2y ago
> Humans don’t walk miles when they can use cars. Now “the computer” is no longer the bicycle for the mind. It is the self-driving car LOL That analogy is actually very apt, but in ways you might not have intended it to be.
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by codeflo 2y ago
It's hard to define "reason". Certainly, the pattern matching is good enough to solve certain equations step by step, for example, and that's one form of reasoning. But just ask ChatGPT (4o) how a farmer and a sheep woul
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by codeflo 2y ago
The headline is very obviously trying to reference Stargate without technically being false. That the article "explains" the headline doesn't make it any less shitty clickbait, in fact, that's the very definition of clic
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by codeflo 2y ago
I’ve seen the same thing, it might be generational. Someone arguing that we need an isNotEqual(a, b) helper in addition to isEqual(a, b), because that’s supposedly “cleaner” and more readable than !isEqual(a, b). They were very vehement abo
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by codeflo 2y ago
From the linked article, they found that it activates the region of the brain that carefully reasons through unfamiliar problems. They also speculate that this might not generalize to people with 30 years of programming experience. Well, fi
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by codeflo 2y ago
For me, the whole thing is an impressive flex, but I know next to nothing about electronics. Can you elaborate what’s interesting about using 555 timers in particular?
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by codeflo 2y ago
I don't see how you would define linearity in a ring (I don't mean a module, just a ring). I.e. D(af) = aD(f) doesn't make sense if you don't have scalar multiplication.

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