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AI Cannot Desire(troywolters.com)
1 points by ctw 3mo ago|0 comments
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by ctw 2y ago
The concept of Rule Beating from Systems Thinking seems apt. You have some goal so you introduce a rule, but if you choose a bad rule, it ends up making things worse. The solution is to recognize that it was a bad rule, repeal it, and find
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by ctw 3y ago
Yeah, at first I was comparing it with Netflix where you’re paying for content and it seemed like an awful deal because you already get the content without paying. The thing that made me decide it was worth it is when I compared it to Spoti
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by ctw 4y ago
I’ve used React, Vue, Knockout, and just plain vanilla JS, and Vue is what I reach for now for personal projects. React is great if it’s already set up but I don’t want to waste any time with a build system for personal projects. With Vue I
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Ask HN: Recommended Books on Physics?
6 points by ctw 4y ago|5 comments
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by ctw 5y ago
Disclaimer: I’m interested in relativity and have been reading about it lately but I’m no authority. > We all move through time at one second per second, don’t we? You need to define “move through time”. The only way to measure time is w
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by ctw 5y ago
I think we're interpreting that in different ways. I'm assuming you read it as something like "words can't be used to communicate (knowledge)", which you're seeking to disprove by showing me that I only gained
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by ctw 5y ago
I read the first 100 pages or so of Philisophical Investigations before giving up since I had lost track of the lines of reasoning. Here's what I got out of what I did read though: Language is far more important in philosophy and lif
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by ctw 6y ago
I’ve come across a similar line of thought while reading about capitalism. When technology improves such that it takes less time to perform work, there are three possible outcomes: 1. The labourers finish the work in less time and get more
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by ctw 6y ago
I had the opposite experience a few years ago when applying for jobs for after I graduated. I stopped trying to learn about each company and stopped writing cover letters. Instead, I just wrote a 2 or 3 sentence, completely generic blurb ab
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by ctw 7y ago
One of my side projects is a canvas-based graph editor with vim-like controls: https://troywolters.com/modal-graph-editor/ It’s very basic, missing a lot of features, and likely buggy, but I’ve had fun making it and us
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by ctw 7y ago
Can you explain why you think it's a scam?
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by ctw 7y ago
I'm reading a book called Capital in the Twenty-First Century right now, which is all about this stuff. I'm only about halfway through right now, but here are some points from the book I find interesting (all of them iirc since I
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Morris Counter(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by ctw 7y ago|0 comments
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by ctw 8y ago
. M.. Mm. Mmm
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by ctw 9y ago
Which regular, simple UI toolkits do you recommend to a web developer who wants to learn desktop development? Do you also have a recommendation on which resources/approaches to use to learn those toolkits?
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by ctw 9y ago
I use the free tier of Google Cloud Platform's compute engine to run my server. I use Let's Encrypt for HTTPS. My website is totally free.
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by ctw 9y ago
The course "Computer Systems Architecture" at Queen's University uses "Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware/Software Interface" by Patterson and Hennessy. It's a 400-level course in the computer
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Problem Over-Solving(troywolters.com)
1 points by ctw 9y ago|0 comments
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krud – REST API Generator for Mongo+Express(npmjs.com)
2 points by ctw 9y ago|0 comments
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by ctw 9y ago
In my head, CPU's have few cores (1-16) but those cores are very highly optimized and have lots of specialized hardware in them. In comparison, GPU's have many cores (thousands) that are comparatively dumber, but that's fine
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by ctw 9y ago
This is what I do too. I have a pad of sticky notes on my desk and each morning I write what I want to work on today in order of priority. Then I schedule some time in my calendar to work on each thing. I cross off the things I finish, so o
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by ctw 9y ago
> Nonsense; the GPL does not require that one's competitors receive code, but rather one's users. What's stopping an Intel competitor from also being a user? Am I wrong that all it would take is for an Intel competitor to
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by ctw 9y ago
I was hoping someone would say something along these lines. My only experience with assembly has been on very simple educational platforms: nios ii on an Altera DE0 FPGA and a MIPS subset on a custom architecture made in class. I've se
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by ctw 9y ago
Very cool. Something I really love about assembly programming is that there's no black magic between me and the hardware. I can know exactly what every bit of every instruction means by looking at the instruction set documentation, and
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by ctw 9y ago
There are a few things that I immediately notice are missing when switching back to normal text editing from vim: ci( - Change inside parentheses ci" ci' ci} If your cursor is anywhere inside a set of parentheses, (if, while, for,
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ROCA: Resource-Oriented Client Architecture(roca-style.org)
3 points by ctw 9y ago|0 comments
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by ctw 9y ago
Why not both? Sublime (and pretty much every other popular editor I've used) has a "vim mode" (Sublime calls it vintage mode). Sublime's is built in and available right in out of the box, you just need to enable it. I&#x
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by ctw 9y ago
While I agree that you definitely can get treated for anything, I find it very hard to believe that you've never had to wait more than 45 minutes to be seen by someone. The past few times I've had to go to emerge I had to wait aro
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Deep Search – safe, secure, unbiased search engine with focus on privacy(deepsearch.tsignal.io)
1 points by ctw 9y ago|0 comments

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