funimpoded

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by funimpoded 4mo ago
Chicago School jerks got their way in the '70s and we effectively decided to stop doing that. This was the first notable fruit yielded by the postwar pro-rich/business "think tank" and intellectualism-washing push which
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by funimpoded 4mo ago
Do I think supernatural things like thoughts not being represented in physical reality exist? I defer to Russell's Teapot on this one and lean toward "no". If they do, then attempting to reason about anything gets pretty iffy
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by funimpoded 4mo ago
Possibly metaphysical naturalism is wrong and supernatural things exist! And maybe thoughts (and/or the experience of consciousness) are among those supernatural things. That could be it. In which case sure, maybe solving math problems
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by funimpoded 4mo ago
\s?
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by funimpoded 4mo ago
Yes, brains apparently can do consciousness. Can descriptions of brains do consciousness? I don't know why we'd expect that they could. You can describe a fire in all the detail you like, and burn nothing. Can electronic brains be
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by funimpoded 4mo ago
> Would you say that displaying image of something on a screen qualifies as actually happening? Yeah, of course. What I'm addressing is "if we turn 100% of everything about neurons into numbers we can do calculations on those n
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by funimpoded 4mo ago
"Resolution" has nothing whatsoever to do with it. No amount of scribbling graphite onto paper will produce a butterfly.
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by funimpoded 4mo ago
Computing something isn’t the same thing as it actually happening.
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by funimpoded 4mo ago
You can add everything and commit all at once in git, so you’re technically using staging but it doesn’t feel like it. I stopped using it the first time I committed something I didn’t want to, over a decade ago, haven’t used it again sinc
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by funimpoded 4mo ago
“Yo, this violates your rules” and then twitter sometimes going “yep, true, we’ll do something” and sometimes “nah” is pretty low on my list of concerns, yeah. Then again I also don’t think any company should have the reach any of the major
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by funimpoded 4mo ago
I once spent an hour or so tracking down and reading parts of the twitter files specifically highlighted by people loudly complaining about them (as I figured those would be the worst bits) and it was mostly pretty yawn-worthy in context. T
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by funimpoded 4mo ago
It shouldn't . But under this Supreme Court it might. Corporations are creations of the state and treating them as strictly private, especially when they're trampling rights, is illiberal horse-shit, and is straight up insulting
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by funimpoded 4mo ago
Same, I can't pass any test that relies on getting syntax correct. If you want me to fizzbuzz on a whiteboard in a language I've been writing dozens or more of lines of per day for a year up to and including the day before, and re
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by funimpoded 4mo ago
> this still wasn't perfect and a lot of new users did think their documents were in programs, which might be why we gave that up To this day there exist office workers—ones old enough that no, it's not because the were intro
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by funimpoded 4mo ago
Not even joking that the main benefit I've seen from "AI" for editing code is that it lets me quickly do all the things I could already have been doing just as quickly if I'd ever bothered to learn to use my tools. Of co
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by funimpoded 4mo ago
Just title it "draft". Odds are nobody will look at it anyway. Add a pre-commit hook to re-create the diagrams on every commit (in case anything changed, of course), that way you can really burn tokens and look good to management.
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by funimpoded 4mo ago
To save folks the search, these both sell ~$300 sunglasses. They show action shots of people wearing them kayaking or at the beach but I'd be so worried about dropping them in the river or scratching the lenses with sand that I'd
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by funimpoded 4mo ago
There's really no end to dot-language diagrams you can have it make. Call graphs, package dependency maps, let it try to figure out an architecture diagram, whatever.
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by funimpoded 4mo ago
I notice a lot of Cursor's suggestions are just stuff a linter should auto-fix. But if you hit "tab" it'll claim that as an AI-edited line, LOL. (A lot of the rest of it is stuff I could already have been doing just as f
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by funimpoded 4mo ago
It’s a business decision, but one of the options won’t move enough units to keep Wal-Mart and Target and Costco and Best Buy using shelf space for your product, and the other might.
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by funimpoded 4mo ago
I haven't had any insight into the industry lately, but did work for a company in that space several years ago. Most (all?) ordinary TVs, plus things like Roku streaming devices, are sold essentially at-cost. The profit comes from ads
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by funimpoded 4mo ago
I had a subscription for a couple years, and grabbed a bunch more between sale-priced single issues on their site and eBay. We've got a couple stacks of them, maybe 20ish issues total, and I grab one a lot of the time when I'm tak
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by funimpoded 4mo ago
Can confirm, that kind of thing (murder that the jury decide was OK because they had it coming, or a town collectively deciding and sticking to “we didn’t see nothin’” so a prosecution can’t proceed) happens, but it’s so rare most rural-dwe
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by funimpoded 4mo ago
Beware that there exist people who will cut you out of their lives—professional, personal, whatever—completely, likely with no warning, and possibly loudly, publicly, and with-receipts (if they’ve seen this kind of thing before or have thou
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by funimpoded 4mo ago
> You buy a share of stock and participate in their gains That is "literally not how it works", as you missed "... and losses". Since dividends aren't really a thing any more and gains are ~100% from stock pric
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by funimpoded 4mo ago
Watching the entire economy of a superpower and ~all of online culture go absolutely ga-ga over Furbys has been one of the weirdest things I've ever witnessed.
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by funimpoded 4mo ago
> yet agreeing to only get paid when he does go to Mars. He already owns hundreds of billions of dollars worth of SpaceX. He "gets paid" whether or not these goals are achieved (a million people on mars definitely won't be
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by funimpoded 4mo ago
Absolutely, that's the main reason there's been a push for that for decades. It's a giant pile of poor people's money that rich people can't easily skim from, and they'd really, really like to. Once it's &
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by funimpoded 4mo ago
That’s… the game console market. Even the NES in the ‘80s tried to lock out unauthorized (by Nintendo) software. When the screen flashes over and over on boot, that’s the lockout chip not seeing what it expects (due to a poor connection, us
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by funimpoded 4mo ago
The cable length limitations are also a pain in the ass for not-uncommon A/V system configurations. 6' recommended max, and the best you might get working stably if the device and cable gods smile on you is 15'. 6' is

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