kirkules

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by kirkules 2y ago
The back of the envelope computations are shockingly shallow and meaningless. (20 Questions, from the intro) Trying to think of a thing for the game is not a search over a set of known things. Just saying the possibility set has size 2^N do
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by kirkules 2y ago
I was a TA and instructor for several programming classes, usually in Java, with which I was moderately experienced but not an expert. My students would frequently ask how to accomplish something, how syntax or keywords worked on q deeper l
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by kirkules 2y ago
I'm reminded of a high school programming class where a project partner named variables with the most crude and lewd words he could imagine. Not that I was prudish, but he unsurprisingly never remembered what "butts" was for
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by kirkules 2y ago
Agree, looking for the multi upvote button
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by kirkules 2y ago
I mean can't you just have the input signal to the light be a disjunction of signals? So it's on if the camera is on OR if some programmatic signal says turn it on? I don't see why they should be mutually exclusive
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by kirkules 2y ago
I'm thinking you misinterpreted the comment you responded to? I read it as saying that you don't necessarily have to have employment linked healthcare just because you have at-will employment. The "inexplicably" being a
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by kirkules 2y ago
I can remember a number of instances of having to dive into design docs to ascertain how a few systems interacted with each other. I bet a lot of the time it might be good enough to just have a "here's the set of options we went w
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by kirkules 2y ago
Do you have, offhand, any names or references to point me toward why you think fish and lizards can make rapid common sense deductions about man made objects they couldn't have seen in their evolutionary histories? Also, separately, I&
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by kirkules 3y ago
Some adjectives stack, like "terribly". Though maybe there's some kind of strong enough diminishing effect on emphasis value such that any number of "terribly"s still has bounded effect XD
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by kirkules 3y ago
It's weird to me for "ease factor" to be an intrinsic property of a card/thing to learn at all. I study things like Chinese characters with Anki and it's not but just rote memorization, there are systems and structu
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by kirkules 3y ago
You're imagining something you think is what it's like to be a crab, or what you think it's like to have more legs, etc., but why do you have any confidence that's what it actually is like?
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by kirkules 3y ago
The existence of "The dress", which is seen by different people or the same person in different states of mind as white/gold or blue/black, and other such illusions, would seem to invalidate your perspective. Or if that&
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by kirkules 3y ago
Sure, an LLM based tool may happily double down on a wrong position, and articulately address a student's concerns in doing so, possibly hallucinating convincing evidence.
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by kirkules 3y ago
100% agree with this attitude. A human whose attention is directed at you who uses their eyes for input will turn their eyes to you. The eyes are not just signalers, but the person actually needs to turn them to you to direct their attentio
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by kirkules 3y ago
No, it's the most... Hobby... Mathematician
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by kirkules 3y ago
That's not how anything works. A knowledge gap doesn't warrant any conclusion you want.
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by kirkules 4y ago
Why not say "the essence of computing is computing"? It's not like "universiality" is any more explicit or clear than "computing" itself. What is the point of this kind of "finding the essence" e
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by kirkules 4y ago
Some positions are remote but many are hybrid, required to go in some fraction of days
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by kirkules 4y ago
Didn't read the article because i don't care to bother with the paywall, but if its title is related to any arguments within, then the comment you're responding to actually does address the main idea. The title is an argument
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by kirkules 4y ago
Disclaimer: I have been employed by Google and my views are my own. I can also see the value for a large organization in culturally enforcing interchangeability and replaceability of workers. I always considered this bit of culture (and fel
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by kirkules 4y ago
No, you dohave a valid list of features you want to group together, but attaching them to a word you have not clearly defined -- especially in this incredibly fraught case -- is just confusing you. If you haven't decided on a definitio
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by kirkules 4y ago
- tech labor cost is depressed most effectively when everyone is doing it - everyone is doing it so it's that much easier to buck responsibility for the decision
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by kirkules 4y ago
It never ceases to amuse me how confidently "it's difficult to define" and "clearly it's this way" can appear in the same thought/sentence about the mind.
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by kirkules 4y ago
Discord has a large contingent of gamers among its users who expect to be able to use discord to communicate while gaming, so even if this isn't Discord's fault it's in their interest to look into it and facilitate a solution
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by kirkules 4y ago
It's easy to think all of the things you wanted to say were important, so you leave them in. But often they weren't so important to your eventual audience.
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by kirkules 4y ago
To put it into neutral you have to go completely expressionless, let your tongue hang out a little bit, and make sure your face is centered in front of the driver monitoring system
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by kirkules 4y ago
Omfg and car screens universally have an input lag of over 1 second, so not only do i have to take my eyes off the road to interact with it but i have to extend my interaction by several more seconds for any multi step process. Screens migh
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by kirkules 4y ago
I'm doing it on mobile and while I could go faster, I..... don't want to? So I also got the "too slow" and along with that, got bored
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by kirkules 4y ago
I have not seen this view expressed in this way except by people who do not support it. Do you remember or know any examples I could check out?
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by kirkules 4y ago
I just want to second this suggestion. Pick a small project that you care about. It has to be something you care about because you will pay attention to whether the results do something meaningful, which is the key to guiding you toward act

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