mihaic

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by mihaic 5d ago
My general gripe with results like this is that it seems to be interpreted in a biased way by the people that already use psychoactive drugs, who want to argue for them in the modern world. I do agree that drugs were often needed for people
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by mihaic 24d ago
I would like that, inside a powerful IDE like the Jetbrains ones though.
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by mihaic 25d ago
> We are users. In a dual role, I would say that the most impactful aspect (being a developer) matters more. > Nobody writes a WYSIWYG word processor in a TUI. But at the same time people write all sorts of other apps that could hugel
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by mihaic 26d ago
I don't get your argument. Can't you separate your input box from your execution engine?
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by mihaic 26d ago
The people that keep arguing for TUIs for everything seem like religious fundamentalists that can't be convinced with any argument that user interfaces should be about the user, and need to adapt to the task at hand. Every time I use C
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by mihaic 1mo ago
As a person who has actually helped friends with depression, I can totally understand on the other hand where Karrot_Kream is coming from. I think he wrote enough for an internet comment, and anyone should probably ask for more context inst
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by mihaic 1mo ago
Maybe I'm projecting a preference for something that humans have always done. But are you sure you're not trying to normalize your own unnatural preference?
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by mihaic 1mo ago
I'm sorry, but this is like saying "online sex is real sex". I'm sure some people can get the same stimulation, but it very much isn't the same. Humans need other humans, in flesh and blood in front of them. Bonding
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by mihaic 2mo ago
I made a Gmail account in 2004. I'm still periodically asked for my birthday, just so Google knows I'm over 18. The stated purpose is almost always an excuse for more data.
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by mihaic 2mo ago
Why Bertha von Suttner and not someone like Dag Hammarskjold for instance? Why not my grandmother? She brokered peace between all our neighbours. When you propose someone, the burden of proof is on you to say why that specific option should
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by mihaic 2mo ago
The people choosing these banknotes put their office buildings on the money. They also seemed to have a gender quota, and have put on the 200 euro someone who is unknown to most Europeans (Marie Curie and Maria Callas were popular on the ot
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by mihaic 2mo ago
I have a feeling that being transgressive is universal, but the form of expression is cultural, with independent convergence to some common patterns. For instance, in Romania I've noticed that the slang term for penis is written far mo
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by mihaic 2mo ago
You're basically saying that since open source projects can be reused by others, the people making closed source projects shouldn't complain when the same thing happens to them. Everyone posting on Stack Overflow knew it would be
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by mihaic 2mo ago
The paradox is that their IP was obtained by distillation of the collective IP of humanity.
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by mihaic 2mo ago
Romanian here. There really were admin accounts with the password Passw0rd, created so that some incompetent political apointees could browse the data.
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by mihaic 3mo ago
How is this not gambling? I mean, any mobster bookie could simply claim prediction market in this case, and simply take a cut. Where is the line drawn? On how much money the organizers give to the Trump family?
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by mihaic 3mo ago
I think I've known about him for 20 years right now, ever since I discovered his code to compute pi to an ungodly amount of digits. The man sure was prolific.
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by mihaic 3mo ago
Interesting counterpoint. I think this is the Peter principle in software: a lot of people are great at prototyping, but not great at the next stages of the project. Other people step in for those, but their existence is mostly ignored, si
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by mihaic 3mo ago
Yes, if it's done with an intent to defraud the general population, which could be the case here. Effects and intent really matter when deciding actions.
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by mihaic 4mo ago
You're just repeating that your purpose is your message. Do you honestly not see a qualitative difference between the understanding of ants and of humans of the world around them? Heck, even ants and dogs or cats?
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by mihaic 4mo ago
Yes, but we have a system to understand the universe and ants don't. Using relativism, to simply destroy point of view without putting anything in their place, is simply destructive without any purpose.
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by mihaic 4mo ago
I've learned SQL around 20 years ago, and in all this time I've felt it was just a poorly designed language. It was always infuriating to write because of its verbose nature. Keywords were split into two words. I'm still shoc
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by mihaic 4mo ago
Vaguely related, am I the only one that is getting Rosalind Franklin fatigue? I don't have anything against her, but she's become sort of symbol of signaling inclusiveness and hipness in science. Especially since her assistant Ray
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by mihaic 4mo ago
Sure, I've been a start-up founder before, I know the trap of "if you build it, they will come". It's just that AI is evolving so fast that book do seem like the market for vinyl (as the article said). No amount of marke
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by mihaic 4mo ago
For the past 5-6 years I've been writing a book in my spare time. The outline of it is how reason emerges in past societies from the needs of social complexity, how it's lessons get converted into rules and rituals, which in turn
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by mihaic 4mo ago
Can you first define what you'd be comfortable considering as evidence before I spend time on this? I don't want to provide research just so the other party complains that there's still some cultural bias somewhere. Also, wha
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by mihaic 4mo ago
Yes, but you also get vastly different outcomes when you don't impose these as well.
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by mihaic 5mo ago
A snide and vitriolic remark that observes on how the first paragraph actually addresses the concern of the person which hasn't read the article. A further continuation on this being representative of the state of modern online discour
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by mihaic 5mo ago
I like this story, but I never liked the wording "made out of meat", as if the word exists in a world without animals. I could have accepted "proteins", but that's not a catchy title.
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by mihaic 6mo ago
Good luck with the project, especially in this day and age. Not sure if the author might be here, but I'm just wondering if it might have take inspiration from old CS Academemy lessons. I worked on those, and recognize some UI ideosinc

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