mrmonkeyman

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by mrmonkeyman 5y ago
Agreed. This is the way of the future. Is there a subscription model? I'd like myself a CPU-as-a-service. $50-100 a month seems reasonable. Using these "efficiently repurposable" building blocks we can even create new softwar
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by mrmonkeyman 6y ago
You call it equal potential, like it is some obvious thing, but what if that is intelligence?
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by mrmonkeyman 6y ago
Anecdote: same here, but did not avoid anything on that list.
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by mrmonkeyman 6y ago
And if you ever ignore a red light, pay your taxes late or do anything other than your absolute best to be an upstanding citizen you should be put into prison for the rest of your life.
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by mrmonkeyman 6y ago
This lacks nuance. You ignore the effect they have on the ecosystem as a whole. Mentioning the "Go community" and their "agreement" of Google's decisions without acknowledging this is disingenuous at best. They have
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by mrmonkeyman 6y ago
But still lightyears off. You are dramatizing our priviledged existence. Billions (literal) would offer their firstborn son to be "cogs" working a "massive corporate enterprise". What you are describing is the good part
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by mrmonkeyman 6y ago
I like the idea, but the reality is that it fosters extreme complexity on all kinds of axes for marginal benefit. Sure, for hobbyists it is fine but professional use.. I disagree.
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by mrmonkeyman 6y ago
As a computer engineer you need to focus on computers, not people. I know this is popular right now, but it sucks and it is wrong and leads to bad results. Yes, the current state of affairs is a "bad result", young ones. We expe
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by mrmonkeyman 6y ago
> The longest battery isn't on an iphone, the best camera isn't on an iphone, the latest screen tech isn't on an iphone, etc. etc. It is not on any single Android model either. Fragmentation is a thing.
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by mrmonkeyman 6y ago
Take time off, go offline and have deep thoughts. Record everything. In 90% of cases: you need to ignore these thoughts as they can be time-consuming. You are not going to solve anything worthwhile related to organizing a 100M democracy if
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by mrmonkeyman 6y ago
There is a new wave of games coming which use advanced physics, think destructible voxel worlds, like minecraft but having blocks of 1cm instead of 1m. VR benefits immensely from CPU/GPU overkill and can use any cycle it can get. The s
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by mrmonkeyman 6y ago
It's time to separate UI from logic (finally). Let the UI guys make UI projects that hook onto engines made by backend guys. Why one frontend? Let the community come up with a few and don't let a backend engineer and their practic
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by mrmonkeyman 6y ago
It's an old trick. Hand readers, mediums and various types of cold readers are really good at this. You can always be right using these techniques.
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by mrmonkeyman 6y ago
I'm quite interested in what you suppose the word "man" means? I'm serious.
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by mrmonkeyman 6y ago
In theory, yes. In practice, no.
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by mrmonkeyman 6y ago
Of course not. But executing it right is hard.
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by mrmonkeyman 6y ago
It actually was. Shocking, isn't it?
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by mrmonkeyman 6y ago
HN likes to downplay this, apparantly, but not everything can be boiled down to bureaucracy. Yes, medical professionals use checklists. They also have a harsh and very unforgiving culture that fosters craftsmanship and values professionalis
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by mrmonkeyman 6y ago
Having a post to repost on HN is a prerequisite to "being lucky".. luck favors the prepared and all that.
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by mrmonkeyman 6y ago
This. Money is no hindrance. It can be set in motion for good. It's the only thing capable of producing real change.
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by mrmonkeyman 6y ago
They have a problem with 4 though
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by mrmonkeyman 6y ago
He found a legal way to destroy a highly intelligent living organism for no f * reason at all except his enjoyment. Nothing wrong with that.
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by mrmonkeyman 6y ago
Who will create these new applications? Who will manage them, optimize them, secure them? And with what? Crappy online text editors with 1% of the features of the tools you are used too?
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by mrmonkeyman 6y ago
If you don't like code you don't become a developer. If you hate wrenches you're going to have a .. difficult time being a mechanic.
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by mrmonkeyman 6y ago
The QR shit is annoying. I'm young, but having to keep picking up our phones to look at menus and getting distracted by them is exactly why I go to a restaurant in the first place: human experience. Purely consuming food can be done
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by mrmonkeyman 6y ago
That's the easy part.
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by mrmonkeyman 6y ago
Love and fear are the least human I'd wager. They are mammalian in the case of love and even lower in the case of fear. It's rational thought that sets us apart, the rest is shared machinery. Some animals have _more_ emotional mac
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by mrmonkeyman 6y ago
That's because it _is_ a cheap build. Enjoy.
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by mrmonkeyman 6y ago
The cost is stepping in the Microsoft tarpit. No chance in hell I'm getting near it.
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by mrmonkeyman 6y ago
Netherlands or Hungary? Europe is enormously diverse.

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