nepeckman

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by nepeckman 7mo ago
I think its disingenuous at best that the projects from recent years are all LLM based. Those were all significantly worse on release! All the negative comments were true! Compare to most of the older projects, which while they got better o
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by nepeckman 1y ago
You mean "first time" right? The last time this was posted was 3 months ago, posted 19 times total since 2013 if I counted correctly
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by nepeckman 3y ago
Fun game! My personal answer to the Fermi paradox is that multi solar system civilization is very very hard, and multi galaxy civilization is functionally impossible. Speed of light is slow, space is big, and resources are concentrated. If
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by nepeckman 3y ago
I'm honestly not sure how this was missed, the influence is obvious and the author's bio makes it explicit. By the way, if anyone reading this comment has not read the work in question I highly recommend it. "A Memory Called
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by nepeckman 3y ago
The developers providing everyone with free tools are or course welcome to write those tools in whatever languages they want. But to me, the comment definitions are longer to type and more difficult to parse than inline type definitions. I
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by nepeckman 4y ago
Religious or not, I think one of the best philosophies on giving is Rambam's 8 levels of tzedakah. The highest is doing something to materially improve someone's condition, the absolute lowest is giving with a poor attitude. That
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by nepeckman 4y ago
This is the key bit of information that is always missed in discussions of "10x engineers". 10x better than the absolute worst, but probably 2x better than average. This lines up with my informal, anecdotal experience where the ab
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by nepeckman 4y ago
I'm only really interested in learning a language if it excites me, or if I'm getting paid to do it. I don't hate Go, and would be fine to learn it on company time for company projects, but there is no spark that would lead m
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by nepeckman 4y ago
I've seen the charm suite on HN before, and everytime I see them I wish they had bindings to other languages. I'm just not interested in Go, but I'm really interested in learning to create ssh applications. Its an application
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by nepeckman 4y ago
I think there is a lot of potential for creativity in the terminal space, and warp has some cool ideas. I'd honestly even be willing to pay directly for a terminal if it went above and beyond in terms of efficiency and functionality. U
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by nepeckman 5y ago
It's a shame that the comments here are laser focused on the tipping parts of the article, and not the bigger picture items. The author outlines the struggles of getting service jobs filled in high CoL areas, the vicious cycle of turno
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by nepeckman 5y ago
I agree with the analogy, but for me (and I think most people) processing time far exceeds IO. Once you get to a good enough IO speed, it doesnt make sense to optimize further, as the returns are diminishing.
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by nepeckman 5y ago
Having children with multiple partners has always been and will always be the quickest way to spread genetic material. That is true regardless if women are having 2 kids or 5. Speculating that lower birth rates will somehow increase absente
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by nepeckman 5y ago
I agree with you, and view my comment as complementing yours by refuting the parent, rather than making a value judgement on Lisa Frank's work. Apologies if I missed the mark there!
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by nepeckman 5y ago
I'm almost positive most kids would pick a Lisa Frank piece over the Mona Lisa. Are you trying to make the point that bright colors, rainbows, and unicorns are the highest form of art?
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by nepeckman 5y ago
> How did they "steal" it? Like they came and stole your gold 200 years ago and now they're rich forever? lol. Unironically, yes this is how capitalism works. If you have resources, you leverage those resources to produce
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by nepeckman 5y ago
There's a fantastic video essay from an economist that breaks down the issues that are frequently hand waved by saying "X doesnt work, that's just basic economics" https://youtu.be/4epQSbu2gYQ
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by nepeckman 5y ago
Interesting drama associated with this article. The story documented here was used in a video essay about Homestuck in general, and the inclusion of this article lead to (empty, frivolous) legal threats to the creator. In a follow up video,
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by nepeckman 5y ago
The plight of the Uyghurs does not relate to the political oppression of trans people. Political oppression of trans people is inextricable from the discussion of anti trans ideology on college campuses. To make an analogy, this article is
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by nepeckman 5y ago
It is actually incorrect, I just responded to that comment. See below: If you read the article you linked, you will find that is not true. From the article: "between 2016 and 2020, there were seven sexual assaults against females in wo
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by nepeckman 5y ago
If you read the article you linked, you will find that is not true. From the article: "between 2016 and 2020, there were seven sexual assaults against females in women's prisons by trans women." 7 assaults in 4 years is not 5
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by nepeckman 5y ago
> It places cis-women in a very uncomfortable position of having to birth and raise a child created from sexual assault or have an abortion. I want to be very clear: I do not want this to happen. I don't want any woman to be raped,
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by nepeckman 5y ago
One thing I find very troubling about articles like this is the tendency to frame hot political topics as essentially academic, while they are in fact very practical. Across the US and England, trans people are being denied access to health
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by nepeckman 5y ago
There is no evidence that trans women are more a threat to cis women than cis women are to each other. If a cis women is afraid of being assaulted by a trans women, that is a fear rooted in bigotry, not reality. If the individual in questio
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by nepeckman 5y ago
Whatever exists inside the map lambda would have to exist inside the for loop as well. So if you're dealing with a confusing transformation, a loop doesnt offer you any extra tools for making that transformation more apparent to the re
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by nepeckman 5y ago
> Stuff breaks, code is read and debugged more often than it's written. Optimising stuff to be easy and fast to write is the wrong way to make maintainable code. This is exactly why people like collection functions. For loops can do
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by nepeckman 6y ago
I think network effects have a lot to do with it. If a language has a small ecosystem, it's less attractive for new developers, so the ecosystem stays small. That said, I think the Nim ecosystem might be able to achieve a critical mass
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by nepeckman 6y ago
There's more to a language than just features and functionality though. Why does Clojure have adoption despite being the least powerful Lisp, created decades after Common Lisp? Its stdlib, default data structures, and even syntax make
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by nepeckman 6y ago
Compared to what meat? Which animal, which cuts, which quality? Is it healthier than a really high quality meat, prepared well? Maybe not. Is it healthier than fast food "beef"? Yeah probably. Either way, environmental and moral c
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by nepeckman 6y ago
Comparable to TypeScript, but a little weaker in the advanced features. Nim object types and tuple types are similar to TypeScript interface definitions and just as light weight. The type inference is pretty similar, but Nim's is a lit

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