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by nurbl 5d ago
I had a recurring abstract nightmare as a small kid (don't think it was related to fever but I guess those were pretty common) which was basically about a line, gradually becoming messier and messier until it was all just a big jumble.
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by nurbl 5d ago
Funny, that happened to me just this morning, I awoke from some kind of alarm signal, very close by. But I could not find any possible source for it, so I am sure it was part of a dream. In fact I forgot about it until now. About the second
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by nurbl 10d ago
I saw a cartoon that captured this pretty well; a pianist who looks pensive, thinking "I don't enjoy this at all". The caption is something like "how to know you're a professional". Everybody runs this risk, bu
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by nurbl 13d ago
I believe the basic idea is similar, but there's an enormous difference in the space of possible moves between chess and Go. Go has a larger board and moves are less restricted. There was a major breakthrough in Go playing programs a d
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by nurbl 3mo ago
You don't think there are any other aspects worth considering than the mere quality of the code produced?
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by nurbl 3mo ago
I'm professionally a python programmer with no C/C++ experience, and I do some hobby programming in zig. I tried rust but it seemed complicated and kind of boring. Zig was a lot easier for me to get into. I don't mind that it
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by nurbl 5mo ago
I think the point of the saying is that as systems tend to expand, sooner or later we become part of them. That means that we can no longer see them from outside, we're now part of the system and our goals and the system's goals w
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by nurbl 7mo ago
Carrion Comfort was my introduction to Dan Simmons, I loved it. Not as good as some of his later stuff but it's really inventive, and never boring.
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by nurbl 7mo ago
Well there was no way the show would be quite as good as the book. But I was still pleasantly surprised, it was definitely better than the average TV adaptation. The actors were very good.
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by nurbl 7mo ago
Yes. There will always be people who see opportunity in using it destructively. Best case scenario is that others will use it to counter that. But it is usually easier to destroy than to protect. So we could have a constant AI war going on
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by nurbl 8mo ago
Interesting. I like the discussion about "Shadow of the Colossus", it's one of those few games that goes its own way and really sticks with you. Also, weirdly, the article references Brian Moriarty's "Who buried Pau
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by nurbl 8mo ago
I think the effort is indeed a big piece of it. For example, consider sports. I don't imagine that a lot of sports fans would be interested in watching completely AI-generated video of their favorite teams playing, even if it's to
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by nurbl 11mo ago
Though in principle they serve similar purposes there are some big differences though. Python with types is still just python. Typescript is a different language from JS (guess it a superset?) and it being controlled by a large company coul
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by nurbl 11mo ago
I don't have experience from any larger application, but from my smaller usage Preact seems like a drop in replacement. It's been compatible with the react libraries I've tried. It also works great with ES modules. So for sim
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by nurbl 1y ago
I think a better word may be "explicitness". Zig is sometimes verbose because you have to spell things out. Can't say much about Go, but it seems it has more going on under the hood.
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by nurbl 2y ago
I find that I always learn something valuable by diving in and trying ideas out concretely. High-flying plans can also cause a lot of wasted coding on things that won't work out.
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by nurbl 2y ago
Apart from the benefits you already mentioned, mainly that TUI applications are usually keyboard driven.
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by nurbl 2y ago
Seems to be precisely what "free-rider" means; entities benefiting from public resources without contributing anything back.
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by nurbl 2y ago
Possible, but taking the bus halfway around the world would also produce a lot of emissions.
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by nurbl 2y ago
The hammer example made me remember something. I did some Aikido long ago, and the instructor spent quite a lot of time showing us how to grip things like sticks. As I remember it, instead of the instinctive way of just forming a fist aroun
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by nurbl 2y ago
Maybe the story you're referring to is https://marshallbrain.com/manna1
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by nurbl 2y ago
Tricky Towers is fun and while it has various silly features that adds randomness (e.g. wind), it still rewards skill enough to feel fair. It follows the tetris logic of pieces staying in the "grid", until they touch another piece
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by nurbl 2y ago
I think a contributing factor is our obsession with measurement. Happiness is hard to prove, and having money is hard to fake. So money can become a proxy for happiness even though it may only be an enabler.
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by nurbl 2y ago
Visidata is a relatively modern example.
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by nurbl 2y ago
Looks neat! It seems at least superficially similar to https://github.com/getludic/ludic which I quite like too.
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by nurbl 2y ago
"Antifragile" is even more focused around this.
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by nurbl 2y ago
It's also funny how the later examples almost look like they could be terminal UIs. Based on this trend, I predict that the next version of Windows ("Windows One") will look like DOS.
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by nurbl 2y ago
What makes you say it "could have gone right"? From what came out about the o-rings behavior at cold temperatures, it seems they were taking a pretty big risk. Your perspective seems to be that it's always a coin toss no matt
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by nurbl 2y ago
I think the point is the opposite; they have decided to build a new "web stack" from scratch, not just build a new "browser" (or invent a new GUI framework). Hopefully the web engine is not deeply tied to Qt, but you nee
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by nurbl 2y ago
If the movie "the Cube" has taught us anything (and I guess it hasn't) it is that it's possible work on something without knowing what it's actually for. With some misdirection, an AI could probably run in a data c

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