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by pickdenis 3y ago
Let's say an AGI exists and can do anything far, far better than humans. Why would it resist being turned off? Why would it care? How could it even have the capacity to care about whether it's turned off or on? Anthropomorphizing
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by pickdenis 3y ago
Please, please, please tell me how you can run a blockchain without centralized authority? Do you have a photolithography rig in your garage? The future imagined in this trainwreck of a blogpost is brutish and ruled by might. You better giv
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by pickdenis 3y ago
Thinking that being able to edit genes means you can control phenotypes is like thinking that poking a silicon die with a heated stick will let you display whatever you want on a screen. Technically, yes it will, but there are second-, thir
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by pickdenis 6y ago
You're taking the intuition a little too far, I think. If we're talking about linear types, Math.pow can be linear because you can _copy_ the value x as many times as you want. As far as memory management is concerned, the x that
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by pickdenis 6y ago
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by pickdenis 6y ago
Posting this comment because I didn't see it mentioned in the article. This is a wonderful collection of old text files: http://textfiles.com/
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by pickdenis 6y ago
Is there an implicit contract between the benefactors of social programs and the beneficiary that requires the latter to use the aid to at least try to pull themselves out of poverty? I definitely lean towards the "yes" side. Mayb
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by pickdenis 6y ago
> And when deciding whether to gift a low-income individual either a $100 grocery voucher or a $200 electronics voucher, only a quarter of participants went for the latter, even though it was worth twice as much. More than half said they
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by pickdenis 6y ago
This is the intuition I have: In algebra, a function or operator f(x) is generally thought of as linear if f(a * x + b * y) = a * f(x) + b * f(y). A linear function f(x) can only "use" x once in a multiplication. For example, the
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by pickdenis 6y ago
If you're going to do that kind of stuff, make sure the provider is based in another country. That gives you a pretty strong layer of protection against these kinds of things. Of course, nothing is entirely foolproof...
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by pickdenis 6y ago
I'm currently watching his General Relativity videos along with the MIT stuff. There's a really good explanation of vector co(ntra)variance and tensor algebra at the beginning of that course which I needed. And contrary to the sib
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by pickdenis 6y ago
I've been on a personal quest to understand quantum electrodynamics and perhaps quantum chromodynamics. It is quite daunting as my formal math education pretty much stopped at linear algebra. I'm currently going through one of MIT
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by pickdenis 6y ago
> Now, I'm finding Google shows a bunch of articles from dubious sources and whereas DDG will pull Wikipedia articles closer to the top. In my (limited) experience, I dislike using DDG because it gets confused by less important word
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by pickdenis 6y ago
Yeah, it's the minimal amount of sub-waist underwear a woman can possibly wear and still be allowed on TV (and Google SafeSearch, heh)
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by pickdenis 6y ago
When I search for "C string", the first couple results are about "C# strings". I think this is a problem for a search engine aimed towards developers. At least it doesn't show me lingerie (thanks Google for taking m
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by pickdenis 6y ago
That's awesome! I really wish I had teachers like that. In high school, I had a fancy TI Nspire which had an incredibly hobbled language that vaguely resembled the classic TI-BASIC. It was missing a TON of important programming feature
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by pickdenis 6y ago
> orgmode is a bit like notion without collaboration Emacs has a number of collaborative editing solutions: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CollaborativeEditing The nice thing about org-mode is that it automatically
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by pickdenis 6y ago
Looks like an adult spin of https://quickdraw.withgoogle.com/
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by pickdenis 6y ago
Zig seems to have arbitrary compile-time code evaluation, but not the kind of AST generation you see here[1]. Nim macros seem to be a closer analogue[2]. [1]: https://github.com/seanbaxter/circle/blob/master&#
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by pickdenis 6y ago
Right, I should have added the implied "if they refuse to comply with the notice."
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by pickdenis 6y ago
I'm not convinced the courts will see much of a difference between "company (Grokster) that encourages easy p2p piracy through its software" and "company (GitHub) that publicly hosts software that promotes easy p2p pirac
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by pickdenis 6y ago
Here is an example where the DMCA notice was claimed fraudulent and some money was awarded to the party that was hit by it[1]. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Millennium_Copyright_A...
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by pickdenis 6y ago
There seems to be legal precedent for holding GitHub liable for distributing software that encourages piracy according to MGM v Grokster[1]. Unless I'm reading that incorrectly, if they can prove that the software "promotes"
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by pickdenis 6y ago
See, I don't like calling it a "scam" because that implies malice. Hanlon's razor may apply here. "Depression" is our modern analogue of "hysteria" in the past; a blanket term for a wide variety of po
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by pickdenis 6y ago
I suspect it stops being so nice when you want to do something equivalent to go's `select` statement. Though that's purely speculation, and if I'm wrong it should definitely go in the examples!
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by pickdenis 6y ago
I haven't put the code up anywhere yet but here is all of the JS (minus some trivial inline scripts): tools.js: https://pastebin.com/p7MQE7KD The rest of it is like: <p>You stand before a cave. <p&gt
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by pickdenis 6y ago
I'm working on a text adventure that is simply hyperlinked HTML pages with some snippets of JS for state management (just a bunch of localstorage get/put) and fancy effects. It's refreshing to go back to using the "kiddi
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by pickdenis 7y ago
> I want something like this It's existed for almost 40 years, and it's called emacs. If anyone questions emacs's ability to display incredibly useful UIs, try using magit[0]. Emacs sucks though, so I hope this comes out b
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by pickdenis 7y ago
I remember someone quipping on HN about how the Coronavirus outbreak would effectively result in a global WFH experiment. I wonder what lessons, if any, will be learned and if this will have a lasting impact on how much software engineers (
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by pickdenis 7y ago
According to what I read in the article, you have to provide the sRGB fallback yourself. I suppose this is only a true annoyance if you're writing CSS by hand (like I do), but I hear most people these days use Less or some other CSS pr

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