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by rogerclark 2y ago
These things really suck. The novelty wears off instantly. It's uncomfortable having to either stand up to get something from the robot or awkwardly reach over while sitting down. The moment when food comes out is the most likely time
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by rogerclark 2y ago
I would guess that abiogenesis is often framed around randomness as a strategy to argue for its implausibility. Of course, a completely random system is unlikely to produce enough coherence to convince anyone that it could be possible. But
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by rogerclark 2y ago
It already has, for better or worse. Why does anyone still take this guy seriously? It's one thing to be skeptical that AI is going to make the world a better place... it's another thing to be skeptical that it exists and actually
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by rogerclark 2y ago
You can't grasp this because there is no FTL communication. Quantum entanglement does not enable FTL communication, and wormholes etc. are entirely theoretical.
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by rogerclark 2y ago
Is "what is this ?" even a productive comment in itself? That's the point the parent is trying to make. If you click on this link, and you can't tell what it is, you probably don't care what it is. And after that, i
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by rogerclark 2y ago
"Disappointed, but not defeated, they resolved to build a better version of Mario."
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by rogerclark 2y ago
Carmack is a great programmer to be sure. Commander Keen, however, was not a better version of Mario. It was worse than Mario in every way -- art, music, and gameplay are all inferior. Nobody outside of Gen X PC gamers know what Commander K
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by rogerclark 2y ago
htmx itself is not the future of anything. Businesses are not using htmx to make money and nobody is hiring for htmx. It's an ideological technology rather than a practical one. Maybe it'll inspire something that will turn out to
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by rogerclark 2y ago
That first sentence is one of the best-distilled insights I've ever read on HN.
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by rogerclark 2y ago
IMO, the most distinct flavors in Dr. Pepper are cherry and almond. Benzaldehyde, an "artificial cherry" molecule listed in this spectrometer video, is found in both cherry and almond extracts. If you're familiar with the tas
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by rogerclark 2y ago
Japanese snacks and drinks also use high fructose corn syrup.
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by rogerclark 2y ago
Someone please acquihire Sean and his compiler! This guy is a once-in-a-generation polymath: an expert in compilers (obviously), GPUs (worked on CUDA at NVIDIA), physics and topography (JPL etc). Buy the compiler, get somebody who could bui
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by rogerclark 2y ago
The stereotype premise is funny but the jokes don't land very often. The jump cuts where he repeats words are also not jokes at all. The recent video about the T3 stack just lists off names of libraries that we're all forced to us
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by rogerclark 3y ago
This would be a fantastic way to resolve both the gravity problem as well as the nature of quantum uncertainty. The "random" fluctuations of gravity in Oppenheim's theory could be intuitively explained by the cumulative gravi
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by rogerclark 3y ago
In order for it to fully make sense, you will need to study it from multiple angles. Hooktheory.com, books, and lots of YouTube videos will get you there over the course of 1-10 years. Ultimately, you won't understand music theory with
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by rogerclark 3y ago
The truth is that the Turing test turned out to be useless. Whether we have passed it or not has no bearing on my life or anyone else's. The way I talk to ChatGPT isn't the way I talk to a real person, despite it already being cap
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by rogerclark 3y ago
And then what? People sit around making animated videos, all of which are completely interchangeable because they're made at zero budget with the exact same technology? Great. Can't wait to ignore all of that stuff just like we ig
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by rogerclark 3y ago
Bard is a really stupid name. I get the origin of the name, and it's a short word, and in some sense it's a nice vibe with implications of a mystical poet or whatever. But it's a word that most people don't use. As many
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by rogerclark 3y ago
TypeScript only has "discriminated unions" in an extremely busted form. While they are encoded in its type system, there is little support in control flow. Exhaustiveness checking is essentially optional: it's enabled in swit
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by rogerclark 3y ago
It seems this way on the surface because everything seems equally inevitable. Maybe it's all inevitable, but many technologies come around and don't look like something described in science fiction. People vaguely predicted the sm
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by rogerclark 3y ago
At Apple, we had Project Managers (for instance "Engineering Project Managers" or EPMs). These PMs were not our bosses, and functioned as our peers in the organizations. They had a well-defined role: to facilitate the project bein
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by rogerclark 3y ago
It is a generational thing. If you grew up with Minecraft, you won't be able to see its flaws. Growing up with pixel art from NES and SNES games, the Minecraft aesthetic was obviously low quality programmer art rather than something me
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by rogerclark 3y ago
Casual listeners can't detect it, but it strongly affects the possibility space for production purposes. For instance, if you're writing happy hardcore music at 170+ BPM with a kick drum on every beat, you will get surprisingly li
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by rogerclark 3y ago
Some of us actually like working in person. I'm much more productive in the office, and I think many other people are too. I can buy the real estate argument to some degree, but it just isn't as simple as a giant conspiracy to get
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by rogerclark 3y ago
It's possible. The eye strain is real after a couple hours, though. And I've already run into situations where I wanted to show someone something and had to "change modes". Having the laptop display for auxiliary use sti
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by rogerclark 3y ago
I've been using XReal (formerly NReal) Air glasses with my laptops lately. They just act as a display when plugged into a USB-C port. After using these seriously for a month or two, it's clear to me that the "killer app"
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by rogerclark 3y ago
Great reply. Definitely a less depressing perspective.
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by rogerclark 3y ago
"In my head, the way it happens is..." Okay, sure, man. Whatever you say. Decades of research have proven that people cannot be trusted to describe how their own minds work. We are unreliable narrators of our own experience even i
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by rogerclark 3y ago
Do you wholeheartedly believe this and can you truly not understand why others might be uncomfortable with the direction of generative AI? Defending your viewpoint makes sense, but I don't buy the idea that the other stance is complete
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by rogerclark 3y ago
You must not know any designers. Pretty much everyone I know would consider that to be pretty fun – this is exactly the kind of thing artistic kids say they want to do when they grow up. And most of us would rather get paid to design cereal

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