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by seiji 11y ago
The first part was a question and the second two parts were examples. Writers can't be held responsible for the lack of reading comprehension exhibited by audience members.
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by seiji 11y ago
isn't a computer limitation it is a physical one. Assumes facts not in evidence. That could easily be a firmware (on-gate) vs. software (DHD) argument. Carter said it is "impossible" due to physics Potentially unreliable
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by seiji 11y ago
Protip: don't take hundreds of millions of dollars from VCs if you care about your users.
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by seiji 11y ago
Nice comparison! But, more likely, it's just a play on a reason a Stargate (when unaided by some hostile energy source or time dilation field) just shuts off after 38 minutes with no explanation.
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by seiji 11y ago
In Erlang you need to have explicit number of arguments and need to explicitly implement them. Or, you know, just use lists as parameters. That's the standard Erlang pattern for unknown parameters lengths (e.g. io:format("debug
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by seiji 11y ago
allocate a separate list node for each piece of data So many programmers don't even consider "overhead" of data when writing things. But, most of the time it doesn't matter. Do you need a list of ten things? Great.
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by seiji 11y ago
strong AI can be immortal My grandfather was very racist and never changed as long as he lived. I'm glad most people aren't immortal. There's no guarantee a full AI wouldn't be tempted by evil and just become republi
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by seiji 11y ago
I do not understand how a business can understand OSS and implement the OSS core-only model Whenever you see "open core," you should read it as "VCs said we need to do this to keep them happy." VCs love the idea of h
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by seiji 11y ago
Not really factitious. The whole "do things that don't scale (grit! be resilient! schlep!)" is pretty central to modern cult of pg startup dogma.
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by seiji 11y ago
That's the holy grail of The Cloud: just write a description of what you want and what you want happens. DWIM programmatic casting. I think pg originated his "sufficiently smart compiler" startup idea in his pycon talk. You
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by seiji 11y ago
It would fix a lot of things like e.g. San Francisco. Imagine if all those two story, single family homes were taxed at their land value (40 story condos! condos everywhere!) where 3,000 people could live in the space currently occupied b
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by seiji 11y ago
NGDP level targeting says during economic downturns, the government should fill the gap between the downturn and the previous economic output level (creating jobs, buying things, paying people to do things, etc). Basically, don't let
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by seiji 11y ago
before the Friendly AI problem has been solved. That's like saying they aren't telling us how to make time travel because the grandfather paradox hasn't been solved. They aren't withholding some unique secrets of the u
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by seiji 11y ago
If Tesla employees can address individual cars with no oversight or audit trail or "2+ man rule" in place, that's a huge lapse of professional responsibility. We need something like Certificate Transparency to log ACL hits fo
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by seiji 11y ago
Somewhat uncharacteristic for him. But probably perfectly characteristic of the design firm he hired to do it for him.
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by seiji 11y ago
holy run on sentence batman I posted this yesterday if it helps: https://matt.sh/heroin
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by seiji 11y ago
Would you fix a software bug by editing the code on a running server and tell yourself that you will add it to the repository later? Absolutely yes in the right circumstances (have you seen how this website works?). Not every service ne
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by seiji 11y ago
access to several other acquired founders who helped us ultimately navigate That's founder code for "we actually failed, but we know rich people, so our failure is really our success—suck it, everybody else who fails without mil
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by seiji 11y ago
Rarely. It's mostly a game of "i'm too chicken to make decisions on my own." VCs love love love the joke of "We're supposed to be all about new unproven dynamic ventures and insight into the future, but we&#
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by seiji 11y ago
Everything falls after launch. Everything. It's relatively easy to get the "hey look over there!" viral bump, but beyond that it turns into a game of retention with ugly words like "drip campaign." People are alway
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by seiji 11y ago
VCR repair too. The big thing nobody talks about (or some people even brag about) is how Tesla records your entire driving history to improve their future products. It's kinda creepy and you have no option but to obey if you want the
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by seiji 11y ago
trying to distill the activity of 7+ billion people Yeah, it's slightly disingenuous, but we still need some models. It's like when people take the total revenue of Google and divide by the total number of Google employees (i
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by seiji 11y ago
In which case accumulation of units does not imply the long-term ability to use them; instead, there will be a long-term incentive for participants to maintain a good reputation. There's an important distinction here: the score of yo
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by seiji 11y ago
Why aren't there any traces of exponentially growing all-consuming machine civilizations anywhere? I'm a fan of the zoo hypothesis. Everything else is just sufficiently "hidden" from observation currently. I mean, if
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by seiji 11y ago
I'm with you on this, and I logged in just to upvote your comment. Thanks! :) shouldn't we step back and question this Promethean effort? is feasible to stop technological progress is a separate question. The only way to s
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by seiji 11y ago
The problem seems to be there are two AI tracks: practical and science fiction. Most people (especially enthusiastic novices, even well-funded enthusiastic novices) don't distinguish the difference. The current practical approaches ar
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by seiji 11y ago
And what about home owners that couldn't keep up with rising taxes after purchasing their home? Taxes are legal obligations. If you can't afford your taxes, you don't get to keep your house.
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by seiji 11y ago
Automatic brace insertion program with helper scripts: https://matt.sh/howto-c#_formatting It is never an error to insert braces, and the rules for inserting braces are fully deterministic in C.
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by seiji 11y ago
Except the go standard is awful , so a language-wide formatting requirement with bad defaults makes the language basically unusable (since programs are made to be read, not run).
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by seiji 11y ago
The problem is: interviews shouldn't be a mini-GCSE. If I have 20 years of experience and you want to ask me about something I did 10 years ago, I probably can't reproduce it on the spot, but does that mean I'm incompetent

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