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by simpaticoder 1y ago
>This is awesome though No, it's not awesome. Upgrading ram and disk or replacing a motherboard, screen or battery is great. Repairing a badly designed motherboard with a soldering iron is not great. In fact, it's bad. I thin
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I have a 1st gen Framework 13, Intel 11th gen CPU, running Ubuntu 24. It had a faulty design around the BIOS battery on the motherboard that I had to fix, and do some soldering on[1]. It's remarkable because they didn't say "
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On one level this is amusing. But what if both accounts are owned by the same person impersonating Neal Stephenson? My understanding was that he was not on any social media. Did that change at some point?
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It's kind of too bad XSLT didn't take off. It is quite complex, until you compare it to the complexity of what now solves this problem (e.g. a build step with React and webpack and javascript absolutely required on the client-si
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>reduced maintenance long-tail I'd like to hear more about that. I'm also curious what makes Rust particularly suited to "API-first" backends. My understanding of the language is that it's concurrency primitive
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I would have kept it down-weighted. This is a drama that can have no satisfying resolution, and offers little unique insight into the world. The topic itself, mathematical physics, is so rarified that only a few hundred people in the world
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I wonder if Seymour Papert's Logo programming language influenced the SVG path syntax. M and L correspond directly to "pen up/pen down" and move.
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What's even better about memorization is that you have an objective method to test your own understanding. It is so easy to believe you understand something when you don't! But, at least with math, I think if you can reproduce the
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>If it doesn’t work for you on l33t code problems, what techniques are you finding more effective in that case? Memorization of l33t code DOES work well as prep for l33t code tests. I just don't think l33t code has much to do with
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In undergrad I took an abstract algebra class. It was very difficult and one of the things the teacher did was have us memorize proofs. In fact, all of his tests were the same format: reproduce a well-known proof from memory, and then compl
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TBH I'm glad you left it out! It's an uncomfortable aspect to his stories. His narration hovers above the action with such perfect grace... The satirical element, or its implication, somehow mars that perfection. It is probably be
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Ted Chiang does love to explore the counter-factual with empathy and openness where he somehow manages to take himself out of the story in the admirable Virginia Wolfe sense. The OP misses the biting critique hidden in these tales. For exam
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by simpaticoder 1y ago
I came here to write a similar comment. To me it read more like: When driving, do you prefer to a) turn left, b) turn right, c) press the gas pedal, d) press the brake pedal, or e) execute a sequence of actions that get you safely to your d
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There are at least two lessons to learn from this article. First, humans have a penchant for over-extrapolating from scientific discovery. My favorite example is soon after Röntgen discovered X-rays science fiction and comic books extrapol
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How about making everything a jury trial? How about same-day trials? How about trials that take hours not years? How about doing things so fast events are still fresh in people's minds, and information can flow directly from the witnes
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>Meanwhile our own innvative companies and individuals get ground into dust by the boot of patent lawyers wielded by megacorps. So they sell a large part of their company to capital who can afford to acquire and defend IP. In this happ
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by simpaticoder 1y ago
Arguably justice in general started declining with the invention of the typewriter, and injustice accelerated with the invention of the word processor and will get far worse with LLMs. The cost and time of litigation scales like n^2 where n
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by simpaticoder 1y ago
The real story here is that IP ownership is capital-intensive when it shouldn't be. Open-source and community-led IP contributions are grossly under-protected because of this, and those with capital become unopposed predators. This is
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by simpaticoder 1y ago
Wouldn't it be nice if individuals decided at the start of their career how much money was "enough" for them, and made a pledge to retire once they hit that number. Then society can give them an "I won!" hat or gold
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I prefer physical media. However, it can sometimes be a chore to start the movie! Each disc is different. Some discs use non-standard methods to access the home menu. Some require that you at least skip past all the previews at the beginnin
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Those of us who accept this limitation can often fail to grasp how much others perceive it as a profound attack on the self. To me, it is a basic humility - that no matter how much I learn, I cannot really transcend the time and place of my
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>you're partly testing people's ability to (appear to) perform under acute pressure You are also testing people's endurance . I once did an on-site interview with Google, and it was a solid 6 hours of leet-style puzzles
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"One of my weirder hobbies is helping coin or boost new terminology..." That is so fetch!
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The OP solved this problem by generating a well-known url, hosting it publicly, and including a link to the commit in the cursed knowledge inventory.
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I loved this the moment I saw it. After looking at an example commit[1], I love it even more. The cursed knowledge entry is committed alongside the fix needed to address it. My first instinct is that every project should have a similar fa
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What you describe is an interesting moral hazard variation: you were disconnected from the positive effects you had on others. All may not be lost: what if you were to reach out to individuals who have enjoyed your work?
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The expectations are higher than reality, but LLMs are quite useful in many circumstances. You can characterize their use by "level of zoom", from "vibe coding" on the high end, to "write this function given its arg
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by simpaticoder 1y ago
Great point. The internet is both a skewed reflection of us AND it influences us. Similar to the well-known reflexivity of legacy media but much greater scale and shorter time-frame. To bolster your point even further, I'd say that no
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One of the most curious aspects of the internet is how it creates the illusion of providing insight into public opinion. There is a strong desire to understand not only what is happening in the world but also how people are responding to it
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There is an ongoing tension between the idea that our behavior is shaped by the systems around us and the belief that it stems solely from our personal choices. The truth is, it’s never one or the other exclusively - both factors play a rol

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