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by type_enthusiast 13d ago
Would this be possible without it being able to run novel real-world physics experiments autonomously? (Note: I am not suggesting we let it do this. Please don't, in fact)
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by type_enthusiast 11mo ago
Seems like this was intended for adjacent article https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45591149
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by type_enthusiast 1y ago
Realizing here that my typing skills are extremely limited by muscle-memory to things that I actually am likely to type. It certainly makes a game like this more difficult, but I wonder if it's really a bad thing?
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by type_enthusiast 1y ago
One could ask: what's the UX purpose of the "active anchor" indicator on the side navigation? One answer I can think of: if a reader is in the middle of a long section, and the heading is off the screen, it can remind them wh
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by type_enthusiast 2y ago
Steve Wozniak famously would get a bunch of $2 uncut sheets, and have them perforated and bound into a tear-off book. Then, he would dramatically produce the book and tear out a sheet of them to pay for things, as a sort of gag. I think it
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by type_enthusiast 2y ago
I'm going to provide some examples of what I'm criticizing here – it will likely double my downvotes, but I want to be specific as long as I'm dissenting. This is just honest and well-meaning criticism, and I'd appreciat
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by type_enthusiast 2y ago
I guess this is subjective. But to me, there's a distracting amount of purple prose. Prose has a function, which is to tap into metaphor in order to help words describe a sensory experience that's otherwise difficult for words to
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by type_enthusiast 2y ago
I have to push back here a little bit. It really depends. I mainly use Scala, and I think the majority of Scala code would be far less readable if forced to 80 columns, than if it were a larger number (or simply unconstrained). My WFH monit
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by type_enthusiast 2y ago
FWIW, while I'm not sure I agree that JVM is the right solution for every problem, I agree with much of the author's sentiment from that time, which is: programs are written much less frequently than they are run, so surely develo
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by type_enthusiast 2y ago
I found "Java for Everything" really interesting, so thanks for posting it. It also seems it's been featured on HN many times[1], and the progression of comments (from 10 years ago to 4 years ago, to 1 year ago where nobody c
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by type_enthusiast 2y ago
I think the answer is pretty clearly "no, but" (or "yes, if"). Of course it depends on what you're doing – if you're writing shell scripts, it might make sense to keep them at 80 characters in case you have to
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by type_enthusiast 2y ago
What I love the most about this, is that even though the author only intended (in the near-term, anyway) to use this once, they still A) took care to use some degree of engineering practice, and B) open-sourced the result. I really love see
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by type_enthusiast 2y ago
An interesting article, but I have to point out a more (in my opinion) entertaining take. As the pandemic dragged on and began to seem interminable, Netflix released a somewhat under-the-radar series called "History of Swear Words&quot
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by type_enthusiast 2y ago
A really interesting read. From the discontinuation notice[1] that the article links to: > Perhaps it comes down to this: indirectly, our own personal benefit for writing PlantStudio software and our other projects includes all the other
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by type_enthusiast 2y ago
Of course, saying "fat people should simply eat less" is by no means novel. It's the same as "have you tried _not_ being addicted to [drug]?" or "Why doesn't he just [obvious but impossible action]? Is he
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by type_enthusiast 2y ago
An interesting thought, but I think it falls apart a bit when it meets reality. Most people want to retire eventually, and can't really predict what the cost of living is going to be or for how long they'll be paying it. So it mak
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by type_enthusiast 2y ago
I grew up a couple streets over, and spent a lot of time on Cowper because a good friend lived there. Always called it Cow-per (like the livestock). So it's interesting to know I've been wrong all along!
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by type_enthusiast 2y ago
Thanks! That thread leads to LEAP (Learning Early About Peanut allergy) which is a study that seems to have done a pretty good job of demonstrating that peanut exposure is in fact prophylactic against later allergy (as measured by a skin te
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by type_enthusiast 2y ago
I was not hinting at any conspiracy, and my comment wasn't directed toward Israel in particular (knowing nothing about the study that the top-level comment alluded to). I was facetiously pointing out that a population where everyone ea
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by type_enthusiast 2y ago
No, I didn't mean to imply anything like that. I guess I was just trying to say "surprising data needs detail." I should have just said that, instead of making light of how dangerous allergies are. Downvotes deserved, lesson
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by type_enthusiast 2y ago
Strictly speaking, if all babies eat peanuts, you'll get to "nearly non-existent" peanut allergy one way or another. But you need better data than that to conclude that the change comes from allergy prevention, rather than...
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by type_enthusiast 3y ago
I had parvovirus B19 a few years ago as well (mid to late 2019). I still have some nerve issues from it (I gave up on treating that; it presents like rheumatoid arthritis but the blood factors for that are missing). I'm surprised to he
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by type_enthusiast 4y ago
So, what does it mean for consciousness to be continuous? Is some brain activity enough, even if you're completely unconscious (i.e. anesthesia)? For that matter, if it wasn't continuous, would the current "you" be able
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by type_enthusiast 4y ago
It's an interesting notion that the "my-ness" of my consciousness requires continuity – it must be continuous and uninterrupted. Here's a fun thought experiment – imagine slowly, individually replacing each neuron in you
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by type_enthusiast 5y ago
Changing classifications aren't going to affect the bet, because both of these gents know what they're betting on. If I could make a $10,000 bet with John Carmack, I'd go the way Atwood has. No way there will be fully self-dr
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by type_enthusiast 5y ago
Absolutely agree on Breath of the Wild. I think every successful console has The Game that really differentiates it (speaking as someone who never had a console growing up, just Sierra games). Having got a Switch for my son - Breath of the
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by type_enthusiast 5y ago
A sort of similar thing from 2020: https://jeremyrsmith.github.io/feels/ The idea being that a brainf*ck-ish like program could also be incoherent screaming into the void (which I think a lot of people felt like doing
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by type_enthusiast 5y ago
A colleague (who is probably one of the smartest people I've met) made VectorFlow targeting D: https://github.com/Netflix/vectorflow I've never had a chance to look at it much, but I think the magic is in the
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by type_enthusiast 5y ago
Yes – they also discussed this pretty extensively in the RadioLab segment. In the second segment (linked by GP), they first re-played the previous segment (also linked by GP) about alpha-gal allergy. They then revealed that the company behi
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by type_enthusiast 5y ago
> the people of Iran can end these sanctions at any time Sorry to bite on this off-topic thing... but, _how_? Overthrowing their government? I guess that would be technically true, but "at any time" seems like a weird phrase to

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