vacuity

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by vacuity 7mo ago
Thank you for your comment. I will try to remember and apply it. I have a similar concept, which is roughly described as "don't extend your own arm onto the chopping block, but make use of other people doing the same". Don&#x
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by vacuity 8mo ago
Perhaps I am wrong about Tit-for-Tat. It's been a while since I checked my source. In any case, my point (not to say that you deny it) is not to take any result in an idealized game too literally, and that consistent defection is bad.
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by vacuity 8mo ago
I do not know your circumstances, but see what you think of this: I have a nascent theory about human feelings, which goes that the basic feelings we experience are usually perceived through extensive filtering by our personal, social, cult
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by vacuity 8mo ago
The optimal decision in the Prisoner's Dilemma is to defect, but in the iterated version, where multiple Dilemmas occur and people remember previous results, Tit-For-Tat is optimal. The real world is even less reminiscent of the Dilemm
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by vacuity 8mo ago
As it turns out, maximizing profit for shareholders screws over everyone else...
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by vacuity 8mo ago
Same. Somehow there tends to be some "pattern" that stands out, but I guess it's just a mix of the likelihood of "something interesting" and our minds being tuned to pick out "anything interesting". I&#x27
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by vacuity 8mo ago
So the real test is waiting until the LLMs are inaccessible and then seeing what happens. Empirical testing!
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by vacuity 8mo ago
I don't think it's so easy to get true information out of all the noise in the markets, and in any case, I don't see how this helps with the fact that corruption is bad. So what if I learn that a country will be wrongfully in
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by vacuity 8mo ago
But the market exactly provides a direct way to use power to make money. Why go for more cumbersome methods?
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by vacuity 8mo ago
If a lot of people have that as their hobby, and some are careless or malicious, people will be harmed. Now suppose that it's not simple to stop the offenders directly. Instead, restricting the sale of nuclear isotopes or cholera sampl
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by vacuity 8mo ago
I agree that I should understand the other person and take them seriously, and to convey this to the other person. However, sometimes verbal reflection serves the purpose of blind affirmation. I don't think the verbal component, constr
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by vacuity 8mo ago
Military action would be brutal, but you can only say that it's unnecessary if the alternatives are better. If not now, then how many years down the line? The claims Carney are making are not light in their own right.
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by vacuity 8mo ago
> while pushing aggressively progressive ideas The establishment Democrats are not exactly "aggressively progressive" by any reasonable standard. They shunned Bernie Sanders, who still isn't highly radical.
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by vacuity 8mo ago
Rather, Russia attacked Ukraine as a great power oppressing a smaller power, and had every opportunity to cease, with or without international intervention. No one attacked Russia first.
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by vacuity 8mo ago
Someone had to take the plunge. Regardless of the other political considerations at present and whatever future events will happen, I respect Carney's initiative. I also appreciate the reference to Havel's essay; to me, its insigh
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by vacuity 8mo ago
I'm not qualified to give a complete answer, but I think two main issues are the proliferation of flags in standard tools (e.g. ls has a lot of flags for sorting behavior) and the extreme preference for plain text. Text is very useful,
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by vacuity 8mo ago
I think this is an after-the-fact connection, rather than an intuitive discovery. I wouldn't explain memoization this way. Memoization doesn't need to specifically use an array, and depending on the argument types, indexing into t
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by vacuity 8mo ago
I'd like to add that, while anything will have some learning friction, learning the Unix CLI is rather unnecessarily painful.
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by vacuity 8mo ago
For the time being, I consider alloc and std to be part of the language, and the compiler also has provisions for them if they are used. If the alternative is supposed to be only using core, then the language does not provide for control ov
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by vacuity 8mo ago
Other people have given good insights, so I'll instead describe one of my pet theories. Given by how we talk about emotions, I think they are "rational", but operate under a different set of rules than we normally apply to &q
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by vacuity 8mo ago
You described one of my misgivings better than I could (I made a sibling reply to parent), but I don't agree with this in all cases. Anger is easy to perpetuate blindly, but I think introspective feelings sometimes can die out if they
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by vacuity 8mo ago
I agree with your descriptions of the terms, but I think there's often a divergence between empathy (which I find great) and reflecting people's feelings (which I find good with caution). I want people to understand and help each
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by vacuity 8mo ago
I don't think the "complex web of objects to be deallocated" scenario is usually a problem, but I generally agree with your points. As always, careful design and control of the software is important. Abstractions are limited;
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by vacuity 8mo ago
> It is perfectly possible to deal with hardware in managed languages. Perhaps we're using the words in different ways. What I mean is: in order to interact with something, it must either be done directly or through abstraction. If
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by vacuity 8mo ago
https://old.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1op6g64/whats_the_sta... This Github thread is also interesting (transitively reached from the above Reddit thread): https://github.com/rust-lang&#x
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by vacuity 8mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46684673 (reply to sibling) > I think it's fair to expect that it will stabilize in time. The allocator work is facing a lot of obstacles, unfortunately. I prefer it to be unstab
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by vacuity 8mo ago
So, that is not done at the language level but the library level. Unless the compiler is modified for Linux, but even if it is, that's entirely bespoke and unstable. This is not comparable to Zig's design. I'm aware that anyt
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by vacuity 8mo ago
> The kernel and memory manager: probably yes, the device drivers: not necessarily, the language runtimes for managed languages: not necessarily. The parts that touch hardware (or similarly bare kernel interfaces) must be so. Sure, you c
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by vacuity 8mo ago
That's like saying Rust has GC because GC libraries/runtimes can be implemented in/for Rust. Rust recognizes allocations on a language basis, but does not provide the same level of control over allocations on a language basis
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by vacuity 8mo ago
The kernel, the memory manager and device drivers, the language runtimes for managed languages; would these not be written in "systems" languages? Essential complexity can only be rearranged, not removed. Nothing changes the fact

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