zshrdlu

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by zshrdlu 23d ago
In a very different vein, I have read a number of books recently that feature a surprising amount of "scam and schemes": - The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan, about the Dust Bowl during the Great Depression. A lot of people were
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by zshrdlu 25d ago
Nothing wrong really if the python in turn uses libraries with c bindings or something.
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by zshrdlu 26d ago
Not at all true for most developing countries, they borrow despite the high interest. It just means that the burden of interest payments squeeze out welfare programs, development programs, etc. Usually the IMF/World Bank step in to inf
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by zshrdlu 1mo ago
Well you gotta recharge it of course, just not with a power cord.
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by zshrdlu 1mo ago
Checkmate of a move asking for the passport along with the resume. The latter should stand in for the former before an offer is made.
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by zshrdlu 2mo ago
I think for some people it's an aesthetic knee-jerk reaction and the fact that it's "unusual" for a programming language. It's not like their brains "can't grok" -- it's just syntax after all. Pe
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by zshrdlu 5mo ago
Ted Kaczynski specifically was advocating for primitivity, no?
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by zshrdlu 6mo ago
Supposedly. If the productivity boost is good for commercial software it's good for open source.
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by zshrdlu 1y ago
I will attempt a reductio ad absurdum: why do anything other than print dollars then? Why farm? Why build anything? Why not just use the magic wand all the way?
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by zshrdlu 1y ago
Yeah casual extraordinary claim, I'm equally stumped.
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by zshrdlu 2y ago
also known as colonies
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by zshrdlu 3y ago
How nice! I've been mulling over doing exactly this for a while :D
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by zshrdlu 3y ago
Do you mean that, once on-boarded, crypto holders would only need to trade with fellow crypto holders?
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by zshrdlu 3y ago
I would be. It's much quicker to draw this than to write code for it.
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by zshrdlu 3y ago
Pleasantly surprised to see Tz on front-page for once rather than Ke.
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by zshrdlu 3y ago
> no successful country in the whole continent That's a glaring statistical aberration
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by zshrdlu 3y ago
Have you tried asking him nicely?
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by zshrdlu 3y ago
It's horrible. Yet somehow they still manage to hire and have a thriving company ¯_(ツ)_/¯. Seems to work for them.
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by zshrdlu 3y ago
backend-backend :D
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by zshrdlu 3y ago
> eliminate poverty of all kinds There was never a technical hurdle to this problem where a super-intelligent AI is what we need.
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by zshrdlu 3y ago
> So pointing out that an LLM has trouble with some concept doesn’t mean anything. Why? We do the same with children, animals, and people (with severe head trauma for example). Why should AI get special treatment? We're happy to tes
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by zshrdlu 3y ago
That's not good for the environment!
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by zshrdlu 3y ago
> I’ve cut meat from my diet over these thoughts, it makes me want to be a slightly better steward of the other intelligences we’ve conquered. I'm curious if you've made any changes to your life(style) to reduce the suffering o
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by zshrdlu 4y ago
Nice :) Do you know any books or anything that address "programmability", as distinct from "computability"? I've been mulling on it for a while now.
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by zshrdlu 4y ago
Computers lack non-monotonic reasoningas of now, you mean :D
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by zshrdlu 4y ago
This is a metal-level sentiment of the crude sentiments Dennis has already received, just more entitlement. The article speaks of a part of the spirit of open-source, but that spirit can never supercede what a person does with something the
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by zshrdlu 4y ago
Makes you wonder who's head is really in the sand.
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by zshrdlu 4y ago
It would be fun to see one attempt a Gentoo install.
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by zshrdlu 4y ago
And it had to beat Java, Flash, etc to become the unified single language!
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by zshrdlu 4y ago
I see what you mean, that's thoughtful. Not what I meant though - it's not really about coordination bandwidth but rather the that we're not optimally building upon each other's work. We're siloed.

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