I love how we developers see ourselves like creative writers instead of plumbers
Some jobs are more like plumbing, some more like creative writing, some more like planning and architecture. It really depends on the project.
Readit NewsRealityVoid commented on Developer's block underlap.org/developers-b... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
> While there’s no indication the data has been rigged (assertions from the White House aside)
Weird that more or less official pronunciations of the US President get waved off as ignorable. But it does reveal CNN's biases.
The current US president is an incoherent, inconsistent mess. So it's perfectly understandable when one ignores what he says.
I get as exasperated at C++ as anyone else, but IMO there's another takeaway here, which is that smart contracts are an absolutely terrible idea. Relying on code as the source of truth for a transaction just completely disregards the reality that code is always going to be buggy. For those who might not be aware, this is the same smart contract framework where someone accidentally killed $300 million of transactions because a function in a library for setting the wallet associated with a private key was defined as public instead of private: https://medium.com/cybermiles/i-accidentally-killed-it-and-e...
Yes, you can fix issues like this with a "hard fork" if you have a large enough consensus, but at that point, does the system of having smart contracts actually improve anything over the one where the software is downstream rather than the source of truth, or are you just replacing one form of "human intervention required" with a different but worse one?
As opposed to being subject to interpretation of the truth, with the courts of varying quality. My point is... everything has error bars.
> that learning is a linear process where you master one topic and move on to the next.
It's closer to true in mathematics than most other places, but not very close to true.
It's amazing the "layer cake model" of mathematics learning is such a strong idea even among many mathematics teachers.
On the other hand, sometimes a missing concept like cancellation in fractions or just poor proficiency in arithmetic rears its head and makes doing later stuff very hard. Once a student gets used to being and staying confused, it's often game over.
> Once a student gets used to being and staying confused, it's often game over.
I think this is a very good insight, that somehow eluded me. Many many people are OK being confused about things, and I never considered that it's something they learn, but it makes so much sense.
AGI in 5/10 years is similar to "we won't have steering wheels in cars" or "we'll be asleep driving" in 5/10 years. Remember that? What happened to that? It looked so promising.
I mean, in certain US cities you can take a waymo right now. It seems that adage where we overestimate change in the short term and underestimate change in the long term fits right in here.
RealityVoid commented on A dive into open chat protocols wiki.alopex.li/ADiveIntoO... · Posted by u/Bogdanp
At this point, I simply want to pick whichever protocol has the highest concentration of my kind of folks. The Discord audience is not it.
There are a bunch of discords that are pretty good, and a bunch of OSS projects have their community on discord. So I wouldn't dismiss it out of hand.
The US to date has primarily approached the problem of civilian nuclear waste by planning for and building a single facility, then cancelling the entire thing before any waste was ever moved there. There are a couple pilot plants, those are exactly what they sound like.
The US will never solve the problem of nuclear waste.
Encase it in a big block of concrete. Dump it in the ocean. There, solved it. I know it sounds horrid because of the public perception issue, but it's really not a bad solution. Yes, I mean it. Be aghast!
RealityVoid commented on The future of ultra-fast passenger travel spaceambition.substack.co... · Posted by u/simonebrunozzi
Most people using these flights would be traveling over oceans that are not serviceable by rail.
Well, build me a sub-oceanic trans-continental Hyperloop!
RealityVoid commented on Beyond Meat fights for survival foodinstitute.com/focus/b... · Posted by u/airstrike
"UPF"?
"Ultra Processed Food" - I suspect? I disagree, IMO. It feels like a oversimplification, it's a sometimes useful rule of thumb that works in some cases, but not in others. Definitely not the end all be all of nutrition.
This is a startup doing cloud seeding. I saw this posted on linkedin by the Dronecode foundation. I found the talk very interesting,