He seems to automatically remove all posts after a certain time (3 weeks or so), which isn't that unusual to do on Twitter.
It's the reasonable thing to do when context collapses so easily on tweets.
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Needs a seizure warning. Other than that, it's a lot of fun.
foxdev commented on Stop Asking Me to “Sign Up” (2014) gkogan.co/blog/stop-askin... · Posted by u/jeremylevy
Your usage of YouTube cost Google money. If you believe Google doesn't deserve your money, why consume their product?
Probably the same reason people used IE6 after it went stagnant. What was your choice? It's not like most YouTube channels have websites they publish stuff to as an alternative.
We really don’t know that to be certain (the fact that math is invented). This is a very longstanding philosophical debate with arguments on both sides.
Now, of course the symbols of math are invented. But math is the study of mathematical _objects_, and it’s very unclear if those are invented or discovered.
For example, the Curry-Howard isomorphism shows that math proofs and computer programs are the same mathematical object. Does this mean that they are a part of nature, and we discovered them because we invented a sufficiently powerful mathematical system? Or are they simply properties of the invented system?
We do not (and most likely can not) know the answer to that question. If someone is extremely convicted when offering an answer to it, consider me completely suspicious.
This is something that hit me when I found out how to translate between decimal and binary. If an A on a screen can be a grid of numbers, and those numbers can be reduced to a series of 1s and 0s and stored in a bunch of fancy wires, then who knows what else it could be translated to or from. Look back far enough and the A is a series of photons clashing with orbiting subatomic particles at certain frequencies.
We use math based on the status of a sea of transistors to store it in other atoms with forces we're slowly discovering how to communicate about. It's all layers of finding new ways to describe something that was already there, spinning and bumping photons long before any of us had photon detectors in our heads or a chemical machine capable of deciding to call one pattern A and all the ways to translate it into sound waves.
One pattern is called "solid state drive," and we seem to have some say in what that pattern does from our frame of reference. Maybe it was always a solid state drive and we're the language the universe uses to describe its smaller parts.
I promise I'm not high, and probably not a Boltzmann brain. Though I'm not sure about the latter.
I have tried to listen to his podcasts and I dont understand the hype, but I think employees of Spotify should act according to their ethics. And I also believe that of more tech employees had ethics and empathy internet would not have turned that way. Money isn't everything.
He lets people run their mouths for hours. That means they run out of talking points, realize they're going in loops, and sometimes say something worthwhile. He has on some people who really are just awful, but even they succumb to the banality of their own nonsense. Some of them turn out to have no substance after that, but sometimes they surprise you.
I listened to a few episodes, but don't find that his guests surprise me enough to sit through it.
foxdev commented on Firefox's JIT is getting significantly faster groups.google.com/forum/#... · Posted by u/frankjr
Layout is automated (and hopefully repeatable) typesetting.
The other thing Donald Knuth is famous for is getting so fed up with typesetting for his books, he created a document format to help him keep his sanity. And then went way way down that rabbit hole instead of finishing his book series. One might argue that's not sanity-preserving.
Sometimes the detour is the journey.