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navane commented on A simple way to generate random points on a sphere   johndcook.com/blog/2025/0... · Posted by u/piinbinary
egorfine · 4 days ago
Please forgive me my naivete, but won't generating two random polar coordinates do? I'm bad at math, so I might as well be very very wrong here, but I'd like to know.

Edit: see @srean's excellent explanation why that won't do.

navane · 13 hours ago
i feel somehow three rotations should be able to do it, 3 rands between 0 and 2pi.
navane commented on My experience creating software with LLM coding agents – Part 2 (Tips)   efitz-thoughts.blogspot.c... · Posted by u/efitz
navane · a day ago
If you kept reading you'd realize the guy was just humble bragging.
navane commented on The Minecraft Code (2024) [video]   youtube.com/watch?v=nz2Le... · Posted by u/zichy
nkrisc · 2 days ago
Physical property rights are made up too. How can you claim to own something if you aren’t actively defending it nor physically possessing it in that moment.

Do you “own” your house even when you’re not home? Yes, you do, because we all agreed on this made up thing called “property rights” and we pay our tax dollars to have it enforced. Otherwise whoever is in your house “owns” it until you or someone else forcible removes them or convinces them to leave.

All our rules are “made up”.

navane · 2 days ago
Nuance beaten by a strawman. Well done.

You know what, your words are all made up.

navane commented on Let's properly analyze an AI article for once   nibblestew.blogspot.com/2... · Posted by u/pabs3
xg15 · 15 days ago
Huh? That seems just like the basic pattern of any kind of civilization or even just personal learning. How would you do it otherwise?

Unless you mean to imply that civilization itself is already dystopian and we should go back to hunting and gathering?

navane · 8 days ago
It seems very sysphean to me, a slightly different boulder everytime.

This time, in games, we assign it to ourselves. It isn't even a a burden layed upon us by the gods. Did we shape ourselves such that this is now what we entertain? Or did sysphius already like pushing that Boulder?

What about all the time in between. Im not for going back to hunter gathering, but what about all the things we do all this society for, all the things inbetween. Wouldn't you want to be spending time doing that.

navane commented on Show HN: Prime Number Grid Visualizer   enda.sh/primegrid/... · Posted by u/dduplex
navane · 9 days ago
I'm probably an idiot but having the columns at a multiple of 6 is very pleasing
navane commented on Why are there so many rationalist cults?   asteriskmag.com/issues/11... · Posted by u/glenstein
Muromec · 12 days ago
Wasn't the "fast&slow" thingy debunked as another piece of popscience?
navane · 12 days ago
I think duality gets debunked every couple of hundred years
navane commented on Let's properly analyze an AI article for once   nibblestew.blogspot.com/2... · Posted by u/pabs3
internet_points · 15 days ago
Are there any games that teach automation like Factorio but that don't have that depressive dystopian magnasanti feel?
navane · 15 days ago
Solving a situation, moving up an abstraction layer, solving that, etc is inherently distopian. That's how we got here.
navane commented on Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers   fortune.com/2025/08/03/ai... · Posted by u/robtherobber
notJim · 19 days ago
I mean, if you're that fatalistic, why worry about AI (or even climate change) in particular? If we're all just doomed no matter what, you may as well just enjoy what you can from life and not stress too much about any particular development.
navane · 19 days ago
Oh right change my mindset from despair to joy. Great move, let me just flick the switch.

Why feel sad when can feel happy. Me dummy.

navane commented on Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers   fortune.com/2025/08/03/ai... · Posted by u/robtherobber
jimbokun · 20 days ago
There has always been an expectation that corporations are lying to us.

What's so insulting about Coinbase here is they are not even trying to make their lies sound plausible anymore.

navane · 19 days ago
We lost plausible deniability in the last ten years
navane commented on Writing a good design document   grantslatton.com/how-to-d... · Posted by u/kiyanwang
mtlynch · 20 days ago
>Amazon’s practice is a reaction to the fact that nobody actually does this.

But isn't that bizarre? I can't think of anything else where we need engineers to do something by a deadline, and we just resign to the fact that they won't do it unless we sit them in a room and babysit them while they do it.

navane · 20 days ago
Isn't that how corporate work is usually done? We call the room an office and the babysitter a manager or lead.

u/navane

KarmaCake day1277June 25, 2017View Original