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Yeah I had never heard of ECS until about a year ago, yet if you could look at the whiteboard on my wall from 2 years ago you'd find a diagram for a primitive version of an ECS I came up with as a hypothetical. Idk understand how tf that could be patentable if its something a former 2.7 gpa CS student could come up with on a whiteboard.

Agreed. For at least some people, there is something deeply, deeply wicked about acid. I can't put my finger exactly on it but I always felt that it changed your perceptions in such a way that made you feel like you were being enlightened and embracing universal love while at the same time making you capable of justifying enormous evil.

Its like it makes you actually feel nihilist rather than just think nihilistic. Or something like that.

I laughed out loud. Working through SICP right now and yeah... All the forum posts I've seen when troubleshooting my lisp code make the community seem insufferable.

I don't mean this in any sort of derrogatory way at all but I honestly think Lisp programmers might have a higher rate of autism. Also, seemingly higher IQs, cause it seems like anyone who actually builds software in Lisp extensively is some kind of savant.

Lmao no one.

And yet I'll bet you a million bucks that windows 11 still has a virtually unusable file search function.

Kind of taken aback by all the people saying these are just shitty photos. I think they are gorgeous... Do y'all think Lo-fi music is just shitty music too?

I guess its a little unsurprising coming from the usual HN crowd lmao.

Totally disagree. 1) im 99% sure that some colors we cannot or do not precisely recreate using non natural dyes. Just thinjing about the complexity of organic material: that is bound to produce subtle textures and such that are not easily mimicked.

2) there is a spiritually satisfying element to recreating something in the original or natural way when a more complex way may be easier

3) it is important to preserve the heritage of human innovation. These techniques and recipes ought to be preserved for historical and sociological reasons, as well as in the event that shit goes to pot one day, we may still have some people that know how to make dyes from scratch.

Yeah you make a good point. No idea what long term risks of covid are.

I guess I just feel more comfortable rolling the dice with a natural (maybe? Lmao) disease than a product made by the same companies that were public enemy #1 just months before they became our "saviours"

Not really dude. If I was around other people even remotely often it would be a different story but I work from home, dont really hang out with people, and wear an n95 when I have to go to the store.

It doesn't make me a bad person to be unvaccinated. It would if I was cavalier about potentially getting others sick...

Man I was just thinking about this last night. I recall an assignent in middle school where I had to write a poem with a simile in it (among ither literary devices) I lost points because there was no simile. When I went to the teacher and told her "there is a simile : 'the cat fell in much the same way as a boulder' " (or something to that effect)

I was told similes have to have the word 'like' or 'as' in them. Which is just not true but has become such a common hueristic that even English teachers think its the definition of a simile. sigh

I totally did that on purposes though cause I wanted to see if she would dock me a point for that. I was such a little prick.

Yeah actually no.

You know "experts" can and often are wrong write? Not saying you should blindly deny shit you don't understand but if you are asking questions and the experts don't have good answers.... I mean yeah dude use your fucking brain

Is this satire? This is almost like an onion article.

So they are showing that anti-intellectualism is driven by ideology and strong presupposed notions by doing a survey on fucking amazon mechanical turk about fucjing climate change GMOs and water fluoridation? Absolutely hilarious.

Any time someone uses the term "XYZ- denier" or "anti science" you cab pretty well bet they are a brainless drone who would buy a study like this hook line and sinker.

In my experience, if you truly believe in the power of human rationality, you think rationally about the results of an experiment and come to your own conclusion rather than just swallowing whatever dumb fuck conclusion some nitwit at berkely derived from their dumb fuck social experiment.

Sorry for the vitriol, I've just been accused of being anti science by completely scientifically illiterate people far too many times.

Doesn't seem silly at all to me : the known risks of covid are pretty tolerable. Death rate is extremely low for my demographic.

So lets say I have a 30% chance of getting covid without a vax and a .1% chance of serious long term illness or death from covid.

Now If I get the vaccine, I have a 1% chance of getting covid, and.01% chance of serioues injury or death + an unkown chance of unkown serious health complications from a vaccine.

Id take bet 1 any day, personally, since the odds and stakes of the vaccine are unkown.

Admittedly though, I think the chance of serious injury from vaccine is probably quite low or nonexistant but Im just trying to make the point that that perspective involves some reasonable value judgements.

Note : all oercentages listed are majorly hand wavy. This comment is in no way intended to be statistically accurate

Cheers.

Sounds like you didn't have nearly enough fun in college.

And this is why I think people who fancy thenselves moral philosophers are some of the most insufferable people on the planet.

I've a friend who believes net suffering should be reduced and that is the highest moral goal. To the point that he thinks we should evebtually force everyone to rewire their nueral pathways in order to prevent the sensation of sufferring.

Went on a canoe trip with this same guy, and another friend got trapped between their canoe and a tree and was in danger of drowning if we did not help him quickly. Philosopher friend just stood by and watched and when I asked him about it later he said that he was barefoot and running across the rocks induced him into suffering and he felt it was immoral to continue.

Yeah, fuck that.

Since when has "states rights" become a rallying cry for racism or hatred?

I'm really tired of people saying stuff like this : <insert vaguely conservative stance here> has become a rallying cry for racism and transphobia and bigotry.

Its really obnoxious and disingenuous. Give me one example of someone using states rights as a call for racism and hatred.

My guess is you probably only said what you just said because you've read enough articles by blue-haired liberal arts graduates with a sub 100 IQ.

As a compliment to this point : Tgings I'd consider valid culture fit criteria :

1) does this candidate have a positive attitude about the work that they do?

2) is this candidate respectful to the clients they work with? (E.g. a coworker of mine routinely calls our client contacts a "fucking bitch" on internal calls.

These aren't really possible to evaluate in the hiring process, but can be a big problem once theyve already been hired.

Word. In fact, most of these phrases, to me at least, imply sarcasm.

To say "social science studies are bullshit" implies a more generalized claim to me than "social science studies are always bullshit"

People use overt generalization words like these, in my experience, to indicate generalization with obvious exception.

This study is selecting for precisely the wrong thing, imo, or is not properly interpreting what they've selected.

I do not even remotely believe this study. Myself and everyone else I know are not very optimistic about our economic prospects for the future and are scared of the direction the country is heading morally and socially.

See to me if you had client side employees dedicated to correcting errors then back propogate that error correction to the OCR software youd get pretty damn close to 100%

Dude you are so off in left field I can't even respond to this. Nothing to do with the taboo of rape you gotta try a lot harder than that to offend me. Its more like you went from A to D without anything in between because D is a hip cultural reference ("victim blaming")

Thats not even the worst part : the molecule fucks your bladder up horribly. Ever escalating continued ketamine usage is a sure recipe for have a fubar urinary sytem. This is why methoxetamine is a better candidate for psychological treatment. Dosage is much much lower, ergo, less of the bladder shredding metabolites pass through your urinary sytem.

Did you have to take it there?

What a silly and flippant comparison. Chill out.

I had no Idea this tech existed.

Imo there are some veeeeeery profitable business opportunities if this can be integrated into certain platforms for certain industries.

I was thinking about how to make something like thos. Looks like google, Amazon, and Microsoft all beat me to it lmao

Anyone else stricken by how similar this looks to a flaggellar motor?

Just wanted to chime in here with a book suggestion : "The Problem if Pain" by C.S. Lewis.

Tackles this problem from a christian apologista perspective. Its about as intellectual an analysis as you are going to get on this subject matter. I personally don't agree with 100% of it, but Lewis always presents arguments I never would have considered otherwise. Worth a read.

Also, listening to scientists and engineers discuss issues of morality (e.g. this comments section) is always a painful experience. The analytical mind is not often applied appropriately to matters of philosophy. At least thats my impression.

Yeah see I tend to view religious claims as metaphorical or allegorical. I spose a fundamentalist perspective renders my point moot. I think even if science kills the factual claims of a religion it cannot touch the metaphorical or value based claims.

Man this is awesome.

The music is really sweet too. Its all fuckered up but still on beat and even has a pretty nice pocket to it. Those kicks that happen about every two measure slap

Your point about traditional sources of meaning withering due to science and modernity is correct, but I often struggle with why -

Science has virtually nothing to say about the meaning of life. Science cannot contradict most traditional sources of meaning because they do not make many if any scientific assertions. To my way of thinking, the erosion of traditional sources of meaning and morality is caused solely by human hubris : we see all our scientific acconolishments and think "bah : how could we trust opinions held by ancient humans?! They didn't even have the internet"

This seems to be a cycle thats repeated itself throughout history. Excess results in a rejection of traditional morals and meaning, which leads to a harsh reconciliation wherein civilization is struck with the rude reality of why those traditional morals where there in the first place. Which leads to an embrace of these traditional values, which then eventually creates more excess.

Fascinating stuff.

I actually think your argument is pretty bad faith.

You are, on nothing but assumption alone, assuming you know this persons intentions, you know their opinions, where they got them, and other people just like them with their opinions.

Then you go on to ignore their actual argument completely, and say, essentially "who gives a fuck if we have another 20 years excess emissions if people end up in cars"

Well, presumably the OP does, because he was making a point as to why it is questionable that EVs are good for the environment.

You basically insulted his character and his argument by ad hominem, then said "who even gives a fuck? I just want everyone to own a Tesla!"

"Imagine coding a software patch to fix a bug introduced by another patch"

As a support engineer.... Is this not common? Cause dear lord does my (large corporate entity that shall not be named) do this ALL THE TIME.

Most recent was a set of about 5 consecutive patches for shitty patches.

Send help.