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I don't think that the imprecision of human song interpretation can be used as evidence that AIs are inaccurate.

There are two levels to power that I've identified in anti-authoritarian groups. The first is the making and enforcement of the rules, and the second is the meta-game in which peop…

I agree, but only because questions so often go bad in titles that I now avoid them on principle. This is a rare situation where the question asked in the title is answered in a no…

If you came to that conclusion within a few seconds at the beginning of this article, your diagnostic criteria is basically "uses drugs -> has drug problem". A stopped clock is rig…

Yes. Your experience might be different, but I have a limited capacity for the number of people I can remember basic facts about to be polite, so when I was keeping track of 100+ p…

I didn't have a plan for replacing the social contact of Facebook when I quit. I lost contact with a lot of people. But it turned out that most were acquaintances, not friends, and…

Surely you realize production cost and value to the customer are related?

"almost every program" != "any program"

I'm interpreting "embarrassingly parallel" to mean that it's obvious the task can be parallelized, and I'm saying that many tasks where this isn't obvious in a more serial language…

I'm not saying Amdahl's Law is wrong, I'm saying that it doesn't apply to as many problems as people think it does. I said "almost" for a reason.

>> Your Erlang program should just run N times faster on an N core processor > But only if your program is embarrassingly parallel with at least N times available parallelism in th…

It's not "removing a possible value from your map", it's having your type system explicitly check that you're handling the edge case at compile time. This works in practice in a wi…

Instead of responding to the fact that JavaScript: 1. Has no adequate threading model. 2. Has no reasonable type system. 3. Has better alternatives on the server side. ...you're ma…

> Look at all this horrible code! So sad that all these people are not as smart as me. Look at this horrible language! So sad the people that created it are not as intelligent as m…

That edit is fine and says a reasonable thing that I agree with, but there are two reasons why I said "women" instead of "gender". 1. "Hackers don't give a fuck about women" is a m…

> In a world without copyright, large corporations would have free rein to slurp up all the world's public software, extend it however they like, create whatever remaining function…

That's true, but for sufficiently large organizations, it would only be a matter of time before the code associated with the binaries was leaked, and without copyright, you would s…

> The FSF is not opposed to copyright as a concept. I'm not sure you're knowledgeable enough on the subject to make that claim. > You can argue over duration, but copyleft would no…

Working within the copyright system that exists and affects us all should not be misinterpreted as agreeing with copyright. Copyrighting software is terrible for society. But given…

> It's a poor "manifesto" too. What exactly are the aims of The Hacker? "Exploring", "Outsmarting you", and "judging people by what they say and think, not what they look like". Pl…

I've had nothing but positive experience with RethinkDB drivers. RavenDB has good drivers for some languages, but admittedly not every language is well-supported. Still, I can't se…

> It's a completely reasonable tradeoff as long as you can quantify the risk and quantify the cost (here's a tip for something that scarily few engineering organizations does: trac…

But there are other databases that are good at that, too, and don't drop your data. RethinkDB? RavenDB? Depending on the type of data you're using either of those could be an optio…

There's a third possibility, superdeterminism, in which literally everything is determined by previous conditions, so that no communication is needed, even via a property outside o…

Exactly.