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The back of the envelope computations are shockingly shallow and meaningless. (20 Questions, from the intro) Trying to think of a thing for the game is not a search over a set of k…

I was a TA and instructor for several programming classes, usually in Java, with which I was moderately experienced but not an expert. My students would frequently ask how to accom…

I'm reminded of a high school programming class where a project partner named variables with the most crude and lewd words he could imagine. Not that I was prudish, but he unsurpri…

Agree, looking for the multi upvote button

I mean can't you just have the input signal to the light be a disjunction of signals? So it's on if the camera is on OR if some programmatic signal says turn it on? I don't see why…

I'm thinking you misinterpreted the comment you responded to? I read it as saying that you don't necessarily have to have employment linked healthcare just because you have at-will…

I can remember a number of instances of having to dive into design docs to ascertain how a few systems interacted with each other. I bet a lot of the time it might be good enough t…

Do you have, offhand, any names or references to point me toward why you think fish and lizards can make rapid common sense deductions about man made objects they couldn't have see…

Some adjectives stack, like "terribly". Though maybe there's some kind of strong enough diminishing effect on emphasis value such that any number of "terribly"s still has bounded e…

It's weird to me for "ease factor" to be an intrinsic property of a card/thing to learn at all. I study things like Chinese characters with Anki and it's not but just rote memoriza…

You're imagining something you think is what it's like to be a crab, or what you think it's like to have more legs, etc., but why do you have any confidence that's what it actually…

The existence of "The dress", which is seen by different people or the same person in different states of mind as white/gold or blue/black, and other such illusions, would seem to …

Sure, an LLM based tool may happily double down on a wrong position, and articulately address a student's concerns in doing so, possibly hallucinating convincing evidence.

100% agree with this attitude. A human whose attention is directed at you who uses their eyes for input will turn their eyes to you. The eyes are not just signalers, but the person…

No, it's the most... Hobby... Mathematician

That's not how anything works. A knowledge gap doesn't warrant any conclusion you want.

Why not say "the essence of computing is computing"? It's not like "universiality" is any more explicit or clear than "computing" itself. What is the point of this kind of "finding…

Some positions are remote but many are hybrid, required to go in some fraction of days

Didn't read the article because i don't care to bother with the paywall, but if its title is related to any arguments within, then the comment you're responding to actually does ad…

Disclaimer: I have been employed by Google and my views are my own. I can also see the value for a large organization in culturally enforcing interchangeability and replaceability …

No, you dohave a valid list of features you want to group together, but attaching them to a word you have not clearly defined -- especially in this incredibly fraught case -- is ju…

- tech labor cost is depressed most effectively when everyone is doing it - everyone is doing it so it's that much easier to buck responsibility for the decision

It never ceases to amuse me how confidently "it's difficult to define" and "clearly it's this way" can appear in the same thought/sentence about the mind.

Discord has a large contingent of gamers among its users who expect to be able to use discord to communicate while gaming, so even if this isn't Discord's fault it's in their inter…