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I just ask the interviewers how much freedom they have in the interviewing process (usually it's pretty clear) and whether they would do something different or not if they could. T…

Surface Pro / Surface Book. I presume Linux support on them is good enough now, but at least if you're stuck with Windows you can get a proper bash environment now without cygwin t…

Maybe some fingers of the government are demanding a backdoor, but other fingers of the government want tor to be as secure as possible. Tor is useful for the operations of nationa…

Panzer Dragoon Orta was on the x-box. :) Sega should really make an HD remastering of all of them though. Or even a new one. Especially after the sadness of Star Fox Zero.

How do you know the stuff at the gas station is actually 91 and not 87, how do you know the regulators do their jobs properly and aren't bought out by Big Oil? The answer to all qu…

And it works great with NoScript. What a breath of fresh air from the SPA stuff I work around every day.

> (you can use GCC but the code quality wouldn't be that good) Maybe.. on the other hand you can actually use the full program space available, and gdb. (Last time I used Keil was …

Tests don't magically make changes safe or give the confidence to make changes.

Skimmed the PDF, it seems like the point of this paper is just to show that yes, classical systems can (with memory, e.g. the reference https://arxiv.org/abs/1007.3650 ) simulate q…

You can do that with some proprietary software too -- proprietary doesn't have to mean no source code and no source code modification, unfortunately it has come to mean that for to…

There's a point in this talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Vt8zqhHe_c where I realized he is a brilliant comedian, but also pretty far left, and a lot of his funny criticisms ju…

Is he rich from his superior models?

It depends on the mutual fund and the ETF. For Vanguard 500, the VOO ETF and the VFIAX index fund are effectively the same, they even have the same expense ratio. The latter you ne…

These things aren't inevitable, scaring people into exercise won't work. But even if they were, it wouldn't be terrible to die '"on my back, lying on my many rolls of fat, scarcely…

Reminds me of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JYkMhQ9gf8

http://stronglifts.com/5x5/

Kids need a motive. With a motive, they'll figure things out, you don't have to handhold them every step or create broken abstractions for them to play around in then get bored. We…

I think you need an additional component: no other desires except work. Many of us don't have jobs that fully satisfy (or let's be honest, even barely satisfy, since even 50% satis…

What's your burn rate? That is, if you stop doing any income-producing activities, how long can you live off of savings? Considering burning through them all for a long period of n…

Haven't watched the video yet, but then Conway and others formalized a bunch of theory for 2-player combinatorial games like Go, using surreal numbers for game states. (e.g. the nu…

You will never have the technology to decrypt aes256.

So is . That doesn't mean it should be auto-installed.

There are historical examples of discontinuities, though I don't think the FOOM debate will be settled soon. It may be quite a while before we even get to "dumb AGI", but the harde…

With higher level languages it's even less important to know theoretic complexities, just represent the problem in the most natural representation and optimize later. (You're alrea…

Can you make an unhackable person? If people can get around your safeguards, even only people with authority rather than in general, the AGI can too. Trying to keep a potentially m…