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I want to do real science, mathematics, philosophy and engineering. But I code websites.
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bordercases··on Meta and Microsoft take steps to reduce employee usage of Claude AI
This would all be true if perceptions matched reality for model performance and productivity.
bordercases··on Navier–Stokes Lost in Translation
Hopefully not in the same way you should never naively trust compilers!
bordercases··on Nature's capacity to 'bounce back' when species are lost is overestimated: study
Maybe you could ask an ecologist this question.
bordercases··on Nature's capacity to 'bounce back' when species are lost is overestimated: study
Somebody's gotta be eaten alive. So why not you, bcjdjsndon?

I refuse to believe that humanity on a whole is that incapable. Or at least unwilling to try to do something different.

bordercases··on Car is a smartphone on wheels. Here's who's listening
Is that typical of people who hold this view?
bordercases··on I Quit OpenAI Because Its Culture Is Broken
It could be both correct, and a cheap signal.
bordercases··on Ask HN: Has anybody built search on top of Anna's Archive?
Seeding torrrent blocks.
bordercases··on The Zizians and the rationalist death cult
The Berkeley and New York scenes are special in that they lead and guide the community on a whole mainly by example.
bordercases··on Orion, our first true augmented reality glasses
To be fair, you don't know what the poster believes about those services either.
bordercases··on Scientific rigor proponents retract paper on benefits of scientific rigor
This reminds me of how the Dunning Kreguer results might have been misapplied statistics.
bordercases··on Hezbollah hand-held radios detonate across Lebanon, sources say
How many children do you expect to be combatants?
bordercases··on Founder Mode, hackers, and being bored by tech
I think he implied Ozempic.
bordercases··on How to build quickly
Indeed, this seems to be the insight around vertical slice architecture? https://www.jimmybogard.com/vertical-slice-architecture/
bordercases··on Parasites are everywhere. Why do so few researchers study them?
If parasites were widespread amongst human beings, would those infected humans have incentive to study them?

We are likely biased and can't imagine how we are biased because of the infection! Yet the over-under for an individual is clear: try the medication and find out!

bordercases··on Bayesian Statistics: The three cultures
Yeah it's essentially a way to reflect parsimonious assumptions so that your output distribution can be characterized as a law.
bordercases··on Documentation Driven Development (2022)
Many of these arguements are moot – because for any top-down function definition technique, the How to Design Programs recipe covers virtually all the bases.

- https://course.ccs.neu.edu/cs2500f18/design_recipe.html - https://cs110.students.cs.ubc.ca/reference/design-recipes.ht... - https://docs.racket-lang.org/htdf/index.html

Between a signature, purpose statement and examples, you've declared most of what documentation provides short of a longer contextual statement of the functions role in a codebase.

For larger modules there is How to Design Worlds.

- https://world.cs.brown.edu/1/htdw-v1.pdf

bordercases··on Ask HN: 30y After 'On Lisp', PAIP etc., Is Lisp Still "Beating the Averages"?
Greenspan's tenth law is that every language ends up with a half baked Common Lisp implementation. This is apparently true, with the stipulo that these implementations end up fully baked over time. This is true since functional programming languages are commonly research languages which mean industry languages catch up.
bordercases··on Nvidia announces financial results for first quarter fiscal 2025
But is the luck biased to have more survivors in one direction over the other?
bordercases··on Crypto Mixer Samourai Wallet's Co-Founders Arrested for Money Laundering
What non-circularly defines a money-transmitting business?
bordercases··on Halo 2 in HD: Pushing the Original Xbox to the Limit
> Presumably if publishers were actually pressuring Microsoft to make a child-safe device, they'd have come up with a more advanced protection mechanism than that.

They did. For the next generation. They updated their model of "child safe".

bordercases··on Research shows plant-based polymers can disappear within seven months
The arguments against planned obsolescence are partially environmental. If planned obsolescence isn't going away, at least this aspect is improved. Consider medical disposables, or one-time packaging that still requires medium term storage survivability.
bordercases··on Ephemeral usernames safeguard privacy and make Signal harder to subpoena
Someone should write a Wikipedia article on a glibly labeled law to the effect of, "any opportunity for forensic information to be exploited, will be done so."
bordercases··on UI = f(statesⁿ)
This is the drive behind comonadic UI frameworks in functional programming - streams of mutual recursion.
bordercases··on Carbon capture tech a 'complete falsehood', says Fortescue Metals chairman
What about trees!
bordercases··on Visual calculus
Does it scale though?
bordercases··on What is trauma? The author of "The Body Keeps the Score" explains [video]
There being an organic correlate for attention, for memory formation, for emotions and so on – it's likely that the beta-blockers makes certain intents easier to override others, rather than the causality being only one way.
bordercases··on Show HN: Daily price tracking for Trader Joe's
I would love a directional arrow in the table to indicate prices from day to day.
bordercases··on Show HN: Improve cognitive focus in 1 minute
Breathing slowly is a way to short circuit the mind.
bordercases··on Infinite Craft
I’m guessing is autogenerated by LLMS completions, it’s non deterministic.
bordercases··on There's More Proof That Return to Office Is Pointless
These are externalities to worker productivity, not necessarily correlates of it.
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