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pino999··on A. J. Ayer – ‘What I Saw When I Was Dead’ (1988)
It is the safest and easiest solution. You die, nothing happens.

When there is an afterlife or perhaps even eternity, the problems begin.

pino999··on Florida judge rules red light camera tickets are unconstitutional
In the Netherlands fines are insane. If you pick up your garbage bin two hours too late from the street corner, you pay 210 euros. On the other side, if you sell drugs to kids and have a weapon, nobody touches you.

Yes, you can sometimes walk around legally with a beer bottle here.

pino999··on You can't trust the internet anymore
And that human can use A.I. again. It won't help.
pino999··on The Deviancy Signal: Having "Nothing to Hide" Is a Threat to Us All
It depends on what you fears are. You can also generate chaotic signals and learn what happens then make it public.

Like a journalist.

pino999··on Bringing Sexy Back. Internet surveillance has killed eroticism
Weird stuff, you are just talking to a 5 year younger friend about hair brushing being pleasant and now you needr to apologize to the hair brusher?

> She demanded that I apologize to the women for sexualizing them.

This doesn't work that well in real life. Let me sketch a scenario:

Oh eh, hi, eh, sorry, I have to admit than when you were brushing my hair, I was sexualizing you.

You can't make it much better, perhaps write a formal letter and focus on the hairbrush:

Three weeks ago, I was in your excellent shop. My hair never has been nicer. During the hair brushing, I got the feeling I felt a bit more for the hairbrush than I fell about you, I hope you can forgive me.

That gives a nice feeling about what was first a fairly normal human interaction.

It sounds hot though, good tip. But I got a humiliation kink, oh noes! How to resolve then? It is a catch-22 now. Need to do silly apologize, apologies are sexual, need to apologize for sexual feelings due to silly apologies. Haha, how do I get there?

pino999··on The Perplexing Appeal of the Telepathy Tapes
I enjoy mythologies and partake in magical thinking. Religion is a tool, you can use on yourself.

I don't mind 3. Two is a bit over the top, I feel. When I was atheist I didn't need such tools or believe everything would fail.

A different data point.

pino999··on Show HN: Autism Simulator
Thinking about complexity as entropy, the friction, so they try to estimate "useless work" in their eyes. Heat transfer is velocity then. Firing up the next cycle. Detectable Delectable malicious, makes me hot really. Fiery.

It is just engine design really;) How bad can that be?

We don't even get real time, just pretend time. But I have to say, I admire this idea. All the time wasting around it, retro's with stupid humiliations. They run on naming and shaming. Sticks and carrots.

Works well :D Until people stop participating in the retro's. There is nothing to say, nobody says anything. They start atomizing the tasks infinitely or always inflate the estimate by 2. The standup nobody speaks, but they work like silent ghosts.

Scary sight huh? Happy Helloween vibes inglorious bastards.

pino999··on Show HN: Autism Simulator
I had to laugh about your comment, this is exactly how it goes. People are used thinking in time units.

Then you have modified fibonacci, which make me puke. 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 20. I get special headaches because of names like this.

However you can find this page if you adding them up by as strings, it isn't connected, but attack on titan was a good anime: https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/123581320

Weird coincidence. I need to sleep, spend a lot today in my headspace.

pino999··on Show HN: Autism Simulator
This, it is costly, certain personal walks away. Proper roles seem to emerge anyway.

The cost of control and the costly overhead has everything to do with atomizing the work load. Just like in a distributed system. The synchronization mechanisms get more complicate.

The more layers, the less trustable the organization, since every manager under their manger, is a potentially corruptable.

This makes the communication lines unclear and makes people over promise. Also distributing the workload has diminishing returns.

I am not a fan of scrum or other systems.

pino999··on Show HN: Autism Simulator
Scrum is pretty bad for au-dhd crowd. It misses proper checks on business interference, which makes things even worse. It is constant pushing the worthless points (why not a time unit), kpi is about scoring points or useless improvements which have to happen anyway (merciless refactoring, yeah!). Devs could simply atomize every task and win this stupid game, but then you lose oversight and we get to lie number whatever. Everyone should be responsible, most people ain't generalists. They are specialists often.

Kanban gives more flexibility. Scrum seems to fall apart like that eventually leaving a power vacuum for tasks out bound of scrum. Active products have constant support questions.

Then you have SAFE, which is even worse. Waterfall but then even worse. Coordination seems to be very complex, the diagram is close to unreadable. Looks like a badly designed production street for its purpose.

That is a problem. For who is it created exactly?

pino999··on Ask HN: What less-popular systems programming language are you using?
They call it like that, but it depends on the programmer as always. The problem is, that it is really flexible, more so than python or javascript, so it gives you all the tools to shoot yourself in the foot and take away the leg with it.

An example, you can rewrite the calling program in a module.(https://metacpan.org/pod/Acme::Bleach orhttps://metacpan.org/release/DCONWAY/Lingua-Romana-Perligata...)

While cool for jokes or serious DSL's, it may lead to difficult to understand code. (Nothing wrong with Damian Conway btw, I just remembered he used source filters in interesting ways).

pino999··on TypeScript types can run DOOM [video]
Depends on how you look at it, I guess. A binary tree has a couple of properties. Usually there is some ordering on the type. Something like: the element on the left is smaller than the element on the right. (e_L < e_R). Invert would be than turning the ordering into e_R > e_L. I guess this is the left and right branches exchange answer.

If you see a binary tree T e as some kind of function, it can test whether an element exists, a typical set operation. So f : e -> {0,1}, where (e,1) means the element is in the binary tree. (e,0) means it is not in the binary tree. All those (e,0) creates some sort of complement tree, which might also be seen as inverting it.

What would be really weird is seeing it as a directed acyclic graph and invert the direction of every edge.

pino999··on Physicists have shown that an idealized form of magnetism is heatproof
The main result is not about magnetism, it is that it is possible within quantum field theory to have phenomena that are stable whatever the temperature is. That is really interesting.
pino999··on Ask HN: Programmers who don't use autocomplete/LSP, how do you do it?
I did for a very long time. I only used vanilla vim, a terminal, a couple of core utils, and documentation.

You just learn to memorize a lot, organize and design your code. It feels very similar to learning to navigate a city without map. The map will be in your head. A very similar feeling I had with code bases. I navigated a map, sometimes I knew the route towards a piece of information, sometimes I knew exactly where it was. Sometimes you add a building or a new road, but you all keep it in your head.

Nowadays I use LSP, autocomplete LLM's and what not. Makes things easier and above all faster.

I still can do without, I am just a bit slower. For small changes and simple scripts I fallback to vim. For git I still use the terminal. And I still use a lot of commandline utilities, because each IDE has a zillion of commands that do the same anyway.

For your example, nowadays I would use grep or some modern equivalent to search for definitions. And to be honest, that isn't that much slower. I can have my editor open in tmux tab and in the other my editor. You don't have to jump through files then.

pino999··on Our muscles will atrophy as we climb the Kardashev Scale
Obese people don't have more muscle, especially if you look into the more extreme cases. Muscle atrophy seems to happen due to low insuline sensitivity.

And relative they are weaker in the sense that the ratio between strength and body mass is smaller than that of normal people.

And then we have the powerlifting community.

pino999··on Show HN: MathGPT – Create math animations for any question
I don't know, it is still chatgpt. I wouldn't let it near homework soon. I do enjoy the latex rendering.

Anyway it can't even solve x mod 66 = 3 (answer: x = 3 + 66k, where k = 0, 1, ...)

Somehow it thinks the answer is 32 and it comes with a huge blob of shit.

pino999··on Emit-C: A time travelling programming language
But the computation steps are certainly countable, even if there are infinite. The amount of steps in time we can take is uncountable. We can always find a point between two other times.Time dilation does exactly this, making the time a computational step take smaller and smaller.
pino999··on Emit-C: A time travelling programming language
It goes like this: We have two observers with a computer. A is outside a black hole. B goes over the event horizon. B is infinitely time dilated seen from A. It takes forever for B to reach the singularity from A standpoint. B reaches the middle in a finite time.

A starts computation. If it halts A sends a result, otherwise it won't.

B sees the result in a finite time. If it doesn't, the program didn't halt.

If time is discrete, it won't fly I think. This works because there is no smallest time unit in gr.

We are working with different types of infinities. A's computational steps take, the further B goes in, less time. Sort of Zeno's paradox. It is easy to map all natural numbers between 0 and 1 on the real line. Just not 1 to 1.

There are more problems.

How to get the information out and how to survive the divergent blue shift, it is somewhat unclear. B cannot talk back. But still a cool find.

pino999··on Rsh: Ruby SHell
For the rest it looks good. I have a knack for stack based languages. I enjoy it includes one.
pino999··on Rsh: Ruby SHell
It uses system which calls sh. So a script might behave differently on different systems.