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iwintermuteon YouTube Music Blocks RATM

The audacity and randomness of it - System of a Down with the lyrics 'I don't think you trust In my self-righteous suicide' in Chop Suey plays fine in the same playlist.

No objections about 'Hurt' by NIN/Johnny Cash also.

iwintermuteon YouTube Music Blocks RATM

Doesn't work in Chrome even after confirming age and accepting that it can contain 'topics related to self-harm'

Great new feature! Such impact! Happy perf!

iwintermuteon Reducing complexity by integrating through the database

I know it's off-topic but maybe "MAANG level app" >> "MANGA" if we want go there?

iwintermuteon Using two keyboards at once for pain relief

I've got 001 model and like it so much that getting 100 as the second one.

iwintermuteon Japan is holding back as the world rushes toward electric cars

there're conversions kits: https://youtu.be/VZws7kE3U5k

iwintermuteon Masks Are Back, Maybe for the Long Term

I feel like if you have to hide your face behind the mask - there's no need to be present in the office at all. Video call would actually be better.

iwintermuteon How Dwarf Fortress is built

have you seen HandMadeHero? https://handmadehero.org/

Plus what do you mean by coding games specifically? Is it game engine programming? Game design? Or other related stuff?

iwintermuteon GitHub Copilot

It's solving 'mechanical' problem. The optimistic twist on this helper is that it just raises the bar - human programmer should better be more useful than 'brainless' code generator - meaning not only being able to write a loop or solve leetcode task, but also understand context and what he's trying to solve for.

As you say typing code is not a bottleneck for problem solving

iwintermuteon GitHub Copilot

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_room_design

There're definitely cases when devs avoid even looking at implementation before creating their own

iwintermuteon GitHub Copilot

So if it was trained using "source code from publicly available sources, including code in public repositories on GitHub." was it also GPLv2?

So everything generated also GPLv2?

iwintermuteon Welcome to the Terrible World of Prescription-Only Apps

I feel like it would be great open source product idea

iwintermuteon McKinsey to pay $573M to settle claims over opioid crisis role: source

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rp6_3UQLi2Y

Steve said it best.

iwintermuteon AirPods Max: An Audiophile Review

my Beyerdynamics comes with ability to switch cables and they also sell components for repair. So designed to be fixed

iwintermuteon Elon Musk moves to Texas

https://howmuch.net/articles/federal-budget-receipts-and-exp...

iwintermuteon Dune II: Reimagined

RTS game on gamepad. That would require proper 're-imagining' - I guess that's why there're only artsy menus to show for

iwintermuteon How GPT3 Works – Visualizations and Animations

there's https://github.com/3b1b/manim created and used by https://www.3blue1brown.com/

iwintermuteon How to Think Real Good (2013)

> "Even though it was discovered by physicists, it's not a physical theory in the same sense as electromagnetism or general relativity. <...> Quantum mechanics is what you would inevitably come up with if you started from probability theory, and then said, let's try to generalize it so that the numbers we used to call "probabilities" can be negative numbers."

https://www.scottaaronson.com/democritus/lec9.html

iwintermuteon Julian Assange “slowly dying” and “often sedated” in Belmarsh prison

because "Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media"

iwintermuteon If Logged into Facebook, Oculus VR Data Will Now Be Used for Ads

You might want to look up what was up with Cambridge Analytica - Michael Lewis has one of episodes in Against the Rules (podcast) - it's a good place to start.

There was nothing at all. No predictive power. Total waste of money and it's funny this example keeps coming up

iwintermuteon Paul Volcker has died

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMN17uBzCw4

Very insightful interview with Ray Dalio

iwintermuteon Google’s fires four organizers after hiring union-busting firm

Yeah, just remember what those pesky unions did to german automakers

iwintermuteon Why Go and Not Rust?

he also had another talk https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Design-Composition-Perfo...

and I would argue there's idea that simplicity of the instrument/tool is not a problem in itself and we shouldn't lose it in pursuit of 'ease'

iwintermuteon Lessons from Stripe

> "people with depression and similar mental health problems aren't welcome at Stripe"

That an interesting question. Would you like to work in a tandem with a person with mental health problems? Is it the same as asking "people with chronic fatigue and similar health issues are not welcome at company specialized at manual labor" ?

iwintermuteon I Can't Do Anything for Fun Anymore; Every Hobby Is an Attempt to Make Money

It's more valuable in terms of exploitation vs exploration [1] -- i.e. it's more important to do what you know you like and not just patiently spend time on something you don't

1. http://algorithmstoliveby.com/

iwintermuteon Warren Buffett Joins the Crowd Struggling to Understand Oracle

Alphabet (and not Google) is actually trying to be like berkshire hathaway - conglomerate holding company (at least according to Eric Schmidt)

iwintermuteon Former Googlers on how they knew it was time to quit

Same reasoning can be applied to Magically Better Administrators

iwintermuteon Times Newer Roman, a sneaky font designed to make essays look longer

I've read that Bezos doesn't allow power point at all - only prose. Apparently no one has time for slides and oral presentations

iwintermuteon Problem Solving and Clojure 1.9 with Rich Hickey

AlmostTotallyNewthon would be better, correct. Would shift discussion from 'upgrade' to 'migration' without all the usual cries. Other than that it's understandable that some architecture decisions from 1991 haven't aged well.

iwintermuteon Problem Solving and Clojure 1.9 with Rich Hickey

That's why it's called Python 3 and not Python 2.x

Think about it like totally new language