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New comment by wrnr in "Yak Shaving: A Short Lesson on Staying Focused (2018)"

wrnr — Wed, 07 Sep 2022 05:56:22 +0000

The frustrating thing isn't the small problems, in chasing these small problems one might find a big one that isn't as easy to fix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbSehcT19u0

New comment by wrnr in "Effective altruism as a tower of assumptions"

wrnr — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 16:06:57 +0000

Crumbs and pennies I need all of mine

New comment by wrnr in "We need young programmers; we need old programmers"

wrnr — Tue, 16 Aug 2022 20:30:09 +0000

I've heart this being repeated a lot so it is likely not something you came up with yourself.

I always become suspicious when a software engineer has been working on a problem +10 years. The type that spend their time upgrading angularJS to angular or something like that.

New comment by wrnr in "A meteor or alien tech: Harvard professor plans UFO expedition"

wrnr — Fri, 12 Aug 2022 21:32:43 +0000

He is a kwak, instead of actual science he shills these ideas on podcasts because the general public is interested in it or something like that. Whenever I meet someone from Harvard I think of this guy and automatically think less of them. Maybe that is wrong of me but then the Harvard alumni ought to have called him out on his BS.

New comment by wrnr in "The semantic web is dead – Long live the semantic web"

wrnr — Wed, 10 Aug 2022 18:53:51 +0000

I've been part of 4 commercial project that used the semantic web in one way or another. All these project or at least their semantic web part where a failure. I think that I have a good idea on where the misunderstanding about the semantic web originate. The author does seem to have a good understanding and is right about the semantic web forcing everything into a single schema. Academia sells the straight jacked of the semantic web as a life long free lunch at an all-you-can eat-buffet but instead you are convicted to a life sentence in prison. Adopting RDF is just too costly because it is never the way computers or humans structure data in order to work with it. Of course everything can be organised in a hyper graph, there is a reason why Steven Wolfram also uses this structure, they just so flexible. At the end of the day I don't agree with the author opinion of the semantic web having much of a future, I did my best but it didn't work out, time for other things.

New comment by wrnr in "We don't know how to fix science (2021)"

wrnr — Wed, 27 Jul 2022 07:46:03 +0000

Unrelenting these people pretending to be your friend, life so futile it borders on evil.

New comment by wrnr in "We don't know how to fix science (2021)"

wrnr — Wed, 27 Jul 2022 03:26:42 +0000

How does what I say validate all or any criticism of science, I just don't think that people who work in this industry get to take all progress though human history and put that on their own lapel.

Do you know this podcast decoding the guru, it is funny at times in breaking down internet persona like Jordan Peterson and Eric Weinstein but what annoys me about it though is this "researchers" talking about fringe internet phenomena. Sure you can find your cooks on the internet but maybe they should point their sharp criticism at their own sometimes and draw conclusions from it, as in stop funding it.

What do you call people that disagree to agree on something ... a research community. For all the good science I know I can equally find you the most asinine navel gazing triviality repackaged and sold as groundbreaking progress. Please don't get me started on what experts in innovation management ISO 56002:2019 can do to help valorise all this knowledge as they piss on us from from the top floor of their ivory tower.

New comment by wrnr in "We don't know how to fix science (2021)"

wrnr — Wed, 27 Jul 2022 00:40:09 +0000

People I know in academia complain about the same issues, publish or perish and all that. They even opine about formal economic models that predict that more funding/subsidies for science leads perversely to less outcome in total and not just relative to the size of the additional investment. However when you take all this as a reason to not take this industry as serious as they would like they get all offended.

New comment by wrnr in "Becoming a Full-Time Creator as a Software Engineer"

wrnr — Tue, 26 Jul 2022 04:32:39 +0000

Funny he don't mention recruiting engineers hate it but is what the OG's did.

New comment by wrnr in "An Economy of Overfed Middlemen"

wrnr — Mon, 25 Jul 2022 16:39:23 +0000

It is the opinion of the EU Comission that monopolies are ok as long as they do not abuse their power and if they do they get slapped with a fine.

New comment by wrnr in "The Case for C# and .NET"

wrnr — Mon, 25 Jul 2022 03:42:22 +0000

I bet C# and F# are actually nice languages and I shortly considered adopting them together with Unity but at the end of the day I was still suspicious of Microsoft, and support for other platforms then windows. The article honestly sounds a bit like a straw man argument. Maybe bloomberg could have made another tech choice but then again I don't know the details.

New comment by wrnr in "Me and Monotropism: A unified theory of autism (2018)"

wrnr — Sat, 23 Jul 2022 04:21:29 +0000

This will clear that up for you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjSE1h_Ad9E

New comment by wrnr in "Google fires engineer who called its AI sentient"

wrnr — Fri, 22 Jul 2022 23:36:22 +0000

He got fired because he was embarrassing his employer.

New comment by wrnr in "Me and Monotropism: A unified theory of autism (2018)"

wrnr — Fri, 22 Jul 2022 20:37:56 +0000

It might have some explaining power but I can think of counter examples from my own personal life. Schizophrenia just like autism a very defuse category that covers many non overlapping conditions.

I think this silly joke by jreg about Schizotism/Autizmophrenia explains it best:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHuFSnhKG9I

New comment by wrnr in "An SPA Alternative"

wrnr — Wed, 20 Jul 2022 01:49:10 +0000

This happens a lot mathematicians might have their favourite object they study like Category theory and then get hung up on categories of categories but might forget that many simple things aren't categories like the prime numbers under addition because 2 + 2 = 4 and that is not prime.

Not just programming or math, in physiology you have entire research groups worked up about a molecule that causes dementia and after decades of research realise that the story was a lot more complicated than that.

You can almost recognise a healthy mind by the lack of such dogma, just don't make it a rule that would defeat its purpose.

New comment by wrnr in "Functional programming is finally going mainstream"

wrnr — Wed, 13 Jul 2022 01:37:23 +0000

  if timeslots.stream().matchNone(Timeslot::hasntEnded) {
    new Timeslot()
  }

Would be an improvement I guess. The way I found this code it was also wrapped in a @Transaction so it creates a new object in the database with spring magic. There was a lot of other things wrong with the code, that was not my point though. Lots of people just think FP better and of course in theory they are right but most people don't think for themselfs.

People are quick to act insulted whenever I give some critical remarks about FP.

When would you use a forEach function instead of a for each statement, I suggest maybe only use the function if the callback is actually a higher order function you get from somewhere else as I don't see the point of wrapping your logic in a closure.

Same thing with the use of observables/reactivity in UI programming, again it is illegal to question this orthodoxy. But then you take a look at how graphics programmers use immediate mode programming and fancy compute shaders to draw the entire frame every frame it makes me smile at how much simpler everything becomes.

New comment by wrnr in "Functional programming is finally going mainstream"

wrnr — Wed, 13 Jul 2022 00:26:51 +0000

Great I am looking forward to seeing mode code like this:

  timeslotRepo.findAll().stream().filter(timeslot->timeslot.getEndDate()==null).first().ifPresentOrElse(()->{}, ()->{new Timeslot(DateTime.now())})

New comment by wrnr in "If the news is fake, imagine history"

wrnr — Tue, 12 Jul 2022 01:08:55 +0000

I would give historians a little bit more credit than that. Sure if you have some agenda and something too proof then you just have to go back X years to find something like a justification. The other day I was reading the transcript of the testimony of a Nazi SS officer at the Nuremberg trail that executed multiple extermination camp wardens and guards for the crime of lacking the right paper work for the killing of inmates under their care. A crime he discovered after someone shipped 2kg of dental gold to his office and he started to wonder how many teeth one had to pull to get that amount and where the death certificates where of the previous owners? Turns out that those teeth where pulled out of the mouth of jewish victims of the gas chambers by other jews who where collaborating in the destruction of their own kind. Nothing about this is controversial amongst holocaust scholars, just fucked up shit that happened. If you wanna conclude from this, Nazis good and jews bad, you are just not paying attention.

[1] http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/trials/konradmorgen.... [2] https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/2011/10/holocaust-n...

New comment by wrnr in "The Swerve"

wrnr — Tue, 05 Jul 2022 21:16:22 +0000

Yea but HOW? Do you think there is some cheap pareto improvement to be had here. For god sake, the article is advocating for hurting and killing people and then complaining about a lack of political consensus.

New comment by wrnr in "The Swerve"

wrnr — Tue, 05 Jul 2022 20:23:23 +0000

The is wrong on so many levels, in most places be it country or company the bus is being steered towards what is thought to result in global carbon reduction. This is a classic example of a moth and bailey argument, if only we had the same confidence about what to do about climate change as the fact of climate change. According to this article it is as if we only need to elect the right people and then those shall do the right thing.