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6 Dec

https://twitter.com/smdiehl/status/1467165516695539716

it’s hard to disagree with anything here. this doesn’t mean it’ll die soon though: hype cycles aren’t rational, and a worse architecture that pulls people in for one reason or another can definitely take off for a while

https://twitter.com/smdiehl/status/1467165516695539716

i think it’s also true that there’s something irresistible about coding against a “universe of wallets”. payments were always an afterthought, something you “tack on”, and for somebody coding them directly i imagine it’s hard to go back to wanting to use intermediaries.

https://twitter.com/varro_analytics/status/1467630846026866691

the architecture comparison does look like a nightmare from the first glance. i can’t deny though that it’s also how people compared react apps to php/rails. but client side (when done well) improved ux (faster updates) and dx (fast feedback loop); this does neither.

https://twitter.com/varro_analytics/status/1467630846026866691

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@dan_abramov

5 Dec

https://twitter.com/self_beware/status/1467571768529358852

“how does consciousness compose” is imo one of the most interesting questions ever. very subjective though — by definition (for each part lol). split brain experiments may give some partial answers but i think we won’t know much until connecting brains.

https://twitter.com/self_beware/status/1467571768529358852

“what it’s like to be a bat” but for two people. if you and i are directly connected with high bandwidth, is it “you” and “i” experiencing qualia? is there a new “you-and-i”?

“because we separate like ripples on a blank shore”

and isn’t not being connected a special case of being connected with very low bandwidth? if “you-and-i” emerges, then how do you determine at which point it emerges? it must be continuous, not discrete. are we drops of the same spring accidentally condensing in isolated bubbles?

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@dan_abramov

4 Dec

my conclusion so far from Get Back: the beatles were very good looking

mccartney has an interesting vibe. kind of bossy but also gentle. this is roughly how i imagine jony ive (for no good reason, never saw the guy)

my wife says lennon looks like a babushka when joking and i am in agreement

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@dan_abramov

30 Nov

You are writing a library. An evil genius steals all your library’s code somehow (you can’t retrieve it) and offers you a choice. You can either recover all your library’s implementation code, or all of your library’s tests, but you may not have both. What do you recover?

You are writing an application. An evil genius steals all your app’s code somehow (you can’t retrieve it) and offers you a choice. You can either recover all your app’s implementation code, or all of your app’s tests, but you may not have both. What do you recover?

Can you guess my answers?

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@dan_abramov

28 Nov

can someone explain why *exactly* this proof doesn’t work for an infinite number of sets? usually when we prove things with induction they work “all the way” so what’s the concrete thing stopping the train here?

ok i see. so we can only use induction because we have "n" here. and we show that it works for all n. however, whichever n we pick, it’s finite. so we’ve only shown this works for all finite sets.

for an infinite set, we have to get rid of "n", but then we can’t induct on it...

in other words, just because induction lets us generate an infinite number of proofs, none of these proofs are constructing infinite objects by themselves

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@dan_abramov

28 Nov

is it ethical to wake up the humanity living in a Matrix into the ugly real world where their bodies are atrophied and everything looks like shit? feels like a “crime against humanity” territory somehow

at least Neo opted in but what would opt-in look like at a global scale? and what’s the point if the real world is shittier than this one? might as well put resources into making the Matrix better. who’s to say the real world is the real one anyway, maybe it’s a Hell simulation

maybe there could be mass opt-in centers where you can get the red pill. people from “real world” would regularly visit the Matrix to tell the story of the outer world, share footage, recruit volunteers to rebuild.

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