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by 8fGTBjZxBcHq 5y ago
This seems weird and bad. Emotion and "reason" aren't two ends of a spectrum. You likely aren't any more logical or less emotional now than you were before. I believe you about better control over how you engage with you
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by 8fGTBjZxBcHq 5y ago
Who might say that and what would we have to do for them to commit to it? Are you saying it? Because I don't think it's true at all! But I want to wait until someone actually say it before I get into that.
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by 8fGTBjZxBcHq 5y ago
I wouldn't call this abuse either but there is a huge huge gulf between "that was the best time of my life" and "this is the best time of your life. It's at best just extremely rude to tell someone about their own l
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by 8fGTBjZxBcHq 5y ago
I don't think their weighing of learning has changed just social needs changed around it. "Able to read the Bible" was considered important for monks so they were literate. It still is, but now everyone else is literate too s
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by 8fGTBjZxBcHq 5y ago
So I'm obviously not a monk but I've known some and that doesn't surprise me too much. Outside of some orders that highly value education, I think monastic life generally discourages knowing things for the sake of knowing the
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by 8fGTBjZxBcHq 5y ago
Some of my favorite Wolfe work is his Latro series. It takes place in antiquity but is fairly fantastical. It's a very different setting, but tonally similar in some ways. A lot of ancient cultural and religious stuff is key to the plo
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by 8fGTBjZxBcHq 5y ago
A friend of mine once joked about hacker news that "if you mention any author, within three comments someone will recommend a Sanderson book." I appreciated the joke without taking it too literally. But here we are.
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by 8fGTBjZxBcHq 5y ago
So the biggest barrier that I found when learning ocaml was there were just not a lot of resources or organic examples around. What there is is usually for a specific course, or is published by like Jane Street or some shit and highly domai
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by 8fGTBjZxBcHq 5y ago
> Ocaml was my first programming language lmao what. how. like what course of events.... I had several years professional experience, including functional programming, and still found it pretty rough going for a while. And even other pro
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by 8fGTBjZxBcHq 5y ago
Honestly I just like the flow of it a little more aesthetically and I've never been so restricted on mental capacity that I noticed the extra burden. Condolences though.
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by 8fGTBjZxBcHq 5y ago
When I posted the first one in this thread, I didn't realize there was some previous discussion about this decision by this project. I read the post, then came in here and saw a comment that had jumped from that post to a conspiracy-is
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by 8fGTBjZxBcHq 5y ago
OK it seems like this is some sort of like culture wars type issue for you which I'm not really into.
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by 8fGTBjZxBcHq 5y ago
Sorry I didn't mean "I don't know where this word came from" because that's a straightforward and in this case uninteresting problem. I meant I don't know where the apparent widespread online interest in making
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by 8fGTBjZxBcHq 5y ago
No one's trying to ban all potentially offensive homophones though, where did you even get that? I don't see any sort of proposal for what that would look like or how it would work. This is the case of one project changing its nam
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by 8fGTBjZxBcHq 5y ago
I don't know where you learned French or English for that matter but in my pretty mainstream accents English "bit" and French "bite" are not pronounced very similarly. I can't imagine a competent speaker confus
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by 8fGTBjZxBcHq 5y ago
I have never ever heard this word used spoken, or read it organically in a published work. I have only ever seen it on reddit, and now here. Which doesn't mean it's invalid or not a "real" word or whatever. But I'm
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by 8fGTBjZxBcHq 5y ago
Yeah that's a big part of her thing right. She was raised by anthropologists I think? It's very present in a lot of her books and Always Coming Home is like 1/3 straight fictional ethnography.
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by 8fGTBjZxBcHq 5y ago
Don't they pay them like 40 cents an hour though? It might not be that egregious anymore but those programs are exempt from minimum wage laws and as far as I know goodwill takes that as far as they can.
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by 8fGTBjZxBcHq 5y ago
Wait you are concerned that the government is becoming too much like a parent figure but you also think the correct role of the government is to tell people to do their homework?
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by 8fGTBjZxBcHq 5y ago
I don't know about JS's particular challenges here and I believe you but a lot of languages with a lot of other features also do this optimization. It's not just the hardcore functional ones though admittedly maybe mostly in
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by 8fGTBjZxBcHq 5y ago
Stadia works acceptably even on low tier consumer cable internet connections. The biggest issue is usually weak or noisy wifi but even then it's surprisingly robust. I don't know what it's costing them to do that, but in term
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by 8fGTBjZxBcHq 5y ago
You should look more into the many other examples too then because a lot more of them are... well let's say the authorities are more directly involved than I can accept for a use of the word "foiled."
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by 8fGTBjZxBcHq 5y ago
I think other users in here are more on the right track about where the blame for this lies. As you alluded to, a lot of programmers are happy to tweak and refine for ages so it's probably not that. Is it just that programmers are lazy
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by 8fGTBjZxBcHq 5y ago
It really did not for me by that standard. I have access to orders of magnitude more music now that I know I like than I did during the Winamp days and I was a pretty early and savvy user back then so I had more access than a lot of people.
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by 8fGTBjZxBcHq 5y ago
Probably since a lot of us spent the middle parts of our career watching our democratic institutions get dismantled in front of us using the tools we built early in our careers.
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by 8fGTBjZxBcHq 5y ago
Not directly but their work needs to benefit an ad company to be allowed to continue. Or else it exists in some intersection of corporate benevolence and the work not actively harming the ad company. Which is just not an arrangement I trust
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by 8fGTBjZxBcHq 5y ago
Cars won't save us from cars. Having widely available self driving car would save some lives but also set off another front in the culture wars and won't lead to significant changes in our infrastructure or how the burdens of mass
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by 8fGTBjZxBcHq 5y ago
And as we all know, ethnic identity is fully static and never changes over time, you are morally obligated to identity in a way that would be accepted by your ancestors. lmao.
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by 8fGTBjZxBcHq 5y ago
Someone trying to well-actually a writer's self-proclaimed ethnic identity is hackernews af though you have to admit.
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by 8fGTBjZxBcHq 5y ago
At least in my (I think typical?) big city tech worker circle the bible as literature has been received with disdain the couple times I've seen it come up. I also had a (atheist) friend once tell me he bought copies of the bhagavad git

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