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by AQuantized 5y ago
Are 8 hour shifts healthy for patients? More handovers is strongly correlated with poorer patient outcomes. We need to strike a balance between the falloff in ability that comes with consecutive hours awake past a certain point, and minimiz
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by AQuantized 5y ago
Disabling JavaScript works for me. There's likely an extension for your web browser to do this easily.
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It definitely made me appreciate the feeling of creating something along with other people much more. I don't feel 'bad' selling to others, to be honest it's probably a guilty pleasure to 'win', but it lacks th
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by AQuantized 5y ago
I've enjoyed trading a lot, but find that when I/others become consumed by it alone that it's a bitter existence. By avoid daytrading, and ensuring I'm not invested in anything that I'm forced to constantly worry ab
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by AQuantized 5y ago
Buddhist philosophy also has a strong focus on showing that arbitrary conventions shouldn't be taken too seriously, and that a great deal of suffering arises as a result of believing too strongly in useful fictions. Nāgārjuna is one pa
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by AQuantized 5y ago
I've totally cut out Reddit and other sites that have gotten increasingly low quality over the years. That said I do still regularly 'waste' time on HN, although I think it offers enough utility that it's not a bad place
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by AQuantized 5y ago
Some seems a bit like Dirac notation with more horizontal lines. Seems overly complex for what it represents, however. They're not representing complex conjugates or integrals.
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by AQuantized 5y ago
I love his descriptions of the different phenomena like symmetriads. One of the few books I've read that describes a truly alien intelligence. The often recommend Blindsight being the other one I can think of.
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by AQuantized 5y ago
Steele's comments on open sharing of knowledge being the key to creation of vast amounts of wealth and prosperity rings very true to me. I think that this is at the crux of the impact of many 20th century innovations. Concepts like the
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There's a big difference about making bold, broad claims about disrupting an industry, and lying about having developed a specific technology that is in actuality a complete fabrication. Even the most rampant bullshitters like Adam Neu
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I totally agree. There are still times you will need to investigate why something isn't working on linux. But the upside is when you do, there's almost always a way to make it work the way you want. In stark contrast with Windows
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I think there are many rights violated as a result of lobbying. Access to basic healthcare is curtailed in the name of profit, largely as a result of the power of lobbyists. I think this has a very large functional effect on the freedom of
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by AQuantized 5y ago
To be totally safe you need to hold in 'cold storage,' totally offline. Unless the feds intercept someone in the act of scamming/stealing crypto and negotiate the crypto back into your hands, it's incredibly unlikely you
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I know of a few startups with relatively 'senior' people who just don't care at all or are seemingly unaware about 'best practices', and will happily write tens of thousands of the most messy code, neglecting standa
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by AQuantized 5y ago
Can you give some concrete examples of exemplars of the latter paragraph?
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by AQuantized 5y ago
Wow, that sounds like a good way to make someone suicidal even if they weren't to begin with.
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Breaking things down to their basic axioms and rebuilding them with proofs is arguably quite an advanced approach. By Terry Tao's three stages of of rigour classification [0], this perspective isn't typical until undergraduate stu
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by AQuantized 5y ago
I do think it's finally become true (for me at least) that desktop linux is Actually Good © Previously on more user friendly distros like Ubuntu I didn't feel that the advantages over Windows were significant enough to warrant cer
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Keyword might be modern, Viaweb was sold in 1998
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How would you be able to tell if they were using 'mental stimulus' or not?
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I used to love C but it's so hard to accept the possibility I'm going to compile something totally unsafe after using Rust. Do you think Rust's ecosystem isn't going to amount to anything, or that it's just a meme,
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by AQuantized 5y ago
There's such a thing as overstimulation. There is probably an optinal degree of stimulation to encourage cognition without overloading it.
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I can't think of a better way than just learning physics. It's probably impossible to decouple learning something effectively from actively performing related activities, and the systems of the natural world are pretty good practi
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Title is missing a 'huge'
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Part of this is probably that it's such a young profession. Most people I work with are quite a lot older than me anecdotally, however. Even though the frameworks and languages in vogue change rapidly, the patterns and logic seems to b
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Writing increasingly sophisticated bots and trying to figure out what exactly would earn you a ban was my own first practical experience with coding. I mostly managed to dodge bans on my most used accounts at the time, but interestingly whe
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'several years' in this case being almost a decade
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Google and Facebook are making hundreds of thousands of (almost endirely advertising derived) dollars per employee. They have functional monopolies on search and social media advertising respectively, so every company in the world looking t
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Working from home for a few years I have a Steelcase Leap v2, standing desk I use about 20-30% of the time, and a crappy office chair I use when I'm just sitting down for a few minutes (one 'problem' with a lot of high qualit
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The Wiki is probably the most up to date resource: https://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Quickstart_gu... It's really not that difficult once you get started, especially if you're used to learning so

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