Almaviva

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by Almaviva 11y ago
I'm not attacking the parent, I'm attacking the definition being explained.
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by Almaviva 11y ago
Life is distressful to a degree. That's a meaningless criterion devoid of all content which invites arbitrary judgement.
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by Almaviva 11y ago
For many decisions in programming, there are tradeoffs, and relying on general rules of thumb can be much worse than judging the specific case. And heuristics are often interpreted differently by different people. Such is this discussion, i
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by Almaviva 11y ago
I can tell an amateur programmer because they aren't getting paid. Flippancy aside though: While I don't think it's what you're arguing for, I'd fear some would use an argument like this to defend a workflow and cul
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by Almaviva 11y ago
> The Rubik’s cube almost as a sex toy of those paranoid for dataveillance I'm glad I'm not the only one who drilled a hole in it.
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by Almaviva 11y ago
> AI problems are always mysterious until they're solved. There's truth there but this line is over-used. Playing chess better than a human was never deemed impossible and the ultimate solution doesn't seem to have any cra
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by Almaviva 11y ago
Refuting crazy ideas is something extremely important, imo, especially if they are widely held. But you have to refute the best possible version of the argument (if there is one), not a straw man weakened version. The "strongest"
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by Almaviva 11y ago
Obviously accomplishments like this are interesting for their own sake. But the really interesting question for me is, is there anything here, that is new, that can be used outside of tree-based games of complete information? (A much weaker
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by Almaviva 11y ago
I think he may be the best refutation against people who don't believe in 10x engineers. Imagine you want to create a VR prototype and get to hire 100 average programmers with some experience in the industry, and you're up against
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by Almaviva 11y ago
There's a difference between some evolution and being totally ideally adapted. Even lactase persistence hasn't spread though the whole human population. Heck, we haven't even totally adapted to walking on two legs yet. (Side
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by Almaviva 11y ago
8000 years is basically an eye blink, for evolution and natural selection to select a whole population (through death and differences in reproduction) with those who are thoroughly well adapted. Yes, humans might be better off for it than w
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by Almaviva 11y ago
Thanks for the point, I agree if we're speaking precisely and not colloquially. But... > "its not completely outside the scientific process" Here you unfairly (imo) diminish the role of wonder and speculation in science, w
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by Almaviva 11y ago
I think your view of what science is is a little too narrow. "Aliens did it in a way we don't understand, yet" is a hypothesis, which could be supported or refuted. The famous quote by Asimov is 'The most exciting phrase
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by Almaviva 11y ago
If you've lived in Toronto and other major cities and can relate your personal experience, I'm interested. About your generic self help, less so.
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by Almaviva 11y ago
> look around on the internet. I know the places you're talking about, and I can't stand them because they're dehumanizing and hypocritical. But believe me I've looked, and in my experience a disproportionate number o
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by Almaviva 11y ago
I've seen enough agreement that I think it's worth pointing out. The dating market for men in Toronto is terrible, at least if you're not in the mainstream attractive subset: over 5'10, have all your hair, have easy soci
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by Almaviva 11y ago
Do you wear a seatbelt?
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by Almaviva 11y ago
Autism Spectrum Disorder is even less specific, and is in the process of being mislabeled and misused in this decade. Pick your poison?
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by Almaviva 11y ago
To me it feels like a microcosm of the difference between academic vs pragmatic thinking. The reason to use a quicksort is not because it's elegant and consise, it's because it is fast and memory efficient. When your implementatio
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by Almaviva 11y ago
> That's only true if people keep making the playing devices. I think that's also a lot of the charm of vinyl: the technology is transparent, direct and simple, and a child could literally build a functional player in two minut
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by Almaviva 11y ago
I admit it's rare, but sometimes, with a fresh perspective, and not falling into believing something is best just because it's the way it's always done, what programmers do actually is needlessly complicated and difficult. Ex
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by Almaviva 11y ago
The facts of that study brushed aside: the participants diet was based on potatoes, rutabagas, turnips, bread and macaroni. Notice, not enough protein to maintain lean body mass. This is a bad idea. Also, over 24 weeks the group lost 25% of
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by Almaviva 11y ago
It's not binary. Both of those things can be issues with it.
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by Almaviva 11y ago
It's not "the" question, but it's "a" question. What I don't understand is why people balk at counting calories as part of a successful plan to change body composition, but plan everything else. Should you
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by Almaviva 11y ago
If we reduce to core principles, if you know your stuff, there's probably not much to disagree on. There are many factors affecting variables like appetite, subjective energy level, energy used through spontaneous movement, many hormon
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by Almaviva 11y ago
> The phrase that being overweight is "simply calories in vs calories out" is both trivially true and completely unhelpful. Why is it completely unhelpful? The corollary is that if you adjust your intake to X (where X might hav
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by Almaviva 11y ago
As a shorter than average man often disillusioned reading hundreds of honest female online personals, what about sexual selection and cultural expectations of women in choosing a mate?
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by Almaviva 11y ago
I don't see how this is different from finding an ingenious way to jimmy open the lock of the door at night, figuring out how to take cash from the register, and then phoning them up to tell them they need to spend money on a new door.
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by Almaviva 11y ago
How are they performing exactly the same job if males are systematically more assertive, self-assured, and rational?
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by Almaviva 11y ago
"The traits that both men and women associate with good negotiators are tied up with ideas of masculinity — such as rationality, assertiveness and self-assurance" Maybe those qualities are also helpful in a job itself, if not in g

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