Almaviva

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by Almaviva 15y ago
Q: How do you know if there's a vegetarian in the room? A: Don't worry, they'll let you know!
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by Almaviva 15y ago
It's interesting to me that he has an article a few places below this one on "Contrived versus genuine mathematical problems". Anything that looks at string properties of integers' base ten representations as important seems fairly contrive
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by Almaviva 16y ago
> The mentioned Connect 4, for instance, is relatively simple and can be effectively "solved" by an 8 or 9 year old, for instance, so a 8yo and an adult are still not separated by such a large gulf that the game is a joke. Interesting p
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by Almaviva 16y ago
Whether or not I'm a gay hermaphrodite, I was responding to a post about advice to young people, and saying what I wish I knew as a young person was relevant. In my case, this would have been to ignore pretentious fuckwads who say how diffi
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by Almaviva 16y ago
Ok, your personality and self is such that just by acting naturally women are attracted to you. Congratulations, you get yours, Jack. It just isn't so with me. I have one personality with everyone, women, men, pets, kids, who-fucking-ever.
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by Almaviva 16y ago
There's not that much to say. I'm a below average looking guy who used to be able to attract a woman and now, as far as I've been able to tell over the last few years, I'm universally rejected romantically and sexually. I've been reading th
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by Almaviva 16y ago
> This is a variation of the famous question used to judge the level of testosterone in men in regards to "alpha" behaviour. As long as they're not smart enough to be self-aware of their own bullshit, for then they should treat other pe
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by Almaviva 16y ago
For me, this advice is basically useless bullshit. Being a kid sucked. Freedom is more than worth all of the advantages. Adulthood isn't hard. Making money isn't that hard either. If you can't find a more valuable way to spend free time in
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by Almaviva 16y ago
So do you pronounce it C-butt or C-boobs?
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by Almaviva 16y ago
Writing "a + condition * (b - a)" is just a math cheat to make a ternary operator. So isn't this a conditional itself?
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by Almaviva 16y ago
I don't know why you need to be rude and condescending. I don't know much about these things, but cursory research shows that these are at least good questions: http://www.epjournal.net/filestore/ep08244259.pdf "It does deplete glucose" s
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by Almaviva 16y ago
I think it's really easy to confuse "cute" with "more productive", and the vast majority of attempts at creating DSLs are the former. I think very few are worth their weight, since it seems I always eventually have to be aware of their exac
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by Almaviva 16y ago
> people demonstrably have higher vigilance for repetitive attention-heavy tasks when they've been injected with sugar That's not at all the same as saying that more difficult tasks actually consume more sugar, any more than programming
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by Almaviva 16y ago
The argument that "the brain knows better" seems very weak. The brain also wants people to over consume fast food, reward itself with alcohol and drugs, and several other things which obviously aren't rewarding in the context of modern soci
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by Almaviva 16y ago
I'm wondering if it's ever been shown that doing something mentally difficult consumes more energy than doing something where the brain is active but that isn't perceived as difficult? Another explanation could be that the precursor to grin
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by Almaviva 16y ago
I don't find an overly naive use of recursion that leads to an exponential time algorithm to be beautiful.
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by Almaviva 16y ago
I've seen some surprising things claimed on the cover of the National Enquirer. I hope that they are investigated seriously rather than dismissed with a snarky tone, because if Elvis is really alive on the Moon it would have profound cross-
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by Almaviva 16y ago
The same thing happens with a real piano though: differing fingers impart different forces with the same perceived effort, yet we still manage.
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by Almaviva 16y ago
A billion isn't exactly inconceivably large in this context.
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by Almaviva 16y ago
This is a silly excluded middle argument, no?
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by Almaviva 16y ago
What if we postulate a general factor "b" that correlates with a superior body, is that inheritable? It's not that certain characteristics of the brain aren't inheritable, it's that "intelligence" is very diffuse and hard to define. It's no
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by Almaviva 16y ago
That's either a nice troll or you don't know what you think you know!
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by Almaviva 16y ago
They play real volleyball though.
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by Almaviva 16y ago
It's probably telling that the correlation between this and hardcore programmers is so high! For me, all of my attractiveness to women has seemingly vanished when I turned 30. None of the things that used to work for me work at all (e.g. in
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by Almaviva 16y ago
What I don't read much about, but depend on, is using a debugger on new code when there aren't obvious bugs in it. Just walking through it, while viewing variables, gives a wonderful sanity check to verify that code is doing what I think
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by Almaviva 16y ago
1. PHPs popularity is caused by the fact that it is very often the best tool for the job, not by some fluke or accident of history or position.
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by Almaviva 16y ago
That's cool if true, given Jonathan Blow's many posts about his frustrations in porting to Linux, particularly the fine grained control you need over sound for that game (play backwards, play at varying time rates). See the long thread here
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by Almaviva 16y ago
It absolutely needs to be admitted that it is easy to make a well intentioned unmaintainable mess in Lisp and other highly dynamic languages. Brilliant programmer A will add a lot of layers and abstractions that make sense in one context, w
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by Almaviva 16y ago
This post is asking for blame!! Someone can take my anecdote for what its worth in a way that may help them out (I hope). Yes I'm whiny but also have some altruism:)
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by Almaviva 16y ago
> Supposedly this really is true for men. This is not just untrue for me, but dramatic and stark in a way that has surprised me a lot. I have some really awkward hair loss and I get mistaken for a college student at age 34, and that doe

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