BreakfastB0b

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by BreakfastB0b 5y ago
Godel has nothing to do with it. Godel’s Incompleteness is just the math version of the Halting Problem, which is just a fancy version of the classic paradox “This statement is false”. Godel showed that even if you outlaw self referential d
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by BreakfastB0b 5y ago
Then why use the word “God” that already comes with so much baggage?
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by BreakfastB0b 5y ago
“Small government”
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by BreakfastB0b 5y ago
You just have to ask and be upfront about it. I made the switch to working max 30 hours a week 2 years ago and I’ll never go back to full time. Most recruiters will ghost you as soon as you mention it, but a few will go for it. Most reliabl
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by BreakfastB0b 5y ago
I feel like there’s probably some kind of law that distributed systems always loose out to consolidated ones due to overhead. Unless it’s explicitly for circumventing the law like torrents or most crypto currencies. How could Ethereum possi
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by BreakfastB0b 5y ago
I worked on blockchain based voting system way back in 2013 for a year before coming to the same conclusion. Blockchain considers secure private key management outside of its threat model which is crazy when you think about it. The best arg
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by BreakfastB0b 5y ago
I like to call this the human centipede of product development. This is why I only work at smaller companies where this is less of a problem.
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by BreakfastB0b 5y ago
I would strongly recommend looking for part time ~30 hours or less a week. Most recruiters will ghost you as soon as you mention it, but a few will be willing to entertain it. Especially if you frame it as a “contractor”. I’m lucky enough t
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by BreakfastB0b 5y ago
I'm definitely sympathetic to this argument, however, considered in the limit, it does become pretty absurd. How long do you want to maintain the character of the neighbourhood for? 10 years? 20? 50? 100? 500? 1000? 10,000? Such a &#x2
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by BreakfastB0b 5y ago
That’s true, I didn’t figure in rental yields at all. Consider it a first order approximation. Would anyone rent if it was more affordable to buy?
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by BreakfastB0b 5y ago
That’s true! I’m not an economist or a policy expert. I don’t claim to have any answers. I’m just pointing out that profitability and affordability are mutually exclusive goals for housing prices. I leave it to people much smarter than myse
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by BreakfastB0b 5y ago
Malthusian conditions keep me up at night. Most countries birth rate falls off as they become more developed. There’s estimates that the world population will stabilise around 11 billion. I don’t think there’s any theoretical reason why hig
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by BreakfastB0b 5y ago
Totally agree. The government should have a policy goal of keeping house prices stable relative to inflation. But when multiple generations have locked up most of their wealth into housing, it’s unclear how to untangle the whole mess withou
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by BreakfastB0b 5y ago
You would think so. But once again, how can housing continue to be profitable i.e. grow faster than wages, and people still afford to buy houses? Doesn’t it collapse at some point? Isn’t that the joke about only economists think that expone
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by BreakfastB0b 5y ago
Housing can either be affordable, or profitable, not both. Affordable means that the price of a house remains stable relative to inflation or wages. Profitable means it has to grow faster than inflation or wages. Everyone needs somewhere to
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by BreakfastB0b 5y ago
Couldn’t the government counter this effect with tax breaks or UBI? Like how a carbon tax along with tax offsets alleviates the burden on the poor due to an increase in price of consumer items.
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by BreakfastB0b 5y ago
It’s not dumb at all and perhaps some incredibly advanced civilisation would do exactly that. However space time is exceedingly stiff, the energies required to create measurable ripples are enormous. Targeted neutrino based communication wo
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by BreakfastB0b 5y ago
So I'm supposed to be sad about not participating in a pyramid scheme? You're literally making my case for me.
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by BreakfastB0b 5y ago
This is the dumbest thing I've ever read. So you designed a system that sacrifices everything to achieve trustlessness, and then you immediately reintroduce a centralised trusted entity. You can't make this shit up. I'm so gl
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by BreakfastB0b 5y ago
The problem is all transaction on bitcoin are public. Satoshi even moving his coins to begin trading would cause a massive freakout. Coinbase even had to disclose this risk in their IPO filing.
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by BreakfastB0b 6y ago
I find the name “political correctness” pretty funny these days in the era of Trump, Modi, and Bolsonaro. It used to mean the kind of guarded speech that politicians had to use to protect their careers. But now we’ve seen that you can liter
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by BreakfastB0b 6y ago
You should have a core (pure) functional component, that doesn't perform network requests, and an outer component for side effects. Except when you go to use that container component inside another component. Then you’re back t
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by BreakfastB0b 6y ago
Is there anybody that develops on the frontend professionally fulltime and makes these kinds of complaints? I do? These are all real problems I've encountered working on large apps at multiple organizations. React hooks are a c
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by BreakfastB0b 6y ago
Hooks are the place to segment out effectful code from otherwise pure code The effectful code shouldn't even be there. It should live separately from the render / view code to make it easier / faster to test without h
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by BreakfastB0b 6y ago
You can write global reactions to state changes very easily. This is exactly the problem, shared mutable state leads to "spooky action at a distance". It results in causal connections between parts of your codebase that ar
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by BreakfastB0b 6y ago
I absolutely acknowledge this is a possibility, but I think I do understand why people use it. Because they're easy, hooks are just so god damn easy to use. Want some state? Just chuck in a `useState` and call it day. But the problem i
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by BreakfastB0b 6y ago
Hooks are the worst thing to ever happen to React. They're so easy to get started with but every codebase I've seen adopt them has turned into complete untestable spaghetti. Mixing stateful effectful code inside what would otherwi
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by BreakfastB0b 6y ago
You can't tell the difference between 1g acceleration and a uniform gravitational field. The earths gravitational field is not uniform but radial.
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by BreakfastB0b 6y ago
Little things like Object.keys() should return a (keyof T)[] rather than a string[] but can't due to JS edge cases. This was something that confused me when I first started learning Typescript but is actually not an edge case but a f
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by BreakfastB0b 6y ago
All types in Turing complete languages are inhabited by non terminating terms (looping forever, throwing exceptions), which means all propositions are provable. For instance in Typescript, const absurd = <A>(): A => absurd()

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