Garlef

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by Garlef 6y ago
I don't think we need this kind of hocus pocus to explain this. Frist candidate for an explanation: * Stories get passed on and some are surprisingly stable. Second candidate for an explanation: * The underpinnings of the architecture
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by Garlef 6y ago
Or: Don't change a variable once it was defined. This way there's only one relevant location in codebase. Makes things much easier. But agreed. Would be a nice feature for the cases where this can not be avoided.
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by Garlef 6y ago
Yep. A better version would be: > They try to understand mathematics and use mathematics as a language to do that.
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by Garlef 6y ago
take this, bret victor!
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by Garlef 6y ago
> Personally, I think Facebook, Twitter et al should never have regulated content [...} Why do you think it should be this way?
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by Garlef 6y ago
> On the other hand, weaponized vCJD could have a population die off en masse years after they're infected. Maybe the infection could use genetic mechanisms so that the infected pass it on to their children. Maybe this already happe
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by Garlef 6y ago
Are there ETH transaction fees of a node and do they trickle up in the id hirarchy?
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by Garlef 6y ago
Well... Isn't this old news? You could read for example Foucault and have a similarly enlightening but more cohesive reading experience. But maybe immersing yourself in the rohrschach/barnum-effect nature of these texts is more fu
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by Garlef 6y ago
Lovely. This emits some strong Christopher Hyatt vibes.
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by Garlef 6y ago
> An essay that told people things they already knew would be boring. You have to tell them something new. I think there's something off about this statement: A lot of people enjoy watching a new marvel movie once or twice a year wh
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by Garlef 6y ago
In chase the creator is reading: Regarding OneItemShop: I think you should provide an optional way to specify a proper imprint (legal requirement in germany) instead of only a contact email.
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by Garlef 6y ago
"The team decided to let chris break the build." ;)
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by Garlef 6y ago
> Seamless data-transfer via Transit (access front-end vars from the backend, no conversions Very interesting! A quick search did not yield any results. Could you provide a link to some article or code examples explaining this?
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by Garlef 6y ago
> The only possible response to increasing extremism on one side is increasing extremism on the other side until one has enough power to quash the other. I think this statement is wrong. There are a lot of other possibilities. For exampl
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by Garlef 6y ago
I'm not sure. Growth in users might be slower but growth in revenue might be better with a subscription model. Maybe have both? Or what about: 5 credits free, 2 free per month, XX additional credits per month through a subscription.
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by Garlef 6y ago
My solutions: On my google mail account, I automatically forward all emails containing the word "unsubscribe" to a spam folder and mark them as read. Also: I have two email accounts. One for signups and one for actual communicatio
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by Garlef 6y ago
As an interesting example: In speedrunning, certain movement patterns of bosses can be cleared faster than others. If such a pattern only shows up in 1/4 of the runs and you need a good combination of three or more such patterns over t
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by Garlef 6y ago
It's not only about obvious cheating like slowing down the game. It might be easier to do certain things with different hardware setups. An illustrating example: If you play quake 3 at 125 fps you can jump farther than you could if the
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by Garlef 6y ago
> This information is readily available already. Most information IS (internet) and WAS (libraries) readily available... I hope you see the difference between availability and being part of a curriculum. > Young attractive women ... q
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by Garlef 6y ago
How can you monetize this as a content creator? Can you feed ads to your audience?
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by Garlef 6y ago
> But if masculine and feminine gender roles are equally difficult to navigate Suicide rates are much higher among males. So maybe this assumption does not hold.
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by Garlef 6y ago
> Is it not seen as societally acceptable in the States to wear colorful clothes as a male teenager/adolescent? Anecdote: I visited the US last year and happened to be invited by a friend to a climbing gym in the bay area. Said frie
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by Garlef 6y ago
I guess this was written on a phone: "now" became "not"
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by Garlef 6y ago
I think blaming this all on learners not realizing their missing potential is a bit one sided. Other influences: * Skill level of coworkers * No time is dedicated by the team to abstractions / refactoring due to deadlines, or personal
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by Garlef 6y ago
That's a nice idea. I agree that we need social networks that are designed around fostering good discussions. However, it would be a good idea to not only approach this from an optimistic angle but keep a pessimistic one in mind by ask
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by Garlef 6y ago
There actually are similar things for video games: Steam Greenlight / Early Access for example. Also: Even a long time ago, both Quake and Quake 3 Arena had free versions out in the open before their relase.
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by Garlef 6y ago
Here's another perspective on Latties: It's called Formal Concept Analysis [1]. The core idea is that every binary relation (think of a binary matrix representing for example "Animal a has Property p") leads to a lattice
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by Garlef 6y ago
While I get your reasoning, I think it misses a few important points. -- 1. Having the same symbol for several things is the mathematicians way of having polymorphism and is a very nice feature. Take for example the plus sign. Everytime we
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by Garlef 6y ago
The reason why it seems so appealing might be some kind of barnum effect [0] - the effect that makes horoscopes work: There's a lot of tiny bits of concepts that might resonate with someone (or rather resonate with the learned cultural
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by Garlef 6y ago
I think it is easy to misread the implied context of your statement as protestors = looters = antifa. Which is of course not true. These are three seperate groups of people and the only subset relation that holds true (using a definition of

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