JoelMcCracken

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by JoelMcCracken 2y ago
Not too long ago, I went down a rabbit hole of specifying GHA yaml via dhall, and quickly hit some problems; the specific thing I was starting with was the part I was frustrated with, which was the "expresssions" evaluation stuff.
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by JoelMcCracken 2y ago
To me, the issue comes when something weird is going on in CI that isn't happening locally, and you're stuck debugging it with that typical insanity. Yeah, it may be that you'll get the exact same versions of things installed
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by JoelMcCracken 2y ago
Ditto! I've never heard of "Standard Oil of New Jersey" myself.
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by JoelMcCracken 2y ago
Thank you to whoever changed the title to omit the question mark. Question marks at the end of non questions drives me crazy. I’ve tried to accept it and accustom myself to it, but I still always trying to parse it multiple times
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by JoelMcCracken 2y ago
Nice. I recently have been doing a bash deep dive and realizing that treating it like repl driven development is very useful. Been wondering if this is worth writing about for others. You can also just execute another ‘bash’ process, of cou
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by JoelMcCracken 2y ago
I, too, recoil at displays of arrogance, needing to spend time communing with nature from a barrel. Tho I haven’t started on my exploratory instrument crafting era.
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by JoelMcCracken 2y ago
reminds me a little bit of the Kernel programming language
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by JoelMcCracken 2y ago
Either human blood or potatoes, the two options.
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by JoelMcCracken 2y ago
Don’t forget “do while”, and the various control statements they support.
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by JoelMcCracken 2y ago
Neat. I’ve done some kinda sorta similar stuff with org mode in emacs. I really like it, but it does just make me long for a system with built in tracking, automatic synthesis of current focus from programs in use, etc. Imagine something li
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by JoelMcCracken 2y ago
I do get your point, and generally think it makes sense, but in this case it seems extremely relevant: There is a global competition for intellectual capital, and at the moment, the US' position here seems at the very least uncertain,
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by JoelMcCracken 2y ago
CL is not particularly functionally oriented. Many things like this are absent (or present, in some cases).
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by JoelMcCracken 2y ago
I have also wished such a thing existed, something like genius.com but for literature (I know there are some works of literature on there, but for numerous reasons its not a perfect match). Sometimes I end up looking at commentary on a work
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by JoelMcCracken 2y ago
Reminds me of Foucault's Pendulum. Great book, worth reading, and extremely relevant to our day.
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by JoelMcCracken 2y ago
Interesting. I can’t speak to how it works in other countries; in the USA so much context is loaded into home ownership. I don’t know the Japanese “sticks and carrots”. The one factor I could imagine is if cost of land is so expensive that
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by JoelMcCracken 2y ago
I mean, it’s not a foregone conclusion that you’ll do better than otherwise. You could buy when prices are high and sell when prices are low. There is an ongoing calculus also about how long you need to live in a house before you end up sav
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by JoelMcCracken 2y ago
This is wild. If what you said is true, then there would be no appreciable value to be extracted by flippers. Their entire schtick is built around what you are saying being untrue. I’m sure you have reasons for believing this, but I cannot
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by JoelMcCracken 2y ago
the reasons are myriad. Because in a general way you can't say "I want X that will work perfectly until time Y". Instead, Xs are made my a process. That process can cost more or less: more meaning better quality ingredients,
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by JoelMcCracken 2y ago
I think this is the key. As a generally smart person with disposable income, I am unable to figure out how to find/purchase higher quality products that are not optimized for obsolescence. Increasingly it seems that _everything_ is as
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by JoelMcCracken 2y ago
It’s such a different thing entirely, the question of replication doesn’t make sense. See my other comment. I think you’d be better served by trying to understand how psychological research has been done, why people go on about replication,
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by JoelMcCracken 2y ago
So basically this study is “we looked at various publicly available data sets of information, and here is a thing we notice that has previously gone unnoticed”. The noticed it in multiple datasets. What would replication look like here besi
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by JoelMcCracken 2y ago
I haven’t read htdp, but I looked through it. It seemed more of a “teach to program” than a “teach you to think about programs at a whole new level”. But HTDP didn’t exist when I was working on sicp.
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by JoelMcCracken 2y ago
Yea exactly. Fan sites. What a concept!
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by JoelMcCracken 2y ago
I'm sure you've gotten a lot of good feedback, but a personal message for your kid: I am well into my adulthood, but I started programming from a similar place way back when. I was probably 12-13 when I was self-studying HTML&#x2F
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by JoelMcCracken 2y ago
Who is to say it hasn’t been done before? OP did it and thought it was interesting and posted about it, and enough people also thought it was interesting so they upvoted.
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by JoelMcCracken 2y ago
Holy. How have I never seen this account before. I’ve never wanted to give someone my money so quickly before
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by JoelMcCracken 2y ago
I feel this quite a bit. When I was young, I had a ton of time and no money to acquire the needed equipment. Now, I finally have the money to get basically whatever I need within reason, but no time to use it. I am typically able to resist
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by JoelMcCracken 2y ago
This is what I've heard in the past: the companies want their articles to be recommended by search engines, but want the consumer to pay for it.
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by JoelMcCracken 2y ago
I don't know, isn't Aristotle credited with "predicting" the theory of the atom? Is this not an equivalent situation, in principle? According to the article, it seems that his contribution was calculating a body size&#x2
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by JoelMcCracken 2y ago
I developed my love of programming originally from learning PHP, C, C++. I lost it at uni trying to solve problems in Java, which was mutable state hell and made solving the most boring stuff infuriatingly boring/full of stupid busywor

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