NateEag

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by NateEag 5y ago
You put a line of text in the mobile UI that says "To see tooltips, press and hold on a button." You can stop showing that line of text once they've shown a tooltip (or two, if you're worried about them triggering it acc
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> I don't think it's a coincidence that sci-fi that posits a frontier (generally space but sometimes others) is usually more optimistic than sci-fi that posits a humanity confined to Earth's gravity well. Writers and artis
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not whole arrangements, is what I meant to type.
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I do. I love reading fiction and got through thousands of fiction books in my teens. My experience of it is quite different from most, as I have come to understand. I never understood what people meant when they said "That character in
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I am. I'd not heard of an early childhood trauma angle before. Thanks for mentioning it.
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I've never done CAD, but I did try 3D modeling and animation in my teens. I was not any good at it. I did slowly improve, but never got to where I could make anything genuinely visually compelling. I got to be okay at working in tradit
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by NateEag 5y ago
I'm mostly just avisual. I did spend several years in high school working on traditional art skills because I thought it would be neat to be a 3D animator. I eventually concluded that while I was making progress, I clearly didn't
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I just tried your suggestion, but at least on a first attempt I can't get anything to appear. Thanks for the idea, though! My inner ear is nothing compared to a good composer's, but it's waaaaay better than my mind's eye
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by NateEag 5y ago
It clicked for me when I read Blake Ross's article on his own discovery of aphantasia: https://m.facebook.com/nt/screen/?params=%7B%22note_id%22%3A... I read that and went "huh. I guess I'm weirder
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by NateEag 5y ago
+100! I'm an aphant and police sketch artists seemed like sorcerors of the Dark Arts to me up until the day I realized most people can visualize.
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Aphantasiac here. Not quite pure aphantasiac, as I do on rare occasions experience momentary flashes of mental imagery, but it's so rare that it never occurred to me anyone could actually do anything useful with mental images. Once t
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by NateEag 5y ago
I think they're referring to server-side rendering of SPA templates, which is something you get basically for free if your backend is written in NodeJS.
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Sure, skills do apply across frameworks and languages. The hundred stupid things you need to know about any given framework don't, though. To be clear, I'm not thinking about people who've used lots of languages and tools her
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by NateEag 5y ago
Yes, if you learned React you'd have a decent shelf life still. What if you learned classic AngularJS, due to go unsupported in a month and a half? What if you threw in with ExtJS ages ago and the enterprise corp you've been using
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by NateEag 5y ago
"Modern" web frontend work involves a lot of chasing after new tooling, frameworks, and libraries. In your thirties, you're more likely to have a stable relationship and kids to care for. If the tools you learned in your twen
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It's an open standard started and maintained by Microsoft. I think that's a bit different from just being a "Microsoft offering".
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Has the incidence of this kind of terribleness actually gotten lower, or do people just talk about how awful it is? I hear a lot of horrible stories about sexual abuse and enslavement in the modern world, so I'm not sure this has actua
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Do you have some evidence that shaming people changes their behavior?
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Furthermore, there's no way it would be a gig of text. War and Peace is about three megabytes uncompressed. So, even if you shipped all the translations, I doubt you'd have a full gigabyte's worth. Especially not if you compr
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by NateEag 5y ago
I use Hammerspoon to get something like tiled window management. Hammerspoon is not a window manager out of the box - it's more a toolkit for building the one you want, along with a lot of tools for automating various aspects of OS X.
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Not OP, but I suspect they call the field "useless" based on the belief that social work doesn't achieve its aims, not on the grounds that the aims are bad.
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I trained as a classical pianist before moving to the world of synthesizers ...and rock 'n' roll. The very few electric pianos I've played that didn't feel painfully limiting in dynamic expression were high-end instrumen
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None of this is well-researched or strongly evidenced, but a few things that have helped me with similar problems: * Reading Nonviolent Communication, by Marshall Rosenberg. I have very low native empathy, and the techniques in that book ha
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I think programming appeals to people who don't natively do a lot of emotional display or read emotions well. Emotional responses and awareness have very little relevance for the acts of writing and testing instructions for computers.
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People are not actually fungible. Each of us has different skills, insights, strengths, weaknesses, and life experience. What caused one of us months of misery might be the next person's perfect problem, what they were born to solve fl
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by NateEag 5y ago
..huh. I just tested this in my Emacs instance and it works as you describe. I could swear I remember this working in the past, but I can find no hint of it in a few quick searches, so I'm likely mistaken. I'm sorry for the misinf
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by NateEag 5y ago
...huh. I just tested this in my Emacs instance and it works as you describe. I could swear I remember this working in the past, but I can find no hint of it in a few quick searches, so I'm likely mistaken. I'm sorry for the misin
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by NateEag 5y ago
Magit has great support for staging parts of lines - select the section you want to stage and press 's'.
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Don't forget that an AGI would have no particular reason to do anything for humans. We might be most relevant to one as a source of raw materials: https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/paperclip-maximizer
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No worries about slow replies. Obviously I'm not greased lightning myself. I appreciate your civil, thoughtful responses. > Are you really saying that there's no way for people to condemn killing if there isn't some object

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