Phileosopher

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by Phileosopher 4y ago
I'm convinced it's associated with the methodology of how psychology has approached matters. In the world of biology, you're observing the world around you. Same for physics, chemistry, et al. This means that you can set up p
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Ask HN: What do you do for a living?
52 points by Phileosopher 4y ago|64 comments
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by Phileosopher 5y ago
I most certainly agree that writing isn't cliche, but the exceedingly low barrier to entry makes it hard to distinguish yourself from the crowd of untalented hacks who want to squeeze money out. More what I'm saying is that the en
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by Phileosopher 5y ago
I feel your pain. I've made multiple websites that are designed as broad-based solutions to things I observe. It can be a bit frustrating finding a specific interest to dive into. At least in my life, I've discovered that it'
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by Phileosopher 5y ago
That's a great idea. I have done it in the past somewhat, but fallen out of practice. It's organic SEO I can stomach, and that may be the cause of my lack of feedback right there.
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by Phileosopher 5y ago
On any given day I get 0-3 visitors. I've gotten a sour taste for the destruction of good writing with "Here's how your 802.11a/b/g networking card works with networking concepts for easy how to network" spam t
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by Phileosopher 5y ago
I've been using Notion. If you're curious, here's where it's piled: https://jungle-feels-e8a.notion.site/TS-077775dbeac04eef8056...
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by Phileosopher 5y ago
Scan for hardware errors and reroute as needed. Then, defrag all stray neural clusters. Once I've got bare metal, I'd consider what my OS options are and check for upgrades. I might even be able to run Windows 11! Then, I'd c
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Ask HN: What is the value of a one-person wiki?
22 points by Phileosopher 5y ago|12 comments
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by Phileosopher 5y ago
From what I heard recently, Russia has two benefits: 1. Tactical - chokepoints are a major element of military tactics, and I guess there's a spot that leaves Russia completely defenseless with wide-open spaces if it doesn't own P
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by Phileosopher 5y ago
It's intellectual laziness. Bureaucrats presume that paper, feeling more "solid" than a digital copy of something, is somehow more secure. I've run across this many times when people use the word "best practices&quo
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First time in USA: Tesla Autopilot owner charged with vehicular manslaughter(apnews.com)
2 points by Phileosopher 5y ago|1 comments
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by Phileosopher 5y ago
> All of that said, let’s not forget that performance isn’t the only reason people choose to use a Mac over a PC. No, but that's a huge factor for many people. Or, more accurately, the promise of future performance. It's a bi
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The FTC's investigation expands to Meta's VR division(businessinsider.com)
4 points by Phileosopher 5y ago|0 comments
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by Phileosopher 5y ago
I'm convinced that it happens proportionally to information transfer. What once took 10 years to slowly detect now takes about 1 year to realize you don't want the new [thing] because you're feeling a sense of deja vu. In 15
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Ask HN: How do you learn best – reading, watching, or doing?
1 points by Phileosopher 5y ago|1 comments
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by Phileosopher 5y ago
I'm not particularly educated on internet conflict except PG's disagreement hierarchy, and personal experience in hacking social expectations on Reddit (e.g., call it the "inoculation" instead of "vax" or &quot
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by Phileosopher 5y ago
The UX on this was so inspiring to me that I haiku back. --- Edit: I need space between all the sentences Or it doesn't work.
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by Phileosopher 5y ago
I don't consider text a weak medium, but would contend that the strength of the medium is its efficacy in conveying a portrayed concept. In that sense, text is a strong medium for certain things (like a dataset) and bad for others (l
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by Phileosopher 5y ago
This is a precipitous road due to conflation. Are we talking about the pandemic as a social phenomenon, or as a spread of a virus? It's evident that there's been political gain on the matter, which is a "manufactured" so
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by Phileosopher 5y ago
Yes, if you lean politically hard left in the USA. This has already become a political talking point for transgender people, and all censorship is good censorship under those claims. No, if you're simply liberal or conservative in the
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by Phileosopher 5y ago
I guess I've overestimated today's web devs. Shame on me.
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by Phileosopher 5y ago
Yes, but that's an abstraction that VS Code removes. I envision, with all this no-code babble, that the future "average coder" of 10 years from now will be a click-monkey. Sadly, most people like not knowing things. I theor
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by Phileosopher 5y ago
Paid, not sure, but I've lurked around here enough to verify the dedication. The mods not only curate and consolidate multiple links (e.g., 3+ things that said Facebook was down this last week), but they also openly communicate what
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by Phileosopher 5y ago
I feel like this is a variation of the Two Generals Problem, but instead of it being about communication, it's about accountability: "You have many people. One of these people gains more power than the rest. They can abuse that po
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by Phileosopher 5y ago
I may be wrong, but I've realized there are at least 3 classes of hacker: 1. The back-end PenTester who builds and destroys with nothing but terminals. 2. The engineer who transforms mundane objects into brilliant fixes, or fixes what
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by Phileosopher 5y ago
I don't know how, but that was more like the digital version of bubble wrap to me than the clickable bubble wrap I've encountered.
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by Phileosopher 5y ago
I've grown fond of this system for learning, and now have 6 of them variously spread across the internet. Unless anyone else has better ideas, it's the best way to grok key information and avoid re-consulting page 245 of a PDF or
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The Commonplace Book(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by Phileosopher 5y ago|1 comments
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by Phileosopher 5y ago
n=1, but we still weight it x20 because we have the most data on it.

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