Rayhem

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by Rayhem 4y ago
I guess I'd say that's true to first order. Sure, if a company does something egregious that I don't like it is within the realm of possibility that I can go found another one, double their revenue, and grind them out of exis
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by Rayhem 4y ago
It is always interesting to me how much 'morality' (in the sense that an individual/corporation 'should' abide by these rules) can be derived from applying symmetry principles.
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by Rayhem 4y ago
Thorny Games has a very interesting RPG[1] that's patterned after the Nicaraguan Sign Language 'experiment'. I don't know how authentic the RPG experience is to that of the Nicaraguans, but I did very much enjoy how the
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by Rayhem 4y ago
I propose office hours in every single retrospective we do and it never gets any traction. I've tried proposing "office hours". I've tried proposing them with a bit of an explanation as to why I think they're a go
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by Rayhem 4y ago
>I've found that lots of people out there seemingly can't handle disagreement at all... This is the second time this week I'll have linked this here on HN but I'm exceptionally happy to do so. Jonathan Haidt has a top
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by Rayhem 4y ago
I've spent about ten minutes poking around that link and I'm still not at all sure what kind of tool Satellite either is or wants me to think of it as. Front page: > Satellite is an alternative space for writers and the beginni
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by Rayhem 4y ago
> ...they're accentuating a class divide between native and non-native speakers. Possibly even a class divide amongst native speakers: those with the time to ponder and research acceptable terminology and those without. I suspect th
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by Rayhem 4y ago
Jonathan Haidt's "Two incompatible sacred values in American universities"[1] seems particularly relevant here. He argues (among other things) that modern universities are undergoing a truth/social justice schism, and th
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by Rayhem 4y ago
> Like, we're not there to do anything specific, just work on something together. I keep lobbying for "office hours" like this at every single one of our retrospectives and it gets zero traction. My juniors have mentione
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by Rayhem 4y ago
In my experience this is basically what Discord has become. Sure, there are a number of power-law distributed (because of course it's a power law -- if you don't get a power law you're doing it wrong) superservers, but most s
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by Rayhem 4y ago
Wait wait wait, portal update?? What's that about?
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by Rayhem 4y ago
This is very similar to the position I've adopted, and I'd like to add on some of the thinking I've done about what I've come to call "weaponized mindfulness." In the balance of "good" and "evil&
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by Rayhem 4y ago
I don't know if this is what made it click for me specifically, but here's an interesting realization I recently came to about mental models in programming. Somewhere along the line I conceptualized functions as a mapping from the
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by Rayhem 4y ago
Chebyshev polynomials are just sinusoids in disguise, but they also bring in some of the nice properties of polynomials and have helpful recurrence relations.
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by Rayhem 4y ago
Meta question: do many people use property-based testing in their production systems? I think the philosophical idea is extremely sound and is a very good approximation to proving correctness, but I only ever see trivial examples like &quot
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by Rayhem 4y ago
Reinstalling graphics drivers from a real TTY when the occasional update hoses them is far and away more preferable than, say, ads in the start bar (for me).
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by Rayhem 4y ago
Yes, that's exactly my point. It's easy to say "I think X so X is right" but I'm trying to find more objectivity by drawing analogies/looking for asymmetries with other things. What happens if we perturb the sy
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by Rayhem 4y ago
> But of course it's as unreasonable for me to expect other people always to adapt to my preferences as it is for other people to expect me always to adapt to theirs. I'm actually not quite so sure about this. Admittedly, as a
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by Rayhem 4y ago
> It’s much better to start to interrupt a little and if the person feels they need to continue they will acknowledge that you started and continue talking a bit louder. One of my friend groups has established a nose touch as a similar (
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by Rayhem 4y ago
Readers check out with those, too. I've found that's largely because everyone has a slightly different perspective on what something means, ergo everyone's always talking slightly past everyone else and the discussion doesn&#
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by Rayhem 4y ago
> Making the person who hired you uncomfortable about the contract you both *entered into willingly* Emphasis mine. If hard physical work is all that's between them and crushing poverty, as the OP said, there's some question of
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by Rayhem 4y ago
Conservation of energy doesn't torpedo this idea a priori . The "exhaust" mass would steal energy from the massive body/planet in the gravity assist. If you do this a million million times you might slow the planet down
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by Rayhem 4y ago
> I don’t think it’s a bad impulse to want to optimize the visual/tactile/ergonomic/auditory experience of peripherals Are you optimizing? Do you have a measurable fitness function and know what will slide you up or down
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by Rayhem 4y ago
The reckless consumption here is what gets me. I know people with seven+ mechanical keyboards. So they can have the mini one. The split one. The quiet one. The loud one. The travel one. The 'normie' one. The broken one. The offi
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by Rayhem 4y ago
> If zero indexing were so great, mathematicians would have made it the default centuries if not millennia ago They did. For any context where the index contributes to the math[1] (i.e. is not simply a label convention like "the x (
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by Rayhem 4y ago
> Conversational affordances are things like digressions and confessions and bold claims that beg for a rejoinder. Isn't that just giving? I mean, sure, I guess you can say "That movie sucked and anybody who liked it can fight
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by Rayhem 4y ago
It's very likely an off-resonant, non-quantum excitation. If the incident light is at the resonance frequency of the atom, it will excite electrons which will spontaneously decay and throw off the energy. Far from resonance, though, th
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by Rayhem 4y ago
> Anyone who creates from the heart, artists scientists or otherwise, should be the gold standard that all humans live by. I really, really wish this would happen, but I don't see a way around the bad actor problem. How do you build
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> I have never heard of a piece of world changing art have the same negative externalities, or really any lasting negative externalities, as world changing tech. My first guess is that this is because "the art experience" is fa
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by Rayhem 4y ago
Technical people often believe using more/new tools will solve people problems. "If only we could measure more by better decomposing tasks in Jira, then we'd know how to be more efficient! If only we could add micro-specifi

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