SarikayaKomzin

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by SarikayaKomzin 3mo ago
I’ve been considering using Odin and Raylib for this because of its similarities to Go, but using Go itself is appealing. Do you have any good resources for what you’ve learned, or is it an unexplored frontier?
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by SarikayaKomzin 5mo ago
Reminds me of NumberWang from Mitchell and Webb’s skits. https://youtu.be/0obMRztklqU?si=CA5NWDE6FVSSM5Ih
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by SarikayaKomzin 5mo ago
I have the same feeling on the back of my neck. I think it’s born from my crippling imposter syndrome, which is maybe a super power now.
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by SarikayaKomzin 3y ago
It’s an interesting exercise to contrast Dune’s post-Butlerian Jihad world with the Hyperion pre-fall world’s reliance on AI. They could almost be in the same timeline.
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by SarikayaKomzin 4y ago
I quite like https://smashrun.com/ , but, to be transparent, I pair it with Strava.
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by SarikayaKomzin 5y ago
Those dates are almost always not arbitrary. They're usually due to licensing and distribution agreements. Not trying to dissuade your from torrenting, but it's disingenuous to call those dates arbitrary. They're the simple r
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by SarikayaKomzin 5y ago
Aristotle had this figured out thousands of year ago https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle-ethics/ > At the same time, Aristotle makes it clear that in order to be happy one must possess others goods as
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The Machine Stops [pdf](cs.ucdavis.edu)
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by SarikayaKomzin 5y ago
As has been said in this thread many times, there is a middle ground here: geniuses exist, of course, but are not necessarily solely responsible for great leaps forward in progress. What’s also worth mentioning is that geniuses stand on the
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by SarikayaKomzin 6y ago
Solaris is a beautiful book. It’s a short read, too. I highly recommend it.
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by SarikayaKomzin 6y ago
The Lindy Effect[1] is a good answer to this question. In a sort of pseudo-evolutionary way, timeless ideas have a way of persisting because they are well-adapted for consumption no matter what the cultural milieu. There is, of course, surv
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by SarikayaKomzin 6y ago
Very relevant on a day where people are parroting the “respect the dead” false truism when people criticize Rush Limbaugh in death.
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by SarikayaKomzin 6y ago
As many have pointed out, this is an obviously oversimplified maxim. But I’d like to add two reasons why I think it is a useful heuristic despite that. 1. Great content can’t be commodified, despite the industry’s best efforts. 2. Content l
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by SarikayaKomzin 6y ago
This is basically the Lindy effect in action.
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by SarikayaKomzin 6y ago
I like the idea of a “yeoman” programmer/engineer movement. It’s like homesteading except for consumer appliances/software — sustenance coding. I was happy to see a step-by-step guide to building a doorbell camera on the front pag
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by SarikayaKomzin 6y ago
It really just depends if the costs of the physical version’s packaging and distribution was ever even costed into the product in the first place. And even if it was, there’s the offsetting cloud and digital storefront costs. It’s a really
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by SarikayaKomzin 6y ago
Legitimate question: is there a strong economic argument for this line of reasoning? How much of the price of a physical book is actually for the commodities and distribution, and how much is for the content itself, marketing, contracts, et
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by SarikayaKomzin 6y ago
Good start, but I’d like to add technical empathy and literacy to the list. I’m a PM and too many of my peers don’t know a lick about how the products in their portfolio even work at a fundamental level. This lack of basic technical literac
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by SarikayaKomzin 6y ago
I worked in the news industry for about 5 years, and, once I left the 24/7 cycle, I sort of instinctively understood the half-life of information and began to stop paying attention to the news. I was later pleasantly surprised to see t
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by SarikayaKomzin 6y ago
This is ones of those essays that pops up on Hacker News every so often, and I'm always happy to reread it. Regardless of how the technologies have changed or if the prognostications were correct, this article is about timeless and rel
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by SarikayaKomzin 6y ago
I was standing in Magic Kingdom at Disney World in Orlando about a year ago and had a very similar thought: If alien archeologists ever came to a post-human Earth, they might discover the ruins of Disney World and mistake it for our temples
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by SarikayaKomzin 6y ago
I see a very common misunderstanding of Stoic thought in this thread. It doesn’t advocate passivity. As a matter of fact, the Roman Stoic school was a school of many doers and had a very cosmopolitan outlook. Stoicism simply advocates an in
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by SarikayaKomzin 6y ago
No, thank you for reading my rambling. I’m glad you got something out of it!
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by SarikayaKomzin 6y ago
Great recommendations! I would like to add Paul Tillich’s “The Courage to Be” to the list. Not only is it a good work on existentialism, it’s also a fascinating reminder that theology is not as one-dimensional as it is often portrayed.
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by SarikayaKomzin 6y ago
In my opinion, nihilism is a problem, not an solution. That is to say, it isn’t something that can be “believed in”. Embracing it is ultimately paradoxical.
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by SarikayaKomzin 6y ago
As I mentioned in the original comment, it’s often hard to tell what Kierkegaard actually believed if you’re not well versed in all his work, but I’m fairly certain that quote is a bit facetious. I added it as an example of his playful styl
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by SarikayaKomzin 6y ago
I highly recommend Either/Or. At the very least sample a bit of each section (the Either and Or respectively). It’s a witty and oftentimes paradoxical ride, and, because of Kierkegaard’s use of pseudonyms, you’ll be hard pressed to re
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by SarikayaKomzin 6y ago
It may not be exactly for the reasons she gives, but I think her instinct is correct to reduce these metaphysical questions into minutiae. To “unanswer” them by forcing them to conform to her empirical observation without any additional inq
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by SarikayaKomzin 6y ago
It’s a remnant of Gunpei Yokoi’s philosophy: lateral thinking with withered technology. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunpei_Yokoi I find it refreshing that Nintendo has such strong opinions about these types of thin
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by SarikayaKomzin 6y ago
I thought it was a truly novel speculation on encountering nonhuman intelligence in the cosmos that challenges our most common fantasies about space exploration. I know I’m guilty of anthropomorphizing intelligence because that’s a lot easi

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