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by Zababa 4y ago
> It's an absolutely crucial issue that no one seems to be talking about or taking seriously. Most men communities talk about it in one form or the other. However, most men communities on the internet are usually close in one form o
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by Zababa 4y ago
Before Lisp, write code, solve problems. After Lisp, write code, solve problems.
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I think "love" here should be replaced by "being there for other people". I have felt romantic love for people in periods where I didn't love myself at all. The problem comes when love is not only about kissing and
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by Zababa 4y ago
I'm not sure I understand your point. Is it children staying home because they love their parents more than themselves and want to be with them? Or because they know their parents want to be with them and thus they prioritize their hap
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by Zababa 4y ago
The last psychiatrist has written a lot about that. He calls it modern narcissism, and uses it to explain a lot of what we call depression today. There's also the Christian notion of acedia, the ancester of sloth, that is not just lazi
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by Zababa 4y ago
Way more. I love my siblings more than I love myself. I love my friends more than I love myself. I'm not good at self love and self care, but it's a bit easier if I tell myself that I do it for them.
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by Zababa 4y ago
I think the article would be better if it started with a definition of terminally online. It doesn't have a strict definition that everyone agrees on.
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by Zababa 4y ago
> Why do they keep saying that Python is great for small scripts? I think comparing hello world is a bit unfair. A script may have something like file manipulation, regex, http requests.
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by Zababa 4y ago
That's interesting, I wouldn't describe mustard as spicy. Mustard is shorter and more intense than capsaicin.
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by Zababa 4y ago
> In other words instead of "pins and needles" they think of it as ants crawling on your leg. It's the same thing in French, we say "J'ai des fourmis dans les jambes" ("I have ants in my legs").
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by Zababa 4y ago
I took 10mg of escitalopram during 2 months for anxiety, depression and suicidal thoughts. It had no effects. I'm currently on week 3 of 50mg of sertraline. I didn't notice any change yet.
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by Zababa 4y ago
> I'm a little surprised that nobody has pulled off the "VB6 of javascript". I don't mean one of the purely no-code products, but like a literal "create a new page, drag a button, then double click it to hop into
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by Zababa 4y ago
Anki (a flashcard software) allows you to set when the "next day" is. I put it around 4 am, it works well for me.
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by Zababa 4y ago
How would DALL-E 2 be more effective than plain old photoshop in that case?
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by Zababa 4y ago
Sorry to single you out specifically, but you look like you've thought a lot about that kind of thing, so I'll ask. When you say: > But it's a window into just how isolated people are and what it feels like to not have com
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by Zababa 4y ago
> What will life be like when you can't trust any video or interview you see because it could be completely fake? I don't understand your point. This has been the case for a while. People were editing photos to remove people in
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> In my 2015 book The Four-Dimensional Human, I describe a failed promise of the 1990s Internet: that it would free us from our earthly identities and let us move like quicksilver through cyberspace, inhabiting all kinds of experimental
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by Zababa 4y ago
I think those movies are praised because no story is better than a bad story. Many recent "action" movies tries to have a story, which most of the time isn't great and just dilutes the action. John Wick doesn't waste tim
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by Zababa 4y ago
> The runtime performance of crystal executables are great, of course, comparable with C or C++ in the given web development domain I don't think that's true. Crystal seems to be more in the ballpark of Go or Java: https:/
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by Zababa 4y ago
On the server, less ecosystem than OCaml. Long compile times. A big part of its "market share" is taken by Rust instead.
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Thanks, that helps.
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> Context: I'm natively extremely lazy (phisically, not intellectually), I find any phisical activity a pain an a nuisance, I derive zero pleasure from any kind of sport and phyisical exercise (except hiking and skidiving, but not t
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by Zababa 4y ago
Hacker News does have a bit of frontend, written in JavaScript. You can see some here https://news.ycombinator.com/hn.js , I'm unaware if it's everything or just a part.
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by Zababa 4y ago
This sounds like the unofficial versioning scheme of most Rust libraries. That and 2 years old libraries that are at 18.3.5 or something.
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> new books should use more modern popular languages to age well and to attract younger audience That doesn't make sense. Java is one of the most popular programming language, more popular than a lot of other "modern popular la
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> The selling point of Go is readability, feature minimalism and code that might be boring to write but gets you readability in return. That is one selling point. Another is that it's a GC'd language that compiles to native on
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> Cold start (time to first response, ms) O(100) O(1000) O(10000) I think ~100 ~1000 ~10000 would be clearer than using the big O notation, since this has nothing to do with fuinctions.
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by Zababa 4y ago
421 wpm with bionic reading, 447 without, but I had the impression of being faster with bionic reading, something about reading being more smooth. I guess it's smoother but slower overall.
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Thank you for the explanation, that makes sense.
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Interesting and well written, as always. I might be missing something, but I think that one approach that hasn't been discussed is reference counting. The explanation for why garbage collection is: > Garbage collection magically sto

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