aaachilless

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by aaachilless 8y ago
Then I don't understand this, from the article that was cited: In the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, the principle has a more literal meaning: that every possibility at every interaction which is not forbidden by such
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by aaachilless 8y ago
Disclaimer: I am absolutely not a physicist, and so the following might be quite incorrect. It seems that your interpretation of the rule is actually an assertion of the many world's interpretation of quantum mechanics. If you don&#x27
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by aaachilless 8y ago
I assume you're referring to the gif of the German goal from the world cup. "Afraid" is a bit of a misinterpretation. When you're 5-10 feet from the other player and he's shooting on goal, especially if that other p
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by aaachilless 8y ago
One of my maths professors was a humorous guy and in his lectures would, as an ongoing joke, only explicitly credit Heaviside and Hungarians.
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by aaachilless 8y ago
Yeah I agree it's a bit idiosyncratic.
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by aaachilless 8y ago
Doing this really drove home how neurotic and generally distracted I had become. I'd do some reading at lunchtime and by bedtime couldn't recall much of it at all. I don't know for sure, but it really felt like my memory was
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by aaachilless 8y ago
First I'd like to say that I think this particular critique, that of considering to what extent we ought to offload our skills into various technologies, is definitely worth engaging in. It seems to me that at some point certain new te
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by aaachilless 8y ago
I'm pretty sure it's a quote from the co-founder, Wiktor. There's a picture of him with his name just below the quote.
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by aaachilless 8y ago
This is technically true but in practice Docker for Mac hides this from you and does not require a prohibitive amount of memory. 99% of the developers at my company have 16gb MBPs and we all build multiple Docker containers daily.
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by aaachilless 8y ago
> Who would risk building their company on a stack that you lose the license for if you do too well? You could frame this in a different way and come to a different conclusion. Instead of describing OSS as a "stack you lose the lice
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by aaachilless 8y ago
One might believe that OSS's raison d'etre is to increase equality in economic opportunity. If you see OSS dev that way and you see corporations like Google and Facebook as opponents of that cause, then if you agree with GP's
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by aaachilless 8y ago
Chapter 6 is block ciphers, Chapter 7 is stream ciphers. Also, the first lines in chapter 7: Let’s try to build a stream cipher using the tools we already have. Since we already have block ciphers, we could simply divide an incoming stream
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by aaachilless 8y ago
The First Law trilogy by Joe Abercrombie (the Blade Itself, Before They Are Hanged, and the Last Argument of Kings). They're quite dark but surprisingly funny and maybe the most readable novels I've ever read. Absolute page-turner
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by aaachilless 8y ago
also known coloquially as 'blue car syndrome'. https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Blue%20Car%2...
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by aaachilless 8y ago
i think that's an interesting idea. instead of "how many jobs did we create?" you could ask "how much socioeconomic mobility did we create?". or something along those lines
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by aaachilless 8y ago
I'm pretty confident the tendency to think you have it all figured out is not scoped to nerd-dom.
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by aaachilless 8y ago
I'm not sure what the spirit of your comment is, but I feel like I should point out that this is to some extent the "point" of technology: to create more value with less human capital.
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by aaachilless 8y ago
Contrarily, I'd say that these questions were picked precisely because the author understands the profound difficulty we've encountered in the pursuit of formalizing them. Also, at least one of the other questions has a very preci
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by aaachilless 8y ago
Not OP, but it could be a sweat issue. For me a half mile is plenty far, especially in direct sunlight and/or if I’m wearing a backpack, to work up a sweat walking at just a leisurely pace. If I had to hurry, I’d be visibly sweaty by t
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by aaachilless 8y ago
My experience has also been with a decaying amount of customization. As I get better with Vim I learn more and more how to do things in a "Vim-native" manner which I had previously needed plugins for. For example, when I first sta
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by aaachilless 8y ago
Isn't this exactly how it goes though? e.g. "They're selling books, Bob. Books. Not widgets. We're fine, Bob".
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by aaachilless 9y ago
This is the sort of experience I’m looking for. Specifically, there’s a number of writers/journalists who I’d like to follow and Twitter seems ideal for following them. So what do you think the causal difference is between your experie
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by aaachilless 9y ago
Is it for some reason not a viable solution to just stop following people who shitpost? Or does Twitter push random users' posts at you? I ask because I've been circling around Twitter for a month or so, but if you can't isol
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by aaachilless 9y ago
My point isn't really about a distinction between information and knowledge. While high quality notes might witness the existence, or creation, of knowledge, that knowledge is not contingent on the notes' continued existence. Put
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by aaachilless 9y ago
I use this site pretty regularly to bootstrap reading about topics that I haven't much familiarity with. Even if the 5 books aren't the best, they're almost always enough so that I can direct my own continued reading. A great
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by aaachilless 9y ago
I think we’re talking about two different ideas. It seems like you’re talking about a publishing problem, not a problem with books qua books. That said, I haven’t ran into this other problem either. If I thought an author was padding a book
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by aaachilless 9y ago
Thanks! That's sorta what the woman said at the shop I bought my needle/thread. The sweater is definitely just poor sewing from whatever factory it came from, the jeans a combination. Given that you have some experience, do you ha
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by aaachilless 9y ago
The author says we shouldn't keep books, we should assimilate books into our model of the world, and then dispense with the book. To an approximation, I agree. I also agree with the idea that sometimes collecting books and bookmarks ca
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by aaachilless 9y ago
One of the rationalizations I use for collecting books is that, by organizing them in a certain way, I can constantly reinforce my model of the structure of certain topics. On top of that, the physical presence of certain books is interming
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by aaachilless 9y ago
I've seen this sentiment many times before, and I usually respond with a variation of the following point: If I took a book and stripped it down to the bare information, as you'd like, and then read this new information-pure skele

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