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by aeturnum 4y ago
I mean, yes - "you only ever need C in most situations" is true. You might like to use something else. You might be really glad to use something instead of C. And also...you could generally get by with C. Just like you can mostly
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by aeturnum 4y ago
That's true - but I think it goes back to "you will need." It's nice to query these things in the DB, but for most users you can just load everything based on associations and sort it out in memory. It's less effici
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by aeturnum 4y ago
If you enjoyed this - I highly recommend watching Adam Curtis' Can't Get You Out of My Head : https://thoughtmaybe.com/cant-get-you-out-of-my-head/
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by aeturnum 4y ago
I totally get why they wanted to do it - but I also found their integration into the UI off-putting. The patterns of listening to podcasts and songs are just so different and they offered little support on mixing the two (no separate queues
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by aeturnum 4y ago
I mean, I've seen bugs around that in code I've worked on and I've created bugs where it's a factor. Weakrefs are also a core part of the language: https://docs.python.org/3/library/weakref.html
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by aeturnum 4y ago
I wouldn't say shouldn't - they are free to do what they want. But this is a blog post about something that can trip you up that the docs highlight - which the author calls a "heisenbug". The author doesn't even h
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by aeturnum 4y ago
It's not a problem? The async interface isn't a problem either. It's just a thing you have to remember about python: "most input is truthy except for the input that isn't" "Most of the time you don't
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by aeturnum 4y ago
Oh, sorry, you are right - "" is false-y, even though it's a valid empty value. So it's hard to tell the difference between a value not being filled and a value being filled with an empty value. ex: answers = {} an
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by aeturnum 4y ago
I really think this writer doth protest too much. Yes, the base async interface is confusing and overly complex. It's a downside! As they note lots of people have stepped in to provide better helpers (like TaskGroups) - but these are t
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by aeturnum 4y ago
I do think that phones are in a sorry place - but this isn't exactly why. The industry is still based on the concept of a new model every year, but it has been years since there were obvious & universal reasons to get a new model.
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by aeturnum 4y ago
Getting some real Poe's law vibes off this post. > Meditation is terrible -> meditation is amazing > By “meditating” I mostly mean sitting around with my eyes closed. I haven’t done any research at all on what meditation is
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by aeturnum 4y ago
I do think we are in a moment of social upheaval and splintering (which started long before the pandemic). It's always been a bit of a fiction to say that there was anything in the US that people from all classes and backgrounds shared
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by aeturnum 4y ago
I'm not pretending anything? I'm saying that's a normal salary - not bad but not high. Not a very good basis, by itself, for picking a job. Also, low cost of living is great. I have a fully work from home position so I could
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by aeturnum 4y ago
Sure man - nothing I said disagrees with that. The parent comment wasn't saying "they do good work - you should consider it," it was talking about compensation. If you want to work for a three-letter-agency then go do it - yo
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by aeturnum 4y ago
There is absolutely money in work that requires a clearance. There always has been. I would also point out that, historically, a lot of "startup" culture comes directly from people fleeing from the more conservative east cost work
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by aeturnum 4y ago
Yes that is what I am saying.
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by aeturnum 4y ago
It's a fair question - but I would say yes? I know lots of people who have taken antidepressants and psychedelics and while both have been helpful the antidepressants have much more consistent effects (both person to person and dose to
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by aeturnum 4y ago
This is fantastic! I am generally very pro-psychadelic - they seem like they can offer unique aid to people and they are not very prone to abuse. The only "downside" is that, because outcomes vary widely (though are generally not
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by aeturnum 4y ago
This is the capitalist version of Vonnegut's "everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance." The kind of programming HFT firms want to do has vanishingly low diminishing returns basically everywhere else. They&
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by aeturnum 4y ago
Thank you - I had never seen it. This is great.
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by aeturnum 4y ago
Oh good note lol! I misremembered
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by aeturnum 4y ago
Makes me think of the famous "707 Barrel Roll" story from its initial testing: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/60-years-ago-the-f... “You know that. Now we know that. But just don’t do it anymore.”
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by aeturnum 4y ago
This does have enormous TED energy. I think the idea is to quickly touch on profiles of people whose world views (apparently?) contradict the authors and then to promote the idea of listening, with an open heart, to people who you believe a
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by aeturnum 4y ago
I don't think so. The problem is that you have a... thick 160μm plane (the 'target') that you need to orient exactly along another plane some distance away. You are going to need to mount things on the target and move them th
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by aeturnum 4y ago
I mean, I agree that such a kit would be hugely popular and useful. You just don't understand how hard the problem is. There's a reason that people pay thousands of dollars for twenty year old hardware. > I would be somewhat s
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by aeturnum 4y ago
Sure? Maybe? Do you have a working setup? When you get down to it - a scanner is "just" a really specific digital camera with a film holder. The problem is that quality is more about setting up the entire system consistently (film
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by aeturnum 4y ago
I'm not sure this is a good article, but I did have a similar sobering experience with ChatGPT. I asked it about a character I've been playing in a fighting game[1] and not only was its answer generally wrong - it seemed to have c
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by aeturnum 4y ago
I agree about AI, though for slightly different reasons. Google published the foundational paper for some of the most important tech behind the exciting AI stuff[1]. Because there's every reason to believe they are technically capable
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by aeturnum 4y ago
For sure! I don't mean it's universal at all - I'm saying the question is setup to catch people who are nor primed with the right enculturation. It's not good! It just is a good filter that selects for the sorts of peopl
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by aeturnum 4y ago
Part of life is learning when you'll be rewarded for following the rules v.s. breaking them. Employers will sometimes ask their employees to break the law. Will you break it for them? They want you "on their side" - meaning t

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