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by asxd 5y ago
The three pronunciations I've heard used are "kar", "char" (like "charge"), and "care".
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by asxd 5y ago
I hope it's not too outdated, but if it is I'd be really interested in a newer article that's written like this. I really appreciated the simple breakdown of the supply chain. As a total outsider, I've always really wa
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by asxd 5y ago
As another person who left a FAANG company because I found the work meaningless, I can assure you that what you were feeling is real and you probably made the right choice. My life is significantly more enjoyable now that I’ve joined a smal
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by asxd 5y ago
> to get their point across I love this phrasing, as I think it sums up the difference between dogs and other animals with regards to human communication. It's possible to communicate with other animals if you put in the effort, but
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by asxd 5y ago
I would imagine wolves weren't to easy domesticate either
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by asxd 5y ago
That's a good point. They've definitely been bred for their ability to communicate with us. I know it's a bit tangential, but I do like the fact we have a kind of sister species in that way. I sometimes wonder what it would b
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by asxd 5y ago
It is pretty amazing the extent of understanding you can achieve with an animal. After a year or so raising my pup, it feels like we have both picked up certain signals to communicate. He paws at me and then sits by the front door when he
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by asxd 5y ago
I think you're right, but it's hard to argue that flying is both an amazing human achievement and is also just the worst. Edit: Wow, re-listening to the bit, my memory definitely failed me. Basically a rant on how we should be gra
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by asxd 5y ago
Exactly, it can be polite to check if someone is ready to chat synchronously, but doesn't make much sense otherwise.
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by asxd 5y ago
Baffled (horrified?) me at first, but the timestamps make it pretty clear sarcasm. The only time hello should be used in a slack channel is in the context of "hey, this still a good time for a call?"
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by asxd 5y ago
> The non paying customers become much less valuable to advertisers I can see this being true, but I'm curious why. Is this because the advertisers know the paying customers have the cash to pay for the service?
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by asxd 5y ago
I don't know much about the relationship between solo founders and YC, but I enjoyed these responses when I asked: Does YC love solo founders AI Paul Graham: YC loves solo founders, but it's not a good idea to tell the YC partn
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by asxd 5y ago
I'm always kind of reminded of Louis C.K's old bit about how humans learned to literally fly , and it turns out the whole experience sucks.
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by asxd 5y ago
Oh wow, I hope you can appreciate what a perfect example that is of the adversarial environment consumers find themselves in. "Read the contract because it is likely a bad idea and you shouldn't do it." Granted, in the car de
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by asxd 5y ago
I bought a sleep number bed, and now after like 2 years, suddenly one of the bedsides has decided to completely deflate around 5am every night, waking me up and forcing me to open up my phone and tell it to reinflate. I haven't contact
46.
by asxd 5y ago
Looks like 4D toys is VR-supported: https://store.steampowered.com/app/619210/4D_Toys/
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by asxd 5y ago
Yeah, it seems to be pretty heavily trained on Python. It's honestly still (and should be used as) a glorified autocomplete, which is pretty useful from time to time.
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by asxd 5y ago
For python it seems to generate a more reasonable result at least: # Swap the sixth bit and seventeenth bit of a 32-bit signed integer. def swap_bits(x): # Get the bit at position 6 and 17. bit6 = x & (1 <&l
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by asxd 5y ago
In solidarity with sibling comments, I also want to say that IPython has been pretty much my default shell for about a decade now. Auto completion, magic functions (paste, edit, pylab come to mind), auto reload, nice colors out of the box..
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by asxd 5y ago
Sorry, I should have clarified, that’s not at all what I meant. I’m thinking about if it’s bound by current theory, not current tech. Obviously we can’t do this today, or probably in my lifetime.
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by asxd 5y ago
Say you were immortal and witnessed a supernova from a million light-years away. Eventually, after another million years have passed, you meet another immortal who happened to be right next to the supernova when it happened. When talking to
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by asxd 5y ago
Probably unlikely, yeah. It would have to be the result of several lucky and serendipitous events, I'm sure. The idea of seeing into the past seems so other-worldly though, it's hard not to dream :-)
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by asxd 5y ago
Good point, I was being idealistic and imagining space as a perfect vacuum.
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by asxd 5y ago
Why not? If it can be seen from just a few miles outside the atmosphere, and the light continues to travel without obstruction through the vacuum of space, couldn't it be seen from millions of light years away as well?
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by asxd 5y ago
It's cool to think that first contact between two space-faring civilizations could potentially involve a mutual exchange of detailed historical imagery that neither civilization could have captured on their own.
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by asxd 5y ago
This is admittedly a bit over my head, but does that mean it is technically possible that an image of earth could be captured from the distance needed to see Pangaea? Thinking about this has sparked a bunch of questions I hadn't thou
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by asxd 5y ago
Always blows my mind that because light travels through space, you can literally see into the past. Imagine, way way down the line, eventually meeting a civilization from a far away planet, and they could potentially show you actual photogr
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by asxd 5y ago
Yep. The fear is real. I used to be close to someone who had regular panic attacks, and now after my own experience I feel awful about not taking them more seriously.
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by asxd 5y ago
I went to the emergency room after working from home for ~6 months when the pandemic hit. I was having severe chest pain, shaking uncontrollably, and feeling very uneasy. I thought something was really wrong, and ended up going to the emerg
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by asxd 5y ago
I don't have a great answer for that, as it's still something I occasionally struggle with. I try to pick work where I can closely collaborate with another person. It sounds silly and maybe a bit childish, but just knowing someone

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