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by azeirah 7y ago
Schizophrenia is not limited to visual hallucinations though, interesting ;o
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by azeirah 7y ago
Ted Nelson is one of the most important figures in computing history. Everything on the web prefixed with the word "hyper" is his invention. It saddens me that he doesn't get the recognition he deserves. He wrote a couple of
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by azeirah 7y ago
Thanks for the reply, your line of thought makes a lot of sense. Most people I know, even the ones that care about the climate don't know about carbon offsets. If your primary purpose is to reach a wider audience, I applaud your effort
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by azeirah 7y ago
As I understand it, the voluntary purchase of carbon credits and offsets is already accessible to the public and to small to mid-sized companies, no? I am fully with you on the importance of acting now on any grounds we can, politically, fi
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by azeirah 7y ago
The article is vague about the significance of the bacteria being able to thrive on the meteorites. Are these metals rare on Earth? Was it unexpected that the bacteria could survive on the meteorite?
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by azeirah 7y ago
Maybe the materialist standpoint is right, but even though the measurements are similar doesn't at all have to mean the outcomes are similar. The devil's in the details
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by azeirah 7y ago
I do agree. I stand with SSC's criticisms about the details, but I do believe that despite its flaws, it does communicate a very important message effectively. Namely, that your mental health is part of your body, not part of your mind
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by azeirah 7y ago
Phone calls are outdated, what do you think of extremely popular voice chat applications such as discord?
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by azeirah 7y ago
Oh, I hadn't finished reading the article when I posted this comment. Addressing essential complexity is discussed in the last part of the article ;x
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by azeirah 7y ago
If the conceptual construct is made of concepts, and the power of high-level languages comes from being able to write software in concepts similar to the construct's concepts... He states that the accidental complexity comes from mappi
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Ask HN: Are You Carbon Neutral?
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by azeirah 7y ago
I made it clear that there are upsides. It's a tradeoff, not "gurus bad".
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by azeirah 7y ago
> Sometimes splitting out code makes sense by making the underlying structure clearer, sometimes it makes it bothersome to find the actual important details. Yeah, that seems to be something I'll have to spend some time learning abo
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by azeirah 7y ago
Sure, all I mean is that I get frustrated and lose unnecessarily much time being distracted by keeping a model of how the function works and how variables interact in my head. I have ADHD so my working memory isn't fantastic for these
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by azeirah 7y ago
I typically find it very difficult to understand complex functions, (100+ lines of code, ~3 or more nesting levels deep) and even simpler complex functions (mixing 2-3 concepts into a 15 line function). I've only just started doing TDD
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by azeirah 7y ago
I wouldn't look at it that negatively. Programming is like speaking a language, I don't mean what programming language you "speak" (ie, c++, or java, or whatever), but how you're used to speaking in it. Like real la
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by azeirah 7y ago
I get literal goosebumps from music. Not a figure of speech in the slightest.
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by azeirah 7y ago
Free speech has never before included a history of moods over a period of time for any person. It's uncomfortable. Besides, don't the posts belong to either the user or to HN, so that those mood graphs can be GDPR'd?
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by azeirah 7y ago
I have never looked into his political beliefs, and I don't care for it either. He has been a massive help for me in managing my symptoms, and helping me see how my brain works, and why I keep falling on my head in certain areas. I als
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by azeirah 7y ago
Lists, logs, writing, post-its, Todo lists etcetcetc. I tend to forget stuff even while I'm doing it, so it helps a million if what I'm doing is written on a Post-It right in front of me. Also, to keep track of tasks, problems, to
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by azeirah 8y ago
Yeah, before I got diagnosed with ADHD (and got meds), I would only read documentation in special situations, as a last resort; ie, almost never.
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by azeirah 8y ago
> All of the full stack examples use a mock server embedded in the browser to simulate the interaction, but the source that you’ll read for the application is identical to what you’d write for a real server. God, I'm loving this alr
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by azeirah 8y ago
That's slightly odd to me, that description sounds like it would better for a dissociative disorder.
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by azeirah 8y ago
I was really hoping for a "418 - I'm a teapot" kind of situation here :(
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by azeirah 8y ago
For what it's worth, what I got out of the article was nothing like what you described, rather, it made me think of the importance of reading about history. By talking about what he did, and why he did it within the context of his cult
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by azeirah 8y ago
His point is, as far as I understand, that we should keep studying biological systems as inspiration for our computational systems, not for the short term (5-10 years) but long term (100-500 years). Sussman equally has famous lectures on th
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by azeirah 8y ago
I said I wasn't sure, but it's what Alan keeps coming back to, his roots in biology and mathematics, scaling, and scaling through communication. It's obviously a bit wooshy, but I'm pretty sure that's the gist of wh
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by azeirah 8y ago
The big idea of message passing is that it's not about message passing, I think what Alan Kay has been trying to say all these year is that we should look at how bacteria communicate, and try to mimic that. They communicate by sending
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by azeirah 8y ago
Emacs is great, and Sublime has many drawbacks, as well as some poorly implemented features (like, the macros are basically worthless except for a very select few operations)... But Sublime Text simply outclasses any other Text Editor in th
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by azeirah 8y ago
There is a great benchmark somewhere on Github, it measures 5-ish metrics, like key->rendered latency, time to load 100MB file, and stuff like that. Apparently, the Joe editor was the fastest, and Sublime has basically first or second pl

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