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by azeirah 8y ago
I find this a very hard point to deal with as well. If sickness is defined as a function of your own perception of how it limits you (analogous to "freedom"), that's fine for all illnesses that don't affect your percepti
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by azeirah 8y ago
> Physicians who cure must abstract person into functions. They threat the illness, not the person. And persons willfully present themselves as functions. Indeed, what sustains the enormous size and cost of the curing professions is the
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by azeirah 8y ago
Perhaps asyncio is just a bit more low-level than we're used to in Python. Maybe we'll end up with something analogous to the "requests" library, but then for asyncio...
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by azeirah 8y ago
> A number called "door" is conceivable (like superman) but it is not a possible under the rules of maths (or physics in superman's case) because "door" is not in that set of symbols. Certainly you are able to re
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by azeirah 8y ago
Occasionally, you can find great discussions on HN because HN has a large amount of domain experts on various sciencey topics. Apart from that, I don't really think HN is that incredibly fantastic. If you compare it with your average
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by azeirah 8y ago
What the fuck is that. I know you're not supposed to say fuck on HN, but seriously, what the fuck is that?!
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by azeirah 8y ago
I think mind-maps fit into that category, although I think /u/motohagiography is referring to something more specific than that.
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by azeirah 8y ago
Great, great, great stuff! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDq1AN1kSn4 Time travel debugging is insanely useful.
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by azeirah 8y ago
> Insanity is not comparable to languages or beliefs, they are severe dysfunctions, some or many of them genetically linked. I don't know man, I'm not exactly for the idea that insanity is a "social construct", but
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by azeirah 8y ago
You'd have to be doing something really computationally expensive or be running a very large operation to really need something expensive. Simple budget web hosting packages can easily handle tens of thousands of requests per hour for
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by azeirah 8y ago
Oh absolutely, a day of poor sleep takes two days to recover from in my personal experience ;(
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by azeirah 8y ago
There is a very clear and distinct difference between words changing meaning over time, and drastically changing the appearance of a word or symbol in previously written texts.
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by azeirah 8y ago
Sleep deprivation is linked to an increase in dopamine. I know this because I researched why I was able to concentrate better on nights with poor sleep compared to nights with great sleep. Oddly enough, for people with ADHD, a poor sleeping
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by azeirah 8y ago
This is a one person project. This clearly took a lot of time and effort. You can afford it to look at the TOC and get scrolled directly to various examples.
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by azeirah 8y ago
Oh nonononono please no, no black swan event. The highest voted comment in this thread is very right. I've worked on an X-ray machine during my second internship as an embedded engineer (fantastic internship!). My task was to optimize
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by azeirah 8y ago
#BEGINRAMBLE I personally feel there are multiple "levels" or "layers" to understanding a book. It's a bit loose, but I'd say technical books have "structure", "content", "detail"
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by azeirah 8y ago
The only reasonable approach is to adjust your reading speed based on the topic you're reading. Is it interesting or relevant? Read slower. Is it dense and complex? Read slower. Are you just scanning or reading for hobby/light int
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by azeirah 8y ago
I understand your point, but I feel like I should point out that consensual cannibalism does have a victim, the cannibal. Humans eating human meat (and likewise, cows eating cow-meat, pigs eating pig-meat) can cause some very very weird and
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by azeirah 8y ago
Oh yes definitely, it comes with root-access by default (and Vim preinstalled!). And there are interesting open-source libraries available to hack in new features: https://github.com/canselcik/libremarkable
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by azeirah 8y ago
I've tried maintaining a zettelkasten (zettelkasten?) Using software, but all available software just seemed overly convoluted and weird. Another huge problem was that I read everywhere, anywhere and anytime. Maintaining a zettelkasten
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by azeirah 8y ago
One slightly good thing about all of this is that at least the issue of light that is potentially harmful is fixable with technology. We will at some point have colored high-refreshrate e-ink monitors, I'm convinced of it. I'm loo
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by azeirah 8y ago
There is no light without darkness
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by azeirah 8y ago
Hollow knight, aside from Breath of the Wild, was my favorite game of the year. It's such a great, great game. It offers a fantastic atmosphere supported by a fitting score, an unexpected amount of unique content, an interesting story
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by azeirah 8y ago
I remember reading a paper a little while ago that stated that experts are better at their craft because they're better at ignoring unimportant and irrelevant input.
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by azeirah 8y ago
That solution might sound absurd, but what's the alternative? I implemented my own basic license validation server for an application I wrote, and I ended up doing the exact same thing. My server may go down every now and then, I don&#
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by azeirah 8y ago
I understand that this is just a back-of-the-napkin calculation, but I feel like the heating will have a more noticeable impact on the local environment (think 5km³), rather than considering all of our planet's oceans all at once.
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by azeirah 8y ago
Something like this as a very lightweight alternative to habitica would actually be pretty cool and useful. I could see myself collect points for finishing issues at work or something, and allow myself to "spend" points on more of
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by azeirah 8y ago
https error ;( insecure connection
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by azeirah 8y ago
It definitely has, I wanted to include the word "permanent" in my definition, but thought it'd be a bit much. I've experienced blackouts, extremely deep sleep (where you go to sleep and feel like you wake up a second lat
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by azeirah 8y ago
There's one conception of self that I consider fairly constant, my ability to consciously perceive what's going on around me. Despite the fact that all of my body's cells get replaced completely every 7 years, _the fact that

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