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by beaker52 3y ago
but then what if I force them to unwillingly punch you in the face and shout "NO!"? I'm sure we can factor all this into the p-value somehow.
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by beaker52 3y ago
It's quite a fun thought experiment to think about how you might avoid this bias. Send Blackhawk helicopters to collect samples by force? Was there bias in the selection technique? What about the people genetically predisposed to avoid
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by beaker52 3y ago
Oh, great point. I believe this is why chanting meditation is a thing - they make internal chatter harder. There's also a pretty popular book that claims existence started with the word.
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by beaker52 3y ago
I’ve consistently found AHK to be so full-of-potential yet difficult-to-extract-value-from. I’ve never managed to get anything useful out of it.
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by beaker52 3y ago
I would have found it much more intuitive to understand had the breadboard been in the vertical orientation.
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by beaker52 3y ago
The ego has a million-and-one (and, always one more) ways to subtly cling to anyone trying to rid themselves of it. As far as I can tell, from observations in myself, and of others, the ego is only something you can manage. You can experien
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by beaker52 3y ago
I’m a minor hoarder of stuff. Mainly because of a few reasons: - “Never know when I might need it”. - Selling things sucks. The market is really unpleasant. Even donating things is a challenge, find an interested recipient, and arranging tr
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Cloud Cost Handbook: Cloud pricing explained in simple terms(handbook.vantage.sh)
3 points by beaker52 3y ago|0 comments
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by beaker52 3y ago
I remember when this was mind blowing, although not perfect, in Splinter Cell, on the Xbox, some 20 years ago. Now it’s almost flawless on my phone.
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by beaker52 3y ago
Location: London, UK Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Unlikely, but would consider for the right opportunity Tech: TypeScript, Golang, AWS, Serverless, SQL. Resume: https://lukebarton.co.uk (Out of date) Email: luke@lukebarton.c
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by beaker52 3y ago
So how exactly are we supposed to do things then? Just start putting in effort and communicate vaguely for maximum directionless effort? That sounds like the kind of activity that needs to be shut down to me. So here we are at two schools:
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by beaker52 3y ago
A “best books to read” list full of the author’s own books, except for the subjects he hasn’t written one for yet.
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by beaker52 3y ago
> Haggle over precise wordings of communications, minutes, resolutions. > Advocate “caution.” Be “reasonable” and urge your fellow-conferees to be “reasonable” and avoid haste which might result in embarrassments or difficulties later
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by beaker52 3y ago
Over the years I’ve found myself more and more interested in designing systems than paying for existing system design mistakes - I want to help people learn to avoid them. (Coming at this from software engineer). To me, it’s clear that desi
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by beaker52 3y ago
Agreed. Thank you for the contribution. Thinking as a reader, I’d also like add to your note: and this does not mean microservices (another technical practice) automatically gives you this either. The microservices (optionally) come after d
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by beaker52 3y ago
I can tell a story about a company that missed out on opportunity _because_ they didn’t rewrite early enough. A friend of mine worked for a business that had a product that was supposed to be built to a specification provided by a regulator
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by beaker52 3y ago
This is awesome. Exactly what I want. Equipment, muscle group selection, simply ui, autoplay straight to the point videos - nothing between me and working out. It’s pretty much the perfect UX for me because anything that’s not aimed doing t
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by beaker52 3y ago
The solution is almost always “fuck around and find out” (FAFO).
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by beaker52 3y ago
The infinite virtual reality escape comes nearer
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by beaker52 3y ago
Somehow, for reasons I can’t explain, I know that’s hn-orange without even looking. Edit: I figured it out. The user settings page shows the color - mine is set to ff6600 which was close enough to trigger parts of my brain.
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by beaker52 4y ago
I wonder how many VPN providers are going to turn out to be honeypots in the long run. Every time they make it easier, I get more suspicious about the privacy really being provided. Perhaps I’m just really distrustful and cynical.
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by beaker52 4y ago
I get the intention. The challenge for me is that I don’t have any notion of flicking from one task to another, so I’d install this and guaranteed use it once, maybe twice. Then poof, I’ve forgotten all about it and I’d rediscover it next t
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by beaker52 4y ago
Application Launchers are cmd + space replacements that usually come with host of useful features and a plugin interface of some kind. They’re just better than Spotlight - period. Check out Raycast - it’s the new kid on the block. Alfred is
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by beaker52 4y ago
If I’ve learnt anything about myself, it’s that I’ll read the book, get motivated, enjoy a period of improvement, fall off the horse and be back here scrolling HN in bed in a few weeks. The best improvement I’ve found is to just simply stop
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by beaker52 4y ago
I can relate to a lot of what you just said, including the meditation retreat. I feel compelled to ask: have you ever felt like you’re just playing a game with yourself with all your problems? Like sometimes it feels like I’ve got all these
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by beaker52 4y ago
I posit that the primary reason for this is that humans are bad at correlating cause and effect where there is a large delay between cause and effect - or the effect is not what was expected.
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by beaker52 4y ago
For some people, emulating “normal” social behaviour can be taxing on many levels and perhaps “normal” seems extremely odd to them. I’d sleep on the idea of ostracising people with social issues because it can hasten a downward spiral. In a
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by beaker52 4y ago
I’m noticing a pattern in your arguments. You need to understand that I (and I suspect many others) don’t have the same experience as you. I don’t _fight/battle with_ the type system, I work with the type system - and I enjoy it. It sa
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Taskrunner – A configurable taskrunner written and configured in Go(github.com)
1 points by beaker52 4y ago|0 comments
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by beaker52 4y ago
“Stop. We’ve understood you and now we should consider other perspectives. Anne, what’s on your mind?”

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