benrbray

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by benrbray 5y ago
Agreed, I did the same! I do still get fatigued wearing them, but it takes a bit longer. I love it for city walks / cycling where it's important to be aware of my surroundings.
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Similarly, it took a few months of learning to read Haskell before I felt comfortable writing more than just a couple lines. I like the idea of code reviews in an interview though! Seeing how someone approaches a new code base would be a
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Some of the problematic intersections in Atlanta have slowly been replaced with scrambles, and it's amazing as a pedestrian. I hope to see more and more of those!
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by benrbray 5y ago
Can you or any other traffic engineers here tell me why we find it acceptable that cars are allowed to make unprotected left turns while pedestrians have a walk signal? Right turn on red is bad enough, but unprotected lefts give drivers a
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by benrbray 5y ago
For one, I think it is irresponsible to leave math graduates so woefully unprepared to enter the workforce. There are not enough PhD slots for everyone to attend graduate school, nor should they. Math students can be very effective in the
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by benrbray 5y ago
> A big one being that you need to refresh the page to see a new response which really changes the dynamic of a conversation. This is not high on my list of complaints, and I'd even venture to say it is an advantage . Asynchronous
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by benrbray 5y ago
I vouched for this comment not because I fully agree, but because I like how provocative it is.
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As I mentioned elsewhere, my biggest complaint about my undergrad math education is that the topics felt entirely disjoint. We could take courses in any order, and it effectively felt like we started over from scratch each semester, rather
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by benrbray 5y ago
I think category theory can help to give a "roadmap" for what the basic theorems of each course will be. Personally, as a student, I always felt like my courses jumped around too much without explanation, and like I could never s
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by benrbray 5y ago
I don't mean to say that category should be the primary focus of the undergraduate curriculum, just that professors shouldn't shy away from using a bit of category theory to elucidate the connections between different subfields of
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by benrbray 5y ago
I've recently been studying category theory, mostly from Riehl's book, a few years after finishing my undergraduate math degree at a well-regarded school. I can't help but feel a little cheated that not one of my professors
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by benrbray 5y ago
Indeed. I have an otherwise quite reasonable friend whose stance on Xinjiang province is: "The camps aren't real, it's just an exaggeration. And if they're real, it's because the Xinjiang people are there voluntar
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It "just works" with no local setup.
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> your health should be yours There are limits to each of these. If you are suggesting that your vaccination status is yours alone to share, quite a few people will disagree with you, and for good reason. Even the bill of rights we do
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by benrbray 5y ago
> It is understood that that limits on freedom of movement are, generally speaking, a bad thing. This doesn't mean they should never be put in place. Yeah. The last year and a half has been a foray into the "gray areas" o
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by benrbray 5y ago
It's called a "chilling effect" [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilling_effect
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by benrbray 5y ago
Can you give an example of a language that does not have an AST?? Homoiconicity may be slightly more convenient but it is certainly not necessary.
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by benrbray 5y ago
That's not really what most atheists are in practice. I just live my life without ever even thinking about religion, except when someone tries to use theirs to take my right to marry away. It does not factor into my daily life at all
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by benrbray 5y ago
Probably needs a (2006) as the cultural context of the time is quite important.
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You have that backwards. Housing can only be affordable if it's not a good investment. If it's a good investment, people will buy houses expecting to get much more out of it than just a place to stay. Look at Japan, for exam
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by benrbray 5y ago
Isn't it normally the property owners who rally against new housing developments to artificially raise the value of their own property?
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by benrbray 5y ago
The free market means that renters looking for a place to live have to compete with vacationers and business travelers willing to pay hotel nightly prices.
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by benrbray 5y ago
https://xkcd.com/2501/
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You don't indicate a political slant, but this is an alt-right take on American politics if I've ever seen one. I would counter with: For a couple hundred years, Americans insisted 2+2=5. It was even enshrined in law for the fir
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by benrbray 5y ago
"Your address is in the poor side of town, so obviously your cost of living is less and I don't need to pay you as much!"
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by benrbray 5y ago
What is the advantage of this format over CSL-JSON [1] or BibTeX, which are already supported by software like pandoc? There is even a standard YAML citation format [2] used within YAML metadata for Markdown files, so I wonder why GitHub c
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by benrbray 5y ago
My own feeling is that many of these people were not born evil, but their life circumstances as children (e.g. extreme poverty or abuse by family members) set them on a bad trajectory that's quite hard to correct for in adulthood. I th
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by benrbray 5y ago
Athens [1] is an even better free and open source alternative, started by someone who was rejected [2] for a Clojure job at Roam! Athens was even accepted to YC [3]. [1] https://github.com/athensresearch/athens [2] h
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by benrbray 5y ago
Cities with public transit still have roads, if that's what you prefer. More people on trains means less people on the roads, which is better for everyone. I think people should have free choice over what mode of transport they use,
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by benrbray 5y ago
Seattle / SF are both still very car-centric and have pretty bad public transit. Unfortunately I don't know of any places in the United States that are representative of what I'm talking about, outside some small pockets whi

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