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by bowsamic 1y ago
In my opinion, all the best art expresses the "unknown knowns" of the human, i.e., the unconscious that has not been brought to light. Art is an expression of what is really true but not known. Knowing about it doesn't make i
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by bowsamic 1y ago
I don't like Dostoevsky but this is an insane take. Art doesn't just "get better" over time and depth and characterisation isn't everything either. Homer's Odyssey is still an incredible and fulfilling read. Li
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by bowsamic 1y ago
I agree but I find with these things there is a plateau that then requires real work to push through
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by bowsamic 1y ago
Yeah my stepdad bought me CODE as a kid and that really helped. A similar book that took a "top down" approach as much as possible would have also helped though, but would be much harder to pull off
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by bowsamic 1y ago
My wife and I learnt to do a bird call with our hands, the app actually identified it as a type of dove, we were very surprised
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by bowsamic 1y ago
Yeah the issue is that the pedagogy doesn’t make it clear how to bridge the “calculator” with the OS stuff. I had this issue when I was a kid. How does adding eventually make something draw on the screen? Of course, it doesn’t, you need som
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by bowsamic 1y ago
I agree, musical instruments also have the benefit of a much higher skill ceiling. That can also be a downside though, since it can make it frustrating to learn
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by bowsamic 1y ago
Why is it a bad argument?
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by bowsamic 1y ago
Why not?
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by bowsamic 1y ago
I don’t understand what this does that LaTeX does not, and though I haven’t checked I suspect the inverse is not the case Is very slightly more concise syntax worth it?
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by bowsamic 1y ago
This article doesn’t address literally THE argument I have against LLM usage: that it will degrade major human skills like reading, writing, and yes, coding But I’m at least grateful for LLMs making me more aware of how important it is for
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by bowsamic 1y ago
> Libraries like PyQt (which Calibre uses, for instance) make it feasible at all. Writing Qt in C++ or using QtQuick is really not that bad
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by bowsamic 1y ago
> Even at large events half the presenters appear to have never even seen the deck before In my experience in academia, most of them wrote the slides just before going up to present In fact it seems to be almost a badge of honour for the
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by bowsamic 1y ago
> Spend another hour rewatching the thing? Yes?
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by bowsamic 1y ago
What makes you think that?
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by bowsamic 1y ago
“ This stuff is such Noble Savage nonsense.” is not reasonable EDIT do the down voters wish to explain themselves?
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by bowsamic 1y ago
Talks are mission critical. I wouldn’t trust anything other than keynote or a pdf, or PowerPoint at a push
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by bowsamic 1y ago
Yeah for sure. Reminds me of people who use LaTeX for their talks and inevitably fill them with equations. It’s just not what slides are for (Though I’d admit that LaTeX is good for lectures with lots of maths)
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by bowsamic 1y ago
I’d expect more like 80% non messy
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by bowsamic 1y ago
> it's just a bunch of normal people trying to solve a problem under a ton of constraints. What makes you think that doesn’t involve craftsmanship?
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by bowsamic 1y ago
I am a Luddite, happily. They were right
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by bowsamic 1y ago
He is not a real engineer, not a real human even I don’t worry about his job, good riddance
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by bowsamic 1y ago
I’m a little concerned by the number of people here who seem to think it is totally normal to need to wipe a lot after going to the toilet. Is that a feature of the American diet?
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by bowsamic 1y ago
Even if you’re using the tools, you should not be. A good engineer cares about his craft, not just being maximally efficient. You will regret this
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by bowsamic 1y ago
The answer is probably who knows since we are talking about software from 1985 which was only updated once since 1988 to clarify its licensing
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by bowsamic 1y ago
It’s how the bibtex author field is defined. You don’t get free choice here. As far as I’m aware bibtex defines and as the separator https://bibtex.eu/fields/author/
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by bowsamic 1y ago
Does this have any actual grounding in reality or does your lack of suggestion for action confirm my suspicion that this is just a theoretical wish?
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by bowsamic 1y ago
> caring capacity feels like a biological limit I agree with that. At some point you just give up because there's literally nothing left for you to give. I've learnt to be very selective with what I choose to care about
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by bowsamic 1y ago
I’ve never come across a doctor who doesn’t start by advising physio exercises
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by bowsamic 1y ago
People will do anything to not address the fundamental weaknesses that are the true causes of their issues. They have wrist pain so they try and fix their wrist with crazy setups, even though they have huge tightness in their traps and neve

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