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by buzzybee 10y ago
Stoicism is about achieving freedom, mindfulness is incidental to that.
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by buzzybee 10y ago
I know what my parents say about the starts of their careers. Dad: abject strong-silence, refuses to reminisce because it makes him look less competent, I hear about all the odd jobs he tried before programming from Mom Mom: playing music
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by buzzybee 10y ago
As tempting as a purely generational hypothesis is, it's challenging to point the finger at such a huge population as "sociopaths". Many of the 60's radicals and celebrities were born a little bit too early to be categor
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by buzzybee 10y ago
I'm tempted to dismiss the Taleb paper as "lies, damned lies, and statistics". It has to do some rather complicated things to reach its conclusion, which correlates well with massaging data to fit an argument, and seeing as t
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by buzzybee 10y ago
The evidence continues building for the case that colonial Europe rewrote world history to maximally justify conquest.
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by buzzybee 10y ago
Nobody has mentioned the Minimoog Model D and its modern variants(Voyager, Sub37, etc.), so I will. As synthesizer instruments go, it's astoundingly hard to match the number of "sweet spots" the genuine article has. There are
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by buzzybee 10y ago
This isn't exactly true. Games from as early as the Amiga era were known to have been ported by interpreting the gameplay code from the lead release platform(typically, an 8-bit computer or the Atari ST which in its early years put up
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by buzzybee 10y ago
You can find many examples of this on TCRF: https://tcrf.net/Category:Games_with_uncompiled_source_code It tends to be an artifact of the build process, yes. Sometimes it vacuums up other random files like the developer&#x2
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by buzzybee 10y ago
This may be true of publisher in-house development teams, but I've seen and worked at third party studios that do little to nothing about post-release archival, a fact connected to having minimal IT controls and the end of a project of
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by buzzybee 10y ago
The strategy I take now when confronted with something like this (in internal codebases, since I don't work on standards) is to refactor the interior implementation to include a new module with a "now and later" view: it does
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by buzzybee 10y ago
The opportunity already came and went. Four years in means four years of catching up to do. If you come at it with more funding and a larger company structure you might be able to kill DistroKid by burning through a lot of cash, but you won
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by buzzybee 10y ago
From a mathematical perspective, synchronous code is strictly more powerful and say-what-i-mean. Asynchronous code is closer to how a (modern) computing system functions in practice. And yes, a large percentage of our use-cases for callback
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by buzzybee 10y ago
I remember noticing a more deliberate approach to trash in European cities when I visited. Not just throwing it anywhere but setting used cans etc. in the corner, out of the way.
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by buzzybee 10y ago
This makes me think of Notch, or Pewdiepie.
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by buzzybee 10y ago
I think there are at least three or four things that keep Gatsby compelling: * The prose style keeps a consistent balance of fluid/grounded and imaginative the whole way through. It's nowhere near as "sticky" as other li
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by buzzybee 10y ago
I recommend this book[0] to anyone interested in the historical origins of this sort of inverted subtext. It makes a strong case for esotericism as a way to impose a barrier to entry on intellectual sophomores, to duck critique from authori
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by buzzybee 10y ago
As soon as I saw a logic gate implemented for a single keypress I was "noping" out of there. Visual methods, to a one, break down quickly when they reproduce low-level digital logic. At that point, you have a software circuit boar
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by buzzybee 10y ago
That never stopped Bittorrent.
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by buzzybee 10y ago
I use a to-do ordered by perceived energy and alternate between low and high energy tasks over the course of the day. On most days this means that I do a lot of low energy things and few or no high energy things, but as with the structured
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by buzzybee 10y ago
I get the impression that Starship is doing test deployments in many different cities. The videos are probably indeed intended as press pushes, but they make a lot of them, they try a lot of different locations and conditions, and they inte
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by buzzybee 10y ago
Imzy is probably what you want. It's very clearly messaged from the beginning that moderation is important.
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by buzzybee 10y ago
This is really admirable stuff and I share this kind of goal even though I'm not working in APL style at this time, though I understand the appeal of shifting in that direction as more of the code gets abstract - and it necessarily sho
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by buzzybee 10y ago
That depends a bit on whether you're more characteristically interested in rhetorical dominance and being "in it to win it", or are just asking questions and intent on knowing what you don't know. For the former group HN
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by buzzybee 10y ago
It took some effort but I did make Win 10 reasonably snappy for me on a Lenovo Ideapad designed for Win 8 with a few tricks: Using a script to disable all the tracking(the only thing I haven't disabled, but probably should, is the Smar
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by buzzybee 10y ago
I'm more familiar with this model popping up in large developing-world cities that have exceeded the capability of governance to provide transit, e.g. much of Africa is like this, with a host of small independents each running their ow
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by buzzybee 10y ago
Would extend this to: "keep your personal data backed up too" - and for low-value or low-security data, it's easily done with consumer commercial services, since they're designed to allow you to be lazy and have no backu
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by buzzybee 10y ago
Try a "back-to-basics" approach of writing less structured code, as in, factor it less, use more plain data structures, just write straight-line imperative blocks of code. This is actually the path of least resistance in most lang
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by buzzybee 10y ago
The standard already exists in the pro audio world, and it's called MIDI. It supports on and off events with velocity, controllers with ranges, multiple channels, real-time synchronization, sequencing, daisy-chaining, full-duplex bidir
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by buzzybee 10y ago
Here's why it's "freshman philosophy": Nobody cares that you can define terms, point out fallacies, or use labels - any schoolchild can do that stuff. Simply, the arguments you've made are bloodless rhetoric without
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by buzzybee 10y ago
It's a problem with a fractal shape. It's not really specific to microservices or SV big tech. To elaborate: 1. An individual software developer might bias towards feature delivery, performance optimizations, extension hooks, test

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