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by catchclose8919 4y ago
> the vast surface area of the project makes it hard to hold all of it in my head at once ...yep, in general one of the root causes of having to do this kind of nasty work was someone (maybe even your past self) having failed badly at d
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by catchclose8919 4y ago
Yes, this getting clarifications one drop at a time , or being unable to clarify things before doing them. The KILLER extra topping for me is when you lack any kind of quick-iterative-feedback-loop too. Eg. maybe it's cloud infra
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by catchclose8919 4y ago
> ambiguity can be solved by random action This 100%. I've learnt the hard way that the only way to get unstuck at this kind of hellish work is random action - I'm biased to over-analyzing the problem so get stuck because I c
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by catchclose8919 4y ago
You're lucky. You'll see it when you step in it. "Easy but ambigous" sounds paradoxical, maybe the terms are not correct, but it is a very very different thing totally different than the other two . Maybe there's a
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by catchclose8919 4y ago
> there are problems that are solvable by throwing a lot of human-hours at it (“Hard Work”), and problems that are not a function of raw work hours, but rather require dealing with ambiguity (“Difficult Problems”) There's also the 3
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by catchclose8919 4y ago
Thanks for the advice, but I hate cardio and running and aerobic exercise especially . Bench pressing and "cardio but done 'worng'" - eg. heavy biking or thredmill running, but with rare/insufficient breathing. May
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by catchclose8919 4y ago
> and the birth of my son [...] Before exercise I would drink one bottle per week It's also the getting used with the little monster, can state that from experience... to me at least alchohol was a must-have drug to reduce & con
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by catchclose8919 4y ago
Anecdata: exercise massively reduces my otherwise constant craving for processed sugars, deep fried and smoked or cured things, alcohol and smokes. I'm not less hungry, but I'm less hungry for nasty stuff, so from my perspective
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by catchclose8919 4y ago
Not sure why you're downvoted, but I'm 100% like you. Tbh, lots of non-overpriced products that I really like tend to disappear or be hard to find, so I just learned to settle for (a) a healthy enough cheap enough alternative th
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by catchclose8919 4y ago
You gave no way of "guesstimating" how bad/good the signal is and how easy it is to improve detecting it once you start working on it. Maybe cell do quire often leak more DNA than you'd expect, maybe there's some dr
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by catchclose8919 4y ago
100% this - but good luck fixing that, since the people who'd have expected contenteditable to work are the ones that want to unify input and output... so it's an intractable mess you basically want an UI for inputing and validati
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by catchclose8919 4y ago
I suggest accepting that we need a way to capture arbitrary structured text (lists/tree/graphs of text fields) that will then be rendable either as paragraphs or as tables or as collapsible trees or even navigable graph maps or
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by catchclose8919 4y ago
eh, if it's salty + sour it's probably ok ;) nothing acidic enough is hospitable for botulism, afaik most traditional pickling recipes involve quite high acidity from high levels of lactic acid induced fermentation... and in gener
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by catchclose8919 4y ago
A paragraph is a different text box. Sure, a standard method to work with links and emphasis would help, but that's about where we should stop. A bulleted list is [add new element] > [buleted list] -> a container with text fields
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by catchclose8919 4y ago
...or add instructions to "have text between _underscores for italics_ and **double stars for bold** - just adopt a subset of markdown and be done with it - we need to stop catering to humanity's lowest common denominator.
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by catchclose8919 4y ago
The solution to the problem people have is almost never "rich text editing", it's "structured content editing & management. Eg. smth more like https://wagtail.org/
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by catchclose8919 4y ago
clients should only ever input plain text it's the application that should decide how it's to be displayed in different contexts you're fighting the web if you're trying to do it otherwise, but then again, everybody is n
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by catchclose8919 4y ago
that's because "rich text" is at odds with everyhting the web is supposed to be... like separating structure and semantics from styling with html and css etc. sure, the "semantic web" failed, but that's the his
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by catchclose8919 4y ago
Also > a single disorganized pile Nobody proposes a "single disorganized pile". Sure, it's hard to eg. put bite-sized examples + condesed 'why' explanations into API docs and to maintain such docs, but it's
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by catchclose8919 4y ago
> trying to inhabit all personas at once is exhausting There's no personas, developers don't have three different brains they keep in the fridge and swap the ones in their head with. Just admit that sure, interweaving informati
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by catchclose8919 4y ago
...this is questionable advice that goes against the interest of programmers having stuff to do - we're not segmented into audiences. We want multi-level docs combined/spliced/interwoven together so we can get our work done w
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by catchclose8919 4y ago
Article is confusing and gives zero actionable advice + a fancy "triangle". In general, after you get to a piece of code you need to have thre questions answered: - what problem does this solve? - this is actually the problem
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by catchclose8919 4y ago
> - the theorist (explanations) Further it's explained that this is where the "understanding" bit comes in. Ugh, so this school of thought is where some of the terrible modern documentation comes from... I want the expl
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by catchclose8919 4y ago
The article come from a long line of reasons that no longer has anything useful to say nowaday. We don't ask priets to bless our computers to avoid security issues, and we shouldn't bother listening to these "philosphers&qu
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by catchclose8919 4y ago
EDIT: OK, what I said is quite wrong or at least misleading, see forum_ghost's comment for discussion of importance of catalytic and enzyme inhibitor/activator activity of such compounds. --- ...generally a chemical that doesn&#x2
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by catchclose8919 4y ago
> I agree that it's "mystical" to postulate that consciousness is fundamental; but it's equally mystical to assume that matter is fundamental. Sure using "matter" like this without defining it is equally mys
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by catchclose8919 4y ago
well, when the most devious thing ou can do is less/nothing... this is the big nasty ethical dilema with climate change and access to medicine... maybe evils vs stupid is just two sides of the same coin...
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by catchclose8919 4y ago
US, Canada, and some parts of Europe could also have a similar "silent" perspective... things will get worse, buy they'll be able to maintain a competitive advantage (so relatively speaking it could get better for them) a
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by catchclose8919 4y ago
...so you're just using "Brahma" to refer to the computer that is running the simulation that is the universe. And when the simulation becomes aware of its own condition, it becomes conscious? This is just rephrasing of the s
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by catchclose8919 4y ago
- a business analysts is not a non-technical stakeholder - the real end-user would quite likely care about some details because they'd know it will directly affect their lives (but you'll likely not get the actual end-user i

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