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by cgh 3y ago
To help with some of the math required by general relativity, there's a good series on YouTube by the user "eigenchris" on tensor calculus, which I found helpful for a geometric intuition of what's going on. He also has
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by cgh 3y ago
George Carlin didn't understand the difference between mean and median. Whether this makes him one of the stupid people is an exercise for the reader.
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by cgh 3y ago
So in theory, there are still plenty of people writing 6502 assembly for a living? How crazy would it be to get paid for writing code for these things that I first messed around with when I was 10 years old via my C64.
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by cgh 3y ago
Canada has an Office of the Privacy Commissioner whose job it is to actively promote privacy rights and respond to complaints about abuses: https://www.priv.gc.ca/en/about-the-opc/
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by cgh 3y ago
I notice you skipped “Dhalgren”. Probably for the best.
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by cgh 3y ago
[Somewhat offtopic] Speaking of Zig, I understand concurrent programming is undergoing a rethink of some sort as async has been temporarily removed? I am only following cutting-edge Zig peripherally so I am probably wrong here. Does anyone
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by cgh 3y ago
Correct, I believe it originated with Microsoft via .Net in the mid-2000s and was picked up by the JS ecosystem much later. The fact that Microsoft had a hand in async/await’s emergence may influence how people feel about it.
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by cgh 3y ago
This study details the protocol used, which has patients brace-free and fully weight-bearing at 15 weeks. There are exercises to minimize muscle wasting but yeah, some is unavoidable.
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by cgh 3y ago
Related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_argument This is worth a read for those unfamiliar with this argument. Essentially, it’s a way to make a probabilistic guess for when humans will go extinct based on the
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by cgh 3y ago
Bloom isn't a fan of Pynchon? Not sure how you could exclude him from such a list.
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by cgh 3y ago
Calling the Border Trilogy a coming-of-age story is...one way to look at it for sure, given how it all ends. I love "The Crossing", top three McCarthy for me (the others being "Blood Meridian" of course and "Child o
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by cgh 3y ago
As a kid, I created games for my C64 using Garry Kitchen’s GameMaker: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garry_Kitchen%27s_GameMaker I recall it working pretty well. You could define sprites and it had a scripting language.
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by cgh 3y ago
I'm not sure what the track record for FSD is so far but Autopilot's isn't great and inspires little confidence: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/06/10/tesla-a... 17 fataliti
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by cgh 3y ago
For me, it was The Transactor when I was in high school and later the C/C++ Users Journal. I clearly remember when I felt like I was ready for the latter, after I’d been programming professionally for a few years. It must have been tow
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by cgh 3y ago
Clearly you have never owned a cat.
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by cgh 3y ago
Feels like more of a JS parody to me. Perhaps parodies like this are an effective way to reveal our biases. #deepthoughts
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by cgh 3y ago
Pascal (eg Turbo Pascal) vs Super Pascal vs Object Pascal also springs to mind.
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by cgh 3y ago
Thematically related: “The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook”, by Niall Ferguson
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by cgh 3y ago
I think the OP is talking more about community rather than pure learning resources. It's not like you need different resources at 50 than you do at 30. It's just fun to shoot the shit and compare war stories and strategies with on
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by cgh 3y ago
I had laser surgery. Not for everyone, but if you're a candidate (they do a comprehensive eye exam first), it could be some of the best money you ever spent. It was for me, anyway.
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by cgh 3y ago
I quit my job at a Silicon Valley BigCorp two years ago, almost to the day, for these very reasons. Luckily, we are in a position where I could just do what I wanted during this time, mainly go rockclimbing and help my wife in our worryingl
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by cgh 3y ago
FYI, Vancouver Island has the highest population density of cougars in the world. This includes mountain lions, pumas, panthers, etc, all the same big cat by other names. They are so elusive though. I lived on the Island for nearly six year
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by cgh 3y ago
If you are using some JPA implementation, eg Hibernate, then JPA events are more or less what you are talking about except JPA can't enforce the condition that JPA-defined events are the only triggers present. If you write custom trigg
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by cgh 3y ago
I'm not sure if the post was updated after your comment, but from the article: "Triggers should be used with caution since they can obscure critical logic and create an illusion of automatic processes. While this can be advantageo
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by cgh 4y ago
Yes, absolutely. My first long trip was to what we called the Near East in the mid ‘90s (I am still amazed my parents allowed me to go as I was barely out of school). I had an outdated guidebook and word of mouth from the other occasional t
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by cgh 4y ago
Yeah, I asked it to write some relatively simple Zig and it produced a weird mix of Zig and C. It just made stuff up, fake it until you make it style.
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by cgh 4y ago
Canada has a large and healthy wolf population, especially out west. The Manitoba wolf population numbers in the thousands and it’s also got one of the worst feral pig problems, according to the article. Maybe the wolves just can’t deal wit
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by cgh 4y ago
McCarthy simplified his style dramatically with "No Country For Old Men". That novel, and the ones following, are of course still tremendous but lack the almost mythological force of language of his earlier stuff. My personal earl
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by cgh 4y ago
Generally speaking, I'd say the novel of ideas is in retreat. Try to imagine W.G. Sebald's "The Rings of Saturn" getting published today. Or basically anything by Thomas Bernhard, one of the great literary weirdos. I can
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by cgh 4y ago
Have an upvote. Great book.

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