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cmehdy
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cmehdy
4y ago
All the maintenance you put towards getting things running right now will be maintenance you put towards making sure your cluster is doing what you need and want. If you start having more servers, a k8s cluster can do something like automat
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cmehdy
4y ago
I do not know much about CSS but Tailwind was very straightforward, and through it I got to learn things in CSS which weren't made obvious before. It's funny that you use the terms "tedious mess" because that's exac
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cmehdy
4y ago
It's more like every point of view looks at the past. Which is also true if you look at your screen right now, it's just that you're looking at your screen some nanoseconds ago.
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cmehdy
4y ago
But how would we know if all spatial dimensions were moving along a constant vector? We can't rely on redshit/blueshift if the medium of transmission itself is moving like everything else. The next question might be "moving i
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cmehdy
4y ago
CS and EE are very different fields, there's lots to learn in each field. My curriculum was a blend of EE and applied maths/phys: I made carbon nanotubes in a lab, used quantum tunneling microscopes to look at atoms of gold, used
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cmehdy
5y ago
I don't think it's possible to make a broad statement like that about psychedelics. You'll always just hear one take from a person with their experience and the experience of the people they might have tried it with or even g
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cmehdy
5y ago
The article makes a lot of good points. I'm a lover of psychedelics, I've apparently managed to be wired in a way that has made every single experience one that I don't regret (whether joyous, superficial, or intricate, unexp
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cmehdy
5y ago
I had missed that part, thanks for linking me to it. Also great blog and writing! Thank you for putting in all that work.
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cmehdy
5y ago
Fluent is great, thanks for that!
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cmehdy
5y ago
Mostly the same experience having had 10+ years on Mac before a switch to Windows. Powertoys[0] are great although some are slow (especially the one acting like Mac's Spotlight). UI is different but not a bad experience once you'v
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cmehdy
5y ago
Ah, you must have stumbled upon https://nohello.net/ too. I think what they mean is "don't just say hey and leave a person hanging", i.e. if you have a long message to write just put it all together instead o
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cmehdy
5y ago
If it's about the fextralife wiki and its horribel twitch inclusion on every page, ublock can suppress those divs and the last line rewrites the css rule to be full-screen (if that helps) To add to your filters: eldenring.wiki.fextrali
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cmehdy
5y ago
Funnily enough, as of 2022 I've been finding it impossible to get Raspberry Pis. I suppose it's due to shortages.. I'm in Canada and everywhere is sold out, when checking the US it's sold out, the UK too, etc. Couple res
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5y ago
Limiting Facebook access also ensures that the Russians abroad who carry a voice against Putin in the language of their fellow citizens also get silenced/ignored. It's the bully closing his eyes to the damage he's doing, exce
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cmehdy
5y ago
I collated those definitions from a couple websites and they all closed in on the same terms, which is also what I had come to understand over the years. But it's possibly a case of definitions and usage shifting a bit, or maybe a cult
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cmehdy
5y ago
I understand the term better thanks to your contextualization, thanks. Some online definitions indeed cite "recklessness due to despair" along with despair itself being a subjective "complete loss of hope" (despair'
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cmehdy
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So that's a common hyperbole I guess? I've encountered the term "desperate situation" in writing (fiction) used to highlight subsequent achievements, but I assumed that every instance of "desperation" could at
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5y ago
Definition of desperation 1 : loss of hope and surrender to despair 2 : a state of hopelessness leading to rashness Am I missing something or is it a term that is coopted to romanticize something particularly horrible? I'm not a native
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5y ago
For 4x-type games, there was a recent v1 global release of Remnants of the Precursors[0], made by a single dev who participates to the related subreddit[1]. The upcoming Falling Frontier[2] is also a one-man dev team iirc. As a person strug
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I found the conversation between you two interesting (as well as Scott Aaronson's post), so I figured I could contribute with a potentially relevant piece of reading: "Hard Criteria for Empirical Theories of Consciousness" (2
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cmehdy
5y ago
What's the point of being a life-sized plush in that context? Why is it that you're both a human giving concerts and a toy to indicate directions to people passing by? Why include a scene about getting yourself trash-compacted in
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cmehdy
5y ago
What is the ad supposed to mean?? What I gathered is "trade your lower half for a second chance at living your life, since the current one is a total failure, you worthless suicidal puppet". Not entirely sure how the flowchart tak
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cmehdy
5y ago
FWIW your French is impeccable, and indeed there's no shortage of culture shock between France and Quebec for this sort of stuff. source: French from FR living in QC :)
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This reminds me of what the Death Stranding team presented at GDC regarding the pathfinding. They had LOTS of new issues for a game due to the unique nature of Death Stranding (obstacles, tripping, balancing) and they do an excellent job at
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Same thing with a move to Mac over a decade ago. I still feel icky that most of the stuff I've listened to this past decade is archived on such a closed platform, and once in a while it itches enough that I use a downloader of sorts to
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> Yet if computing probabilities is such an integral part of how we perceive and think about the world, why have humans gained a reputation for being bad at probability? Maybe we are able to grasp probabilities at the most fundamental pa
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cmehdy
5y ago
I've had both, and I'd promptly forget about the bitcoins for the ability to have lived an un-fucked life (which would pay for itself more readily too).
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5y ago
Outer Wilds, Return of the Obra Dinn, for investigations and memory and "human puzzles". Manifold Garden, Opus Magnum (+ other Zachtronics game) for puzzle solving.
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Astronomy Picture of the Day on April 1st 2005: NASA finds water on mars[0]. [0] https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap050401.html
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It looks challenging for sure, but most things that have a worth to us humans can be challenging, and if anything it's great to see a path like yours wandering through the problem space from energy sources to societal considerations. R
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