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by cranium 4y ago
I like this rule of thumb to know if a behavior can be a psychiatric disorder: "when it interferes with normal functioning". It's purposely vague and subject to interpretation but it's a good first filter. For an add
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by cranium 4y ago
It would complicate the buttocol a bit but one could imagine having the engine predict the opponent next moves and propose different responses to them: if e5f4, then e3f4 – if c7c5 then ...
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by cranium 4y ago
If you ask it means having strong opinions came back to bite you and you don't want it to happen again. Keep this situation in mind, it's an excellent starting point to understand how you could react differently. In most cases, st
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by cranium 4y ago
Maybe you're thinking about 1500 hours instead of 15000. 15000 hours is approx. 5 years at 8 hours a day and you would reach "mastery" level in a lot of subjects (if studying deliberately). Also, when you are reading you are
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by cranium 4y ago
No, you get downvoted when you posit that anxious people are autistic under the guise of curiosity/speculative question. Also, not everyone reacts nicely when someone implies they might be on the spectrum. You live and learn.
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by cranium 4y ago
It's fearsome how they filter such words without looking at the context or giving the benefit of the doubt. Now, you have to proactively reword your ideas to make them fit the invisible mold. How has newspeak been going for the public
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by cranium 4y ago
I like weird keyboards. I have acquired, in order: a Kinesis Advantage 2, an Ergodox (split ortholinear), a OLKB Planck Light (40% ortho), and a OLKB Preonic (60% ortho). I've been daily driving the Preonic for 4 years now and once rec
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by cranium 4y ago
I'm a happy owner of a Dell Precision 5520 that is already 5 years old. It shipped with a Ubuntu LTS by default and I took a 3-year next day repair warranty that I used once for a swollen battery. I cannot express how happy I was to ha
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by cranium 4y ago
I like to implement features from end-to-end and keep them as lean as possible so I can fit the execution flow in my head. Each time an edge case or a question pops up, I leave a TODO in the code explaining why it could be a problem but I d
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by cranium 4y ago
It's not that much money for all the attention it gathered. Still, a 50% drop in 6 months will make anyone nervous.
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by cranium 4y ago
Well, he met von Neumann a few times.
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by cranium 4y ago
I built a good PC last summer to get more perfs and it's a joy to use: really silent compared to my laptop and so much faster. Work computers running on Manjaro: - Desktop AMD 5800X with 32GB RAM, bought in 2021 - Laptop Dell Pre
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by cranium 4y ago
My bad, too much Python lately. I wanted to be more explicit about this argument and briefly tested the syntax in a Node console. It works, but... I didn't catch the atrocious side effect. Thanks for pointing the footgun !
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by cranium 4y ago
A fun guess-the-output to illustrate the implicit/permissive nature of JS: console.log(parseInt("020" + 020, base=5)) Most languages would throw an error because "020" + 020 = "02016" and we try to
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by cranium 4y ago
I love writing those ! They are (mostly) short to write and provide tons of value because they are tailored for you. And for the code/language, you get to choose your level of hackyness vs cleaness. I personally wrote: * Scripts to com
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by cranium 5y ago
One thing I loved about raytracing was all the ways to play around randomness. Like deciding the ray should go towards that light instead of going into the ceiling but accounting for the probability of this lucky draw. Or playing roulette a
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by cranium 5y ago
Funny, I also wrote some code to solve one of my printer problems. It doesn't do double-sided scanning so the script waits for two recently PDFs in a folder (while trying to be smart about not picking incompatible PDFs) and merge them
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by cranium 5y ago
Blanks in the slides are filled during the lecture with the students. With this solution, students don't have to copy the notes while trying to listen.
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Chelsea Manning: The Future of Privacy and Data in Wartime [video](youtube.com)
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by cranium 5y ago
I find that the note-taking experience is now good enough [0]. You can start a note easily, write and structure your thought with minimal markup, include links and other material without much friction and save the note on your distributed s
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by cranium 5y ago
Why would it be false ? It may be exaggerated (should read "I never use business plan or balance sheet to assess a startup") but not complete bullshit. Startups are not the same as traditional companies and the due diligence proce
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by cranium 5y ago
It's quite easily to map the accounts once you have the main categories mapped (I use the french naming so my german translation may be wrong): - Aktiven <-> Assets - Passiven <-> Liabilities - Betrieblicher Ertrag <-&gt
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by cranium 5y ago
I started using Ledger for my small consulting business in Switzerland. Here, the internal accounting structure is quite flexible as long as you can output the balance sheets in the required format. My fiduciary asks for PDFs to verify the
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by cranium 5y ago
Interesting take on the subject, though I would not be certain that minimalism emerged as co-op mechanism for the lost of purchasing power. Personally, I focus my money on "reducing unhappiness" first, which includes buying things
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by cranium 5y ago
The book "The Mom Test" written by Rob Fitzpatrick may help you with that. It presents ways to ask non-leading questions and understand the flow of discussion such that even your mom wouldn't be able to lie to you. It's
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by cranium 5y ago
Coding is organizing and modifying information. If you didn't code before, you cannot comprehend all the subtleties and will end up squeezing new concepts in your language as you start understanding them. Classical recipe for delicious
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by cranium 5y ago
Nord also has ports for some applications (Emacs, Guake and Tmux are those I care about). Unfortunately, not for all daily apps yet. https://www.nordtheme.com/ports
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by cranium 5y ago
LPL videos are an example in educational videos. Clear explanations, no fluff, no finger pointing (except for Master Lock and unbacked marketing claims) and real expertise.
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by cranium 5y ago
It will only talk to Swiss people but we have an app called Fairtiq that makes taking a ticket for public transport super easy. You basically swipe in when you enter the bus/train/boat and swipe out when you arrived at your destin
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by cranium 5y ago
This is actually a good example to explain the concept of undecidability in computation theory. If you get a True you know for sure that the computer is on. If you don't get anything immediately, it may be that the computer is on but r

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