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by crdrost 3y ago
> In other words, we procrastinate on tasks because they’re not our highest motivation. I think we need to draw a distinction à la economics’ “revealed preference” here, because there’s the famous divide between importance and urgency
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Fat Bear Jr. kicks off today(explore.org)
1 points by crdrost 3y ago|0 comments
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by crdrost 3y ago
That's not an inevitable property of the universe, that's a culture. I did tech at a mechanical/electrical/plumbing contractor called US Engineering in KC. The union (unions?) and Corporate worked pretty well together, b
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by crdrost 3y ago
Oh, I didn't mean to do either. (That is, either make a coherent argument per se—just like “here are some reasons that this language sucks” but it does not imply “that is a holistic overview and therefore there are no redeeming qualiti
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by crdrost 3y ago
Please be careful with calling it that. Surveys differ a bit on this but somewhere between 3-10% of women report having been strangled by an intimate partner at some time in their lives, this may be 20% higher when non-intimate partners are
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by crdrost 3y ago
I don't know if it's because of clean code or because he calls himself my uncle or what else, but he's always rubbed me the wrong way. I always ask people to think about printed pages and they look at me as if I'm crazy.
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by crdrost 3y ago
Yeah it's somewhat of a more broad term though? Like, the freakiest pranayama gets is rechaka pranayama , where you breathe out the air from your lungs and try to hold it out, depleting your blood-oxygen levels ( hypoxia mimesis).
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by crdrost 3y ago
If the blog author is reading, some notes for improvement: - Your odds calculation is likely wrong. You assumed from the word "odds" that "odds ratio" was meant, (Odds=3 meaning "odds 3:1 against" corresponding
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by crdrost 3y ago
It's not, this is that Lisp thing where you can check the length of your argument list and do something completely different when you don't get enough arguments. In this case `(map f)` notices that it was told to map a function bu
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by crdrost 3y ago
Upvoted for the retraction. Personal opinions on best practices: - If you have multiple components to an application, whether frontend/backend or microservices, put them all in the same repository by default. It is so easy to split the
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by crdrost 3y ago
Famously a common Mandarin “uh/um” filler, pinyin “nà gè,” is pronounced in ways that often confuse Americans into thinking that they have heard a racial slur.
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by crdrost 3y ago
Yeah I am inclined to agree. The “calorie counting fad diet,” such as it is, is like other fad diets where it does have good short-term results, and it can have good long-term results for the people who really stick with it: as you say, you
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by crdrost 3y ago
Just to be clear, I am trained as a physicist and I am not criticizing the thermodynamics as incorrect but rather insufficient . It is also incorrect, which is to say that there is only a vague relationship between the kilocalories rep
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by crdrost 3y ago
Definitely. I like to play a game sometimes... more or less based on the idea that bloodletting and rectal feeding and wound probing were medical "best practices" of the past and now seem so obviously ludicrous to us now. So I lik
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by crdrost 3y ago
I developed an alternative called “Hot-Potato Agile” while at Google. I got buy-in to try it, but then was laid off in January just before we could start. So if you have a team that likes sprint cadence but hates the scrum busywork and is o
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by crdrost 3y ago
Yes. It's not a terribly interesting article but I would describe it from an external perspective as, "People bid based on a sort of mean value: they don't know how much this thing is worth to them, so they make an uncertain
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by crdrost 3y ago
It is known that that is not true, due to the distinct genetic code of mitochondria and known epigenetic influences of mothers on their children in utero. You could say “well that's the last 10% of the details, maybe 90% is in the DNA,
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by crdrost 3y ago
I would defend slog's decision there. Infof/Debugf/Errorf are like fine especially when I'm making a little CLI tool for myself, but my main consumption of logs at work is other peoples' logs via a cloud log aggre
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by crdrost 3y ago
I think if you went even more pedantic you would come back again to the idea that it's right, the idea being that someone dies an untimely death, fine, but it takes like 5 minutes for them to die and several of those minutes they are t
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by crdrost 3y ago
Vulgar computation. The vulgus in Latin were the common folks, the non elite, hence referring to cussing ass “vulgarity,” as in “we nobles do not talk that way, that is how the common folk talk!”. And if I do my job right most professiona
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by crdrost 3y ago
This was roughly speaking my first thought as well. I thought "Well we always laughed at the sci-fi depictions of people with big cans of air for sale, come pay for premium filtered air ... but this is how that all starts, isn't i
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by crdrost 3y ago
So, yes, one can view SQL as one of these languages that has trouble with sum types and a faithful representation of a tagged sum in SQL is Either Supplier Agency <--> CREATE TABLE supplier_or_agency ( id UUID PR
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by crdrost 3y ago
And that this is not just a minor niche use case, "the largest and oldest Git project that is, Linux, uses a mailing list and patch files to develop."
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by crdrost 3y ago
So a programming language like Java really doesn't handle sum types (the first example you give) all that well. It's getting better but it's not all there yet. If you expect those languages to consume then you want the second
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Tea if by sea, cha if by land: Why the world only has two words for tea (2018)(qz.com)
11 points by crdrost 3y ago|3 comments
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by crdrost 3y ago
And there have been a lot of approaches to do this, my favorite one being the idea that maybe if we just randomly zap out some of the neurons while we train the rest, that forcing it to acquire that redundancy might privilege structured re
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by crdrost 3y ago
I believe you are remembering [1] and it is not a full levitation. 1. https://twitter.com/andrewmccalip/status/1687405505604734978
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by crdrost 3y ago
Kind of, skipping breakfast definitely prolongs the usual nighttime fast whereas eating late definitely shortens it. So if you're doing both you're kind of not changing anything to first order. In terms of physical effects, someon
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by crdrost 3y ago
In middle school, ~13 years old or so, one of my classmates set himself a goal of using shop class to make himself a guitar, wasn't half bad either. I regret that I didn't pick up the woodworking bug until later, I have made table
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by crdrost 3y ago
I mean, they're also just kind of fun. Suppose you are building a CLI tool just for yourself, Deno is way more fun than Bash, say. Especially if your usecase starts to get into like tree traversals and stuff.

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