danharaj

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by danharaj 7y ago
Get a pair of musician's earplugs. They're wonderful. You can layer them with closed back headphones to get very robust silent isolation at a reasonable price. You can also get ear pieces molded by an audiologist for some high end
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by danharaj 7y ago
> So the resultant sentence, for example ‘I know I am in pain’, is nonsense I found this amusing. It's definitely possible to not know one is in pain. > And if that were so, it would be possible for me to make a mistake about whe
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by danharaj 7y ago
It's not about guilt or justice. That's not the point. But, of course, you're wrong. It's not a "completely different government", unless you think you're a completely different person because most of the
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by danharaj 7y ago
It would have been better for Turing if the government left him alone instead of chemically castrating him and driving him to suicide, then venerating him.
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by danharaj 7y ago
If you mean something that's influenced my way of thinking: not a book, but some transcribed lectures: On the meanings of the logical constants and the justifications of the logical laws by Martin-Lof [0] If you mean something that tak
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by danharaj 7y ago
> How is this at all fair to those of us who had to work so hard and wait so long to get in? How is it unfair?
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by danharaj 7y ago
Chuang Tzu with his bamboo pole was fishing in the Pu river. The prince of Chu sent two vice-chancellors with a formal document: We hereby appoint you prime minister. Chuang Tzu held his bamboo pole still.Watching the Pu river, he said:“I a
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by danharaj 7y ago
This book was a huge influence on me when it came out.
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by danharaj 7y ago
Having the G in your commute is almost as stressful as taking the L.
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by danharaj 7y ago
That sounds cool! Do you have a reference handy?
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by danharaj 7y ago
Thank you!
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by danharaj 7y ago
What's the state of the art of indirect jump prediction?
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by danharaj 7y ago
> How do you make a detention facility not a "concentration camp" under a definition of "concentration camp" that just means any detention facility? You might just have to accept that in order to enforce some laws you
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by danharaj 7y ago
It sounds a lot less important that he's a Nobel laureate when you realize he got the prize in economics and econlib is libertarian drivel.
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by danharaj 7y ago
Don't mistake your own obstinacy for reasoned skepticism.
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> Calling this a concentration camp is like calling a terminal cancer ward a "death camp" because people go there to die. No, it isn't. Concentration camps have existed throughout history and they haven't always been
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by danharaj 7y ago
Call a spade a spade. It's a concentration camp because it's a camp where undesirable people are concentrated . The fact that you think it's justified to employ concentration camps is a separate argument.
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by danharaj 7y ago
I sympathize! > While we're here, I'd love to get your opinion on polysemy -- it looks like the best thing since sliced bread for free(r) monads, the combination of the usability of freer-simple and the efficiency gains of fuse
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by danharaj 7y ago
So, I got my first job by going to my local Haskell meetup and chatting with someone who would end up being my boss, and I've stuck with that crew since. I think that's rather serendipitous but it definitely doesn't hurt to g
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by danharaj 7y ago
If you define a custom generic data type, for example if you need a special kind of tree for a particular algorithm, then you're going to be writing a lot of generic functions like cons for that data type.
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by danharaj 7y ago
In a type system like Haskell's, a function with that signature has to be unconditionally polymorphic in its variable types, so you can't have a list of exceptions.
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by danharaj 7y ago
> This post is not for beginners/non-haskellers, I don't understand why it's being posted here. Is this intentional or are people in the haskell community this tone deaf? It's like we're determined to prevent new
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by danharaj 7y ago
> It sounds like the job absolutely sucks but these contractors need to have a little bit of personal responsibility for their own mental health. I suspect they do but the article gives the impression they are all trapped there with no w
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by danharaj 7y ago
All of these things still happen to LGBT people in western society.
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by danharaj 7y ago
> Pompeo seems pretty sane to me. So did Colin Powell.
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by danharaj 7y ago
They really need to stop letting that guy anywhere near the whitehouse.
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One of the most important books I read in college. I don't remember which translation to English I read but it was good.
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by danharaj 7y ago
Who ordered the word salad?
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by danharaj 7y ago
The point of design patterns is not just to solve particular problems, but to solve larger problems by putting together solutions to smaller problems in a coherent way . Category theory is just the right language for talking about putting
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Makes you think, doesn't it?

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