diehunde

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   by diehunde 6y ago

   Well think of this. When you are sad, do you feel like killing yourself is an option to stop that feeling?
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   by diehunde 6y ago

   What proof specifically would you like to see?
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   by diehunde 6y ago

   How can be almost always symptomatic but at the same time run in some many members of the same family? When you go to see a psichiatrist one of the first questions the ask is if there's history of mental illness in the family.
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   Ask HN: How important is concurrency/parallelism today and in the future?

   7 points by diehunde 6y ago|1 comments
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   by diehunde 6y ago

   > It wasn't that long ago that a man or woman would not be seen to have truly come of age until having a family of their own, or at least marriage Many views in society were different not that long ago. You can't just cherry p
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   by diehunde 6y ago

   NPR daily podcast every morning. Also the economist weekly magazine.
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   by diehunde 6y ago

   Were you paid those insane salaries?
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   by diehunde 6y ago

   That wasn't the point of the article at all. That was just an example of how some of these devs share knowledge.
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   by diehunde 6y ago

   When I was learning German I read somewhere that English used to have different forms for "you" just like German. Which wouldn't be weird since the languages are closely related.
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    by diehunde 6y ago

    - Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl - Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
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    by diehunde 6y ago

    I like Taleb but I feel most of the ideas from his books can be written in 10 pages. Although to be fair that's true for most modern non-fiction books.
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    by diehunde 6y ago

    It's a habit you need to keep your whole life. I grew up eating mostly fruit for dessert every day until I was 17. Once I left my parent's home I lost that habit very quickly. Now I'm 33 and still have to push myself to eat f
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    by diehunde 6y ago

    It is, but not if you're trying to get better at SQL.
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    by diehunde 6y ago

    I prefer to read articles like the one you linked. They feel honest. If you don't like something you don't have to say "but yeah for this specific case it's fine, or if google is behind then it's alright..." ju
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    by diehunde 6y ago

    I got a user whose username ended with a + and the site crashed. Cool idea by the way!
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    by diehunde 6y ago

    Yeah that's called Hindsight bias
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    Ask HN: What's your home office workstation setup?

    5 points by diehunde 6y ago|2 comments
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    by diehunde 6y ago

    - How computers translate bits into electrical signals - What does it mean the universe is expanding - Bayesian statistics - How information is stored in magnetic tapes
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    by diehunde 6y ago

    Personal growth, learning group dynamics, interactions, etc. Same reason I would rather my kids to go to regular school and college instead of remote ones.
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    by diehunde 6y ago

    You went too far with Coelho. Might as well throw some osho's books in there too.
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    by diehunde 6y ago

    > In 20.04 LTS, the python included in the base system is Python 3.8. Python 2.7 has been moved to universe and is not included by default in any new installs. Finally.
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    by diehunde 6y ago

    I don't know about hard to understand but if we are talking about getting things right: - Concurrency - Building distributed systems (databases, messaging systems, distributed file systems, etc) - Low level programming
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    by diehunde 6y ago

    You mean beat the people that actually do that for a living?
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    by diehunde 6y ago

    I wonder if after COVID-19 more companies will realize having remote people is viable and be open to offer more remote positions (I'm looking at you FAANG, unicorns, etc.)
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    by diehunde 6y ago

    Yes the book is based on that project.
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    by diehunde 6y ago

    His project[1] was part of program created by IARPA[2] so I wouldn't be that skeptical [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good_Judgment_Project [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_
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    by diehunde 6y ago

    what project would that be?
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    by diehunde 6y ago

    True. Also, if you read Superforecasting[1] you'll learn about several experiments where "non-experts" beat experts by a lot by just being well informed. Even when the experts had access to confidential data. [1] https:&#x2F
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    by diehunde 6y ago

    First time watching those videos! What year is that? They looked way older than 2005
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    by diehunde 7y ago

    Congratulations! Works pretty good on my Linux machine.