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by dimal 3y ago
> The purpose of the Smalltalk project is to provide computer support for the creative spirit in everyone. I have the sense that Bjarne Stroustrup and James Gosling were unaware of this document, or if they were, disagreed with it. It’s
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This looks like so much fun. I’m into eurorack, too, and there’s something about patching music that feels so much more conducive to creativity than making music with a computer. I have ideas that I’d never have any other way. And there’s s
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Instead of trying to figure out exactly what features would accomplish that, I wish they would focus on making it embeddable. Personally, I like the UX of Arc. Arc uses Chrome under the hood. And if anyone else wants to make a browser speci
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I hated this post up until the last section, then it won me over at the end. None of the infinite canvas interfaces look like anything more than a pile to me. I see no structure at all. If I was forced to use an interface like this for anyt
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> When I try to tell patients that "I don't know", they're frustrated with me. And frequently, it's the patients that are mad that I don't have a pill or procedure that can fix it immediately. One of my best
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> Insurers will pay for many non-medical allied health services including registered dieticians (RD) in cases where those meet coverage rules based on scientific evidence. Saying they will pay out in their brochure and actually paying ou
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I think medical research has progressed far beyond what clinicians are capable of using. I won’t claim to have any great understanding of health myself. But I’ve had issues where qualified doctors told me there was nothing to be done about
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I don’t think it’s antithetical to Western medicine. It’s antithetical to mass produced, industrialized medicine. Those aren’t the same thing. I only want them to use the scientific method on each individual patient. That’s all. They don’t
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I get the feeling that doctors aren’t really trained for more than half of the stuff they need to know. Trauma informed care is a joke, yet a huge proportion of people have a history of multiple adverse childhood experiences, and these have
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by dimal 3y ago
> a lot of startups like Figma only exist because acquisitions are common and therefore offers early investors an exit on their investment that isn't 1-2 decades in the future. > If we got rid of M&A in tech there would signi
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I’ve been thinking along similar lines. It’s like with LLMs, they’ve created the part of the mind that is endlessly chattering, generating stories, sometimes true, sometimes false, but there’s no awareness or consciousness that ever steps b
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In your thought experiment, you basically say, “Let’s model the universe with the assumption that there’s no free will” and use that assumption to show that there’s no free will. If you assume that the universe functions like a computer, yo
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Assuming that the universe functions like a deterministic/stochastic machine, and that our understanding of said universe is 100% correct and complete. Except, we know for certain that our understanding of the universe isn’t 100% corre
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> failure is not an option — it comes pre-installed Love this. Whenever people say “failure is not an option”, I get the sense that they don’t really understand how the universe works. It’s like saying “entropy is not an option”. Uh...
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> author thinks some minor medieval squabbles are equally important as the galactic space part, giving it same page count. Since the showdown with the blight is in the medieval dogs’ turf, the effects of that minor squabble could determi
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by dimal 3y ago
Holy shit, FUN looks awesome, and there’s one within driving distance to me coming up! Thanks for sharing that!
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Would you say there’s a gut/body duality then? Or a fascia/body duality? Understanding of the gut and fascia are also in their infancy. We barely knew anything about the gut microbiome until a decade or two ago. Up until about a d
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I would love to go to a conference where every talk was about how something went horribly wrong. Like two or three days of large scale Daily WTFs. I feel like that would be hugely entertaining and more informative than most regular conferen
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Me, apparently. I think it looks gorgeous. I don't speak any languages that are written in Cyrillic and I don't like ligatures in code. But I want that 1970s Unix feeling...
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> I was expecting it to be very easy, smooth sailing for me. On the high level, it's all very simnple stuff. It's just refactoring the codebase a bit, reorganizing it, making it cleaner and more structured, and it's suppos
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> PC manufacturing is wildly different than car manufacturing. I would grant that PC manufacturing is wildly different than manufacturing an internal combustion engine car, but is it wildly different making an EV car? A lot of complexity
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Who is u/Anxious_Bandicoot126? Is there any reason to think this is actually a person at OpenAI and not some random idiot on the internet? They have no comment history except on this issue. Seems like BS.
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Look at all his other leadership jobs. The only other company of note is YCombinator, which was running well before and after his time there. So what makes him so great? Seems more likely that he was not as essential to OpenAI’s success as
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by dimal 3y ago
Not OP, but I agree with the sentiment. To me, it seemed like for a long time, people accepted whatever Martin said as “the right way” without much thought. He has had many good ideas, but also some bad ones. “Clean Code” hasn’t aged well,
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There’s a lot more to it than the link I posted. It’s been very well documented. He was diagnosed by several doctors. And it’s not a single anecdote. His technique has been replicated by other people.
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It's apparently possible to accomplish this without surgery, through neuroplasticity [0]. But why do that when there's a super cool, complex, expensive, technological solution? [0] https://www.theguardian.com/scien
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> The loners, the hermits, the "self-sufficient" seem to be outliers, doomed for a hard, brief life In the Pali Canon, the Buddha is often referred to as “the recluse Gautama”. Seems like he found a way to have a pretty good li
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But open layouts are so conducive to serendipitous collaboration! And collaboration is key to generating creative solutions in today’s information economy! All the CEOs say so!
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I’m not a designer, though. And that would be selling my engineering skills short. Coding is a relatively small part of good software engineering.
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Personally, I love front end work. I love the crazy challenges and weird constraints. I love seeing a UI — something that a human interacts with — at the end of the process. Server side work can be interesting for a little while, but if I d

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