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by djtango 2y ago
Is art really about craft anymore? There's certainly an element of it but it's gotten very meta and abstract these days. What is the craft in a dirty bath tub or a robot endlessly sweeping liquid? Better yet what's the craft
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I'm pretty ignorant on the ins and outs and trade offs associated with accreditation but yes that sounds like one solution. It doesn't strike me as unreasonable, software engineers are now able to cause billions in damages and&#x2
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IMO it's not really a lack of respect as it is software vendors and managers not really being incentivised to do the right thing. Therefore even if the engineers know the right thing to do, they are unable to solicit the buy in from st
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by djtango 2y ago
This is true, I was neighbours with one of the top mathematicians in my uni and he slept what felt like an excessive amount everyday. I definitely underperformed academically due to sleep deprivation and I probably benefited greatly during
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by djtango 2y ago
Don't know why you got downvoted for this. My whole life I have been shaving my sleep time to try to cram more of what I want to do into my day. I used to wake up an extra couple of hours before school so I could squeeze in extra gam
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by djtango 2y ago
Borough market is for tourists. (although one of my must-eat places for all of London is there) I've bought some of the best seafood I've ever eaten from Billingsgate. I remember picking up some fresh scallops still covered in mud
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Why is it 4chan and not WhatsApp groups? The internet was wild before social media but somehow the weird stuff remained fringe before recommendation algorithms and the perverse incentives that emerged from recommendation algorithms and cont
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Yes I really wish we could have a physical switch for device mic
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I'm so glad this is surfacing. I remember reading about the skepticism scientists had about this only for them to be finally proven wrong. My anecdotal experience is that we are so out of touch with our bodies these days that we routin
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by djtango 2y ago
I bought a pair of BLON earbuds as my backup set that I keep in my bag so I've always got a set. Am very happy with the sound quality and thought they were fantastic value for money
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I think it depends if I'm coming home from the gym late at night I might be less aware than when I'm my usual self. Especially if the roads are quiet. I've had two near calls in London - once an uber driver swung in front of
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Yeah - exactly. If companies are motivated and parents are motivated to prevent it and schools have the cover to also police it, then social media usage probably won't hit critical mass for kids and they won't feel FOMO to get it.
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by djtango 2y ago
Thanks for sharing your story it sounds like you had a really rough time of Terraform. I don't have much experience running Terraform at scale. What has Pulumi made easier? Why is looping a bottleneck in infrastructure code? Based on t
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by djtango 2y ago
Yes and the media needs to stop being so obviously biased because it both undermines their role as the arbiters of truth and it undermines the party they allegedly want to win I liked this podcast from Zachary Elwood: https://ope
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Aka polarisation. When Trump first won I conceptualised it as him arbitraging humanity/democracy's lack of preparedness for social media and the internet upending established flows of information. The solution at its heart is to r
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My main takeaway from that series was the anecdotes about the communes living in geodesic domes who operated under a hierarchy-less system but all of them allegedly imploded due to a common mechanism: In a community that has no explicit rul
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Because we're humans, not robots and a human manager with human managees should be capable of working within a process without abusing the most obvious of edge cases. When building software you have to be precise to the nth degree but
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Because you don't know what your user wants to do and eventually you'll annoy someone
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by djtango 2y ago
Love this story. Especially because Chopin often gets flak for his orchestration of his Concertos. Don't suppose you remember roughly where in the music the snippet was?
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I have learned to varying degrees Mandarin Teochew Cantonese Japanese Spanish French German (and Latin lol) I was shocked at how intuitive Italian was when simply walking around Italy after having a grounding in so many adjacent languages (
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by djtango 2y ago
> which makes the scripts very fast to parse Yes my wife is bilingual and she thinks in English but prefers reading in Chinese because it's more terse
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I'm sure there are plenty of scholarly academics with a whole body of literature to argue otherwise, but I've never bought all the arguments of how different Cantonese and Mandarin are. To my mind assimilating Cantonese from Manda
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by djtango 2y ago
Well in other comments, native Chinese speakers brought up that when you forget how to write a character you just write a homonym and readers can guess by the context - which is how Chinese speech works anyway. So it turns out that humans a
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Thanks for sharing this - very fun! Reminded me that nowadays I listen to less classical music than I did so a modification of the game I enjoy playing with myself is "guess the influencing composer". For example I hear so much Pr
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by djtango 2y ago
My YouTube has been blasting it at me. I unfortunately have been quite short of time lately but I did really enjoy the video that Garrick Ohlsson put out on Chopin Piano Innovations https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1DUdMi27qWg
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by djtango 2y ago
Yes a rose by any other name would smell as sweet and well... diarrhoea is diarrhea My point was addressing "tsinghua students..." and "Harvard students..." unless they were literary scholars or grammarians their wield
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by djtango 2y ago
As mentioned in another comment, English has its share of words like that too. For example I'm sure diarrhoea can catch people out. And how many people drink an espresso every day and think it has an x in it. I knew plenty of elite stu
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by djtango 2y ago
A better example than sneeze might be diarrhoea. In Chinese this is very easy - 拉肚子 - but I'm sure there are English speakers who might forget the spelling for diarrhoea if they're having a bad day.
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by djtango 2y ago
Chopin was special because he wasn't bounded by the orthodoxy - Chopin was so prodigious as a child and had mostly surpassed his teacher in virtuosity as a mere child. His teacher made the excellent decision that he shouldn't prej
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I was obsessed with Chopin for a while then went off his music for many years. I have had a resurgence in my interest in his music. Probably due to the Chopin competition rekindled it alongside with finally getting hold of a piano again. Th

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