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by dkarl 2y ago
Asking whether Buddhism is a religion is like asking if Christianity is homophobic. You can point to parts of the scriptural canon where it indubitably is, and you can point to practitioners who clearly subscribe to a version of it that is,
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by dkarl 2y ago
I agree 100%. The requirements might sound the same, but only until you dig in. I've often received the same requirements for a system that already existed, and had to ask, why do you need a new one instead of the one you already have
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by dkarl 2y ago
In a small town pre-internet (I can't speak to now), goth could be a way of outwardly embracing an invisible social fact. When people felt rejected and excluded, some conformed and abased themselves to get back into the social good gra
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by dkarl 2y ago
> in person meetings have people staring at their laptops and phones too I've worked at a variety of places with a variety of problems, but I've never seen that kind of rudeness be widespread or persistent. It was corrected in
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by dkarl 2y ago
LinkedIn has sunk lower than Facebook. Like Facebook, every once in a while I use it to look up somebody I used to know or to remind myself of a name I've forgotten. If I look somebody up and see that they're actually posting and
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by dkarl 2y ago
I think the people Der_Einzige refers to who are practicing Freudian psychoanalysis today using anything resembling Freud's original ideas are a tiny minority, and you could toss them out without affecting the 50/50 balance. Der_E
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Honesty is not straightforward at that age. I know someone who grew up in a village and whose parents left her with an aunt to find work in a city when she was three. They explained to her what was happening, but she didn't understand
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by dkarl 2y ago
I think the 50/50 on Freud is an overrated/underrated equilibrium. Most of the Freud "fans" and Freud "haters" don't estimate him differently because they disagree about the correctness of specific Freudia
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Not quite, because parking requirements is one of the few issues that is high profile enough that voters remember it when it comes time to vote for city council. The people who vote in city council elections are a small minority, but they&#
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by dkarl 2y ago
> now the street parking is gone By "gone," I think you mean "used."
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I don't disagree with much in the article, but I disagree with the implication that parking requirements are, or ever were, designed to meet the needs of businesses and business owners. They aren't. They're driven by voters w
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by dkarl 2y ago
Exactly, we paid for our house, the sidewalk in front of it, and the street beyond that sidewalk! And our enjoyment will be ruined by... seeing people on our street who don't live here! That's the part I don't understand at a
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by dkarl 2y ago
> Nor are minimum parking requirements even needed: developers have the knowledge and incentives to provide the appropriate amount of off-street parking. If a developer builds too little parking, she will struggle to attract tenants and
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by dkarl 2y ago
Lots of image formats store arbitrary metadata (and data data) either by design or by application-specific extensions. I remember seeing seismic and medical images that contained data for display in specialized applications and writing code
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by dkarl 2y ago
We can't know how much of this is true in the author's marriage, so a reading that hinges on figuring that out doesn't take us anywhere. The reader is not playing the role of the author's marriage counselor. I think we&#
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by dkarl 2y ago
I think people are missing that this is humor. Its approach to the truth is not direct. It lays out a humorously extreme position and challenges us to articulate where, presumably somewhere in between the Vulcan rationalism it's so eas
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by dkarl 2y ago
An LLM would need a lot of integrations to send the emails, Slack messages, and meeting invites to find out all the required domain knowledge. They're basically a full-fledged employee who could take on a management role at that point.
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by dkarl 2y ago
I went to school in the early 1990s! The progressive approach to education was already orthodoxy when my teachers were trained. It has been around a long, long time and has been the prevailing belief in education for half a century or more.
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by dkarl 2y ago
That take has been accurate in specific times and places, but it is also blindly repeated in contexts where it's simply not true. All the teachers I encountered in my time in the US public school system were trained in the progressive
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by dkarl 2y ago
Unfortunately, the pleasure or displeasure of doing math compounds quickly. A kid who doesn't enjoy it is going to do the minimum required, and if that isn't enough, it will become ever harder and less enjoyable in the future. You
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by dkarl 2y ago
I knew a guy like this. He was fairly transparent about the fact that he talked a lot of bullshit about himself, in the sense that he didn't keep it realistic and didn't respond to reasonable skepticism the way a normal person wou
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by dkarl 2y ago
My father, who had a PhD in history, had exactly the kind of math skills the study describes in Indian children. With ordinary arithmetic, he was fast and accurate. Money and baseball statistics were no problem. Algebra? No fucking way. As
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by dkarl 2y ago
I think you should read this report. They made heavy use of many advanced features of Scala 2. Few codebases look like this (and very, very few need to) yet they were able to do it. Moreover, they didn't need to do it. What makes i
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by dkarl 2y ago
> I (16+ years developer) prefer to iteratively go between coding and designing I have an extra ten years on you and couldn't agree more. There are two jokes: - A few months of programming can save weeks of design. - A few months of
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by dkarl 2y ago
> People who stress over code style, linting rules, or other minutia remain insane weirdos to me. Focus on more important things. I wish he'd say which people are the weirdos: the ones who say let's just pick a standard and rig
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It's an evergreen moral panic. Historically, we retrospectively recognize the seminal importance of scenes that had virtually zero participants, and rather than regretting that those scenes were so tiny and demonizing the distribution
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> As much as I respect Bertrand Russell, I'm not sure if _Principia Mathematica_ is the last word on mathematics for the century. I feel like they picked it because not much original mathematics is published in book form. Most of th
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by dkarl 2y ago
Then you have a subculture defined by fashion, which might be fun for the people in it, but it's not something anyone else has any stake in preserving. Nothing of value is lost if it disappears.
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> You have to give people less incentives and more just time to do their basic job. That was the idea behind tenure, but then tenure became the incentive. Job security at a socially prestigious job with solid benefits is a huge incentive
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All that's being "ruined" is people's ability to pretend that building identity through access to exclusive cultural groups and hard-to-get consumer items represents some kind rarified social achievement. Commodifying it

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