dkarl

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by dkarl 6mo ago
Advice like this turns almost everybody's normal state into a disorder. "Go to sleep only when you are very tired" is a child's approach to sleep, it's what we all want to do, and by adulthood we learn that it&#x2
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by dkarl 6mo ago
If my Oura ring can be trusted, alcohol doesn't interfere with my total amount of sleep or my REM sleep, but it reduces my deep sleep drastically and can even result in me getting zero deep sleep, which hasn't happened a single ti
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by dkarl 6mo ago
Honestly, if I could quit my job for six months and work in a codebase like yours, I'm extremely curious what I could accomplish with AI. We have a codebase at work that was "stuck." We've consistently done minor library
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by dkarl 7mo ago
You couldn't go far on those early Prius batteries. I had a circa-2009 Prius and semi-intentionally ran out of gas to see what happened. I was able to drive a couple of miles to a gas station, but the battery was depleting extremely qu
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by dkarl 7mo ago
These interactions really don't get the testing they need. When they aren't designed, how do you know how to test? Over the weekend, I was directed to file a police report with a chatbot and could not complete it because it was as
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by dkarl 7mo ago
This is exactly it. That's why the glasses have the same basic form (stem, bowl, and tapered rim) as wine glasses and snifters. The liquid sits in the bowl, and the aroma is captured in the empty space between the liquid and the rim.
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by dkarl 7mo ago
People see lower property taxes as a silver lining for short-term swings in the market, but I don't know anybody who thinks this is a short-term swing that they can ride out. Nobody is happy about their property values going down long
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by dkarl 7mo ago
I guess what I mean by that is that Rob Pike was obviously aware that his rules were not as catchy and pithy as the aphorisms he credited, and his only reason for writing his rules was to improve on them by making them more explicit and les
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by dkarl 7mo ago
I think it's important to think about architectural and domain bounds on problems and check if the big-O-optimal algorithm ever comes out on top. I remember Bjarne Stroustrup did a lecture where he compared a reasonably-implemented big
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by dkarl 7mo ago
Anecdotally, what we found in Austin was a combination of two factors: First, awareness of the futility and selfishness of "growth elsewhere" as a solution is much higher in younger people — and by younger, I mean currently under
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by dkarl 7mo ago
I think it's fine and generous that he credited these rules to the better-known aphorisms that inspired them, but I think his versions are better, they deserve to be presented by themselves, instead of alongside the mental clickbait of
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by dkarl 7mo ago
The other reasons given make sense to me, but I bet there is also some psychological benefit in having a regularly scheduled escape from home, and having a guilt-free excuse for it built in, which partly compensates for being forced to come
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by dkarl 7mo ago
My degree is in math, I love Dijkstra, and I think a lot of my colleagues have often created more work than necessary for themselves by treating pieces of code empirically when they could have got a more precise understanding by spending an
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by dkarl 7mo ago
Bullshit is so dangerous because it could mean something. That VP could mean, it's time to look beyond the set of mature technologies we've been considering and look at newer technologies that we would normally ignore because th
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by dkarl 7mo ago
Most anime is either a guilty pleasure or a guilty displeasure for me. The stuff I like, I feel embarrassed of the part of me that likes it, and I feel embarrassed about what I'm willing to overlook to enjoy it. Then the stuff I don&#x
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by dkarl 7mo ago
Yeah, it took me a second, too. By "gaps" they mean numbers that can't be represented in a given construction. So irrational numbers are "gaps" in the rational numbers, and transcendental numbers are "gaps&quot
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by dkarl 7mo ago
I just don't understand why this was disturbing. Prior to the construction of the reals, the existence of irrational and transcendental numbers was disturbing, because they showed that previous constructions (rational numbers and algeb
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by dkarl 7mo ago
I should have been more specific; I understand why it was a mathematical breakthrough. What I don't understand is why it would have triggered some kind of psychological horror or philosophical crisis. It was a new way of understanding
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by dkarl 7mo ago
We've known since Zeno that all of our ways of visualizing infinity in finite terms are incomplete and provably incorrect, despite being unavoidable in human thinking. In other words, we knew the "gaps" reflected incomplete r
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by dkarl 7mo ago
> In their 1872 papers, though, Cantor and Dedekind had found a way to construct a number line that was complete. No matter how much you zoomed in on any given stretch of it, it remained an unbroken expanse of infinitely many real number
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by dkarl 8mo ago
Application design is still a challenge. I had Monday off and vibe-coded up an app that I've been wanting to use for years. The thing is, I can tell it's going to be challenging to make it something sticky that I actually use. Whi
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by dkarl 8mo ago
> You shouldn't be able to use AI or automation as the decider to ban someone from your business/service That would mean dooming companies to lose the arms race against fraud and spam. If they don't use automation to suspe
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by dkarl 8mo ago
I've worked with some really good product managers, as well as some total duds. They all talked to customers on a regular basis. There is so much more to the job than that. Every time I think I understand a product manager's job
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by dkarl 8mo ago
I worked on a product that had to integrate with Salesforce because virtually all of our customers used it. It must have been a terrible match for their domain, because they had all integrated differently, and all the integrations were bad.
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by dkarl 8mo ago
To me that sounds like philosophers not being willing to lower themselves to meet people where they are. There are plenty of professionals who don't let arbitrary standards of rigor get in the way of communicating with people. For medi
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by dkarl 8mo ago
> Time needs to pass before anybody is willing to go "actually, this is worth analyzing". I think that's exactly the problem: the assumption that philosophers should assume, by default, that self-help is unworthy of their
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by dkarl 8mo ago
Most philosophers would not agree that yielding questions instead of answers makes philosophy unhelpful, nor that the happiest life is necessarily the one in which pain is most successfully avoided.
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by dkarl 8mo ago
The latter can be applicable to the former. Traditionally the connection was acknowledged, with Socrates the prototype of the philosopher who believed that happiness, ethical living, and philosophy were inextricably linked. Obviously philos
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by dkarl 8mo ago
In the west, we've had a long, deep split between what ordinary people rely on (religion and self-help) and respectable academic philosophy. Philosophy rooted in religion has a strict requirement to scale down to serve masses of people
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by dkarl 8mo ago
The more often it happens, the more practice you get at delivering the bad news, and the quicker Mike learns to live up to the team's technical standards?

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