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by dkarl 3y ago
My experience is that intimate partners are easier than friends, because whatever awkwardness or other social issues you have, the other person is going to spot it and not go on a second or third date with you unless they can tolerate it. S
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by dkarl 3y ago
For friends, one approach is to ask whether you prefer to make friends "shoulder to shoulder," engaged in shared tasks, or "face to face," in direct conversation. You can meet "shoulder to shoulder" friends via
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by dkarl 3y ago
I think the major parties and other interested organizations will always have forecasts like these available internally, and will leak them (or lies about them) when it's to their advantage. Having a high-quality forecast directly avai
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by dkarl 3y ago
That's true in calculus, and probably a lot of other applied mathematics contexts where rigor tends to get swept under the rug, but it's not completely fair since there are versions of "infinity" that are defined and use
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by dkarl 3y ago
In mathematics, you can define things in different ways to get different answers. Ways of defining things tend to be highlighted as true (in at least some context) if they are interesting and useful, and ignored if not. I don't think t
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by dkarl 3y ago
Brutalism is one of those things that means many things to many people, and gets brutally simplified (heh) in the public eye. There's more to any brutalist building than the architect's own idea of brutalism, and of course each
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by dkarl 4y ago
I think 3blue1brown gives you great starting intuition. When you work more deeply with a subject, you develop intuition that is more general and precise, and you understand the relationship between the simple model you started with and the
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by dkarl 4y ago
There must be tens of thousands of black bear encounters (where human and bear are mutually aware of each other) in the U.S. every year, and I think less than one attack per year on average. It's not uncommon to see videos of bears wan
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by dkarl 4y ago
Debate is a strong term. Most of the online discussion is the same chill banter as you experience IRL. A forum like /r/ultralight might seem a bit odd when you first read it, like any other online forum dedicated to a niche subcul
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by dkarl 4y ago
> less informative end of the spectrum My experience is that my recommendations are 80% good but lightly sprinkled with random stuff that is known to addict and exploit people in my demographic. It reminds me of gambling and other busine
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by dkarl 4y ago
Theoretically, choosing a JVM language with a good culture seems like a very attractive option. Scala has its own cultural issues, but maybe Kotlin gives you most of the nice parts of Scala without attracting the type astronauts? Maybe Cloj
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by dkarl 4y ago
Depending on what is in your cache, Maven will satisfy dependencies differently. You can go out of your way to nail down your dependencies (analogous to a Javascript lock file) but it goes against the grain of how Maven is designed. Maven e
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by dkarl 4y ago
I was not an outsider. I was born and raised there. You're right that anything they weren't comfortable with was thought of as outside pollution, though.
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by dkarl 4y ago
I think Dawkins, like atheism itself, makes sense in a certain context. I haven't called myself an atheist in many, many years. It's unnecessary now. I live in a place and a social context where it doesn't matter. But I grew
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by dkarl 4y ago
After ten years of using Scala, I think if I was running a Scala team, the safest thing would be to hire people who are not excited about Scala. Like it, yes, but not be super pumped. Developers who are primarily motivated by the excitement
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by dkarl 4y ago
I feel the same way. I love the ability to check them when I need them, but 90% of the time, I'd rather they were invisible.
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It's especially important when there are people reading or listening who don't recognize the bad faith.
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That's a bizarre standard to judge an animal by. Do you think bears and moose, or wolves not habituated to humans, are less "wonderful" because you can't cuddle with them?
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by dkarl 4y ago
I scanned through for the punch line where he explains how much he relied on LLM help while writing this article. Did I miss it? > I don’t really know how to finish this post. Are we there yet? I’ve tried to write this thing 3 times now,
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by dkarl 4y ago
> The most important part about venv is that you shouldn't need it. The very fact that it exists is a problem. It is a wrong fix to a problem that was left unfixed because of it. What Python needs is a tool that understands your pro
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by dkarl 4y ago
I don't know much about public works, but when you're hiring trades and subs for small residential projects, you pay extra to know they're going to show up and work on your project until it's done. If you want to minimiz
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by dkarl 4y ago
Trurl's bard ChatGPT is not.
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by dkarl 4y ago
Copying the setup of an emacs guru sounds like a great idea to me. Think of it as using a Linux distro instead of building your own Linux from scratch. What turned me off of emacs as my daily driver, after using it from college through the
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by dkarl 4y ago
I use VSCode and Jupyter for writing code, but I always have emacs open for doing edits that would be time-consuming and onerous in VSCode, Jupyter, or my rich database client. I feel caught between the failure of text editors to become ric
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by dkarl 4y ago
The way I think of memorization is as scaffolding. Rote memorization is very different from the skill or understand you are trying to build, and for this reason, many people are skeptical about the value of it. Why practice rote memorizatio
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by dkarl 4y ago
To be fair, it's a press release about a scientific study, not a self-help blog post, but you raise a good point when you say that poor sleep patterns "just happen to me." I've always valued sleep, but often in my life,
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by dkarl 4y ago
I see it more as a tick-tock pendulum swing. A principle is neglected, then comes roaring back because of the glaring need for it. It becomes overused, fetishized, and popularized in warped ways. Then the "accepted design principle con
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by dkarl 4y ago
Spending decisions aren't always made by penny-pinchers. Sometimes it's inertia, not disrupting the status quo, dance with who brung ya, avoiding work, a hundred reasons why groups of people transition from a free plan to a paid p
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by dkarl 4y ago
I figured from the title I'd get a better explanation in the comments, and I was right, but I think the article is not nearly as bad as the clickbaity title suggests. It's a decent introduction to how to use types to simplify code
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by dkarl 4y ago
The type system I want would just be a type system that tells you that your code will fail, and why. Pretty much the same errors you get at runtime. Hence the need for my hypothetical type system to handle duck typing. I don't think mu

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