dkarl

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by dkarl 4y ago
So you feel strongly enough about these issues that you don't want to live somewhere where there's more work to do, and where your vote could make a difference in the coming decades. Just "get this gross stuff away from me.&q
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by dkarl 4y ago
Same here, but I've started tagging certain kinds of links. I haven't used the tags much, except to look up recipes, so it remains to be seen how much mileage I'll get out of the tages, but I do like using Pocket as a kind of
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by dkarl 4y ago
I wonder if studies are systematically underestimating modal shift because it's impossible to quantify the cultural shift from a generation that saw car travel as a sign of upward mobility to a generation that sees unnecessary car trav
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by dkarl 4y ago
I remember Python being already popular in 2000 as a scripting and glue language, a Perl replacement for people who recoiled from Perl, or whose coworkers rejected Perl. Then Eric Raymond wrote a glowing article about his first experience w
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by dkarl 4y ago
I'm not all that fond of Stoicism, but this appears to be a recycled version of the same accusation that used to be leveled against Buddhism, so I wouldn't be surprised if it's based on the same misunderstanding. And as a pro
906.
by dkarl 4y ago
I vaguely remember a magazine biography of an Italian scientist who lived near the mountains. In the summer, he liked to strike out on Friday afternoon with a hunk of bread and a hunk of cheese, think about scientific problems while he hike
907.
by dkarl 4y ago
Work is a fundamental human experience, too.
908.
by dkarl 4y ago
Many humans desire a religion that claims to represent the will of god.
909.
by dkarl 4y ago
There was a "white slavery" panic back in the day, a century or more ago. It was mostly driven by the puritanical assumption that any woman engaging in sex work must be imprisoned against her will, but it often went hand-in-hand w
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by dkarl 4y ago
Hence the parent comment: > We should be counting down the days till they sunset VS Code to focus on VS Code "Pro". I don't think it would serve their interests, so I'm not worried about it, but who knows? This cynici
911.
by dkarl 4y ago
They embrace, extend, and extinguish products they don't make money on, so that people are forced to use products that they do make money on.
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by dkarl 4y ago
There is a famous quote from a mathematician (maybe von Neumann, don't have it to hand) to the effect that you don't understand mathematics, you just get used to it. That's how monads work. You won't figure them out from
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by dkarl 4y ago
I catch myself asking questions like this, but then I remember how much tech from before my lifetime I can identify. Carriages, crank-started automobiles, biplanes, muskets, fire-starting bows, spinning wheels, washboards, etc. How do I kno
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by dkarl 4y ago
In the course of my career I've learned a simple rule for processing programming wisdom. I don't follow any programming principle or practice unless: - I have seen value from it firsthand, or - I'm working alongside somebody
915.
by dkarl 4y ago
> I was actually offered a position doing exactly that for a rather successful, nonFAANG valley company. Literally 'decide how to solve the problem, then hand it off and never think about it again.' It sounded awful for everyon
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by dkarl 4y ago
> "We also made the decision to not move forward with the proposed talk which - rather than bringing our community together and raising awareness - was creating division and rancour," the spokesperson further said. Google publi
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by dkarl 4y ago
The article says that the speaker "has delivered presentations on caste at Microsoft, Airbnb, Netflix, Saleforce, and Adobe."
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by dkarl 4y ago
It's also an exotic, scary risk, as opposed to a familiar risk we've come to accept, like the risks of nuclear power versus the risks of fossil fuel power. We'll never compare a death from one fairly with a death from the oth
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by dkarl 4y ago
> If you want to impose self-driving on everybody, it should be at least as good as the best drivers. I would gladly have self-driving imposed on me if it were also imposed on drunks, teenagers, and the elderly. Sounds like a great trade
920.
by dkarl 4y ago
I would expect people like the people I went to high school with, since that was a pretty random selection of society. That would not be a group where you could describe an abstract concept like the criteria for applying a law and expect th
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by dkarl 4y ago
> Product/Engineering teams don't commit-escalate-communicate well I'm not sure which way the causality points, maybe you're right and organizations that already have poor communication tend to adopt SAFe, but my expe
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by dkarl 4y ago
Oh god.... SAFe is the opposite of agile, and PI planning is for people who don't understand the truth in "plans are useless, planning is essential." It's days and days of planning whose value depends on everything happe
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by dkarl 4y ago
I agree, pretty bizarre for a public announcement.
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by dkarl 4y ago
How does that happen? Is it triggered by changes, or can I trigger it myself by flicking the page down? As long as the sync isn't determined by a schedule or hidden inside a menu, it could work for me.
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by dkarl 4y ago
For me, the missing feature is usually adding a note on my computer and accessing it seconds later on my phone. There are a lot of notes that would be tedious to create on my phone because of their complexity, but which I use on the go. Exa
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by dkarl 4y ago
I think you get a good idea of his attitude in the first sentence: > terms are also "colonized" for political and fad reasons His version of the story always casts aspersions on alternative OO ideas and frequently, as here, imp
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by dkarl 4y ago
> it seems to me that the definition of equality needs a context That's precisely it. Mathematicians are often casual with terminology even when being completely precise inside their context. I did not get beyond introductory gradua
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by dkarl 4y ago
> The aforementioned languages not only boil down Smalltalk's object system into a basic "code sharing" scheme This is wrong. C++ wasn't based on Smalltalk. It was inspired by ideas in Simula, which predated Smalltalk
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by dkarl 4y ago
1. Actively maintain lists when you use them. When you want to watch a movie and look back at your to-watch list, delete stuff! A lot of times you'll put something on a list because it struck you a certain way in the moment, but it doe
930.
by dkarl 4y ago
I keep hearing this, here and in other online spaces, but until I see link to one of these studies I'll be skeptical, because I don't see how you could test this in a meaningful way. I see very different people wearing helmets ver

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