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by dkarl 5y ago
I tried Joplin, but sync from desktop to mobile happens on a fixed interval instead of syncing automatically when you make changes. That was a blocker for me because a lot of basic use cases involve switching between devices: - Create a wor
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by dkarl 5y ago
> It's a lack of interest in lived/organic/patina/messy-because-of-life aesthetics, and a tendency towards pure/empty/conceptual aesthetics. I think he's cheating, then, by comparing a real estate listi
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by dkarl 5y ago
I got into Buddhism through books on my dad's bookshelf. My dad became curious about Buddhism and Taoism through the writings of Alan Watts, Gary Snyder, and other people in that crowd, and he became fascinated with those people throug
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by dkarl 5y ago
> Indeed, Perlis’s quip gestures toward the ultimate tension within all programming languages: how to connect the gossamer realm of human ideas to the grubby reality of a computing machine. Arguably the whole point of programming lang
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by dkarl 5y ago
Because it looked like a ThinkPad, obviously.
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The DARE officer said drugs would fry your brain, and the kids taking and selling drugs said it was a lie to stop people from having an easy harmless good time. Considering the drugs that kids were taking at my high school, I wouldn't
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by dkarl 5y ago
There's a spectrum from a manager not expressing an opinion to a manager giving a direct order. I have had managers that never gave a direct order that I witnessed. Usually the implied meaning when they "told" you what to do
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by dkarl 5y ago
He's saying it's dishonest according to the principle that the materials used to build something should not be hidden or made to look like other materials. I think it's a bad example, because, as he admits, it's art and
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by dkarl 5y ago
> the problem is you think the price is being estimated wrong, in which case you shouldn't be complaining about there being a tax, you should complain that the rate it is set at is incorrect If there is no way of setting an appropri
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> But I do make sure that all of it fails gracefully to 'normal' when something interrupts HA. This is why interest and trust don't have to go together. Sometimes the people who are most adventurous are simply the ones who
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by dkarl 5y ago
You're right in a limited way, but the way it was put to me, doctors don't see it as possible to effectively pitch both approaches in the same session with a patient. You probably won't see them a second time, so you have to
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by dkarl 5y ago
> made no mention of what actually resolved my diabetes, a low carb diet. I hope that becomes the first resort Doctors know that if they compared "taking Metformin" to "eating a low-carb diet," the low-carb diet would
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by dkarl 5y ago
For this reason I was skeptical of them from the start. It's a broken formula: X is challenging for some developers to understand, so we'll replace it with Y which practically nobody will understand, but it's okay because the
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by dkarl 5y ago
I second Postgres. Not only is the source code a pleasure to read, there's also an unusual amount of well-presented material about its internals available online.
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by dkarl 5y ago
The nice thing is that you're used to a good situation. At your new job, when you feel uncertain, you can ask, "Why is this different?" The answer might be that you don't know who to talk to about an issue, or you don&#x
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by dkarl 5y ago
The person doing the design studies the original product and will likely gain incidental knowledge of how the original product is implemented. The person doing the implementation ideally has no exposure to the implementation of the original
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by dkarl 5y ago
How about this: go ahead and ask, but without the rhetorical intent of proving that your milliseconds-in-the-making gut reaction contains insights they haven't yet considered.
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I wonder what it was like for the NSA workers who had to search for steganographic messages in Osama bin Laden's Tom and Jerry episodes.
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> some (particularly from GM and Ford) do much worse Naturally people who don't like EVs are going to cherry-pick these problems, but the mixed results suggest to me that it's down to a deficiency in the design and testing proc
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by dkarl 5y ago
FWIW, I don't have aphantasia and consider myself a very visually-oriented person when it comes to math, but doing precise arithmetic by visualizing the quantities is mind-boggling to me. I memorized the multiplication tables using a s
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by dkarl 5y ago
And keep medicine away from kids.
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by dkarl 5y ago
As another poster said, the problem is that Hugo is built around a number of new concepts. To understand them, you have to understand their relation to two contexts: the other Hugo concepts that they are designed to work with, and Hugo&#x27
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by dkarl 5y ago
The Watts Towers in LA https://www.latimes.com/travel/story/2021-12-24/how-the-watt...
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I disagree with the silly categories. I think space travel is awesome but boy would I put so many other things in front of it. I think it's silly to insist on gut emotional reactions like awesomeness agreeing with prudent decision-
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by dkarl 5y ago
I think the IKEA hate is amplified by the experience of being in their stores. I like IKEA products and do go and shop there, but I plan ahead to get in and out in less than half an hour, because after twenty minutes or so I start to get na
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by dkarl 5y ago
Baby Rudin, Principles of Mathematical Analysis, was that book for me. It was that book for a lot of people, which I guess means it felt "perfect" for people with a broad range of backgrounds. I never found a book like that for al
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by dkarl 5y ago
Cognitive dissonance even for people who missed it. At the time I was in my early twenties, started my day late, and usually didn't check news until after getting a little bit of work done. When I got to work, nobody else was there, wh
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Those moments are tough to navigate, because sometimes half the room perceives the mood as "people have strong opinions about this and want to be heard" which is really great but there are also one or two people in the room who ar
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I'm sure you think the person you're responding to is just an apologist for toxic behavior, and you might be right, but it's true that different behaviors are insulting in different cultural contexts. What is toxic is feeling
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> Pairs tend to devolve to least-common-denominator performance. Experts paired with novices need to move as slow as a novice. I think this misses a lot of the benefit of pair programming. The person with more experience on the project c

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