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by dkarl 1y ago
It's a conflict as old as time. What do you do when an argument leads to an unexpected conclusion? I think there are two good responses: "There's something going on here, so let's dig into it," or, "There'
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by dkarl 1y ago
Maybe do it more consistently! Heat acclimation takes a week with daily exposure or 2-3 weeks if you get exposure every other day[0]. If you work out in the heat once a week, you might be living that miserable first hot day of the year over
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by dkarl 1y ago
Your reaction to heat is highly dependent on acclimation. I live in Texas and have to re-acclimate every year. Exercising on the first 85º+ day of the year is miserable, but a month later 85º feels quite tolerable, and 95º is doable, though
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by dkarl 1y ago
That's what I've observed empirically over my last half-dozen jobs. Many developers treat decomposition and contract design between services seriously, and work until they get it right. I've seen very few developers who put t
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That's the upside of JITs and a great way to take advantage of them. Unfortunately, not every programmer is motivated to produce simple code. Some programmers prefer to write more complex code, either because they enjoy building castle
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by dkarl 1y ago
> But if you take as “performance” the duty cycle of the machine’s various components, little will prevent you from ending up with a design in which the major part of your performance goal is reached by internal housekeeping activities o
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by dkarl 1y ago
Reading code has always been as important as writing it. Now it's becoming more important. This is my nightmare. Writing code can be joy at times; reading it is always work.
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That's fair, it makes sense for people who already understand the math and are reading for the other aspects. I don't think that was his target audience, though.
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It's like reading a review of a novel that tells you how to feel about it, and adopting that emotional response without reading the novel itself.
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> The whole book is striking a middle ground between expressing every step of mathematical rigor, and describing in a more literary way how to feel about these concepts I really hate this. If you don't care to understand something,
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by dkarl 1y ago
More likely it's a result of pressure to ship highly visible "improvements," combined with a lack of ideas that could improve the experience in a meaningful way. What do you do in that situation? Ship an obvious UI update tha
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Some people are going to ding him for including exercise, and it's true that the physical calorie expenditure of exercise won't achieve much for weight loss unless you make cycling a major hobby. However, I think exercise goes a l
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by dkarl 1y ago
I resisted this conclusion for a long time, but I finally accepted that many people don't easily mode-switch between complaining and constructive action. If they complain and get positive feedback from it, like commiseration, they star
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by dkarl 1y ago
Just need to vent: there's a NIN song "Sin" that has a repeating effect shsha shsha shsha shsha.... I'm not conveying it clearly in text, but it's prominent in the first five seconds of the song[0] if you want to ac
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by dkarl 1y ago
Is your focus on older tools that tend to be on most machines and used in older shell scripts (e.g., find and grep), or on newer and upgraded tools (fd, fzf, rg) that developers install on their own machines, or both?
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by dkarl 1y ago
People would like to do their best to make their impact on the world as positive as possible, but they also care about showing they have the critical ability to notice everything wrong about the system they exist in, and we don't give
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by dkarl 1y ago
> a lot of people are just kind of shit at their jobs A lot of this derives from people not respecting what they do. We're too elitist as a society to care about the quality of what most people consume and experience on a daily basi
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by dkarl 1y ago
Often, when something breaks, I think I might enjoy tinkering with it and trying to fix it, but it feels like a luxury I can't afford. Hiring someone to fix it is a luxury that I can sometimes afford. It's one of those things that
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by dkarl 1y ago
I usually have a buffer that is kind of like a Jupyter notebook, and it accumulates a lot of stuff that may or may not turn out to be useful in the end. If I'm doing the work to keep things tidy as I go, so it's close to productio
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by dkarl 1y ago
> Works out great for the employer Does it? I think employers would be far better off if they didn't have to manage benefits. Having the employer administer everything was the deal we struck to provide socialist-like assurances for
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by dkarl 1y ago
What I don't like about building systems at the REPL is that when I investigate a possibility and it works out, I have to identify the code that's actually needed, clean it up, and turn my ad-hoc tests in the REPL into unit tests.
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by dkarl 1y ago
I agree — our scientific knowledge gives us no justification for believing that anything should be conscious, but our own experience shows that there's something we don't understand yet. In some ways, the next simplest thing to as
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by dkarl 1y ago
We don't know why we experience things. It's bizarre that we do. Nothing in our understanding of the universe gives any indication that a bunch of atoms thrown together by cosmological processes and then assembled into self-replic
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by dkarl 1y ago
I'm with you 90%. However, side-cut buns have one advantage top-cut buns don't: if you're very careful and a little bit lucky, you can open them all the way and toast them face down on a griddle with butter. Clearly we need a
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by dkarl 1y ago
Sorry, we've been hearing that since before Trump clinched the nomination in 2016, but political parties change, and there's no enduring Republican norm that is going to imminently reassert itself. I do know some "decent Repu
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by dkarl 1y ago
I think you're describing a part of the Republican Party that is now almost irrelevant, one that kept expecting the voters to turn against Donald Trump. They're the ones who thought, what the hell is Trump doing sucking up to Puti
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by dkarl 1y ago
> he’s generally intelligent. He’s not going to run the country into the ground I think you're having a hard time grasping the concept of people who care more about rolling back social and cultural change than they care about the Un
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by dkarl 1y ago
Fifteen years ago I worked with a guy who, in retrospect, was very similar to an LLM. He was extremely verbally gifted and a vacuum cleaner for information. He could speak brilliantly about any topic he had been exposed to. He was a great p
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by dkarl 1y ago
That's my dream, but statically typed. Let programmers gloss over all the memory management stuff that makes writing Rust painstaking and complex (put everything on the heap by default if necessary.) Trade off runtime performance for f
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Could you write 80-100% of an application in this language? I'm wondering if it could be a good application language for Rust programmers who want to use the Rust ecosystem and have the option of writing parts of their application in R

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