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by dri_ft 4y ago
> Do you know of any painters that grind painting like you can grind exercise? Do you think Leonardo got good enough to do the Sistine chapel by daubing a doodle or two when the mood took him? You absolutely can and, to get good, must
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by dri_ft 5y ago
broke: calling people lazy. woke: accusing people of being unwilling to do the hard work.
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by dri_ft 5y ago
It's the forum that frequent commenters on Slate Star Codex set up to chat while Slate Star Codex was on its NYT-induced hiatus. It seems to have developed a life of its own and is still in use even now that Slate Star Codex is back as
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by dri_ft 5y ago
Dennett talks about this sort of thing in broad outline in Darwin's Dangerous Idea, which is aimed at the layperson (though fairly dense and demanding). I'm not sure if it's mathematically detailed enough for what you seek, b
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by dri_ft 5y ago
As what, lack of conscientiousness?
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by dri_ft 5y ago
Yeah, I'm surprised the WELL never seems to get a mention around here. And the discussion on your links is fairly sparse.
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by dri_ft 5y ago
“Non-Russian readers do not realize two things: that not all Russians love Dostoevsky as much as Americans do, and that most of those Russians who do, venerate him as a mystic and not as an artist. He was a prophet, a claptrap journalist an
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by dri_ft 5y ago
I can't help you with passing interviews, but if you really are high-conscientiousness (and smart enough to do at least averagely well academically), then there's probably a place for you in industry. The industry has plenty of br
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by dri_ft 6y ago
A Keynesian beauty contest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keynesian_beauty_contest
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by dri_ft 6y ago
I haven't been able to play hyperbolic tabletop games since I lost my hyperbolic table in my last move. YMMV.
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by dri_ft 6y ago
> I like to keep my hobbies cheap and cheerful [...] Just a CSV file, ssh whois, and my old friend sleep() to honor the rate limits. 'Honor' is a funny word for your treatment of the rate limits you wrote a distributed crawler
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by dri_ft 6y ago
With weapons, it costs money to kill someone; with medicine, it costs money to save them.
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by dri_ft 6y ago
Thanks!
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by dri_ft 6y ago
Can I ask how you got into using q/kdb? I've been using it in my current work, partly because it's well-suited to the table-oriented work I'm doing, and partly just because I wanted to learn it. But have no idea where to
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by dri_ft 6y ago
I mean in some sense yes, but more importantly, you probably want to practice with a harmony instrument, i.e. one that can play full chords, which probably means piano, guitar... I can't think of any such instruments where it's ea
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by dri_ft 6y ago
It is not.
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by dri_ft 6y ago
Can you explain? I'm used to seeing people talk about ADD/ADHD with relation to struggling with productivity/procrastination/attention (naturally), but I am surprised to see you link it to a personality disorder. I know
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by dri_ft 6y ago
Indeed, we only have a tiny amount of Sappho by volume, a slim pamphlet's worth, mostly fragments of a line or two. Heartbreakingly.
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by dri_ft 6y ago
Somewhat OT, but can anyone remember a language that was posted around here a while (maybe a few months ago?) I seem to recall it was a quite nice, modest-looking little language, I think a lisp (but I'm not even sure about that), but
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by dri_ft 6y ago
But how are you gonna solve fizzbuzz?
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by dri_ft 6y ago
She did, but no longer. The project's github README: > Justine Tunney currently isn't on the payroll of any company. She's been focusing on Cosmopolitan because she wants to give back to Free Software which helped her be s
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by dri_ft 6y ago
>How are the prices? Overall good, surely better than London, but there is a spectrum: the cheapest shops there aren't good, and the best ones aren't the most cheap.
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by dri_ft 6y ago
I believe that's true so far as it goes. I'm more concerned about the hop from futurism to vorticism (and thence to Pound's politics). I don't doubt that there are good reasons to think Ezra Pound a fascist, but I don&#x
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by dri_ft 6y ago
> There were direct connections between Futurism (the Italian artistic movement) and Fascism, and Futurism influenced Vorticism. This is really rather shoddy guilt-by-association - and second degree association at that. He's a valua
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by dri_ft 6y ago
ABC of Reading is a good but extremely curmudgeonly guide to poetry in English through the ages. (He would rather have written a guide to european poetry, and it shows, but his publisher (Faber?) insisted it focus on English for the sake
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by dri_ft 6y ago
This seems like a fully general case against making or changing any law ever.
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by dri_ft 6y ago
The spiritual rewards of doing good work have never, in any field, reliably aligned with the worldly rewards of popularity and success.
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by dri_ft 6y ago
But it is part of Europe.
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by dri_ft 6y ago
I thought of this exactly.
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by dri_ft 6y ago
If you're allowed to pick the base then any difference can be 'an order of magnitude'.

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