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by earth_walker 4y ago
No-one got their bank accounts frozen for "saying mean things". People did get their bank accounts frozen for playing key roles in protests that shut down critical infrastructure for a prolonged period. Protests that were at least
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by earth_walker 4y ago
There are two of me. The me of now, and the me of hindsight. Hindsight me is way smarter, and able to criticise every decision we made leading us into the mess that is now. Now me needs to make quick decisions based on imperfect information
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by earth_walker 4y ago
Most hobbies doesn't have sales, marketing, taxes, regulatory mandated recordkeeping, deadlines, people yelling at you, or "regular business hours". Businesses have most if not all of these.
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by earth_walker 5y ago
Another displaced Hamiltonian here. Back in the 90s they had a plan called "Vision 2020" that painted a dense, people-friendly Hamilton. Now that 2020 has come and gone, the sprawl is crazy, downtown dead, transit gutted, and comm
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by earth_walker 5y ago
Cloudflare is only the default for users in the USA. I'm in Canada and the default provider is CIRA. I can also choose to switch to Cloudflare, NextDNS, or add my own. You can check out the Network Settings at the bottom of the General
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by earth_walker 5y ago
Stepping back and balancing the numbers: e.g. Mass balance, energy balance, balancing the books, balancing your schedule, profit analysis, etc. Usually this comes down to simple math and a bit of black boxing. It's amazing how often pe
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by earth_walker 5y ago
Off topic, but I just love that this is the second time in as many days I read "Oh my sweet summer child" on HN.
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by earth_walker 5y ago
By paying attention. edit: By which I mean 1) audit your processes and 2) get to know your people. Processes require good engineering to thrive; people require good management. When you confuse the two, you get problems.
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by earth_walker 5y ago
"Menu" is so overdone. How about we call it "Start"?
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by earth_walker 5y ago
My completely naive reply to the Chinese room is that as stated doesn't learn from the inputs and outputs. Let's modify it slightly to include a second stream of responses to the room's answers. Then make a guidebook that add
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by earth_walker 5y ago
Probably a wasp or solitary bee of some sort. We never saw the insect, just the little nests in some tape or book spine you hadn't opened for a while. Insects, spiders, centipedes, lizards, all had pretty much free range in the houses
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by earth_walker 5y ago
My first computer was a Spectrum 48k. My school bought a ZX81 and a logo turtle - one for the whole school. We went down as a class and got to play with it a group, calling out instructions that the teacher would type in. Other kids seemed
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by earth_walker 5y ago
What it proves is that despite all that personalized data they have, it's the naive implementation that gets them the most clicks per dollar. So the question is this: if they're not (and never were) using that data for what they s
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by earth_walker 5y ago
Netflix is not recommending what they think you'll like, they are recommending what they want you to watch. Once you're a subscriber, they want to keep you there as cheaply as possible. This is exactly what their data analytics ha
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by earth_walker 5y ago
First and foremost, the constant feeling that time is running out is just the effect of a big marketing machine built to make you vulnerable to their suggestions. Life isn't a race, and certainly not a race for money and things. At 35
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by earth_walker 5y ago
How powerful is this, really? As soon as you try to do anything useful to foo it's not arbitrary anymore. You have to make some kind of an assumption on the underlying type, check for keys, nulls, maybe it's a number (the right nu
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by earth_walker 5y ago
In this case I wasn't attempting to constrain the language rather than to capture the structure already implicit in the system - hierarchy of chapters, sections, clauses and sub-clauses, attributes such as definitions and exceptions,
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by earth_walker 5y ago
Exactly this. We have a saying in the GxP QA world - look at the process, not the person. Anyone can make mistakes, and sometimes the naive 'why' of something is just that someone made a mistake. But if you focus your questions on
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by earth_walker 5y ago
Crazy isn't it? I actually pitched to the American Society of Quality Assurance a few years ago that we should be going to the various governing jurisdictions with a schema and encourage them to publish regulations in a standard format
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by earth_walker 5y ago
I started doing this for a niche area: US and European regulations and guidance documents for Good Laboratory Practice, and later for Canadian Cannabis regulations. Basically I created a standard XML schema for regulations and parsed them i
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by earth_walker 5y ago
It isn't. I still use it once in a while on an old netbook with a couple of gigs of memory, and it flies for any editing task. In comparison, no IDE can even hope to run on that unit. HOWEVER, a heavily and naively reconfigured emacs,
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by earth_walker 5y ago
Here's the major benefit of investing long-term into emacs. Not only do I have virtually the same, infinitely configurable interface for coding in any language, I also have that interface for most things I need to do in my workday. On
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by earth_walker 5y ago
Which says something about the conditions in which they are kept.
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by earth_walker 5y ago
Don't get me wrong, I'd much rather listen to James Blake or Moreno Veloso than Collier. I'm not saying you have to like his music. I am saying that anyone maintaining that his compositions are not artistic , creative or
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by earth_walker 5y ago
Ok, I hadn't really explored Collier's music until I read so many people panning his work on this thread. One youtube rabbit hole later, and I have to strongly disagree. These threads are littered with Phrases like 'Doesn&#x2
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by earth_walker 5y ago
This has been my experience over many years of restricting my consumption window. I also find I get mid-morning and after-lunch energy wells if I have an early breakfast, not so much if my first meal is after 10am.
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by earth_walker 5y ago
Yes to strength training first. However, please be careful doing only highly repetitive exercises like pushups and crunches every day - it's a good way to develop joint injuries as you get older. Build up slowly and switch it up - like
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by earth_walker 5y ago
I purposely avoided 'BDFL': too much precedent as to what that means! Limiting certain kinds of js access to vetted libraries is benevolent, if that's part of the language's goals. Likewise the lack of type classes or
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by earth_walker 5y ago
There really isn't any call to trash Elm and its creator like this. There's very little evidence of ongoing hostility from Evan - I pay attention to his work and writings and find he's rarely if ever hostile. In fact he'
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by earth_walker 5y ago
You are absolutely right and I missed the point! I believe there are a couple of things in the standard library which should have returned a Maybe (or even better taken a NonZero as an argument). The community Extra libraries tend to offer

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