evincarofautumn

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by evincarofautumn 8y ago
Eh, as always, it goes in fits and starts. I quit my job a few months ago and spent longer than expected to recover from burnout, now I’m trying to do a release before returning to work. I sort of painted myself into a corner with some aspe
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by evincarofautumn 8y ago
Alcohol metabolism is pretty complex, though. Your liver can only process so much at once, so you’re not going to extract all the available energy from it if you’re drinking quickly/heavily, because the body will start excreting the ex
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by evincarofautumn 8y ago
Yeah. :/ I was aware of this already—thanks for bringing it up though, since I think it’s important that people be aware of it. Unfortunately I haven’t found an equally effective yet safer replacement for nausea & allergies. Ginger
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by evincarofautumn 8y ago
Out of curiosity, is there much discussion in that community of other xanthine stimulants like theophylline, theobromine, and 8-chlorotheophylline? I take dimenhydrinate = 1:1 diphenhydramine + 8-CTP to relieve nausea, and from the feel of
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by evincarofautumn 8y ago
I was trying to avoid “things you buy from resellers who ordered 5000 of them from Shenzhen at half a dollar a pop and then marked them up 2000%” but honestly that’s also a great option in a pinch.
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by evincarofautumn 8y ago
I’m gonna take a wild guess, based on my knowledge from about 10 years ago, that your best bet is going to be prepaid providers. Dunno what they’re doing nowadays, but I used to use a Tracfone Wireless phone, which cost $20–30 at Walmart fo
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by evincarofautumn 8y ago
> with digital storage it's often a step function where it's like "whoops, a few bits flipped, can't read at all anymore" Digital anything, really. Analog signals degrade somewhat gracefully—you have to explicitl
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by evincarofautumn 8y ago
“I bought more/cleaner/flatter bricks, including 1 granite tile ($5.50) and 2 slate tiles ($1.60 ea) to try in lieu of expensive ($20-40) pizza stones.” Oh no, that granite is going to— “granite cracked after 1st use. slates wer
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by evincarofautumn 8y ago
Yeah, SF bay area, although I didn’t actually hear “hella” that much until I started spending time in Reno, NV, where my partner is from. Most of my coworkers have been from elsewhere in the country & world.
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by evincarofautumn 8y ago
Well I only moved across the country (NH to CA), so the biggest differences I’ve noticed have been in dialect and food. People think I’m quaint for using “wicked” as an adverb here, but the local “hella” is both less emphatic and used sligh
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by evincarofautumn 8y ago
Can semi-confirm: I worked on Site Integrity (Infrastructure) at FB in 2013–2014, and iirc there were many instances where a benign URL was automatically flagged as spam, and someone had to explicitly go and whitelist it because we were get
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by evincarofautumn 8y ago
Yup, it differs considerably depending on the job—the point I guess is that your breadth of experience spans the software in question from end to end. I consider myself a “full-stack” programming language engineer because I’m equally comfor
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by evincarofautumn 8y ago
As an ambidextrous-enough person (lefty for a lot of things but write right-handed), for a while my preferred computer setup was a mouse on the left—buttons not swapped, so primary click was on the (stronger) middle finger and right-click
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by evincarofautumn 8y ago
Yup, you have “higher tolerance” to things that have been continually forced on you—doesn’t mean your tolerance is actually higher, just that you’re more experienced at sucking it up. I distinctly remember the day when I, as a young teenage
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by evincarofautumn 8y ago
I would think any kind of training would have this effect. In mechanism —not purpose or ethics—brainwashing doesn’t strike me as all that different from ordinary practice.
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by evincarofautumn 8y ago
Nah, that’s backward: you need to use Haskell if you have a PhD, because other languages are too hard and get in the way of research.
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by evincarofautumn 8y ago
That’s great! You’re the kind of person the hobbyist programming language development community needs. I’d encourage anyone who’s interested in learning more about compilers to see how they can contribute to a new language—it’s a great lear
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by evincarofautumn 8y ago
Good point, haha, I did see the irony while writing that. I’ve moved that paragraph up toward the top in the hope it helps somewhat. :P The thing about a lot of these big scary concepts in Haskell is that they’re really simple , the kind o
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by evincarofautumn 8y ago
Profunctors are another great example of variance in functional programming. A profunctor is a type constructor that takes two arguments, one contravariant, one covariant. The simplest example of this is the function type constructor (->
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by evincarofautumn 8y ago
A kind of subtyping does show up in Haskell with higher-rank polymorphism: the System F “generic instance” subtyping rule. Namely, for types A and B, A is a subtype of B iff A is a “generic instance” of B, meaning A is at least as polymorp
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by evincarofautumn 8y ago
Obviously, in certain circumstances only traditional opioids will do, but for alternative pain management, people speak highly of cannabis and kratom. For those who haven’t yet heard of it, kratom (variously pronounced “KRAY-tum”, “KRAT-um”
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by evincarofautumn 8y ago
“head” has the type: <T> (List<T> -> Optional<T>) (“For any type T, function from list of T to optional T.”) So assuming “xs” is a list, “xs head” is either a full Optional (“some”) containing the first element
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by evincarofautumn 8y ago
Same—I can’t tolerate most artificial fragrances, as they make my sinuses block up and irritate my eyes & skin. Sadly they’re everywhere —between perfumes, deodorants, lotions, laundry detergents, fabric softeners, air fresheners, odou
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by evincarofautumn 8y ago
> "match (xs head)" is not described anywhere (on the page at all). “A ‘match’ expression takes an instance of an ADT, matches on its tag, and unpacks its fields (if any) onto the stack so they can be manipulated.” (Under the “
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by evincarofautumn 8y ago
I’ve been working on a concatenative language, Kitten, which I hope eventually bridges the gap to more mainstream programmers with a seamless blend of functional and imperative semantics, useful language features that work best in a concate
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by evincarofautumn 8y ago
Lead-based pigments are really stunning—shame about the toxicity. Lead(II) iodide is another lovely yellow, albeit less stable than the chromate. I had a chemistry teacher in high school who used to work on paints and inks—he showed us seve
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by evincarofautumn 8y ago
> Many art historians credit him with inventing “comic foregrounds,” those plywood pictures with a cut-out hole for a head, allowing passersby to pretend they’re bodybuilders or mermaids. Comedian James Acaster did a bit about “pictures
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by evincarofautumn 8y ago
It’s interesting to me because it’s both concatenative—so the basic building block of programs is composition—and array-oriented—so you can implicitly lift operations over arrays like in APL. These are both “weird” families of languages, bu
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by evincarofautumn 8y ago
Speaking of literal translations, a direct English calque for that would be something like “downheadfolk”, or maybe “head-downers”.
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by evincarofautumn 8y ago
I worked there in the past. Everyone I met was earnestly trying to do good work and afraid of getting fired or sued for doing something that would impact privacy and thereby FB’s bottom line. Facebook is strongly incentivised to protect use

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