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by faichai 5y ago
I lived for a year in 12 story apartment block that was U shaped, I lived on the inner part of the U and this was exactly my experience. If anyone of the 72 inner apartments was having a party or just some late night drinks with friends you
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by faichai 5y ago
Pre-internet breakthrough, circa 1991 I bought a friends 2400 baud modem. I lived in Hong Kong, local telephone calls were free so BBSes were pretty widespread. I vividly remember downloading my first nude picture (I hesitate to call it por
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by faichai 5y ago
My experience with CBT was that it eschewed chasing down causal issues from your past, and rather worked more towards understanding how you’ve ended up, and to give you the tools to counteract your automatic thoughts and behaviours. I found
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by faichai 5y ago
Really insightful. Can you recommend any resources that discuss this?
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by faichai 5y ago
I think this has already happened in China. They provided digital RMB as a stimulus that expired if you didn’t use it. We’re all Mario now.
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by faichai 5y ago
Well said! This has happened to me, I was introducing a new system and in conversation with a a primary customer team during the planning and initial dev constantly. They provided good feedback, and were supportive. When they realised we wo
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by faichai 5y ago
Feel like we’ve really missed an intermediate solution based around tree-shaken statically compiled code. A lot of the goals achieved by docker et al could be met with some kind of multi-elf file format that is basically a collection of sta
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by faichai 5y ago
Conflating long-term, strategic planning with authoritarianism, as you have done, is perhaps part of the problem.
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by faichai 5y ago
It’s a failure of the current political class, not a failure of the system. In the past western politicians have gotten us to the moon, introduced universal healthcare and created the New Deal. All whilst operating as a democracy. It seems
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by faichai 5y ago
> Molten-salt reactors are just one of many advanced nuclear technologies China is investing in. In 2002, an intergovernmental forum identified six promising reactor technologies to fast-track by 2030, including reactors cooled by lead o
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by faichai 5y ago
My dad had a ZX Spectrum. The music to Spy Hunter is seared into my brain. Such early exposure to tech (and to some extent dealing with its crappiness) started me on the path to becoming the software engineer I am today. RIP Sir Clive.
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by faichai 5y ago
Only week 3, but finding it pretty great this time round, ketones actively suppressing appetite, eating about 2 meals a day, down about 6kg so far. I still fast a couple of times a week, but being in ketosis already makes it crazy easy. Hav
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by faichai 5y ago
I felt miserable on Keto the first two times I tried it. I’ve found doing fasting in the month prior helped with the adaptation and a large part of the misery was loss of electrolytes. By using electrolyte powder I only really had one or tw
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by faichai 5y ago
Losing weight is essentially a stress on the body, the response of which is to produce a lot of cortisol, which in turn can mess with testosterone and other hormones. For me the caloric restriction leads to so much cortisol that I can’t rea
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by faichai 5y ago
It’s insane that this hasn’t been the default all along across all browsers. Just shows how Google et al, strive to safeguard and profit from the status quo, at the expense of every internet user.
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by faichai 5y ago
The lipostat theory is quite interesting. This is pure conjecture, but its already known that plastics can impact estrogen levels, I wonder if plastics also have some, yet unknown, impact on metabolism that is upsetting lipostatic homeostas
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by faichai 5y ago
Yeah, I bought one thinking it would be more or less the same. But surprisingly very far off. The original is like Heinz is to ketchup.
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by faichai 5y ago
Most of the current generation of programmers have been mentally mutilated by Object Orientation in the C++/Java/C# style. I include myself. It has been a definite struggle to onboard functional concepts and solve problems in a fu
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by faichai 5y ago
An historic problem with logging is that if you wanted to create a logging library, every time you logged you would lose the line number of the log statement as it would just show that of the library rather than the call point. This is solv
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by faichai 5y ago
The fact that we can apparently detect repeatable patterns of brain activity, and do it across a few modalities (handwriting, cursor movements) shows that a lot of the core problems are solved. We’ve achieved Proof of Concept. With greater
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by faichai 5y ago
This is not why people start though, see DowsingSpoon’s comment above as to how that happens, it nearly always involves alcohol. This is what people do once they are already addicted, and then use socialisation and relaxation as a post-ho
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by faichai 5y ago
I might not be familiar enough with the original tools, nor the Rust ecosystem, so excuse me if this is misinformed. But the trend seems to be that the Rust tooling is a lot richer than their original counterparts. Is this accurate? And if
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by faichai 5y ago
South Korea and Taiwan perhaps?
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by faichai 5y ago
If any non-British wonder why we Brits don’t know the rules, well back when I was at school, studying GCSE English in the 90s (qualifications we get age 16), they explicitly didn’t teach us grammar rules, at all, just made us write stories.
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by faichai 5y ago
It will eventually rot and release its captured carbon.
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by faichai 5y ago
I’m not trying to be mean, but there is a chance this guy has some deep anxiety and self-esteem issues which means he doesn’t even think to look outside of his comfort zone. Routine is a way of not stressing yourself out with newness and th
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by faichai 5y ago
I’ve never really experienced activism per-se in the workplace. Master/slave in the code base was raised as an issue but that’s about it! I have, however, worked in an organisation that transitioned from a clear fellowship of everyone
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by faichai 5y ago
Ahh, this makes sense. Thank you for the link. I was thinking it was more of modifier to switch on tail call optimisation (or something) rather than a scoping modifier.
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by faichai 5y ago
The way recursive functions are defined seems strange [1]. The are declared using `let rec foo = ()=> ...` syntax. So the modifier is on the variable declaration rather than the function definition. Since recursiveness is a property of
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by faichai 5y ago
This made me chuckle!

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