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by genjipress 5y ago
Also, the Daily Mail is not exactly the most reputable source for science news. Flagged.
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by genjipress 5y ago
Not the actress, but the novelist of the same name, who is really worth a look if you don't know her.
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by genjipress 5y ago
There are.
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by genjipress 5y ago
Not related to the content, but ... I really despise the current trend of blogging without dates on the articles.
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by genjipress 5y ago
I don't know if Koyaanisqatsi, or the Qatsi trilogy generally, classifies as a documentary or an art film, but I always stump for at least the first two if I can.
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by genjipress 5y ago
"Other Words", İlhan Mimaroǧlu (ISBN 9758434640)
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by genjipress 5y ago
Gödel, Escher, Bach
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by genjipress 5y ago
"Telling Writing" (4th Ed.), Macrorie. Easily the single best text I have ever read about how to become a better writer. "The Visual Display Of Quantitative Information", Edward Tufte.
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by genjipress 5y ago
You will always marry the wrong person. The trick is to make the best of it.
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by genjipress 5y ago
To be the eyes and ears and conscience of the Creator of the Universe, you fool. -- Kurt Vonnegut
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by genjipress 5y ago
Don't compare yourself to others. Compare yourself to what you were before.
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by genjipress 5y ago
"There are not enough standard libraries to run the standard package installers for many packages with GraalVM Python runtime yet."
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by genjipress 5y ago
"That people find this level of ludicruous confusion and complexity acceptable is mind blowing. And, to think that there is a whole generation of developers to whom this is the baseline of writing software, who think that this is norma
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by genjipress 5y ago
Being there for them is 80% of it
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by genjipress 5y ago
I got a laugh out of that graph. (I actually did roll my own static site generator, but in defiance of the statistics, the overwhelming majority of my posts, about 3-4 a week, aren't about the software.)
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by genjipress 5y ago
In one of the other forums I hang out on, people come in all the time asking if programming is a good way to make tons of money. These people typically dabble for a little bit, get bored, and move on. The ones who just like to mess around,
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by genjipress 5y ago
"Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out." - Václav Havel
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by genjipress 5y ago
Well, the ones they polled anyway. Who knows what the methodology of this was like.
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by genjipress 5y ago
Previously posted, and torn to pieces: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9897860
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by genjipress 5y ago
Dead link
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by genjipress 5y ago
Write things down. Revisit them. By this process you will discover that you were not the person you were even five minutes ago. Take that to heart. Don't be a jerk. Moreover, don't pretend you don't know what a jerk is. Takin
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by genjipress 5y ago
Not Jordan Peterson, that's for sure.
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by genjipress 5y ago
Selection bias? The people who need help are that much more likely to ask for it.
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by genjipress 5y ago
Paywalled
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by genjipress 5y ago
Anyone else remember "password: steak"?
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by genjipress 5y ago
Their download link does not work.
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by genjipress 5y ago
The exact message: https://twitter.com/peter_szilagyi/status/142987887069458432...
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by genjipress 5y ago
Side note: All of the original "Switched-On Bach" was composed with monophonic Moog synths. They had to be multitracked to create polyphony. Knowing this makes them all the more impressive to listen to.
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by genjipress 5y ago
And here I was thinking they were talking about the adaptation of the Chaim Potok novel. Oh well. (Great book, great adaptation.)
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by genjipress 5y ago
Essentially, TempleOS, but a video game.

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