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by halkony 3y ago
So your distinction is that hackers gravitate towards extensions of turing completeness (i.e. code representations) as opposed to mechanical systems like basic engines and or machines? This seems mostly true in my personal life. As a hacke
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by halkony 3y ago
It sounds like you have a commitment to excellence not shared by your peers. As sibling comment points out, good enough is good enough for most businesses. I like Paul Graham's quote from his book. "The goal of big companies is no
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by halkony 3y ago
I misread the title and had a mini-heart attack when I thought I was on the front page of HN.
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by halkony 3y ago
His CPTSD book was very enlightening to my childhood.
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by halkony 3y ago
There are a lot of useless therapies. I've been through several garden variety therapists and the cost was simply not worth it. Part of the problem with therapy is you know nothing about your new therapist, and more often than not the
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by halkony 3y ago
Haven't kept up with Sam Hyde after MDE got the axe. I saw a youtube vid where he answers a stream question about sleeping around. How does he communicate to his following nowadays?
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by halkony 4y ago
At first I thought it was noscript causing a formatting issue but when I turned it off it was still messed up lol. Agreed
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by halkony 4y ago
There was an HN thread a month or two ago about parenting books. One poster recommended "How To Talk So Children Will Listen and Listen So Children Will Talk" and it describes this theme very well as "natural consequences.&qu
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by halkony 4y ago
Reminds me of the Simpsons episode where Homer burns his tongue so bad he becomes a super taster. And the only food he can eat is Bart's cafeteria food because it's so bland haha. Interestingly, the wikipedia page for super taster
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by halkony 4y ago
This reminds me of an article I read some time ago written by a house wife. In it, she admitted to verbally abusing her husband and demeaning his intelligence. When he'd do things like accidentally put colors in the wrong wash, she wou
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by halkony 4y ago
I like this perspective. Sometimes I notice that the people I value aren't quite ready to hear it from me. When that happens, a funny thought pops into my head -- love is a four letter word.
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by halkony 4y ago
I've participated in the group coaching program offered by healthygamer.gg (I like what they do) and I'd like to share my POV: For people with deep seated emotional/behavioral problems, I would strongly recommend against it.
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by halkony 4y ago
Scott Adams goes in more detail on this in his "How to Fail" book. He says that after Dilbert, he got tons of requests to meet with amateur comic artists. He said the best filter was to ask them to prepare a list of questions for
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by halkony 4y ago
I've picked up on habits in my parents that resemble Great Depression era practices and their relationship with food is the most noticeable. Even my Dad who liked to cook as a hobby had very poor attention to detail when it came to qua
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by halkony 4y ago
In college I got into an argument about this, believing this was the primary reason to salt the water. I was wrong -- at best it raises the boiling temp by 2F which is negligible.
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by halkony 4y ago
Google can reasonably infer people that live together based on billing addresses, location, etc. If your roommates pay particular attention to certain media (a video, a song, etc), it's more likely to show up on your recommended media.
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by halkony 4y ago
I think that's a pretty good observation. The real trouble is finding a common interest when cultural boundaries are incredibly fluid. And there's plenty of competition for your attention span (including the attention span require
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by halkony 4y ago
I think a more appropriate idiom would be "in the thick of it", adapted here to be "until they're in the thick of it." It communicates that you're in the middle of something chaotic/stressful like a jungle
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by halkony 4y ago
I'm interested in medicine for basically the reason you mentioned, understanding some of my chronic problems. What are good sources for learning more about how my body works and how to fine tune it?
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by halkony 4y ago
Developers at large corporations are strictly informed that they are not the public face of the company and can't do that. These aren't mom and pop developer shops.
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by halkony 4y ago
So let's say i have a lisp macro along the lines of (analyze 1 2 expensiveComputation) In python, to prevent evaluating all arguments when running analyze, I'd have to pass expensiveComputation as a callable or a function partial
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by halkony 4y ago
My naive interpretation of `defmacro` is passing data into a function to return another function. From my python POV that would be the same as returning a callable from a function (decorators being one example). I think top comment does a g
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by halkony 4y ago
I've been learning lisp this past week. I think I get the main idea of "code is data and data is code", but I struggle to understand how it's more powerful than, say, making a function factory in Python.
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by halkony 4y ago
Peterson's direct and indirect presence on social media is so varied it must be hard to get rid of him.
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by halkony 4y ago
On this topic, what do people recommend for mobile adblocking? I've been using AdAway which redirects ads to your phone's loopback in non-root mode.
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by halkony 4y ago
I'm in the same boat as you. I'll repost this comment from when I asked another user here about easier ways of learning DDD (the Eric Evans book is pretty dense). "I think a good place to start is through the service design l
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by halkony 4y ago
I love you
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by halkony 4y ago
Are you implying that a significant amount of coders are "on the spectrum"? Not that I disagree -- working in highly technical fields this long, I could categorize 80% of my co-workers as lacking typical social and communication s
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by halkony 4y ago
I'm not super into crypto, but could you theoretically brute force a hardware wallet if you had enough computing power in the year 20XX?
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by halkony 4y ago
I was laughing my ass off when they started reading that self-help book like it was gospel. It does convey an interesting idea though -- that if you knew nothing of the real world, even something written by that benevolent doofus brother-in

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