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by hliyan 2y ago
I've had some sort of autoimmune thing hitting me almost every decade of my life (and then clearing up): eczema, asthma, vitiligo and most recently psoriasis. Usually quite mild, but I worry that the next one in the progression will be
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by hliyan 2y ago
And maybe we would have a more diverse ecosystem of mobile platforms and companies today, although nothing quite as fancy as Apple's. Perhaps we also won't have hundreds, if not thousands of founders mistreating their employees un
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by hliyan 2y ago
Decency comes at a cost. I'm sure greater things could be achieved if we discard it (perhaps the Pyramids, the Taj Mahal and the Nazi science/tech accomplishments are examples).
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by hliyan 2y ago
Was just remembering some advice I received from a counsellor years ago: "thoughts lead to actions, actions lead to emotions". That never fully resonated with me, because if thoughts as we understand them are the origin of everyth
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by hliyan 2y ago
Agreed. I used to think (haha) that I was thinking the thoughts I as thought them verbally, but as of late, I've come to realise that I've already had the thought as a sort of a series of perceptual flashes or traces, and when I t
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by hliyan 2y ago
In my view, we don't reward labour, we reward its output. And unlike a physical object or consumable material, the utility of this type of knowledge seem to lie in its novelty (i.e. it's not already available elsewhere). Happy to
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by hliyan 2y ago
Because unlike physical property, new knowledge gets absorbed into the culture and language over time, and you cannot hold everyone who expresses it to ransom perpetually. If that were the case, consider how much of today's HN home pag
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by hliyan 2y ago
I think a lot of the problems being discussed in sibling comments can be solved to an extent if we limit copyright to its original 14 years. That number was decided in a much, much slower age (1790). In today's world, 14 years should b
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by hliyan 2y ago
What would it take for a solar cell to directly output alternating current? Edit: prior art: https://www.winlab.rutgers.edu/~crose/428_html/projects11/Di...
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by hliyan 2y ago
While I don't agree with the tone of the author, I do have to admit, there seems to be something foundationally wrong with front-end development. Yes, it's more complicated than server development in that it is a real-time, multi-
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by hliyan 2y ago
Terraced paddy fields have been used for centuries in countries such as Sri Lanka (where I'm from), Bangladesh, Vietnam and Indonesia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paddy_field#/media/File:Pana_B...
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by hliyan 2y ago
Interesting! So basically: smell followed by electric shock (or some other painful stimuli) -> demethylation of (already present, but dormant?) gene that connects relevant olfactory receptor to the amygdala?
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by hliyan 2y ago
Ventilation is usually the best way. Even when there is a temperature differential between the outside and inside, it's more economical to heat up / cool down in the new air than trying to scrub CO2 [1] If you have an air quality
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by hliyan 2y ago
What does "vibes" mean here? Are you saying that this is a comparable level of negligence, or that it simply personally reminds you of the former case, and nothing else? There are better words available than "vibes".
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by hliyan 2y ago
Rarely does one see a C++ quick start guide that's actually this quick: https://lexbor.com/docs/lexbor/#quick_start
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by hliyan 2y ago
This segment [1] where they mention their ability to deliver assets from any location to any other location on Earth, with vertical, surface landing, makes me wonder whether they're eventually planning to focus on military contracts. [
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by hliyan 2y ago
There was an oft-repeated response back in the day (but gladly rarer now) when you dig too deep into employee benefits at startups: "If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat!" To this, I usually rep
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Conway's Game of Life running on Google results page(google.com)
2 points by hliyan 2y ago|0 comments
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by hliyan 2y ago
Title could have read "Schema-driven web server framework for Rust, Node & Python". Idea has merit -- much of the implementation is in the schema and therefore language agnostic. And you can choose from three languages. Using
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by hliyan 2y ago
Succinctness is useful except when it is simply a form of text compression that forces the reader/programmer to uncompress the semantics in their head.
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by hliyan 2y ago
Remarkable similarities there!
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An intergenerational crime against humanity(theconversation.com)
19 points by hliyan 2y ago|13 comments
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by hliyan 2y ago
See my sibling reply. This is true of my native script. It started off with straight lines a couple of millennia ago (when stone tablets were used), but when writing moved to palm leaves ( http://www.natlib.lk/collections&#x2
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by hliyan 2y ago
You might find my native language, Sinhala, quite interesting: https://www.omniglot.com/writing/sinhala.htm E.g. ක ka කි ki කු ku කෙ ke කො ko
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by hliyan 2y ago
I have this same issue. Got 25 years worth of journals written in cursive that's a bit... non-standard.
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by hliyan 2y ago
digikey.com product filter results page is incredible. Clear case of form following function.
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by hliyan 2y ago
I was actually thinking of Winamp skins while writing this. It was a lot of fun initially, but then it got old very fast. Still hard to beat the original Winamp interface, warts and all.
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by hliyan 2y ago
I was quite early to computers (starting circa 1990 with an IBM XT clone). When GUIs first arrived, they felt massively liberating: they allowed you to discover the computer's functions (mainly through menus), rather than having to f
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by hliyan 2y ago
This type of exercise doesn't quite help me. When I was learning Go, I couldn't find one that suited me, so I wrote one as I learned: https://github.com/hliyan/learn-golang/blob/master/day-01&#x
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by hliyan 3y ago
I read Julian Jaynes' Origin of Consciousness as a young man and was convinced for the longest time that consciousness is just a type of information processing (or a type of wetware program) that creates a mental model of the externa

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