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by hliyan 6y ago
I do the same thing. I write at least a hello world project in most new tech that comes my way. Sometimes I find some of them interesting and use them in production maybe a year or two later. But definitely not as soon as I learn them!
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by hliyan 6y ago
Engineers who find a stable technology boring after a few years probably lack curiosity and are not digging deep enough. It's a form of ADHD. After almost a decade, I still find lots of interesting ways to write plain vanilla JS code t
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by hliyan 6y ago
That's odd. There's a belief that you cannot read in dreams because the part of the left brain that specializes in it tend to be less active during dreaming. Well, you can read, but the symbols look jumbled. For some people, the
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by hliyan 6y ago
Reading the stream "Barb Sanders [n=3116]", who dreams tend to be surreal, I was reminded of my own online dream log from many years ago: https://oneirolog.wordpress.com/2009/08/07/legs-of-our-fathe.
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by hliyan 6y ago
Same here, even less technically inclined ones. Whenever someone messages me on WhatsApp, I usually reply with, "Hey, would you mind if we switch to Signal <install link>? I'm in the process of getting off WhatsApp for obvio
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by hliyan 6y ago
What I took away from this is: using combinations of a limited set of symbols to convey meaning is durable (as society advances or retreats and technology changes). This makes sense because human thinking, for the most part, seems to be sym
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Data Mesh Principles and Logical Architecture(martinfowler.com)
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Paleolithic Flutes(en.wikipedia.org)
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by hliyan 6y ago
It might persevere through kin selection. For siblings who share the gene, such an individual would have all the benefits of a male/female (security, hunting, care-giving), but none of the mating competition. One could argue if such a
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You can't read while you dream (2017)(inverse.com)
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There Is No Chinese ‘Debt Trap’(theatlantic.com)
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by hliyan 6y ago
I've learned to think of understanding as a form of compression. The more recurring patterns there are in a system, the better we can understand them. The fewer such recurring patterns in a system, the harder it is to understand them.
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by hliyan 6y ago
Awareness, definitely. I'm using consciousness in the same sense Julian Jaynes used it (he used to call the other form "reactivity", a term that never quite caught on).
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by hliyan 6y ago
I was just trying to understand what people mean when they say that "consciousness is an emergent property", which always felt like a hand-wavy explanation. I was weighing that explanation against panpsychism and then this thought
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by hliyan 6y ago
I recently had the (possibly flawed) epiphany that all behavior is emergent . If you think about it, all things that we consider objects are just semi-permanent aggregations of fundamental particles that we recognize and label as objects f
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by hliyan 6y ago
One could argue that there is nothing fundamentally wrong with unlimited wealth and unlimited spending as long as there is no money-power equivalence . Unfortunately, there is (money-power equivalence). This is not a case of buying bigger
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by hliyan 6y ago
When I'm pressed to oversimplify, I usually respond with "A React component is basically a function that takes a set of parameters and spits out HTML, and can react to changes in those parameters and update said HTML. The rest is
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by hliyan 6y ago
To me, it's not about the actual changes to the privacy policy. This was an opportunity to educate people about the existing risks of a very large advertising company having access to your contact list, and what alternatives were ava
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by hliyan 6y ago
Sri Lankan here (that island under India). You would assume that this would go right over our heads, but a lot of people here are concerned and when I finally installed Signal, I noticed many people already there. Some of them, I never expe
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by hliyan 6y ago
I have multiple family members who made the transition from WhatsApp to Signal without any issue. I think the 1 in 5 stragglers are best left behind.
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Can we think without language?(lumosity.com)
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JSX-Slack: Build JSON for Slack Block Kit Surfaces from JSX(speee-jsx-slack.netlify.app)
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Code-centric vs. Product Goal-centric Teams(medium.com)
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by hliyan 6y ago
> magnons are the elementary particles forming what scientists call “spin waves” Magnons are quasiparticles that represent changes in electron spin. Surprised to see this in the official press release. The arrow analogy didn't help
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by hliyan 6y ago
The modern business maxim "don't leave money on the table" leads to local maxima, the locus being your own self in the short term. If the clinics self-regulate, don't artificially inflate the number of procedures needed
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by hliyan 6y ago
In a similar vein: One day a student came to Moon and said: “I understand how to make a better garbage collector. We must keep a reference count of the pointers to each cons.” Moon patiently told the student the following story: “One day a
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by hliyan 6y ago
Tom Knight and the Lisp Machine A novice was trying to fix a broken Lisp machine by turning the power off and on. Knight, seeing what the student was doing, spoke sternly: “You cannot fix a machine by just power-cycling it with no underst
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by hliyan 6y ago
That's odd. After several years of WhatsApp use, my wife and I installed Signal yesterday. We're yet to notice any significant gap.
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by hliyan 6y ago
A hierarchy of content units where you can move units at will (rather than select, copy and paste) would be extremely nice.
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by hliyan 6y ago
I played around with the "seamless view" and found it very appealing. I wish my twitter timeline could look like that...

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