huetius

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by huetius 5y ago
It’s fascinating that our experiences are so similar, but in opposite directions. I was raised in a secular household with secular values. In college, and afterwords at work, I began to observe that the negative features which I had, in
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by huetius 5y ago
Vegetable and flower gardening for me as well. I’m still quite bad at it, but I’m learning from my mistakes, I think. My biggest success has been a vermicompost bin. Everything I feed that stuff to goes bonkers.
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by huetius 5y ago
That sounds like they’re writing a script of some kind and testing as they write it. Who knows what their motives are.
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by huetius 5y ago
I started writing and never completed a dead simple ETL framework that left most of the work up to the programmer. It was basically just an http server that you could hit with cron jobs, a DAG data structure for mapping the process, and so
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by huetius 5y ago
I agree with almost all of your post. I would only offer that you consider that the most important task of a developer in most organizations is to eliminate complexity beyond a bare minimum. Having a simple, safe, and predictable version
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by huetius 5y ago
I like this definition, even if it overlaps with the PM role. In effective teams I’ve been part of, the PM and engineering leads help each other winnow down the work, with the PM making the final call for priority (except in circumstances
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by huetius 5y ago
I presently work in a clean tech sector, but I have no illusions that we will be able to successfully avert a large portion of the consequences of climate change. It is, of course, important to make sacrifices and responsible choices in the
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by huetius 5y ago
The problem has to do with the order of values which is evinced by our economic activity. Ideally, money should be ordered towards facilitating the exchange of real things, which are in turn ordered towards a good life, and so on to high
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by huetius 5y ago
I don’t know. To me, to assert that there is no meaningful difference between a thing and what we know to be an artificial imitation of that thing is to assert that there’s no meaningful difference between truth and lies, so long as the li
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by huetius 5y ago
He is duped because the system has no understanding, yet he believes it does[0]. A counterfeiter who evades detection is not a mint. [0] I believe that the original thought experiment was intended to lead to this conclusion, but in popular
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by huetius 5y ago
I’ve always found it amusing that in the Chinese Room, we are expected to uphold as reality the perspective of the guy being duped.
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by huetius 5y ago
I’m sure there are plenty of incoherent criticisms and not a small amount of envy at play, but there are more serious traditions of thought that are negative towards “culture industry,” writ large.
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by huetius 5y ago
Following the mod’s advice above, I would like to avoid taking this into traditional flame war territory. Perhaps we might agree that progressivism as a political movement has not succeeded in separating economic from social liberalism?
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by huetius 5y ago
Let me clarify: I like Polanyi, but positivism is still very much alive. I mentioned in my post various failed attempts to surpass it, in which I would include Pragmatism, continuations of Marxism, the critical school (excluding some late
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by huetius 5y ago
It’s probably a bigger argument than I can articulate in the time I have available at the moment, but I’ve long believed that this phenomenon, among many other crises, is driven by the rise to dominance of a constellation of philosophical w
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by huetius 5y ago
I just look around every day and say, “look at all these large, powerful, impersonal institutions being held accountable!”
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by huetius 5y ago
I invite you to consult your own experience. High IQ people are often more skilled than others in explaining away gulfs between their understanding and encounters with reality. For IQ believers, such people still get to be called intellige
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by huetius 5y ago
The people I speak of have high incomes, high education levels, don’t break the law, can solve logic puzzles very fast, etc. They are also extremely stupid.
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by huetius 5y ago
Group level differences in IQ and its components are measurable. As someone not remotely progressive and who simply does not care about their values, I don’t believe any of these things actually amount to a workable definition of intellige
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by huetius 5y ago
Well, several posters in this thread have made it clear that they intend to replace real meat with fake meat over any objections. I think this is reasonable to be upset about. For many of us, this seems like another example of the affluent
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by huetius 5y ago
It is not to “clearly” visible to me that this is not a materialist anthropology. It was his explicit purpose in TGI to strip the concept of human nature of its ideal dimension, meaning Platonic, humanistic, moral, ethico-religious, unsc
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by huetius 5y ago
I will do that, thank you.
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by huetius 5y ago
Can you help me understand which part of this is not materialism?
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by huetius 5y ago
For Marx, alienation had a specific, technical definition, meaning alienation from one’s labor. In The German Ideology , Marx expounds a totally materialistic anthropology, wherein man is material which creates itself through labor, and a
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by huetius 5y ago
People wishing to dismiss this should look up Wang Huning. It is (as far as I can tell as a non-Chinese person relying on translations and secondary sources), a good summary of his thought. My trouble with this view, and its Western equiva
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by huetius 5y ago
This is funny, and has a lot of truth to it, but I like mentoring juniors. Watching “my” juniors step up to a big challenge and win, or rise in the organization (even above me!) is more rewarding than most of my day to day work.
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by huetius 5y ago
I’m all for dispelling Whig propaganda about the European Middle Ages, but I’m not sure medieval monarchies and contemporary democracies can compared in this way. As you mentioned, medieval societies were heavily variegated, religious, and
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by huetius 5y ago
Quite true. Definitely a benefit. I guess my point is that if you are leaning on Python for performant concurrent operations, you are likely to also be thinking about how to isolate that component for a rewrite, monkey-patching or no.
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by huetius 5y ago
Many of the additions to Python in the past decade have been very impressive, but am I wrong in thinking that they suffer from a kind of diminishing marginal benefit? If I am building a project where concurrency or asynchrony are essential,
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by huetius 5y ago
You seem to have a lot of confidence in the truth of your own meaningless sequence of GOTO reactions.

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