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by hyperpallium 7y ago
Usability of diffs, to do actual useful tasks, is an excellent research topic. But a very difficult area. To add my subjective expt: I just compared myers vs histogram on my latest commit. - myers presented a function I'd 90% gutted
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by hyperpallium 7y ago
I think it's essential to have a strong grasp of high school mathematics, not just high marks, but actually understand it. Gaps here are very serious. What do you think?
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by hyperpallium 7y ago
Wouldn't random colours average to greys to the HVS, pretty quickly, anyway?
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by hyperpallium 7y ago
Surely that is one of the ways evolution works?
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by hyperpallium 7y ago
Motivation is natural for us animals, else we wouldn't survive. Fish gotta swim, Bird gotta fly Man gotta ask himself Why why why
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The Top Idea in Your Mind (2010)(paulgraham.com)
203 points by hyperpallium 7y ago|35 comments
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by hyperpallium 7y ago
Before taking a shower, or going for a walk, load up your mind with the problem. The Top Idea in Your Mind http://www.paulgraham.com/top.html
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by hyperpallium 7y ago
Also, break it down into subtasks, and only do the first one. There can be a lot more involved than I (consciously) noticed. There can be a lot less... just the scary chance of it being much worse.
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by hyperpallium 7y ago
No worries, think your interpretation of just api calls is a good one, a bit like "tests as documentation". Could then have another tour for each module (api implementation). This approach would tend to confine the effect of chang
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by hyperpallium 7y ago
I meant a way to make up-to-date drafts: base it on an automatic execution trace, like from a debugger running the code. You get this 100% up-to-date trace for free. It's crazy verbose, so apply filtering (e.g. to only key apis) to mak
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by hyperpallium 7y ago
Seems flawless for the important niche of specific commits. I guess navigation uses VS Code to locate functions etc, so it's robust to superficial changes (like ctags for vim). Keeping docs in sync is a hard problem!... \tangent: maybe
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by hyperpallium 7y ago
Absolutely, IT has a general role everywhere. Dare I say on par with language, writing, printing press, etc.
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by hyperpallium 7y ago
Huge problem, interesting solution. It takes time to derive the high-level from the codebase. I guess, your walk-throughs would be similar to how I'd explore it myself - without the mistakes. EDIT it's documentation, so can get st
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by hyperpallium 7y ago
ZX81, from 1981, used 4 chips.
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by hyperpallium 7y ago
Thanks for your detailed reply. As I said, information has a role in everything, but I don't think these examples are especially about information, in the sense of an IT-worker. 1. Ethiopia's ruler needed someone credible to tell
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by hyperpallium 7y ago
So, over time, MIT researchers decrease in quality, and it loses prestige to other institutions, perhaps overseas, perhaps China. Instead, I think they will continue to try to evaluate genuine merit. SAT can be and is routinely gamed, thr
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by hyperpallium 7y ago
Yes, information has a role everywhere, but the article only mentions a telegram and "nobody knows about these women". What did I miss?
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by hyperpallium 7y ago
I've often used it, but just checked and now it doesn't work.They have improved the UX, pray they do not improve it any further. I don't want to have an account (because they want email), so it looks like this is the end of g
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by hyperpallium 7y ago
General fears are hard to handle. Anxiety is an urgent energy, but without an actionable object. Do something specific and definite, that is actionable, to direct that energy, and regain a sense of agency. I've been buying things that
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by hyperpallium 7y ago
People still work in countries with free medical care and education. I think the effect on motivation is the central issue of UBI. There might need to be an adjustment. I know for myself, it can be helpful to be compelled to do something th
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by hyperpallium 7y ago
It's scary enough without reinfection. Seems unlikely. > the 30,000-letter genetic code of the virus changes by one letter every 15 days [from link] But could be like the common cold and flu, with new strains each year - but more co
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by hyperpallium 7y ago
Yes. Also, first home owner's grants increased prices. Reduced interest rates increased house prices. Perhaps the great covid-19 WFH experiment will (partially) undermine the housing geography monopoly. Would socialist free housing, ut
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by hyperpallium 7y ago
They don't follow basic advice (e.g. don't shake hands, touch your face, etc), they don't close down mass events, they don't close schools "because we're not at that stage yet". The time to close them is
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by hyperpallium 7y ago
xargs parallelizes with -P n
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by hyperpallium 7y ago
Worse, politicians (particularly Health ministers) have disporportionately high infection rates.
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by hyperpallium 7y ago
All the kids get it, infect their parents, and off it goes. I expected immunity once you'd had it, but have heard of re-infection occurring (not from official sources).
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by hyperpallium 7y ago
BTW TFA doesn't mention the basic idea of backpacks, except by implication: they put the weight on your hips; the shoulders straps are just for alignment.
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by hyperpallium 7y ago
Ted Chiang's The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate (short story)
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by hyperpallium 7y ago
This is like an MVP , where you quickly find out if people actually want it; if they do, you get motivation. A step earlier is an actual prototype , where am inventor sees whether the idea works or not; if so, it's motivating. No
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by hyperpallium 7y ago
He talks about how to begin a daunting task: linear order, easiest/most straightforward first, or a top-down "skeleton" first. If it's daunting enough to be discouraging, consider doing tasks that quickly give you some s

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