ifokiedoke

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by ifokiedoke 2mo ago
I feel like I read a different piece than everyone else? I didn't interpret any of this piece to be about regretting having kids, or anything else. And sure, there is a sort of glorifying of Felix, but the writer is very aware of that.
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by ifokiedoke 7mo ago
Reading almost all the comments gives me the sad validation that people truly do not read the article before commenting... This article is not about support chatbots. It's about clearing up your writing/thoughts and communicating
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by ifokiedoke 2y ago
I forget where I read it, but this isn't a very thought-out view. _Especially_ with the example of access ramps -- yes, the ramps were originally put in after activism for better wheelchair accessibility. But who ended up using them a
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by ifokiedoke 3y ago
That's interesting. Most of the people I know would get (or have gotten!) bored of that after a few months, a.k.a. after the burnout has passed. On that list I include: me, my dad, his friends, multiple friends who quit their startup&#
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by ifokiedoke 4y ago
Monica is what I was looking for! Thank you!
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Ask HN: App for keeping notes on friends/family?
3 points by ifokiedoke 4y ago|7 comments
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by ifokiedoke 4y ago
An interesting consideration here that I don't see mentioned in the comments is the difference between the destination and the _journey_. The paper asks, "would you want to know during the wedding ceremony whether your marriage is
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by ifokiedoke 4y ago
Same situation, but I've started! I only spend about 30 minutes every other day, and it's extremely slow-going, but so fulfilling. I had the same goal as you -- _really_ learning & understanding math. I finished pre-Algebra la
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by ifokiedoke 4y ago
Ahh, grammar & such! In that case, I'd actually say what you probably want is more input, and not output. Your brain should intuitively know what the correct tense and sentence structure is, and the only way it can learn that is by
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by ifokiedoke 4y ago
As a language enthusiast who speaks ~5 languages at varying levels, I can relate to the feeling of "I am fully capable to have conversations about almost anything, but I don’t feel fluent at all". What I'd ask is: what exactl
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by ifokiedoke 5y ago
Like many others I don't love the idea of a "How to work with me" manual because -- like much of this one -- they can come off as a one-way directive. However, context matters. If a random person on my team or the manager of
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by ifokiedoke 5y ago
Wish it were so simple. I (and my partner, an Urban Planning graduate!) had the exact same opinion as you until half a year ago my partner finally found a job out of school... in a small municipality. So we moved away from our very compact
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by ifokiedoke 5y ago
+1000. Almost everyone who's "singled" me out to be a mentor has been some greedy CS + Business grad who asks me mostly emotional or money-related questions that I essentially can't answer other than with "It depend
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by ifokiedoke 5y ago
> "Nuclear waste in canisters has never hurt anyone" This is an interesting statement, and though true I think it's a bit disingenuous. I'm no expert on nuclear or nuclear power, but I recently listened to a Canadalan
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by ifokiedoke 5y ago
There's some real vitriol here and comments bordering on being open discriminatory attacks ("Russia is a wasteland of civilization and we should just nuke them", "stop drinking Vodka, Sergei"). I hope that folks rem
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by ifokiedoke 6y ago
I quite enjoyed the beginnings of this essay & the parts of assessing risk and mapping out problem spaces. But the essay seems to take a weird turn about halfway through ("3: The Prepared Lifesylte") where the author begins to
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by ifokiedoke 6y ago
To say the Nazis simply "used violence to seize power" is extremely reductive. It's also well known that the Nazis were (at least monetarily) backed by Big Business & the wealthy capitalists at the time who were afraid of
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by ifokiedoke 6y ago
I'm not entirely sure why you're being downvoted because I wouldn't consider your comment here that objectionable. And in fact you're right -- you did not say anything about Crimea/Tibet; that wasn't so much di
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by ifokiedoke 6y ago
While I understand this sentiment - especially since as you say, most (if not all) of today's accepted states and borders are the result of bloody, unfair conquest - I do personally struggle with a system of objection/dismissal b
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Western Philosophy Is Racist(aeon.co)
2 points by ifokiedoke 6y ago|0 comments
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by ifokiedoke 6y ago
My own personal experience as a female software developer is that there is pressure from all sides to go into management, and this pressure can come from both ill and good intent. Others have mentioned that it might be because of perceived
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by ifokiedoke 6y ago
> Diversity hiring is done by filling the front of the pipeline with a diverse set of candidates (i.e. getting the interview) but hiring decisions are made independently. I don't think people realize how important this is. I certain
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by ifokiedoke 6y ago
Ah, I see what you mean. You're saying that intent does not excuse action, and if somebody is repeating things that are racist then they are engaging in racism, and a racist is someone who carries out the act of racism. Therefore they
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by ifokiedoke 6y ago
Hey, I agree with everything that is being said here but I think it might be unnecessary here to be making personal attacks such as calling somebody racist or implying white resentment because somebody is mis-informed. Especially because --
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by ifokiedoke 6y ago
But humans are social creatures, beholden to social norms. Doing something just because other people do it is literally how society works. There are very, very few (if any) "well-adjusted" members of society who don't do man
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by ifokiedoke 6y ago
Just want to say that I really appreciated this thoughtful response about tradeoffs. I had a common knee-jerk reaction to your initial post: "Well how convenient, someone who's not in an oppressed group is advising keeping out of
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by ifokiedoke 6y ago
I have to double this comment. I understand that this is shorthand for "Medicine developed by following the scientific process conceptualized in the West during the Enlightenment", but it's a pretty big misnomer. Language mat
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by ifokiedoke 6y ago
As both a professional programmer and a serious musician I have to _strongly_ disagree with this statement and implore you to consider your biases. I can only assume that you're making this assertion because you either a) don't pl