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by inimino 7y ago
If you're competing in an area where other competitors spend 10k hours before they compete, you better practice. We didn't really need a study to tell us that, but people feel it adds something to say that science has "proved
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by inimino 7y ago
Great! I'm curious what you think the mechanism is, since laptops aren't a mechanism for inhaling addictive chemicals into your lungs, but hey, you might be right! Wanna make a bet?
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by inimino 7y ago
> Is this like saying, programming isn't hard if you choose easy enough problems to solve? No, this is saying that things don't have to be as hard as we make them. You don't need more than a hundred people to run a top-ten
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by inimino 7y ago
OK, thanks for the definition. Now, to restate my point: The abstinence approach works for those who choose to improve their health by not smoking. If you don't make that choice, fine. But it's irresponsible to suggest that vaping
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by inimino 7y ago
> But this boils down to If you build systems using a high level of skill and foresight, it's easy to do. Yes. > This is of course not a tautology, but a contradiction. It's not quite a contradiction! If you bill $1 for ch
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by inimino 7y ago
Yes, "don't give up" is the main thrust. However, if an individual exists in an environment where bad practice is rewarded and good practice is scorned, the advice needs to go beyond individual practice. We need to not give u
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by inimino 7y ago
> abstinence approach Smoking is not sex, don't be a fool. > You don't know what you're talking about. I actually do. > So you "don't know" if something known to cause cancer and respiratory disease is
848.
by inimino 7y ago
Reading, interpreting, and using dense technical documentation is a skill, just like reading maths. If you don't get anything out of it, maybe this is a skill you are presently lacking and something you should improve. Taking notes on
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by inimino 7y ago
The alternative is quitting. Only a lack of willpower and predatory marketing lets anyone fool themselves into thinking otherwise. Cigarettes used to be advertised as healthy, too. I believe cell phones may have negative health effects that
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by inimino 7y ago
There's no reason algorithms have to be terrible, after all, most of what we do is expressible algorithmically when we give recommendations (similar interests, right level for the reader, not too advanced or too introductory, something
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by inimino 7y ago
In principle, non scholae sed vitae discimus . Prioritizing anything becomes pathological when we lose sight of the benefit for which it is worthy of prioritization. In practice, non vitae sed scholae discimus , because we make degrees, c
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by inimino 7y ago
I wouldn't stake my life on any bank, either.
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by inimino 7y ago
I already solved it, by not following the links. I don't need to complicate my life to work around some user-hostile business model.
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by inimino 7y ago
It's probably better not to create a black market for an existing, addictive product by banning it outright.
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by inimino 7y ago
Same. Call me in 50 years when they've had as long to examine the effects of vaping as we needed to definitively establish the lung cancer link to smoking. It amazes me that people hear "no known, proven side effects" with a
856.
by inimino 7y ago
> A “single human race” would be [...] A single human race is what we actually are . Wake up and set your tribalistic thinking aside, it's not helping anyone.
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by inimino 7y ago
I've only ever used Goodreads manually, have never owned and have absolutely no interest whatsoever in e-readers. (I trust physical books I can hold and write on, thank you very much!) I've used it a few times to show other people
858.
by inimino 7y ago
If you set up a non-standard browsing environment you can get around it, but it's still a trash experience for the rest of us. I no longer follow Medium links at all.
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by inimino 7y ago
Because we express logical statements in English, these two kinds of tautologies overlap. (If we were using a formal language we could express tautologies like !(A && !A) without using English.) If you say "All bachelors are un
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by inimino 7y ago
Except that, if you think about it, every sentence in a well-written man page was put there by an absolute expert in the tool who thought you might need to know it. If you want to master your tools, it's absolutely not a waste of time
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by inimino 7y ago
That's sad to hear, I always love coming across the little free libraries. I would guess they were just bored and angry teens, likely not making any deeper statement but just expressing their anger and frustration and willingness to br
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by inimino 7y ago
> Programming isn't that hard if you just do it right. That's not a tautology. In fact, it's actually worth pointing out, especially to junior engineers who get frustrated by how hard everything is, that it actually doesn&
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by inimino 7y ago
I wasn't speaking specifically about GNU. Note though that even there you see a --target-directory, -t, -T flags that make literally no sense anymore once GNU reversed the meaning of the term.
864.
by inimino 7y ago
If "target" is used to mean two different things in the same context, it is going to confuse people! This is why naming things is hard!
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by inimino 7y ago
Exhibit A showing why I consider these tools fundamentally broken by design.
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by inimino 7y ago
> Ideally, I would sit down and be so familiar to the problems I'm solving, the tools I'm solving them with, and the tools so suited to solving those tasks that I can just type in my solution without having to stop to consult s
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by inimino 7y ago
Agreed. When we recognize this, we often jump to a new shiny tech rather than stop, remove complexity from the environment, and regroup, as we should.
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by inimino 7y ago
Googling too much is an indicator that your environment or process isn't working well. It's not a point of pride if half your job requires looking up how to use tools you don't understand. The problem is that people naturally
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by inimino 7y ago
Reading the man page instead of Googling this will make you a better engineer, and it will also cost more of your time while you figure out what the man page is trying to say. This knowledge may save you time later, if you use it again, or
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by inimino 7y ago
That is the symlink target, not the ln target, which is exactly why the "target" nomenclature is confusing. Also note that not every "ln" has a "--help" or uses that help message as the output. For example, try

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