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by ipnon 4y ago
Is this related to the self-awareness Twitter meme? Amtrak tweeted "trains," Department of Energy tweeted "energy," and so on. The official Twitter account of Ukraine tweeted "victory" yesterday, might this be
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by ipnon 4y ago
Remote work alleviated all my software development unhappiness, because suddenly I was free to develop software.
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by ipnon 4y ago
It is normal. You may need to relearn what you have completely forgotten. I try to integrate my CS education in my normal software engineering work. The work is high level, not a lot of opportunity to use theory of computer architecture or
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Water Problems in Jackson, Mississippi(marginalrevolution.com)
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Could it be that the world will be a better place if everyone can express themselves fully in the media of digital art, acting, screenwriting and eventually all creative industries cheaply and easily? Artistic expression won't be gate
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by ipnon 4y ago
Learned a new word today https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fnord
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by ipnon 4y ago
The community seems stronger than ever. What was your experience of its fading away like? Projects like this don’t give the impression of a language falling by the wayside. People tend to fall in love with Elixir. You never forget falling i
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Drake said, “only by doing the best we can with the very best that an era offers, do we find the way to do better in the future.” Rest In Peace
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If you find clandestine chemistry interesting, then listen to Hamilton Morris’ podcast. He has interviewed many clandestine chemists, mostly retired. They’re a class of prohibited scientists, hellbent on advancing psycho-chemical knowledge
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Do androids pray to electronic gods?
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The antecedent is that we could completely solve California’s energy and climate change crises by 2042 for $360 billion. A mountainous policy hurdle, but taller peaks have been climbed.
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by ipnon 4y ago
Is there a term for this anticipatory future embarrassment? Some kind of German conjunction?
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Every website is used by children. Law of large numbers, Murphy’s law means if any website is accessible online and children have internet access, eventually a child will visit it. I don’t think we should have books moderate their content f
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by ipnon 4y ago
The adage that we overestimate technology in the short term and we underestimate it in the long term holds. There is no way we all have a personal AGI assistants that drive our cars and work jobs for us this decade. At the end of this centu
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by ipnon 4y ago
Let me tell you why I think this is an inappropriate comment: The point of it seems not to be collaboratively extending the line of thought proposed by the original post or the parent comment, but to make the parent commenter feel some kind
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by ipnon 4y ago
Theoretically the safer you are the riskier you behave. Then if you’re in a car meeting a cyclist, you will have a propensity for road rage because you’re in no danger of a fatal collision, you’re shielded from attacks, and you can speed of
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by ipnon 4y ago
Censorship was just as widespread if not worse in Taiwan before the military dictatorship fell away. The smash hit "When Will You Return?" by the cross-strait superstar Teresa Tang was censored: The titular "you" pronoun
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by ipnon 4y ago
Seems like the sweet spot is DevOps style reliability ownership with SRE style indicators, objectives and agreements.
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SRE seems the better approach. Make an error budget, measure reliability, stop releasing in favor of reliability engineering if the budget is missed, use the free time reduce toil. DevOps seems to degrade to disorganization because the ince
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A double whammy idiom of American English wherein you have to understand baseball to perceive the meaning. Do Europeans have idioms regarding soccer?
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by ipnon 4y ago
To be commenting on HN is to be in an open-minded, experimental subculture. I would not describe the average American as exceptionally open-minded and experimental. The average person is by definition not exceptional in any ways. The proof
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It's quite ironic that a drug which has no documented direct fatalities in history is seen as a dangerous, experimental therapy in the public conscience, while a drug which causes 14,000 deaths per year in the United States alone is se
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Safari seems to be the only optimized iOS browser. I believe for security every iOS browser is a rewrite of the Safari engine anyway. Might as well go straight to the source then. Of course for desktop Firefox is the only browser with adequ
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Reading fast, reading well, and reading widely (2020)(driverlesscrocodile.com)
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Man spends 589 days picking up trash in his favorite California park (2021)(youtube.com)
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The same thing that makes them interesting to you is what could make you interesting to them: They are working on something that makes you curious. Keep hacking away on projects, invent the future you want to see. Share the vision and work
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by ipnon 4y ago
Work on the hardest problems you can with the smartest people you know. Keep that up long enough and you'll be all on your own, with some crackpot idea nobody is really sure if it will work or not. That's when you've met the
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What would convince me to have kids now? 1. Financial security, I can barely afford putting food in my own mouth let alone a wife and baby. 2. Community support, having a kid would mean no more working on my startup in spare time, which als
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Leary seemed to have been much more public, radical, prestigious and famous. He had the authority as a popular Harvard professor, so when he began to influence the counterculture on matters of policy and action it was duly noted by the main
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You will know when we have made real progress because an informed, responsible adult will be able to make their own decisions about what to put in their own body. Medical progress in psychedelic theory is a altruistic slippery slope. It cle

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