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by jffhn 7y ago
>That's hilarious. I've never noticed philosophers agreeing about anything. Reminds me of a quote by Leon Battista Alberti: "All disunited and of various opinions, philosophers are nevertheless in agreement in that each of
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Tk is great indeed. I actually started programming with it, and loved it (I don't remember encountering any glitch with it, things just worked as you say). But it has its limits. I want something more powerful (in a typed programming l
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>I want to build something once, and ideally use it for the rest of my life (or maybe 20-50 years to start off) without having to worry about having to update something or other or risk losing something important down the line. I can&#x2
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>desperate for a soporific remedy This is the best channel I found to fall asleep: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLKSolaVsFrN7qTFL7lFkfw The person disassembles hard drives to investigate, in videos that can be h
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>my main complain is not having username and password fields on the same page :/ This! Our new Linux login has username and password entry fields in separate (and successive) windows, and they look quite similar. Since I enter my pa
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>cos(270°) = 0 (parent) I don't know of a language (but I don't know many) which trigonometric functions use degrees and not radians. In radians and finite precision, "cos(x) = 0" is false for all x (unless your cos i
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Recursing on my post: Plomin might make sense as well, but according to Nassim N. Taleb not always: "Plomin who studies heredity doesn’t seem aware of the intransitivity of correlation." (he made a whole paper about these correlat
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>If there are systemic social biases against groups with genetic genes the impacts of these will be 100% explained by the presence of these genes That makes sense, but according to Plomin there's also an opposite (and counterintuiti
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>I have seen a cultural change around non-engineering professions moving in on decision-making-territory that would have previously been an engineer's. The same thing happened where I work (as a developer), but a funny thing is, sin
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I never thought it could be an apology (it's kind of a material detail, they could still find books elsewhere), but rather a mix of sincerity (at least regarding his creativity), stimulation and joking.
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Grothendieck (the mathematician) was at some point giving lessons at a place which had no library. Someone pointed out that there were not many books to read there, so he replied: "Here, we don't read books, we write them."
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Bootstrapping and infinite regress... that reminds me of this branch of logic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinitary_logic with which you can prove a theorem by assuming it in the first place, using infinitary (or c
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Also reminds me of the Islet idea, from this Carl Hewitt talk: https://www.infoq.com/presentations/strong-types-actor-iot
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There is a Dunning-Kruger-esque quote on painting, that applies maybe even better (*) to software: "Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do." (E. Degas) (or for a more literal translat
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>Committing to dates and then being accountable for the results Being forced to commit to dates, as only a soothsayer would dare. >Spending time planning, rather than "doing" Because "doing", as you say, helps plan
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I heard a scientist telling about one of his colleagues that was showing towels of different colors to an ape, to see how the ape could point to an image or word (don't remember) corresponding to its color. At some point he presented h
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>Rendering text, how hard could it be? As it turns out, incredibly hard! Related undesired complexities/heterogeneities I encountered while implementing a simple text drawing API on top of various libraries (cf. "Pain points&qu
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by jffhn 7y ago
Your last sentence reminds me of https://martinfowler.com/ieeeSoftware/whoNeedsArchitect.pdf
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