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by kaashif 1y ago
Are you intentionally describing having a Slack chat for a project and asking for status updates there? You still don't need a meeting for that if everyone actually does it.
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by kaashif 1y ago
Sometimes, when I need to pee, I say "I need to pee". I find this complex, advanced strategy works pretty well.
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by kaashif 1y ago
It's usually possible for the person running a small project to ask everyone for status and know what everyone's going to say in the meeting before the meeting. Then the meeting is pointless. But not all projects allow for that.
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by kaashif 1y ago
I agree with this. It appears that in this case, macros are a band-aid over missing features in the type system. I feel like structural typing or anonymous sum types would solve this problem without macros. I mean given A = X | Y and B = X
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by kaashif 1y ago
Why should I? They just sit there and don't bother me. Never even thought about them.
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by kaashif 1y ago
It definitely isn't. The amount of information you can store in the universe is something like 10^120 bits. Even if I'm off by a trillion orders of magnitude it doesn't matter.
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by kaashif 1y ago
Yeah, it seems like they were writing massive volumes of useless ephemeral to-do lists and throwing them away was easy. Maybe they were doing it wrong and should've been writing down durable knowledge that has lasting value. I write do
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by kaashif 1y ago
This is interesting. I guess I have all of my Whatsapp and Facebook messenger chats saved and have never thought about it. I have never even thought about this being a burden in any way. It's interesting that people have such different
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by kaashif 1y ago
I would enjoy a digital hoard of stuff like that, but not a physical hoard. I have since digitized all of the stuff my parents hoarded and got rid of a lot of the physical items. It doesn't really cost me anything on an ongoing basis t
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by kaashif 1y ago
I feel like this too. I remember one time I came across a stack of notes (the throwaway kind I just write to help me learn) from school and I read through them, it made me very nostalgic. Especially reading homework set by teachers who have
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by kaashif 1y ago
Personally, I don't "get myself" to do anything, I just do it for fun. The usual cycle is that I start hacking on some fun thing like an implementation of rules for a board game or trying to work out how some library I use wo
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by kaashif 1y ago
I don't think anything I have described warrants being evaluated for neurodivergence. Can we not just say different people are different and call it there? I know a lot of people that can't stand tiktok and insta reels.
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by kaashif 1y ago
You're saying that because I like long form content, movies, and documentaries, I need a psych eval? I realize that my comment may have been written poorly and I'm sorry. If it was unclear, I meant that I find watching long videos
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by kaashif 1y ago
Actually, I've already tried that and found it boring from the start, not just after a few hours. I found context switching between videos to be exhausting, not worth it given the low amount of content per switch, and I prefer vegging
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by kaashif 1y ago
In REPO it can be 10 minutes until you see an enemy, then if you kill it, the respawn timer is like 10 minutes. Towards the end of levels things get much more frantic, but if you're fast you genuinely can do multiple levels without eve
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by kaashif 1y ago
If a computer can perfectly simulate a human brain, and I gradually replace my brain with computers, when do I cease being conscious?
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by kaashif 1y ago
If you're comparing multiplayer esports shooters, why not compare to multiplayer horror games like Lethal Company or REPO? I love those games and have played them for hours and hours. And these are games where you meet enemies infreque
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by kaashif 1y ago
I sometimes procrastinate by firing up a jupyter notebook and making some visualizations of my MonkeyType data.
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by kaashif 1y ago
I was never bored as a kid because I was almost always reading books. I don't think it has had negative effects on me. Books are not particularly optimized for addiction or dopamine, but social media is. Very intentionally and expertly
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by kaashif 1y ago
Okay, that hits the third question but the second question wasn't about whether there exists a situation that can be talked out of. The question was about whether this is possible for ANY situation. I don't think it is. If people
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by kaashif 1y ago
> Imagine an FPS where you only meet an enemy every 30 minutes. That wouldn't be engaging. The loop must repeat quickly to keep you interested. False! Plenty of horror games have basically nothing happen most of the time but are ver
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by kaashif 1y ago
> It’s been my experience that any TODO list system I use will acquire an ugh field around it that gradually turns it into a thing I’m guiltily avoiding. Considering that all of my tasks come from my to-do list and there's no way at
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by kaashif 1y ago
> Those vague "problems I had to overcome in university" that the job screening question wanted from me had happened, and I had learned my lessons from them, even though I forgot how they unfolded. Is the author sure about this
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by kaashif 1y ago
I don't trip over that often, I remember like 1 time in the past 2 years I tripped over. Maybe people just don't trip over that much.
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by kaashif 1y ago
Can you explain how this is rent seeking? It seems to be straightforwardly not rent seeking. 1. Company develops model, invests in research, hardware, and software. 2. Company sells access to the model. (1) is the step that makes this not r
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by kaashif 1y ago
> They should be a baseline, not a challenge for students who understand the material. You've made this normative statement but not explained why. I think exams should not require huge amounts of computation (I agree) but should con
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by kaashif 1y ago
> No one does it in isolation. Yes, they do. There are plenty of solo developers out there. And plenty of solo musicians who write and perform music.
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by kaashif 1y ago
To allow you to write more readable and extensible code, that can solve real problems more effectively. Solving problems is the point of writing code. Saying that reading code is the point of writing code is crazy, that's like saying t
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by kaashif 1y ago
I don't understand Shorts. My primary use case for YouTube is putting some 20-30 min video on the TV while I eat. I barely watch YouTube in any other context. I may be unusual but there's an entire subreddit for "mealtime vid
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by kaashif 1y ago
This is a universal experience as far as I know. What I don't know is whether it was an intentional decision or not. I certainly hope it was intentional, because the level of corporate dysfunction necessary to produce an unintentional

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