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by kieckerjan 4y ago
If the app is only half as good as the Primephonic service that Apple acquired and shuttered and on which it is probably based, it will already be an asset for classical music lovers worldwide. Apps like Spotify are hugely inadequate for br
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by kieckerjan 4y ago
I once took a cab in the middle of the night. The cabby was a elderly gentleman who did not seem to know his way around very well. It was a long ride so we got talking. Turned out he was the new boss of the company (a fairly big company, lo
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by kieckerjan 4y ago
This is a very personal take, but one of the things I have always attributed to the Baumol effect is the following. My partner works in the (semi) healthcare. She loves it but her main stress factor (nemesis even) has been lousy management.
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by kieckerjan 4y ago
This! On my Xubuntu installation(s) the rendering has become so slow to almost be unusable. There were some helpful tips floating around to remedy this situation (turning off webrender seemed to help) but these have stopped working as well.
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by kieckerjan 4y ago
I find it has its priorities backwards. Fancy search? Check. Fullscreen slideshow? Nope, sorry.
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Task Estimation: Conquering Hofstadter's Law(jbconsulting.substack.com)
5 points by kieckerjan 4y ago|0 comments
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by kieckerjan 4y ago
> In the 1980s there were plenty of books about writing text adventure games (as they were more widely called then) on home microcomputers Indeed. Adventure games were the most sophisticated games around. Companies like Infocom and Magn
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by kieckerjan 4y ago
Would be nice if the site told me what it is all about instead of asking for my e-mail address.
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by kieckerjan 4y ago
Certain types of inference (mathematical, genealogical) seem to be difficult for it, but other kinds work remarkably well. I have been playing with narrative inferences to interesting effect. Ask it to tell e.g. Cinderella from the perspect
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by kieckerjan 4y ago
For me the golden nugget in this piece is the Morris principle: "Code tends to be extended to its level of incomprehensibility."
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by kieckerjan 4y ago
I am a notoriously difficult person for gifts. Now that I have everything I need even more difficult than before. I think the best gift I ever got was a proper dutch oven, around my 20th birthday. It became my go-to pan. I still use it on a
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by kieckerjan 4y ago
Goede samenvatting. (Good summary.)
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by kieckerjan 4y ago
I understand the attraction of slow cooking. It ties neatly into our desire for authenticity and even mindfulness. However, the last piece of kitchen machinery that changed my life is the opposite: the pressure cooker. It allows you to go f
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by kieckerjan 4y ago
Thanks for clarifying that. I just read your blog about your 25+ years of PKM (go c64!) and noticed your older blogs that are mainly about software engineering, so I seem to have jumped to conclusions. Apologies. My misgivings about grand P
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by kieckerjan 4y ago
Articles like this are like catnip to me. If they are part of a cluster, I will easily click away a whole morning. However, they usually leave me feeling a bit bloated and unsatisfied. The PKM gurus I come across seem to use their system ma
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by kieckerjan 4y ago
"Writing computer software is one of the purest creative activities in the history of the human race. Programmers aren't bound by practical limitations such as the laws of physics; we can create exciting virtual worlds with behavi
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by kieckerjan 4y ago
FWIW, you are never too old to start. The older you get, the more getting in at least some exercise counts.
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by kieckerjan 4y ago
I have been writing fiction for as long as I could hold a pen and always wanted to be a writer. But then computers happened and getting an interesting job was as easy for me as snapping my fingers. In my early thirties I realized that unles
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by kieckerjan 4y ago
Over 25 years ago I was researching algorithms for a search engine I had been commissioned to write, and for its disk allocation strategy I had settled on a "buddy algorithm" from The Art of Computer Programming Vol 1. It had nice
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by kieckerjan 4y ago
I met a young and apparently highly intelligent AI researcher the other week who confessed to me that he thought fiction (books but also movies etc) was a waste of his time: there was nothing to be gained there. Being a lover of fiction mys
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by kieckerjan 4y ago
Excellent idea! I will give it a try.
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by kieckerjan 4y ago
I am a little surprised by the crazy amount of editing going on during writing. It is obvious that this way of writing is not possible (or at least practical) if the medium is pen and paper. Is that a good thing or not? I personally try to
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by kieckerjan 4y ago
Call it professional deformation, but I came into this expecting an article on the sneaky ways in which automatic janitor services can mess up a digital system. I cannot count on two hands the number of times the culprit of mysteriously dis
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by kieckerjan 4y ago
Interestingly, there is this (unrelated?) saying about Sicilians: "Sicilians build as if they will live forever, and eat as if they will die tomorrow."
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by kieckerjan 4y ago
I am over 50 now. I started programming when I was about 10 years old and (probably not coincidentally) I made a career out of programming. I am pretty good at coding and I still love it. Yet, when I look back at those teenage years spent i
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by kieckerjan 4y ago
There is this quip that psychology is really the study of freshman students. Probably because (at least where I live) students are required to participate in a number of psychological studies in their first year.
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by kieckerjan 4y ago
Indeed! There is a connection to Goodhart's Law here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
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by kieckerjan 4y ago
Second this. I have been using Brave as my default for half a year now and I am quite happy with it. It is remarkably free of spam, probably because it is not actively targeted by spammers (yet). I use Google if I am looking for something t
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by kieckerjan 4y ago
My gf and I have a plot and are considering goats. There are trees there though, full grown conifers. Will they be at risk? No tree likes it to be stripped of its bark.
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Exercise Was the Perfect Coping Mechanism, Until It Wasn’t(nytimes.com)
2 points by kieckerjan 4y ago|1 comments

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