kirkules

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by kirkules 4y ago
Yes, the issue is that word, "think", and its variants. But "what is thinking?" isn't poorly posed in the case that "thinking" isn't well defined, because it is about establishing and agreeing on a de
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by kirkules 4y ago
On the contrary, it highlights that the question is generally not well posed and trying to answer it before figuring out how to ask it is silly.
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by kirkules 4y ago
There's a systemic component to this issue that perpetuates the status quo separately from men's attitudes toward changing their names, and that is that it is often much harder for men to change their names. I am a man and married
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by kirkules 4y ago
Somebody with 3 socks may originally have had more
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by kirkules 4y ago
I think maybe you mean what's up with the dearth of multi letter variables, and if so IMO the answer is, satisfying or not, that juxtaposition as an operator is too hard to give up. Edit: juxtaposition without some sort of brackets, of
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by kirkules 4y ago
The presentation in the quote is awkward and doesn't work, as you pointed out, but Lee could instead have just mentioned that there's such a construction with questions of the form "is the answer to the previous question YES
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by kirkules 4y ago
I sometimes wonder if we (internet and social media denizens) collectively perform a sort of frequency illusion magic trick on ourselves by being exposed to the same idea or term by a common source and then proliferating content and mention
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by kirkules 4y ago
I also think it's notable that somehow DNA "encoding" our minds for mind-inheritance is ruled out using the channel capacity theorem. Shouldn't this same kind of argument rule out the transferral of minds from one moment
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by kirkules 4y ago
Still reading the article, but upon reading > Despite these difficulties, the cognitive notion of a continuum is not at all difficult to grasp. The difficulties arise only when trying to communicate, for example by naming or describing a
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by kirkules 4y ago
No it isn't.
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by kirkules 4y ago
Is derived information not distinct from the input? I mean, tagged information tells you about the tagging system in addition to the tagged information. Specifically, it tells you how the tagging system interacts with the tagged information
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by kirkules 4y ago
This thought experiment is a wonderful demonstration of the limitations of thought experiments in philosophy. The premise of a thought experiment used in this way is that the truth of the matter is ultimately to be found in your intuition.
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by kirkules 4y ago
Communication is inherently subjective, and the subjective content conveyed by "very" above was part of the intended message.
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by kirkules 4y ago
"very" is a comparing/contrasting word. "Outgoing" is not a replacement for "very outgoing" any more than "tall" is a replacement for "more tall than usual". And yes, I modulated the to
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by kirkules 4y ago
If you didn't know what it means to "sensationalize", you could either consult a dictionary or read anything by Malcolm Gladwell
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by kirkules 4y ago
Your book has helped me understand determinants so much better than I had before. I really love its progression and depth, and I still have a lot more of it to get through. Thank you for making it easily available.
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by kirkules 5y ago
I think this is great advice. My perspective on code reviews derives from the fact that really, a pull request/changelist is a conversation of complete ownership of code by the author to joint ownership by author and team/organiza
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by kirkules 5y ago
Given the shape of modern propaganda, this seems irresponsible.
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by kirkules 5y ago
I think somewhere in there was a point about how when these different roles (backend, frontend, ux, dogfood, etc) are distributed across multiple developers instead of one, connections between the roles are outside of a brain and so need to
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by kirkules 5y ago
The reason the above answer addresses your concern is that a set major bone fracture is similar to a minor fracture in many ways, so if you can already heal minor fractures then you can heal set major ones in the same way
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by kirkules 5y ago
My favorite tutorial in a game is in BABA IS YOU. The (puzzle) game continually teaches you new mechanics/things by having them be integral to the unique solution to the current stage. But the best part is that many of the things it te
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by kirkules 5y ago
To be fair, the reason you wouldn't turn the transistors upside down is that you already know what software is and that this is not related to what software is. Similarly for the novel, though actually maybe that depends on the kind of
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by kirkules 5y ago
Definitely true. In this case, it's important to vet guides/examples to make sure you minimize copypastable examples that have the --no_dry_run flag
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by kirkules 5y ago
The last point is extremely important. I tried DotA for a while after playing a lot of LoL and had the same content, but it's not just discerning characters against the background that's difficult, but even distinguishing one char
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by kirkules 5y ago
Steps 1 and 2 are both dubious for the same reason
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by kirkules 5y ago
I guess that the poop was owned in a sense
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by kirkules 5y ago
There's a real slippery slope issue here too though, for several reasons, that I'd expect would lead to overuse. It's a fancy new thing that will be branded as helping to avoid mistakes, reduce legal system costs, increase co
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by kirkules 7y ago
Not saying you should be worried, but this model is not the one that would be in the running for your job, in case that ever happened
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by kirkules 8y ago
To what is Capitalism opposed, here? The original article didn't impugn capitalism, it impugned deregulation, corruption, and a culture of faux-hero worship that reinforces these. It impugned bad capitalism . It was the opposite of un
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by kirkules 8y ago
I wrote a snarky and unconstructive reply to you, but though I don't think I was wrong, I deleted it to try to be more constructive. In this thread, you began by replying to a comment ultimately making the point that the OP commenter b

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