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931.
by lanstin 3y ago
I find it a category error to ask reason for a why do one thing over another. Our animal nature gives us motivation which we use reason to help. Not that it isn’t usually a benefit to fulfilling our motivations to have our reason finely hon
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by lanstin 3y ago
One wonders if he imagines writing and selling Viaweb during the dot com time was greatness comparable to discovering new physics.
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by lanstin 3y ago
Even worse they can’t disagree as easily with bad ideas from leadership. A healthy tech organization needs to make decisions based on negotiations between what is wished to be and what is; making a significant portion of the people who know
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by lanstin 3y ago
Maybe if they were unsure about which they preferred.
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by lanstin 3y ago
I think most experts were fascinated by the whole experiment as it is essentially gathering data on a subject we had theories on but no experiments. I used to work at a company where both the main data center and the main dev office were in
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by lanstin 3y ago
I do think that as more things become programmable and hence part of software, the odds that a given project is novel increases. If you maximize the Lisp/hacker/Dry approach, any new code should be novel; if something is just a re
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by lanstin 3y ago
Nothing more dangerous than a bored committer.
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by lanstin 3y ago
The people I grew up with in North Carolina are much less committed to democratic norms than the immigrants I currently live with and among. As well, those "native" folks were virulently anti-intellectual and tormented me for lovi
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by lanstin 3y ago
True but unfortunate.
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by lanstin 3y ago
I think it is a more productive tweak to thinking to understand beliefs as not being fully true or fully false than to believe that one can be purely rational in one’s actions or beliefs.
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by lanstin 3y ago
I hope you aren’t testing for equality with pi or e or rho or square root of two. One and zero and -zero might be special cases. If you are testing max(0, pi) also you will be sad sometimes. Especially tho if you are doing computation and t
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by lanstin 3y ago
sampled from reality i guess I was implying. Whatever model you have that generated 14.7 depends on measurements from reality with a bit of error bars. I admit removing language support for == of floats is a bit of a wild idea, but it is c
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by lanstin 3y ago
Doesn't anyone have beliefs that are not modeled best by booleans? I intuitively like to use trivalent logic "true/false/not known" but the Bayesian reals from 0 to 1 is also pretty useful. Does one not continuall
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by lanstin 3y ago
The probability of a real number being exactly 14.7 is zero, so it is immaterial if you can represent hat particular real exactly, as long as the basic operations on the reals work as expected. Support for == between floats arguably should
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by lanstin 3y ago
There is science that uses more sig figs than tha, and for things like inverting matrices or calculating tails of distributions, you want every digit you can keep. Even just simulating dynamic systems, if you truncate, you alter your orbit
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by lanstin 3y ago
Because I am using them in different go routines and I find Go channels are pretty good at handling the synchronization as well as I can.
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by lanstin 3y ago
I haven’t run this command but (editing as this was an incomplete thought accidentally posted) minikube and brew's version of docker work for me as a complete docker environment that works on my (intel) Mac.
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by lanstin 3y ago
The similarity is between the Ferengi and the anti-Jewish propaganda that is so common historically.
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by lanstin 3y ago
Maybe, but the ability to make some arbitrary program do some arbitrary thing is the exact experience that lead many of us to fall in love with computing. 10 FOR X = -5 TO 5 20 PRINT TAB(X X);" " 30 NEXT X wow, a parabola!
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by lanstin 3y ago
A thirst to deeply understand the systems around one is irreplaceable. Curiosity and an openness to seeing what is there instead of loading some fast model on top of the problem.
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by lanstin 3y ago
Yeah, I'll have no answer the first day of mulling over a complex problem, but often I'll have an excellent answer the next day. It's worked well for my own work, but sometimes people are surprised that the slow seeming perso
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by lanstin 3y ago
in go you can do this with a channel of ununused structs if pulling from the channel hits default branch of select, make a new one. same if adding back to the channel hits default, then free it; else just stick them in the channel and pul
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by lanstin 3y ago
they are successful in spite of the memory unsafety of C because of the culture that the behavior of a failing system is a principle feature of the code, which is common thinking in C and easier to do when you don't have the crutch of
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by lanstin 3y ago
yeah my linters won't allow it. and bubbling up is exactly what you dont want for robust code. the UX is different for a failure on rereading a config file when you already have a good config vs. on startup. go code tends to be robus
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by lanstin 3y ago
our (San Jose CA) plums this year are rather bland, due to the excellent rainy season. i just hope the pomegranates are tart enough, they were so enjoyable the last two years.
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by lanstin 3y ago
if you aren't in a rush, this experience need not harsh your chill.
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by lanstin 3y ago
even more so with a bicycle or walking but there isnt a recipe for everyone here.
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by lanstin 3y ago
i recentlty heard a neuroscientist who is also an opera singer asked this, and she said that outside of language acquisition, there really isn't any strong evidence that learning becomes harder. old people just forget how much time an
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by lanstin 3y ago
not for every one. i am US born, driving forty years now, entire decades with long commutes during which my various skills improved a lot, but its just not that fun. i am not free to direct my attention as i wish, even for the outside scene
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by lanstin 3y ago
you can just leave the station and walk around aimlessly also. plans are optional to some extent. at least once you have gotten lodging. you might miss some specific waterfall but you will find lots of interesting events.

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