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by lordleft 5y ago
I find Gilgamesh deeply moving. Near the end of the epic, Gilgamesh embarks on a quest for immortality, impelled by grief over the death of his friend Enkidu. After travails and adventures, immortality escapes him, and he is consoled with t
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by lordleft 5y ago
This reminds me of a post by another Indian student visiting the US. The observation that that person made which stuck with me the most was his realization that rich people dressed in a manner that wasn't very different from folks in o
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by lordleft 5y ago
This is impressive. This should also not be necessary to discharge a student loan debt obligation. While I respect this dude's discipline, I worry the takeaway might be "millennials should spend more than half a decade saying no t
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by lordleft 5y ago
I mean, this is not an uncommon situation for a MacOS user to be in, so I share Quinn's shock that this made it to release.
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Exa: An alternative to Ls(the.exa.website)
125 points by lordleft 5y ago|102 comments
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by lordleft 5y ago
Strictly speaking yes, but I think it is a poetic way of saying that Socrates was better attuned to the limitations of his knowledge, as opposed to most people, who believe they know things they actually don't know (what is the good, e
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by lordleft 5y ago
This is one of my favorite questions in the philosophy of mathematics. A related question for me is the ontology of objects we associate with Software -- algorithms, data structures, etc.
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by lordleft 5y ago
Very interesting. I'm glad this exists, but it appears to be streaming-based, which doesn't meet my needs (I want to run my games natively at a high resolution -- though if Gamepass streaming gets better and can deliver near nativ
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by lordleft 5y ago
I'm intrigued by gaming on Linux, but one thing has thrown a wrench in the works re: migrating over -- Gamepass for PC. As much as I'd like to try to game exclusively on a Linux machine, I don't want to lose out on my gamepas
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by lordleft 5y ago
I know Wittgenstein repudiated the Tractatus, but did he ever alight on another vision of the world & the limits of what can be expressed? Or was 'Late Wittgenstein' primarily a more bounded project concerned with the philosop
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by lordleft 5y ago
As an Indian....why are you posting this? It doesn't feel germane to the conversation frankly.
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by lordleft 5y ago
Is there any reason why Amazon doesn't license out their store (or make it accessible) to non-kindle ereaders like the kobo? I'd love to be able to read a kindle ebook on some of the other readers on the market. For a company that
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by lordleft 5y ago
I misread, I thought you were saying you were the only employee, not the only dev. I also feel for you -- it's not fun having to fight tooth and nail to get funding for essential dev tools.
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by lordleft 5y ago
In this case Docker's approach serves you well, as you are not expected to pay the subscription fee if your company has less than 250 people.
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by lordleft 5y ago
I agree with (some) of this. Companies are always going to be free to find alternatives if they're motivated to do so, but the cost of this subscription model is a drop in the bucket for a lot of larger firms, and there's nothing
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by lordleft 5y ago
I'm a huge baroque music fan, but I've never heard of Primephonic. What do (or did) they bring to the table?
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Open Logic Project: Open-Source Logic Textbooks(openlogicproject.org)
1 points by lordleft 5y ago|0 comments
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by lordleft 5y ago
Intriguing idea. What does "property management" entail? Does Ancana take on the costs of major property failures, like a pipe bursting?
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by lordleft 5y ago
I've always marveled at Grant's videos -- very cool to see this
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by lordleft 5y ago
There's not a single work by Sanderson on this list? Really surprising
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by lordleft 5y ago
VS Code is kind of the ideal example of an IDE because it's not an IDE until you want it to be, in the precise ways you want it to be.
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Ask HN: Recommendations for a Networking course or book for a Programmer?
2 points by lordleft 5y ago|1 comments
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by lordleft 5y ago
Linux remains my ideal development environment, but suboptimal for a lot of the things I do outside of dev -- not because it can't do those things, but because it does those things with a degree of fiddliness that I find maddening.
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by lordleft 5y ago
Whatever one thinks of the techniques recommended in this article, the perils of working on a "easy" but in actuality hard problem are not to be overstated.
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by lordleft 5y ago
This decision -- along with many others inaugurated by Peter -- contributed to the perception of a european/slavic bifurcation in the Russian soul. Tolstoy, Turgenev, Dostoevsky and many others wrestled with the implications of this ce
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by lordleft 5y ago
This is fascinating. So how would someone who had such a "bicameral mind" experience everyday phenomena? Like hunger, or fear? They would have a voice, not attributed to them, telling them to eat or flee?
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by lordleft 5y ago
Typical logical fallacy -- crimes and atrocities can be committed against Hindus and Hindutva can remain a noxious force in the subcontinent.
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by lordleft 5y ago
The power of consistent effort over time is staggering. Small choices compound into dramatic gains.
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by lordleft 6y ago
Something I think makes mathematics both incredibly powerful but difficult to break into is the notation
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by lordleft 6y ago
Amazing resource! Assuming it's legal to do so, what's the best way to get some of these printed, for wall art or whatnot? Is this something a Fedex Kinkos would specialize in?

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