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by lordleft 4y ago
I come from an tight-knit immigrant family. One thing I've learned from my parents and grandparents is that you can be poor, you can even be oppressed, and yet endure if you have others.
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by lordleft 4y ago
I work at AT&T Labs and I always get a charge out of seeing that iconic logo. I'm a bit of geek about AT&T history and often annoy my friends by pointing out the Bell symbol on manhole covers, which can be found almost anywhere
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by lordleft 4y ago
Fascinating. I guess there’s an element of aspiration in purchasing things…we are partially constructing the person we want to be
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by lordleft 4y ago
The difference between a medieval monk and a smartphone-wielding modern is that the former had fewer options for dopamine-generating distractions, while we have a limitless supply in our pocket. At a certain point the monk might be so bored
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The Chinese Room Thought Experiment(iep.utm.edu)
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by lordleft 4y ago
My favorite example of French dominance is the preponderance of French spoken in War and Peace: “Heavens! what a virulent attack!” replied the prince, not in the least disconcerted by this reception. He had just entered, wearing an embroide
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by lordleft 4y ago
I've encountered people who gleefully celebrate this ("why would you study something so 'useless'?") -- but surely a genuinely affluent society should allow people to pursue their interests, instead of funneling the
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by lordleft 4y ago
Doesn't Linus Torvalds run Linux on Mac hardware? He basically adores apple's laptops, which I can't blame him for.
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by lordleft 4y ago
An alternative to (and descendant of) this school is Academic Skepticism, best exemplified by the thought of Cicero. It combines some of the best of Stoic ethics with a probabilistic epistemology that rejects certitudes but still allows us
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by lordleft 4y ago
NetHack feels less cohesive and kind of all over the place. Greatly prefer ADOM
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by lordleft 4y ago
>And I don’t mean that last statement facetiously; academic freedom and campus free speech are under attack. But what I want folks to understand is that academic freedom has always been under attack: it has always been so. This article s
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by lordleft 4y ago
I was (and still am) considering buying a Kia Forte, but only a 2023+ model with an immobilizer. There are rumors that Kia is planning to install immobilizers for free on impacted cars, but it's shocking that it's taken this long.
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by lordleft 4y ago
This reminds me of how prestige dialects or formalizations of natural languages (e.g. Panini with Sanskrit) are perceived as the origin of a language, when in fact they are derivatives or refinements of vernacular.
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by lordleft 4y ago
I think Americans extol work for its own sake in a rather unhealthy way. I also think "hard work" is presented as a panacea for a host of problems, including poverty, despite the fact that many poor people break their backs toilin
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by lordleft 4y ago
Anecdotally, I've always felt that what makes low-level seemingly hard is that documentation is either sparse, or written in an extremely dry way that is not engaging for a lot of people. Lower level stuff is prone to what I like to ca
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Don Knuth's favorite non-technical books(www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu)
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I will never stop marveling at the way Chekhov can turn an inner life inside out in one to three pages. One of the jewels of Russian literature. One of the most surprising things about Chekhov is how his writing is some ways beyond ideology
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by lordleft 4y ago
Just want to say that it's one of my favorite twists of history that the guy who wrote Breakfast at Tiffany's invented "true" crime.
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by lordleft 4y ago
Diogenes and the Cynics are worth studying for any person interested in Stoicism. Stoicism often feels like a moderated form of Cynicism, and Epictetus often invoked the Cynics in his teachings.
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by lordleft 4y ago
Not quite true, I see some comparisons made to the "previous generation" which are clearly M1s
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There was once a time when mathematics was considered central to humanistic and philosophical development. It is said that at the entrance of Plato's Academy, there was the following prohibition: "Let no man ignorant of geometry e
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by lordleft 4y ago
Great article. It's amazing how much ancient tech still pulsates in our sleek new machines.
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I started listening to the Microsoft-centric "Windows Weekly" podcast when I was a teenager 15 years ago. I have been always fascinated by Microsoft as a technology giant and never understood the vibe I got from others in the indu
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Ask HN: Why has eInk technology stalled compared to other display tech?
35 points by lordleft 4y ago|20 comments
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>What’s changed the least? The “boring” technology. Postgres and Redis required zero hijinks to keep running. Even Django itself caused very little trouble when I upgraded from Django 1.5 to Django 4.0 in June 2022 — I barely had to touc
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by lordleft 4y ago
Is Microsoft the biggest investor in OpenAI? I wonder what the breakdown is in getting the ability to leverage technology of a company you don't outright own but have heavily supported.
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GoDaddy buying domains when they expire to extort their own users(twitter.com)
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I like the idea of ephemeral / preview environments, but I'm a bit fuzzy on the details. For a microservice application, would you have to spin up dedicated, ephemeral instances of all the components of your app? Isn't that i
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by lordleft 4y ago
Great article. I love Rust, but I don't associate it with (development) agility, despite the overpromising of Rust advocates. It requires a tremendous amount of the developer (at first).
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by lordleft 4y ago
Could we just take a moment to acknowledge that this dude wrote an app to support his brother's college expenses? Kudos to the app writer. It's a beautiful thing to tangibly support the people you love.

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