ludston

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by ludston 20d ago
It's a bit more circular than that. The music you were raised with sounds good to you, which means you want to understand how to make music like that hence the dominance of 12 tones and major and minor scales in Western music. But also
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by ludston 20d ago
> we tolerate them being slightly out of tune And in many cases we don't need to tolerate this because most instruments barring guitar and piano allow musicians to tune chords to just temperament, and players will do this automatica
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by ludston 25d ago
Probably just turn off the jammer for 2 seconds
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by ludston 1mo ago
Given that the purpose of a measure is to make predictions: IQ can be used to improve predictions of academic outcomes, whereas the multiple intelligences models are worse at this. Whether or not there are multiple intelligences or not is a
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by ludston 1mo ago
It's telling how out of touch the evaluators of these things are that the grand winner designed a tool that's been in use by fire services for decades. (Software that predicts fires based on lightening strikes). But you slap LLM o
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by ludston 2mo ago
Congratulations, I'm sure it was a monumental effort to build this. Good luck with marketing and all that.
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by ludston 2mo ago
> Not as a stand in for general stupidity. It's being used as a stand in for a very specific example of stupidity, and it is "clever" because it evokes strong imagery in an unexpected way. Which is why it is funny. But sti
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by ludston 2mo ago
I assume you're being sarcastic, but moron, retard, stupid, dumb, idiot, mad, imbecile, mongoloid, spastic, lame, lunatic, maniac and psycho were all used as medical terms before they became stigmatic. Filter out sexual and scatologica
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by ludston 2mo ago
Most of our insults against intelligence come from medical terminology originally. Every word eventually starts being used offensively, and then a new one gets coined and the cycle continues.
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by ludston 2mo ago
It is, and autism is just the swap-in vulnerable minority of the day that is socially acceptable to be the butt of the joke. If you don't understand what I mean, swap out "autistic" for "retarded" and the joke still
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by ludston 2mo ago
Governments have been working on this for more then 20 years now. 40 maybe. As long as I've been alive at least. It's just that all of the actions to try and deal with this have been continuously undermined by fossil fuel industri
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by ludston 2mo ago
The fact that Arch is bleeding edge has been an explicit part of the Arch philosophy for as long as I've been using it (for 20 years now). It breaks a lot less frequently than it used to.
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by ludston 2mo ago
It depends on whether or not latency is the constraint of throughput in your circumstances.
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by ludston 2mo ago
And that demonstrates the difference between a developer that is ready for promotion vs one that isn't. You need to be able to make the correct choices for your employer (even if they are not the best choices, or most interesting choic
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by ludston 2mo ago
It's fine to prefer the comfort of familiar problems and obstacles, but you shouldn't pretend to yourself that you haven't chosen to embrace them over fear of the unknown.
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by ludston 2mo ago
Instead of talking about skills, or personal efficiency, talk about technologies that you're going to introduce to your product, or some specific difficult problem that you're intending to solve. Another next career step is to tak
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by ludston 2mo ago
This is bait right? Obviously the answer to this question is there is some population that are happy for there to be suffering so long as it benefits them, and then there is another population that is vehemently against this, and then there
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by ludston 2mo ago
I need a !remind me 15 years.
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by ludston 3mo ago
That argument seems crazy to me. 18th is so good. There are literally thousands of programming languages that it is competing with.
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by ludston 3mo ago
This is just not true. The Lisp family contains all conceivable variants of languages, from statically typed Coalton, to dynamically typed Scheme. From functional, immutable by default Clojure to the imperative-style of Common Lisp. There a
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by ludston 4mo ago
I've seen a few of your comments here today, and generally speaking they are appeals to authority, ad-hominem attacks dressed in allusions to superiority in either knowledge or manners, and truisms without substance. In a manner of spe
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by ludston 4mo ago
If nobody understood the argument, then it was either weak or unclearly communicated.
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by ludston 4mo ago
I think it would be a huge advantage to be taught by the person that wrote the textbook in a particular field.
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by ludston 4mo ago
I wouldn't argue about things that are a matter of taste normally, except that I've had the experience where I've turned down optimizer settings in order to debug some code better and then the had stack overflow.
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by ludston 4mo ago
Sigh and yet it continues to be true. You can make a pragmatic decision and rely on tail call optimisation for your specific case, but if you are writing a CL library, then it is not idiomatic to use recursion in the same way that you would
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by ludston 4mo ago
They are as different from one another as Java is from C# is from JavaScript.
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by ludston 4mo ago
Worse: Using recursion in Common Lisp isn't idiomatic, given that CL doesn't guarantee tail-call optimisation in the specification.
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by ludston 4mo ago
A small amount of heat is a lot harder to isolate from than water though.
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by ludston 5mo ago
Senior Engineer means many different things, even within the same company. It could mean, "This person is more productive than everybody else around them" or it could mean, "This person isn't that great at software devel
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by ludston 5mo ago
First of all, congratulations. As somebody that also achieved the senior developer title within the first three years of being hired out of University, mostly by luck: Yay money, but I wasn't a senior engineer really for another five y

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