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by mangodrunk 1y ago
I have had similar thoughts as well. Assuming FTL isn’t possible, at some point it wouldn’t make sense to have a cohesive system. Say, there’s an outpost that is 30 years away by the fastest spacecraft.
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by mangodrunk 1y ago
Such an interesting perspective! It would be nice to see evolution sped up as well, or any process that seems unchanging for less than a few thousands of years.
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by mangodrunk 1y ago
Thanks for sharing. Here’s the snopes article confirming the articles referenced: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/nobody-wants-to-work-anymo...
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by mangodrunk 1y ago
It’s good the author mentions Persian specifically, given most of the influential mathematicians and scientists who comprised the Islamic Golden Age were Persian.
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by mangodrunk 1y ago
Al-Khwarizmi was Persian, not Arab. Though he did produce much of his work in Arabic which might cause the confusion.
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by mangodrunk 2y ago
Why is it disconcerting and why do you think it’ll ruin a child’s life?
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by mangodrunk 2y ago
I’m sure you can find horrible code bases in any arrangement. I will say that a good team will tend to be better for more projects than two good teams (fe/be). There certainly are cases where a split will make sense and be much better,
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by mangodrunk 2y ago
Well said. The BE / FE split has been a really bad experiment. It has exasperated the issue where the FE is overly complex because there are people on a FE team, so they toil away and just add complexity. It is also problematic that we
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by mangodrunk 2y ago
Well said. I should stop using social media, the level of discourse is low and anti-intellectualism is rampant. I do think the world would benefit from more amateur researchers.
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by mangodrunk 2y ago
Following Clean Code is not the right way to develop software in any stage of the project. It is a few opinions of someone who has not actually written any code of substance. In addition to Clean Code being a bad approach, it can also be a
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by mangodrunk 2y ago
Uncle Bob has been a horrible influence on our industry, and we’re expressing that. He has not actually worked on anything but yet he’s been able to make some money selling his inexperienced opinions.
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by mangodrunk 2y ago
Great point. Also, Krapivin was working on another paper co-authored by his former professor. He in fact was not working from ignorance. And like you said, most of everyone didn’t know anything about this conjecture, so ignorance certainly
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by mangodrunk 2y ago
Ramanujan read many math books.
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by mangodrunk 2y ago
Well said. I really dislike the narrative here, that ignorance is something that leads to discovery. One, the poster gives two examples, as if there's something we should gain for such a small sample. In addition to that, one of the ex
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by mangodrunk 2y ago
Is this the paper? https://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0011047
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by mangodrunk 2y ago
Having micro services doesn’t protect against affecting another team’s code/service. Think of a service changing some behavior or contract on either side of your service. Are you thinking of a person changing the actual code of another
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by mangodrunk 2y ago
Ramanujan wasn’t poor. He went to school and had access to many math books which he studied and was recognized as a child prodigy early on.
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by mangodrunk 2y ago
I agree. The Snoopy Show seasons 1 and 2 were great, and the third was good. I am hoping they will release another season of Snoopy in Space.
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by mangodrunk 2y ago
He studied very hard and was exceptionally gifted, it wasn’t a mystery.
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by mangodrunk 2y ago
This myth of him just coming up with results without all the hard studying he did is often repeated. His results are made to be seen as impossibly hard and his impact is overstated. Galois solved a problem that was open for 350 years, he ma
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by mangodrunk 2y ago
Ramanujan is obviously very gifted and was able to do exceptionally well given his circumstances, but to put him higher than those that you listed is wrong to me. There are many more mathematicians who solved problems that have more impact
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by mangodrunk 2y ago
Another good criticism by Steven Pinker: https://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/15/books/review/Pinker-t.htm... . > An eclectic essayist is necessarily a dilettante, which is not in itself a bad thing. B
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by mangodrunk 2y ago
Why mention memorizing passwords? Most people have dozens of passwords, and most people would have trouble memorizing even a simple word for dozens of passwords. I have a lot of trouble with those annoying security questions which one would
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by mangodrunk 3y ago
Assuming that a different language is better for a specific job, there is a cost associated to having another language.
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by mangodrunk 3y ago
BILLY bookcases are very sturdy, have you seen problems with them? I do recommend the thinner ones over the wider ones because the wider ones tend to sag in the middle if you have a lot of weight on them.
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by mangodrunk 3y ago
Both trigonometry and calculus are classes that I think should be dropped in high school. I think it would be much better to teach probability and statistics (without calculus) and personal finance. A lot of the math curriculum in high scho
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by mangodrunk 3y ago
I agree with you both. It would be one thing if the article stated that time at school would be for doing homework, but it wasn’t said. I do think that there is a lot of ineffective homework and lessons. Also, in the article they stated: &
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by mangodrunk 3y ago
Thanks for sharing, your notes look interesting. I’m unable to download the pdf on my phone.
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by mangodrunk 3y ago
Have you seen Solitaire by Bruce Schneier [1]? There are issues with it, but it is still interesting. [1] https://www.schneier.com/academic/solitaire/
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by mangodrunk 3y ago
Checkout Solitaire by Bruce Schneier [1]. > In Neal Stephenson’s novel Cryptonomicon, the character Enoch Root describes a cryptosystem code-named “Pontifex” to another character named Randy Waterhouse, and later reveals that the steps o

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