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by mapcars 7y ago
>But I'm generally very curious about stuff and regularly read news/studies/documentation and get lost in wiki holes Well this is it, the curiosity comes when you know there is something you don't know. >but for a
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by mapcars 7y ago
Answer is simple - we think we know it. Once you think you know something it immediately all excitement and interest disappears. But can you really know anything absolutely, fully in this Universe? Someone involved into science should answe
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by mapcars 7y ago
>steer civilization away from the abyss what is this abyss author is so afraid of?
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by mapcars 7y ago
What is strange to me is that after a series of such incidents workers don't go out on protest or something, given this is happening in the US.
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by mapcars 7y ago
I would say "dark" here is more like "unknown" than a color reference, while both obviously have a connection in how we experience.
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by mapcars 7y ago
Well I also did not say it's permanent. Messing up can be temporal but it also builds up and becomes harder to get off. Temporal should not be taken lightly.
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by mapcars 7y ago
More realistically than what? What is a criteria for realism? >we tend to operate under happy delusions that lift away when we're depressed Well this brings unhappy delusions in the same way. Just that it matches more with therapist
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by mapcars 7y ago
>But we grew up in the world told we could do anything we wanted! I think it's that sort of expectation that is screwing with us People misinterpret what it means, instead of "I can do what I want" it means "nobody kn
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by mapcars 7y ago
Sure? So you are saying if you drink coffee every day and then stop - there will be no side effects?
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by mapcars 7y ago
I used the ones which have clear undesirable side effects, others might have it as well just that we don't know about them. >Are you also advocating against medical drugs or vaccines? I am only advocating about being conscious of ho
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by mapcars 7y ago
>may get unintended side effects. Oh, if one sees the enormity of complexity body & mind has - one can be sure he can not foresee all side effects. I like that you gave examples like caffeine which messes up your nervous system or al
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by mapcars 7y ago
Life is not a computer you can hack. I bet we barely understand 1% of how our system works and trying to hack it means one is not even aware of their ignorance.
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by mapcars 7y ago
That is if you want to look at the world through someone else's inevitable distorting glasses ;)
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by mapcars 7y ago
>Then we have to boycott Hearthstone You mean Blizzard?
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by mapcars 7y ago
With this I agree, the problem comes when we forget we give meaning and we become too serious about something we made up.
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by mapcars 7y ago
I don't have anything to support what I'm saying nor I need to. My knowledge does not come from a billion dollar research, and it does not have to. The question is only are you looking for a solution or a solution proven by author
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by mapcars 7y ago
From brief check on the book I see that Racket has a lot of infrastructure for making languages, but fundamentally I don't see the difference with Parse in Red. One can easily add tokenizer, reader and expander similar to what is there
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by mapcars 7y ago
They basically have PEG-kind of parser built into the language allowing you to execute arbitrary code up to modifying the parsing rules themselves. Here's small shell dialect I made while learning it: https://gitlab.com&#x2F
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by mapcars 7y ago
>Making languages is the thing that Racket does better than any other language Have you tried Rebol/Red?
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by mapcars 7y ago
>but you can’t get depressed because life is too logical Can you elaborate? In my experience this is pretty much the only reason for depression, eg life does not happen how your logic tells you it suppose to happen.
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by mapcars 7y ago
>Ego is needed to make you think you are better than others at something, eventhough initially you may not be. No, ego creates a sense of separation, competition you create on your own. >Without ego, people would be Marvin The Paranoi
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by mapcars 7y ago
Can you really know-it-all? I mean really, whole Universe with its infinity in all depth and dimension? No, this is what makes you miserable not the knowledge itself - but taking on an impossible quest and knowing it but pretending you don&
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by mapcars 7y ago
>those who tend to be more realistic in their self expectations are more prone to depression. No, depression comes when you are only applying logic to life and essentially seeing that there is no meaning to it. Logic can not live without
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by mapcars 7y ago
The point about Elixir is it does better in ecosystem, libraries, tooling and removes a lot of complexities you named.
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by mapcars 7y ago
Interesting, do you think Elixir would be better in your case? Also what was the amount of requests per second? Looks like you didn't really need Erlang's scalability.
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by mapcars 7y ago
I don't know if we can use anything at all for this. More so I assume that engineering and math are not the right approaches in the same way they are not the right approaches to things like humor, poetry or design.
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by mapcars 7y ago
>That would be one of the best one-time investments made by humanity then This has been done for thousands of years, we are not the only generation who found it's important to understand how we work.
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by mapcars 7y ago
>The human brain doesn't use a billion dollars in compute power, figure out what it is doing Phahahaha, this made me a good laugh :) To find out how your brain works guess what are you going to use - the brain itself. It's like
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by mapcars 7y ago
If you are realizing now that you are doing it - you can see this at any time and adjust accordingly.
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by mapcars 7y ago
This is not a small thing, it easily steers your life only to where it works. In other words your life becomes a slave of your limited logic, it makes you optimize your life for the logic to be a safe and working.

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