mekoka

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by mekoka 2y ago
Every code base that I've read that made faithful use of OOP artifacts such as inheritance (in all its forms) has been made more difficult to understand because of it, rarely despite it. OOP certainly has good features (e.g. encapsul
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by mekoka 2y ago
The data-driven human is a particularly annoying fallacy of our times. There seems to be a bias at play here. The ethos of the person that identifies as "rational" and whose trust in the data makes them seem smart . The result is
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by mekoka 2y ago
It's not universal, but gingivitis (a minor gum disease) causes inflammation (thus pain). Some people are more prone to it due to their teeth arrangement. Some teeth tend to trap food, which then rots, promotes bacteria, and so forth.
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by mekoka 2y ago
It is baffling and sadly pervasive. There are multiple such little tests of minor consequences, that people could just try out for themselves for a month and observe how their body reacts. But they're waiting for "evidence".
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by mekoka 2y ago
> 1. Design for 10x your current scale, not 1000x. I'd even say that the advice counts double for early stage startups. That is, at that scale, it should be design for 5x . You could spend years building a well architected, multi
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by mekoka 2y ago
Live counsel in sensitive situations is definitely in the works, if not already in beta. Get pulled over by cops, or have the authorities asking to enter the premises, bring up your AI counsel and let them talk to the officer, before giving
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by mekoka 2y ago
Not trying to be confrontational either in answering your question. Just sharing an anecdote, since I have some experience working in a company that for a time, employed mostly EE as software engineers. I'll call this company Y (since
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by mekoka 2y ago
Dana Stewart Scott is a he, if I'm not mistaken.
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by mekoka 2y ago
It's controversial for many good reasons. You make the general claim that retrying a db transaction should be the rule, when most experts agree that it should be the exception. Just in the context of web development it can be disputed
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by mekoka 2y ago
How you end up hiring a mathematician while looking for a programmer.
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by mekoka 2y ago
Newsflash my friend, candidates always have a number in mind, even if they're not sharing it. By disclosing only your lower bound rather than the full range of your compensation, I'm pretty sure you're doing yourself a diss
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by mekoka 2y ago
I've helped "bring software dev in-house" a few times in my career. Never in the domain of logistics. My (biased) perspective. If you don't already have an existing (and talented) development team, it's still possib
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by mekoka 2y ago
The fact that a programmer would quit their 50h/w job, which they hate, to then take on a personal 80h/w project (open source, saas, educational, etc), which they enjoy, suggests that the malaise has little to do with the craft.
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by mekoka 2y ago
A suggestion (to Fastmail): add an indicator to the mail dashboard that warns when there are delivery issues. Currently it just displays as though all is dandy. I was only made aware that I might have undelivered mail because I tried to sig
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by mekoka 2y ago
> Wikipedia's explanation tells me that the flavour of coriander is actually -- chemically -- like soap in some sense [...] > Maybe the flavour of coriander is actually like soap [...] What the Wikipedia article says is that cori
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by mekoka 2y ago
Article is from 2009. Plenty of prevalent short named tools have been released since then, causing exactly this sort of issues. Just thinking about it, "node" and "npm" come to mind.
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by mekoka 2y ago
On the contrary. A = "good code"; B = "rarely read"; C = "often read" A implies B B is exclusive with C X leading to C implies X is not A
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by mekoka 2y ago
So, according to the author, if I write an ugly script that works very well and offers such a clean and intuitive API, that nobody needs to actually peruse the nightmare hiding within, this is good code. But only for as long as the specs do
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by mekoka 2y ago
> A 2022 Science investigation found evidence of a broader pattern of fabrication and data manipulation in Newmaster’s speeches, teaching, biographical statements, and scholarly writings over 2 decades. Evidence also suggested Newmaster
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by mekoka 2y ago
I neither recognize in my discourse a sermon targeted at the choir (our psalms are way past this), nor do I feel an obligation on my part to convince you. I don't even register as a blame my failure to communicate my "belief"
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by mekoka 2y ago
Even in normal experience the brain is being stimulated. So theoretically, you wouldn't need eyes to experience color. You would only need to replicate the physical properties at the onset of brain activity. Those are called neural co
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by mekoka 2y ago
I think that I (finally) understand your question (maybe). Are you asking why the hard problem would apply to materialism, but not to idealism? If that's indeed the question, the simplest answer is that if reality is fundamentally mate
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by mekoka 2y ago
> I say they pump the intuition because it is not actually an established fact that the premise is correct, but to be clear, I think it is, at least for human consciousness. I don't see what's being pumped . As we know from th
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by mekoka 2y ago
What you perceive as a "huge leap" is not so much the promotion of consciousness as fundamental, but rather the demotion of matter from that same stance. The former is simply a byproduct of the latter. That in the process it seems
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by mekoka 2y ago
You seem to have constructed a strawman out of your very own interpretation of idealism. Idealism doesn't condemn the study of nature (i.e. science). It merely says that nature is "dreamt" and that consciousness is the primor
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by mekoka 2y ago
You're describing cargo-cult. The mindless replication of form without consideration for function. > But minimalism is a thing, it just has to be tempered. Some people's view of minimalism is frugality for its own sake. It beco
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by mekoka 2y ago
Yup, Mikhail ftw. He first was the recipient of generosity, an edit later he's being credited for that same generosity. Let's see if Reiser's newly found magnanimity will let this generous slip slide.
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by mekoka 2y ago
> Well, idealism simply says that consciousness/humans cannot be understood or explained via simpler concepts. That's the first thing anyone would think of but it is not a useful theory in any way. It doesn't just naively
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by mekoka 2y ago
Solipsism is skepticism of the existence of anything outside the self. I've seen Hoffman address accusations of solipsism a few times and I have to admit that it's always been unclear to me which part of his theory people tend to
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by mekoka 2y ago
> and similarly for those who feel that materialism cannot possibly explain consciousness. Perhaps for some it's indeed a matter of "feelings". But for others it's a conviction built from reasoning that leads to self-

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