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by mnsc 1y ago
I would actually like a phone that is lighter but fatter. Having empty space inside. Letting a good enough camera be flush with the back and the wider sides could add sturdiness. But as others have pointed out, consumer choice is an illusio
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by mnsc 1y ago
> You can't win architecture arguments. I feel this in my soul. But I'm starting to understand this and accept it. Acceptance seem to lessen my frustration on discussing with architects that seemingly always take the opposite s
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by mnsc 1y ago
Yes, so that is not the point of being kind.
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by mnsc 1y ago
Oh I don't meant to do that I think. I just thought of that friend due to how hard it is to emphathize with him during discussions about rand/objectivism. It's so non-human to take egoism to that extreme. But I still try and
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by mnsc 1y ago
Improve outcomes? Like make the drug addict stop being a drug addict? If so, you misunderstand the point of being kind. If you want to maximize outcomes I have a solution that guarantees 100% that the person stops being a drug addict. The u
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by mnsc 1y ago
I have a friend who reads ayn and agrees with her drug riddled thinking. But I still try to connect with him through empathic understanding (understanding with a person, not about him) and that lets me keep up the relation and not destroyin
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by mnsc 1y ago
For example, the homeless drug addict might have a dog that he/she loves deeply, maybe oceanplexian have a dog that they love deeply. Suddenly oceanplexian can empathize with the homeless drug addict. Even though they still can't
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by mnsc 1y ago
You are right, and another angle is that empathy with a homeless drug addict is less about needing to understand/analogize why the person is a drug addict, which is hard if you only do soft socially acceptable drugs, but rather to reme
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by mnsc 1y ago
And for all kids and adults and elderly, empathy needs to be encouraged, practiced and nurtured.
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by mnsc 1y ago
Effortlessly not clicking that link to form my own judgement. Thank you manmal!
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by mnsc 1y ago
"AI" is good right now and feels inevitable. But the current models are trained on the extinct "pure" information state we had pre llm:s. Going forward we will have to start taking into account the current level of &quot
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by mnsc 1y ago
This is my fear when I think about doing actual in a team using a functional language. That there's an imbalance in understanding between participants in a team making all discussions about problem x into the pattern matchning problem
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by mnsc 2y ago
I don't get it, could you explain the joke?
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by mnsc 2y ago
Ok. Russia evil, Ukraine good. Now what? Do we sit around and wait for the chosen one? Is Zelensky the one? How much time should we give him? Maybe Trump is the one? Don't get me wrong, I'm swede and like most here I'm firmly
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by mnsc 2y ago
Funny enough I found some old pants that still fit, ~20y old, and those pockets does not fit a modern phone. But I remember my Nokia 6210 being just the right size for them.
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by mnsc 2y ago
Sony are giving up on the compact flagship 5 series because "People are no longer interested in compact phones and would rather go for a large one if it offers the same benefits". And unfortunately the specs of the Xperia 10 just
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by mnsc 2y ago
Some cowboy developer pushed me to prod despite a glaring beta tag and a plethora of known critical bugs. Yet here I am, 45 minors later with the beta tag still there, delivering measurable value to all my users.
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by mnsc 2y ago
What are they doing in the Philippines? Dumping household waste straight into the rivers?
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by mnsc 2y ago
An inner join? Then there wouldn't be any nulls.
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by mnsc 2y ago
But in a _relational_ database lack of spouse would not be modeled with a nullable column "spouse" but rather an absence of a spouse row/relation. Which is very real-world-like.
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by mnsc 2y ago
And yet you read the whole thing.
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by mnsc 2y ago
I have a Xc70 now, from the year they stopped making these brutalistic work horses, and having owned a 740, v50 and a V70 before I believe this is peak "herrgårdsvagn". Nowadays the large Volvos like the v90 are stupid Chinese lux
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by mnsc 2y ago
I have normal memory but my interpretation of the worst programmer I've worked with is that he had extraordinary memory and used that to write extremely tangled code but due to remembering every call site and randomly named function he
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by mnsc 2y ago
This is where a good comment really can help! And in these types of domains I would guess/hope that there exists some project master list to crossref that will send both developers and domain experts to the same source for "tariff
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by mnsc 2y ago
And that time spent writing a small paper in one's native language would be better spent trying to make the code speak for itself. Maybe get some help, pair up and tackle the complexity. And when both/all involved is like, we can&
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by mnsc 2y ago
I don't think comments need to be perfect to have value. My point was that if a certain piece of code is solving a particularly confusing problem in the domain, explaining it in a comment doesn't _necessarily_ mean the code will b
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by mnsc 2y ago
So even if comments are flawlessly updated they are not a silver bullet. Not everyone are good at explaining confusing concepts in plain English so worst case you have confusing code and a comment that is 90% accurate but describe one detai
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by mnsc 2y ago
Interpretation 1 is more likely and made the dry mathematician more relatable/human which made the writing better imo.
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by mnsc 2y ago
Curiously that made the thread better for me and the author's opinion about Twitter is exactly as true as the opposite opinion, that it is now the unfiltered source of objective truth. Or do you believe your opinions on the threads val
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by mnsc 2y ago
This magnitude of data fascinates me. Can you elaborate on how that much data came to be and what kind of processing was needed for all that data? And if not, maybe point to some podcast, blog that goes into the nitty gritty of those types

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