mos_basik

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by mos_basik 6y ago
Sounds like my kind of thing. Got a link?
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by mos_basik 6y ago
I'm interested in why you hold that opinion of Black Swan. I just read it a couple of months back because I figured I probably owed reading some Taleb as back table stakes for all the hours I've spent reading HN (and SSC). Picked
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by mos_basik 6y ago
That was a great read - thanks for linking. I had trouble with the one class in uni that used Haskell and I've been working in a Python shop for some years now, so I kept expecting to encounter some impenetrable section that would make
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by mos_basik 6y ago
It's all very well to say that traditions that serve no purpose are stupid and should be forgotten, but it might be a Hard Problem to distinguish those kinds of traditions from other traditions that serve an excellent purpose that is c
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by mos_basik 6y ago
Not quite what you're asking for, but you can drag the top/bottom borders of a given hunk to expose more of the context on a case-by-case basis.
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by mos_basik 6y ago
I haven't even opened Signal since hearing about this update, so I don't know how irritating the prompts are, but I did see this in the blog: >Because Signal doesn’t have access to your keys – or your data – your PIN isn’t reco
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by mos_basik 6y ago
Man, that blogpost [0] really did a number on me. Warning, navel-gazing ahead. I have a browser extension [1] that lets me set custom tags on HN users. I'm not unconflicted about using it, since I have some ideological hangups that tel
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by mos_basik 6y ago
I just got back from reading a blogpost [0] by another commenter (presumably also German, if you are, in fact, German) in this thread about how Americans are so steeped in euphemism that they don't notice how much they respond to what
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by mos_basik 7y ago
For what it's worth, I screenshotted your comment to send to some friends before I'd even gotten to the part where you mentioned that you write.
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by mos_basik 7y ago
Also known as a scissor statement [0] 0: (posted here regularly) https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/10/30/sort-by-controversial/
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by mos_basik 7y ago
Maybe you could induce something similar by providing the liar with strong incentives / stress. Something like this: >We're going to hook you up to a state-of-the-art polygraph. We know you've heard that polygraphs are s
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by mos_basik 7y ago
Reminds me of the creepypasta about the guy who left a quake server running for years and his bots learned not to shoot each other [0]. That was only in 2011. At the time it was solidly in "this feels like it could happen, but definit
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by mos_basik 7y ago
As someone who's been slowly picking their way along the narrow crooked path towards free software / tinfoilhattery / unixbeardedness for the past several years, I'm interested to know which browser you use. I assume giv
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by mos_basik 7y ago
Wow, that was a ride. I could think of worse things to do in a Friday night than read that for the past three hours. Thanks for linking. I'm now much more interested in reading the book and the rest of his blog.
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by mos_basik 7y ago
Not the person you were asking, but- I learned how to nap while adjusting to the Uberman polyphasic sleep schedule (20 min naps every 4 hours). Wouldn't have described myself as a proficient napper before that, but do now. My memory o
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by mos_basik 7y ago
Oof, I know that pain. Or a similar one. I use the tiling window manager i3 - so I don't have windows stacked on top of each other to flip through, but I do have plenty of workspaces to flip through. I wrote a small thing to help me
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by mos_basik 7y ago
Not the person you were asking, but I did a double take on your question because I had thought growing up in the DRC that "mazut" was the French word for diesel. Turns out mazut is a separate thing. Also, it was definitely used
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by mos_basik 7y ago
It's an excellent strategy. To add to your examples: Team Fortress was originally a Quake mod, and Valve hired its creators to head Team Fortress 2's development. Counter-Strike was originally a Half-Life mod before Valve bought
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by mos_basik 7y ago
I know it's a contrived example, but it's worth pointing out that using comprehensions to cause side effects is considered by some to be at least unPythonic and at worst an abuse of the construct. I know this because I wanted to d
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by mos_basik 7y ago
Not GP, but Gary Bernhardt is the guy who gave the classic "Wat" [0] and "Birth and Death of JavaScript" [1] talks, and some searching turns up "pretzel colon" as the "&:" operator in Ruby [2]. I
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by mos_basik 7y ago
Oh man - the thought of trying to build structures with "straight" walls using triangular prisms is giving me the heebie-jeebies. Entirely aside from the impossibility of creating smooth surfaces and right angles - I can imagine
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by mos_basik 8y ago
Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy talks a lot about the "can't make dirt fast" problem, and I was surprised and impressed at how fascinating such a mundane-appearing problem could be. I had never thought about it befor
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by mos_basik 8y ago
>single answer to several messages Always surprises me that out of all the different kinds of internet communities, it's only the oft-maligned imageboards that consistently provide that feature. I was kind of expecting Discourse to
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by mos_basik 8y ago
Some people are working on this problem. You might be interested in looking at the Matrix standard [0] or some of the things built using it like Riot [1], a Slack-like web client supporting text, voice and video communication for one-on-on
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by mos_basik 8y ago
They may have changed that behavior recently. I was trying out pipenv last week and running `pipenv run script.py` in a subdirectory printed a message along the lines of "Courtesy notice: no pipfile found in this directory. Using pip
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by mos_basik 8y ago
Haaaaah, same here. Inhaled Red Mars and Green Mars last week. Putting off starting Blue Mars for a few days yet so I can actually get some work done.
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by mos_basik 8y ago
Tangent: Seveneves by Neal Stephenson is a hard sci-fi novel that explores this very situation. Present day humanity (i.e., no manned interplanetary missions, minimal manned presence in orbit, etc.) discovers total-extinction cataclysm wi
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by mos_basik 8y ago
It's hard to identify sarcasm in text, so either I'm walking into your joke or you're walking into his (much older) joke. Oh well. Experts Exchange was a tech QA site with a comically misinterpretable domain name that was pop
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by mos_basik 8y ago
Thanks for that overview of her categories; it got me interested and searching a bit for a more detailed version. Now I think I'll give the original essay a shot, and I hardly ever read philosophy. Link to save anyone else 10 seconds o
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by mos_basik 8y ago
This is encouraging to read. Right now I'm at what feels like the nadir of a similar situation, and am trying to figure out the right steps forward. I attended Caltech for CS, struggled with chronic late submissions, cratering self wo

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