mtdewcmu

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by mtdewcmu 10y ago
Note that there are many reasons for why anecdotes don't count as evidence. I thought that I felt euphoria the first time I took codeine (but I honestly wasn't sure). I have taken codeine since and was never able to replicate that
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The worse you feel, the more you will enjoy opiates.
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Actually, I remembered that there are relevant results from clinical studies that are available. Here are the side effects of OxyContin.[1] (Euphoria is considered a side effect.) The most commonly-reported side effects were constipation, n
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by mtdewcmu 10y ago
I believe you. I don't think the buzz would happen consistently if you tried to replicate it over and over. It could have been your anxiety going away, or it could have been the placebo effect. One could easily resolve the question of
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If you were given narcotics in the hospital, then there must have been a reason. I said that if you have pain, and the drug takes it away, it feels good.
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The "euphoria" is situational. It's like alcohol. Drinking alone is usually not much fun.
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by mtdewcmu 10y ago
"Narcotic" means numbing, and that's an accurate description IMO. Reports of euphoria are exaggerated. It feels good if you are feeling pain or malaise and it takes the pain or malaise away. Otherwise it doesn't feel lik
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by mtdewcmu 10y ago
In the case of Steve Jobs, his predictions were things that he did himself. I think what youre saying is that he predicted what a good cell phone would look like. I'm not sure that's really salient to my point.
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There are many tasks related to programming that would be maximally hard for computers. It would be kind of like a gordian knot of all the intractable problems in AI all woven together.
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by mtdewcmu 10y ago
In the 90s, I thought that there wasn't much software left to write. It turned out that there was. I don't want to be glib, but I think it's always hard to imagine the things that haven't been created yet.
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It's not only cases where the requirements are especially hard to elicit. Computers don't have common sense, so even "obvious" things would be hard.
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I meant infinite in the sense that there will never come a time when the human race stops making art because there's none left to make.
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Actually, if you consider programs that can be considered art, like video games, that may create an infinite demand for programmers, because the demand for art is infinite. In art, the fact that something has never been done before can be t
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by mtdewcmu 10y ago
The demand for new programs will not abate unless people stop thinking of new things to do with computers. The number of useful things that a computer could do might be infinite -- or it might not. We're unlikely to ever hit that point
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I know that weight makes a big difference when shipping parts or complete machines. So the cost of shipping magnifies when you use heavier materials.
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by mtdewcmu 10y ago
I'm not sure that the hardware has been that much of a constraint lately. Evolution, not revolution.
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I've thought about this, and I don't think that making all data persistent is necessarily a good idea. Programs tend to crash and corrupt their volatile memory. If you want some data to be reliable and permanent, you have to treat
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by mtdewcmu 10y ago
The key here seems to be that performance does not drop off very much under load. DRAM cache hides latency, but only up to a point. Hiding latency is like a magic trick, and you can only hide so much before the trick starts to break down.
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by mtdewcmu 10y ago
My mistake. I would search for the brace and then press n twice.
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It almost seems like the message of NA was maliciously designed to induce hopelessness and defeatism, the exact opposite of what would help a person who needs optimism and confidence to make a change that might seem scary.
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It sounds like roughly the best case for the mouse and roughly the worst case for the keyboard.
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Oh, I get it. There was probably no efficient way to move the cursor around with the keyboard. That might explain why users said the keyboard was faster. It was faster for them to push the right buttons. They might have found the mouse cumb
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by mtdewcmu 10y ago
I think I avoid using the mouse with vim. It's not about the mouse per se, it's about having to frequently switch back and forth that becomes frustrating. I think that you have not learned to move around efficiently in vim. I woul
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I don't understand what task the users were doing when the mouse was discovered to be faster. The keyboard and mouse are not generally interchangeable; the task will generally favor one or the other. I'm assuming that the users we
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One more thing. I think rehab causes people to die, because a heroin user is made to stop, then they are in rehab for a while, and then they get out and accidentally inject too much and overdose. When you are denied something you want for a
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I see the rehab industry as selling snake oil. I'm sure that it has been a good business to be in with the trend to send fewer addicts to jail and redirect them to rehab instead. Going to rehab is a good idea if you need to rehabilitat
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The sense I get from him is that he enjoys storytelling, and the stories should not be mistaken for literal truth.
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You write very well, so there's that. Probably not genius level, unfortunately.
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Twitter never sounded like a great idea to me. Years went by and I finally made an effort in the last few months to get on it so I could follow political tweets. I found that it sucked in all the ways I thought it would suck. When you find
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You seem to have a fixation on the idea of genius. You are susceptible to momentarily convincing yourself that you're a genius, which is followed by feelings of inadequacy. Why don't you try to put this genius idea out of your he

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