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by mwattsun 5y ago
I like to translate ideas programmers talk about it to more commonly recognized bits of wisdom, so for this one I'm going with "if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail" When I looked it up, I was surprised t
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When I was growing up in the 60's, I was enormously impressed by Sidney Poitier. He was undeniably a man in a time when African-American men were called "boy" and gave lie to every negative stereotype I heard back then. He wa
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I thought the same thing, but I like to fact check
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I remember this from awhile back about how food insecurity sparked instability in N. African and Middle Eastern countries Lack of access to affordable food has proven to trigger revolutions and spark unrest across the world https:/&
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All that's left to do then is ruin Bitcoin with a 51% attack by the combined forces of nation states who are working on climate change
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Digital money is still a good idea. I don't want to throw it out because current implementations are bad. No doubt, someone will invent a way to make it work. edit: in a sustainable way.
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When you let chat bots get smarter by learning from humans in an unrestricted way you get Microsoft Tay, the Nazi chatbot brought to you by 4chan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_(bot)
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Nobody seems to know if it's satire or for real. I was convinced it was a joke until the last part where the developers start talking about it like a real thing
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Richard Feldman (Elm) analyzes why programming languages become popular and says Java is unique. It became popular because Sun spent 100's of millions of dollars promoting it, even after the dot com crash. Others like Ruby, had a kille
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I'm on Facebook because it's a good way to stay in touch with my 83 yr old mother and other scattered family. I posted the Cryptoland [1] video for a couple of my techie friends on there and made a comment about it. Ever since I&#
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First part of your question, the loading ports in S. America are watched very closely according to at least one documentary I watched. Second part, I wondered that myself and this is what I came up with: I'm assuming since this was a E
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Former Uber and Lyft driver here: Uber is a highly automated company. Lyft is more customer oriented. I've fixed several problems with Lyft as a driver by chatting with a rep and getting customer refunds. I don't recall ever talki
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In my attempts to learn more about crypto, I've been reading about 51% attacks and thinking that a nation state or states working together could destroy Bitcoin if they wanted to. This Kazakh situation is another piece of the puzzle: N
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Someday my software might love me the way my children did when they were small
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I'd be the last person to dismiss the benefits, but as the old adage goes "all things in moderation" and there's also no reason to dismiss long-term effects because you did a small study. You could run this study exactly
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I'm reading this with an open mind, but I have questions: > Problem #1: Owning Your Own Digital Identity & Fixing Authentication My very technical friends who are security minded are on keybase.io. Multiple usernames and passwor
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Did you ever notice how the shroomers have a different look in their eyes than the acid heads? There's a lot more warmth to the former as you noted, but there's a tendency to believe really far out things. One friend of mine was c
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I'm a fan of Psilocybin but anyone who has been around for awhile in a psychedelic culture like my home town knows people who did too many mushrooms. LSD is a thing in itself: acid casualties are a real thing.
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RIP the Bogdanoff twins
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I think it's worth asking if intelligence tests are even keeping up with a fast changing social environment. For example, young people are extremely adept at communicating with memes or a few seconds of video. Are these new skills even
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In CBT worksheet terms it would look like this: Automatic Thought Record When you notice your mood getting worse, ask yourself, "What's going through my mind right now?" As soon as possible, fill in the table below. Situation
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Elimination of feelings is not a desired outcome and if extreme can be classed a disorder such and depression, dissociative disorder or psychopathy. I found Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Dialectic Behavior Therapy (DBT and Wise Min
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Andrei Tarkovsky: > If you look for a meaning, you'll miss everything that happens > What matters to me is that they arouse feelings, any feelings you like, based on whatever your inner response might be. That's great and I
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> I attempted SICP a few times I don't have a computer science degree and I think that has held me back some, but I try to overcome it by always trying to learn and never thinking I should already know something or feeling like I&#x
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> homoiconicity... is simultaneously very prosaic and very deep That's what drives me on. That and Rich Hickey's enthusiasm and the sense that he knows something really valuable that I don't. I watch a lot of videos as wel
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That's not really Zen though. Zen is expanding your awareness of the present moment to experience it without interpretation, including emotional interpretation, to experience it as it is. Zen is freedom from the constant need to assign
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I generally never used macros when I wrote C because the C macro language is lacking, there are a lot of pitfalls and saving function call overhead is usually not that important. I think I'll try to get a new understanding of Lisp macr
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Thank you for the examples. I'm really curious to get to the bottom of this. My inspiration has been Erik Meijer, specifically his article "Confessions of a Used Programming Language Salesman. Getting the Masses Hooked on Haskell&
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> brittle and undebuggable That's why I stopped doing it, but I totally get that in low level programming that it comes in very handy in some circumstances.
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So Clojure programs are data structures, and you can pass a structure to a macro to rewrite it into something the compiler can evaluate. In this way you can extend the language. You can build your own DSL that solves your particular problem

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