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by nefitty 6y ago
Children need guidance. Their whims are least likely of all to lead them to choose long-term beneficial behaviors.
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by nefitty 6y ago
Good point. I picture our friends and family having some sliver of responsibility for our wellbeing, however slight that burden may be.
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by nefitty 6y ago
To me there’s a difference between a Chris McCandless and an Alex Honnold. If Honnold wasn’t so devoted to preparation it would be irresponsible to let him climb mountains without harnesses.
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by nefitty 6y ago
Yeah, I’m still struggling with taking this seriously for myself. Not only am I contending with the inevitable procrastination of setting an appointment with a doctor, but there’s also a chunk of my brain screaming, “don’t tell anyone, ever
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by nefitty 6y ago
Today is the day I decided to switch to old reddit... My Mac can run garageband and vsc and 40 chrome tabs at once, but as soon as I click a front page Reddit link, that modal is like pouring sludge into my computer.
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by nefitty 6y ago
If this seems absurd to anyone, this aligns closely with my experience in React and even more with Gatsby....
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by nefitty 6y ago
SWIM is "Someone Who Isn't Me". People use it instead of "I" as in "I committed the crime" becomes "SWIM committed the crime." Presumably people really believe that this is some sort of legitimat
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by nefitty 6y ago
Well, some companies seem to end up with weird incentives where it makes sense to be less productive. For example, a dev might create some script that eliminates some data processing roles. The CEO might decide to not implement it solely to
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by nefitty 6y ago
I took mushrooms once at a strange house. I didn’t correctly anticipate how strong they were. The kitchen table had violent police tabloid magazines that I skimmed before my trip. Insanely terrible idea. I ended up staying up for hours hall
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by nefitty 6y ago
I’m not knowledgeable on the technicals of what would be required, but scanning over this reddit thread from yesterday implies that it is still intensely difficult for individuals to contribute. I didn’t see any indication of a successful b
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by nefitty 6y ago
Your mention of Minority Report evoked an image in my mind. A sort of thought experiment. Imagine you run the government along with law enforcement. Say that one day someone on Hacker News announced that they figured out how to predict a pe
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by nefitty 6y ago
I especially like the non-death factor.
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by nefitty 6y ago
I’ve heard from a senior engineer that he has a go-to toy program that he implements in any new language he wants to learn. His is the Game of Life because it uses many features of a language in one fell swoop.
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by nefitty 6y ago
After finishing this article, I immediately started googling for any anecdotal signs of antioxidant usage effects on sleep. Coincidentally, I found out that melatonin has strong antioxidant properties itself. Could supplementing with melato
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by nefitty 6y ago
I think this is the best frame of mind to keep me pushing forward. Maybe once I’m at the top of the food chain I’ll be able to have some impact on these practices lol Thanks for the advice!
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by nefitty 6y ago
This is confusing to me, because supposedly there’s a shortage of “good engineers”. That may be the case or not, but if so, why are these additional bottlenecks being added when these interviews universally seem to be perceived as irrelevan
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by nefitty 6y ago
You said, “ Rather than encouraging them to leetcode and practice for interviews, I taught them software engineering practices...”. How do you square that with the reality that many software jobs have leetcode as a gate to an offer? I find
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SpaceX attempts their first astronaut mission(space.com)
1 points by nefitty 6y ago|0 comments
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by nefitty 6y ago
What’s your plan for when they start school?
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by nefitty 6y ago
Pandora, LibraryThing and Criticker can definitely keep up with me, a human, when it comes to recommending stuff within their specific domains.
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by nefitty 6y ago
I’ve based most of my life philosophy on the work of Peter Singer. His response to your comment would be, “we can’t save all the drowning children.” There’s a point where trying to do so deteriorates our personal well being, which benefits
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by nefitty 6y ago
I have questions about their agenda. They were exclusively funded, initially, by the John Templeton Foundation. Whatever one’s personal feelings about Richard Dawkins, this bit he said in The God Delusion is apropos, regarding how he feels
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by nefitty 6y ago
There’s something fishy about Nautilus. One of their main contributors is the John Templeton Foundation: “The work supported by the John Templeton Foundation crosses disciplinary, religious, and geographical boundaries. Our grantees produce
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by nefitty 6y ago
You made me realize that podcasts do take the place of Wikipedia for me, especially when I have a lot of busy work. For example, someone mentioned Jurgen Schmidhuber in an AI thread here the other day and I was able to find a bunch of podca
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by nefitty 6y ago
Good point. I've recently gone from "management techniques" to cryptocurrency trading, to systems thinking, and so on. It's a good point that a lot of the things that catch me have some promise of making me more powerful
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by nefitty 6y ago
Thank you for your thoughts! This is very insightful.
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by nefitty 6y ago
I created a Notion doc (instead of in my huge Evernote notebook, and right after abandoning workflowy and right before I discovered Roam...) to list out all the productivity methods I’ve tried and ones I have yet to try. After several hours
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GitDuck: Livestream Your Coding Sessions(gitduck.com)
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by nefitty 6y ago
That's one way. Each writer seems to have a dedicated profile page anyway at wired.com/author/first-last. I understand that the search term “mackenzie bezos phone number” is an example of a semantic search, but the search res
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by nefitty 6y ago
Progress is inevitable, even necessary, especially when systemic problems like climate change are consequences of the current paradigm. This seems to happen throughout history, ie industrialization, abolishment of slavery, new forms of gove

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