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by nnq 7y ago
There's a 5-valued logic usable in common everyday live, originating from some Buddhist philosophy I don't care to remember, that I actually use fine in everyday life, similar to yours. I has: - {T}: true - {F}: false - {not-T &am
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by nnq 7y ago
The US army is not lacking in capability... you have an excess of it! What you'll earn by having this probably-prototype put into production is tons of valuable data about what works in production, what to improve, what components
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by nnq 7y ago
> Luckily ...nope, I'm one of those humans miss-programmed to secrete dopamine and endorphines when slumping in a chair coding and eating chips, and to feel depressed to death when doing physical effort. For those other 99% of human
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by nnq 7y ago
...and the opposite curse applies to people who had fully couch-potato sedentary lifestyles in youth and want to work themselves into shape in their 30s ...it sucks :| Realizing that you might need to put 12+ months of continuous boring exc
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by nnq 7y ago
...a lot of us are practically addicted to Jupyter Notebook Extensions [1] features and these aren't compatibly with Jupyter Lab and Jupyter Lab didn't add equivalent builtin features. Once you get used to little things like (
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by nnq 7y ago
You have multiple options, this is how to choose one: 1. "software engineer" (might drop the "software" for specific roles like "front-end engineer" or "machine learning engineer" etc.) - use this fo
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by nnq 7y ago
"Not everybody is frantically trying to be the next ultra-billionaire" ...as long as things work out for you, yeah, maybe, but when shit hits the fan it might be more about not ending up depressed-to-suicide by being the poorest
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by nnq 7y ago
That's not how it works: we've build a "winner take it all" or at least a "winner takes more" society... differences get amplified: if you earn 10% less than a similarly competent but more socially adept peer
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by nnq 7y ago
...the point is to gain knowledge of something. It's nobody's goddam problem what I choose to do with that knowledge! Thinking the way you do violates the core principle that knowledge can't "have purpose" , know
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by nnq 7y ago
Sounds like a totally backwards and nonsensical way to solve the (possibly legitimate) problems that they have: - you can choose to release partially anonymized data (like without identities of judges etc.), and have laws preventing th
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by nnq 7y ago
> Now I can see again. Did you suffer some retinal damage? Maybe too much summer time outdoors without sunshades in your youth? ...and can other people actually tolerate being in your home?! I mean, I can tolerate a 2500 lumen bulb clo
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by nnq 7y ago
Am I the only one actively disliking this light fetish? Dunno about others, but the semi-darkness was crucial to the awe and spiritual depth & mystery that NDC made me feel when visiting it. Otoh it's probably in line with ov
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by nnq 7y ago
I think that generally humans cannot recover from being "in broken-EF state for so long" alone - that's why we invented society, as horrible and oppressive and stressing and annoying as society can be! Get connected to
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by nnq 7y ago
Q for ppl more knowledgeable - How exaggerated is this claim? : > would have ignited a second reaction that would have been the equivalent of a 5 megaton explosion. It would have leveled Kiev and Minsk, and would have ejected the nucle
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by nnq 7y ago
...there's ADHD-PI ("primarily inattentive") that lacks the highly visible hyperactivity signs you find in TV-stereotipical ADHD. It's even worse when masked by high-IQ and good coping behaviors, because when life hits y
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by nnq 7y ago
> executive functioning is greatly impaired by stress, anxiety, lack of sleep, depression, etc. This 1000 times over! Took me ages to realize that once you get "down" enough (either depressive or overwork-burnout or scared-to-d
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by nnq 7y ago
Anglo-american culture did enough appropriation itself... no reason to feel bad for appropriating its language :P (Though, tbh, "international high-English" as spoken has a very latin vocabulary, with non-native-English speakers
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by nnq 7y ago
100%, I always tweak any color theme I use to have comments highly contrasting green or orange... dunno what's with the modern trend of making everything eyes-hurtingly-colourful, but then going and muting out the parts that should sta
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by nnq 7y ago
...well, destroy is too harsh a world, but the "uniformization" process of global brands has not really created any authentic "strong culture". Also in trying too be maybe too politically correct and not to offend anyone
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by nnq 7y ago
This is brilliant! Finally there's the opportunity to adopt an equalizing language that will also help free us from national culture isolationism : - a language that is nobody's mother tongue: YEEEY! - language that is not
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by nnq 7y ago
You're gonna get the "lots of progress in hardware part" back soon, even without Moore's law :| ...but you're likely not going to like it: will be a rain of exotic heterogeneous computing platforms first, with var
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by nnq 7y ago
> Parametric polymorphism is a real world issue. ...what in the world makes you thing that? I love parametric polymorphism, but nothing stops you from writing the most complex computer programs you can imagine without it.
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by nnq 7y ago
MDs are idiots in this regard. Mainly because they've been thought medicine by other idiots. They have this stupid idea that "too much data" is bad, also stuff being a sign that you're a bad doctor if you order too much
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by nnq 7y ago
What's the recommended way for someone to learn systemd properly? Is there a readable manual somewhere that documents everything? That's the only thing I find scary about such big systems, the lack of comprehensive docs and
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by nnq 7y ago
> but breaking compatibility with previous versions is a bug That's how you get an inconsistent mess that never evolves. There's something called semver , increase the version number and do the fix / refactors / radi
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by nnq 7y ago
WOW! This almost feels as good as Fireworks did back in the day! I'll probably use this for my upcoming web coming. Waaay nicer usability than Affinity (which was way nicer to use than Illustrator already): special path width control
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by nnq 7y ago
> must beware of anyone who is stupid and diligent -- he must not be entrusted with any responsibility because he will always cause only mischief Well, hard-working but not clever people will do useless work and create extra work overloa
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by nnq 7y ago
They should invest into making it pleasant to use in Linux and Windows too if they want adoption... ML devs (using mostly Linux) will not bother to build a useful rich ecosystem of general purpose libraries. And amongst the other devs, Wind
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by nnq 7y ago
You could get all the features of Rust by just taking features from an ML-family language and adding some low level memory manipulation capabilities, plus the theoretical work on lifetimes and all. It wouldn't "look like C" b
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by nnq 7y ago
> diagrams with plant uml ...any tip on getting that working faster ? (it takes seconds!!!) I generally prefer to edit the plantuml markup and see the diagram update instantly (like ~<200ms) on the other half split. This is the wor

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