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Is the progression toward the heat death of the universe a result of innumerable suffering particles steering themselves in ways that minimize their pain? Should we as humans accelerate the heat death of the universe to end subatomic suffer
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> THE BRIGHT, SHINY, INFINITE RABBIT HOLE Wow, what an apt metaphor.
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> One of my personal career goals is to stay as far away from simple glue code as I can. Unfortunately it makes up most of our field right now. But it seems like an especially precarious place to be. Integration platforms are getting goo
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Wondering if I'm a fraud because I can name about as many bones as bash commands. chmod's connected to, access permissions (Maybe I'll come up with the whole song if I ever teach CS in grade school.)
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I agree with what you're saying about how the greedy approach to covering all your cases isn't usually optimal, but if a manager tells me that their rat's nest of a 30-year-old enterprise software codebase is an outcome compa
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I remember finding Cliff Stoll's Klein bottle website a number of years ago when I was younger, but of course I didn't remember the name of the person behind it. The concept prompted a lot of interesting geometry-related thoughts.
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I used to feel that way — and in some situations I still do, like for a short script that I think won’t change much over time. But for a lot of situations I realized that I had so many things to keep track of myself. If there was an easy
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It's a computer Bloomberg produces with access to data, news, and tools used by workers in the finance industry. A subscription for one is around $20,000 per year, and there are currently 100,000s of active subscriptions.
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by odyssey7 7y ago
Huh, neat. I just read about this after seeing it as an example in UPenn's CS 194 "Introduction to Haskell" notes. hailstone :: Integer -> Integer hailstone n | n `mod` 2 == 0 = n `div` 2 | otherwise = 3
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I remember reading about vegetarians mitigating this very concern years ago when Burger King put out its first veggie burger. In 2002, the company already had a response for this situation. "'The Burger King VeggieBurger is not po
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I was expecting to read that this was newly evolved, but it was actually newly discovered. I’m curious about what factors led to it existing for so long without being discovered. “The most recent of the three samples used to identify HIV-1
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DoD spending in recent decades has reflected a sense that there's perpetually an r > 0 chance that we'll be in the middle of World War III in twenty years, and that we're willing to spend what it takes to ensure technologi
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Going beyond everyday attacks, one famous war effort gave us programmable electric computers in order to break encryption, and there is no disputing how much value came out of that for the winners of that war. Any country with the means wil
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The way this is framed, an underlying question is whether medicine should make normal lives better, or just treat disease. I would definitely say yes to making normal lives better in addition to treating disease.
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This is also why plants are a questionable gift idea unless you ask the person first. I see a plant as a long-term responsibility that takes up space in my not-big apartment, so the ones I buy for myself are chosen carefully.
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Maybe not 20, but I expect that the WeWork hot desk membership does this to an extent. Remote workers don’t usually show up every day.
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An influential book for me was Arnold Schoenberg's Theory of Harmony. It's half harmonic theory and half a manifesto on art. In a lengthy footnote he advises using materials to their advantages, rather than forcing them to do some
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by odyssey7 7y ago
I'd imagine this is why GitHub disallows private forks?
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I take it this was just one example of something that didn't agree with you about the location. I've had a good experience at mine with better productivity vs working from home. Keep in mind, this is an office that aims to keep in
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Eh, kind of. If buyer A is trying to obfuscate transmitting $100 to the seller, and the painting would normally sell at auction for $7, then somehow buyer A needs to boost the auction sale price up to $107. I’m not saying that it can’t be d
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Or more mundanely, what if we’re living in the 90s (a lot seems to have changed in such a short amount of time), and we remove the fat from everything to make it healthier, or add inflammatory emulsifiers to improve shelf stability and flav
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Huh, I (and many others) kind of used to do this in undergrad. We’d get a study room, read things from our different classes to ourselves, and schedule breaks every 20 or so minutes to talk, and repeat. It was very effective and enjoyable s
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Just tack on a mandatory individual arbitration agreement and this option is gone, too.
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Similarly, you have a better sense of the cost of different materials in a car, but pricing React vs Vue vs jQuery is a lot fuzzier. Especially since software may or may not get extended whereas a car doesn't get updated a lot after be
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And the blue-was-perceived-differently theory has so much other evidence for it that is compelling besides this one metaphor. It's a beautiful choice of words that inspire, but people put too much weight on it as a riddle that can be o
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I know I directly relate to both findings as they're explained in the article. In the morning I can process information more easily, but when prepping for tests I've found that reading the material at night and reviewing my notes
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An illustration: Recently a recruiter asked me to do a coding challenge. He told me to spend twenty minutes on it. Three hours after starting, I had completed the six questions that covered things like dynamic programming, converting betwee
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Emulsifiers are also being investigated for causing issues like that. I find them to be a more compelling explanation for rising rates of these issues. A lot of specialty vegan and dairy-free products are filled with them to turn plant-base
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If we went from veggie burgers this year to lab-grown beef patties in 2021, that would be more of a one-time leap.

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