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by padolsey 5y ago
Heaven forbid you explore a noncategorical perspective and consider that the usefulness of the website is not contingent on your experiences alone nor on your insistence that it completely encompasses you.
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by padolsey 5y ago
> The device itself plays recorded instructions and itself conducts diagnostic tests to determine whether or not it should be used. If it can't detect a treatable condition it doesn't just blat you with electricity for the sake
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by padolsey 5y ago
This is really cool! Tho I've found it really hard to not just disable these self-made barriers when the urge overcomes me. I guess the trick is to create sufficient _additional_ barriers to disabling the (initial) barriers so that it
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by padolsey 5y ago
I had a stroke a couple years ago at the age of 29. It has forever changed me. It is a scar on my brain and body. It is a part of me. I suppose I will never get true closure from the trauma until I __acknowledge__ that it has forever become
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by padolsey 5y ago
Thank u for these insights. I found it rung true for me, as I experienced quite specifically physiologically local changes when I had a haemorhagic stroke in the parietal area.
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by padolsey 5y ago
People keep saying 'trustless', without realizing the upsetting and very real truth that no mechanism is trustless. Even if you can, if well informed, verify the cryptographic integrity of any communication or data, you are also r
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by padolsey 5y ago
Can you elucidate us with how exactly this is an advancement of web technologies per se? I agree with OP comment that it's strange to adopt web3 as a moniker when it is a distinct stack/infra much akin to IPFS in spirit.
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by padolsey 5y ago
This is a bit like saying that AoE is cool but could do with some lasers. Townscaper is v well established and has found quite a niche and fandom for itself.
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by padolsey 5y ago
Is there a story behind the cruel-sounding "Cap table cleanup" heading? It says: > You've got early employees, investors, or a co-founder > who wants to leave or cash out. You want to swap them > for a friend
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by padolsey 5y ago
Yeh honestly being an SWE at FB just killed my soul (in part) because the job became so fixated on quantitative measures and experimentation...what we cannot measure cannot be important, surely....! :/ I think the only PMs/ICs who
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by padolsey 5y ago
> this hypothesis proposes that gay men respond to societal homophobia by overcompensating in achievement-related domains. Reflecting on this possibility, Mittleman suggests that "academic performance offers an accessible domain of
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by padolsey 5y ago
A quick hack for this is to create variations and include them in your main trie (with links to the canonical value/object/etc.). E.g. you might create a variation w/o vowels. There are heuristics you can apply here rather th
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by padolsey 5y ago
I reckon there's a kind of broken rationale where people think, "ok well this value will mutate over time so I can't possibly use a const", even though a new block scope is initialized on each iteration. The `for(let i i
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by padolsey 5y ago
lol I just sang this to myself, just brilliant
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by padolsey 5y ago
I see this is about point-to-point navigation optimization but it's very curious this article doesn't mention grid cells – essentially, neurological ~1:~1 representations of physical space. > They were awarded the 2014 Nobel Pr
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by padolsey 5y ago
It's been interesting to see bitcoin and blockchain migrate from tech infrastructure to the mainstream. I had a chat to an electrician recently who lost an apprentice because they wanted to go 'all in' on trading crypto. Elec
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by padolsey 5y ago
Yeh fair. I wonder what duration of outage would cause a spiral of the mentioned economic and social effects. I'm sure a fix made within a few days would not set the course of the economy on a different path but it's interesting t
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by padolsey 5y ago
I'm the last person to claim any knowledge in this area but isn't this analysis completely missing the possibility of a more accidental fundamental lower-level OS or networking bug that cascades. The whole stack presumably is buil
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by padolsey 5y ago
I mean, not an RCA per se, but info more akin to cloudflare's blog post would be v welcome IMHO: https://blog.cloudflare.com/october-2021-facebook-outage/
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by padolsey 5y ago
Likely relevant as WhatsApp does not always see eye-to-eye with mother FB, notably on privacy issues. Source: used to work there.
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by padolsey 6y ago
What perf issue have you spotted with hooks? My biggest bugbear with them is just the sheer cognitive exhaustion that comes with figuring out "when" stuff is happening -- especially if you're implementing a bunch of your own
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by padolsey 6y ago
It's not binary. There are thousands of variants, thousands of paths to matestasis. Some cancers are already, for most intents and purposes, "cured" (prostate, thyroid, testicular etc.)
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by padolsey 6y ago
TBQH I have a real dislike for the relativistic thinking that people apply to this. Everyone does struggle, yes. But the degree of struggle, for some, is exponentially more. To just participate in the smallest parts of life... eating, clean
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by padolsey 6y ago
I think I agree with part of what you've said. I often think that disability is something imposed by the external world; it is society's expectations of functionality that are encoded into how we've designed our infrastructur
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by padolsey 6y ago
Reflecting on how this applies to the tech industry, IME we're still very behind in accommodating those with chronic illnesses and disabilities. The 40-hour work week is still, on the whole, the minimum expectation across many FAANG-li
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by padolsey 6y ago
Surely the human factors at play are not incomparable.. ?
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by padolsey 6y ago
Agreed -- it is certainly inheritance that mostly takes the blame here, since it allows massive advantages to accrue, unchecked. However, I do think that there's something to be said against even inner-lifetime accruement of obscene we
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by padolsey 6y ago
These conclusions seem to spit in the face of "meritocracy". It's always puzzled me that this idea of meritocracy, especially in tech (notably USA), is so pervasive, bleeding into our corporate performance reviews and our pro
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by padolsey 6y ago
Bravo!!
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by padolsey 6y ago
I'm trying out Amazon affiliates yeh, tho no commissions as yet .. :/ I'm also exploring commercial licensing and API access possibilities.

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