petervm

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by petervm 3y ago
I'm in similar circumstances. Same age, a lot of intellectual interests, physically very active, don't feel old at all. And yet, that feeling of "been there, done that" is very recurring. When I think "I'm too
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by petervm 6y ago
Haha :) This is exactly where I'm stuck with guitar and also exactly where I left PHP a lifetime ago. Having moved on to other programming languages and other paradigms outside web dev, I totally understand the analogy.
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by petervm 6y ago
This looks great! Thanks
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by petervm 6y ago
Thank you so much for this. You may have derailed my Sunday :) A physics teacher would probably make for a great music teacher indeed. Understanding things from first principles is so powerful. Compressed knowledge. I always try to move tow
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by petervm 6y ago
This is great! Any resource you'd recommend for someone who learned to play the guitar but has no idea what he's doing? I'd love to learn more about music theory and stop relying so much on memorization. I know there are a to
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by petervm 6y ago
Don't know what's their native tongue but at least in Portuguese we have a saying that would translate literally to "jumped to my neck". I also love these language things :)
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by petervm 6y ago
But it's pretty satisfying when details are still relevant but simply misleading or difficult to put together. In my opinion, that's the ideal scenario. It's ok for superfluous details to be there for the sake of texture but
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by petervm 6y ago
Will do, thanks!
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by petervm 6y ago
After posting my comment yesterday, I read some of your other comments and I don't think we actually disagree. The problem is probably the definition of "real". I'm not arguing that consciousness is a fundamental propert
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by petervm 6y ago
I believe in Portuguese, at least, that boy is also named Peter.
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by petervm 6y ago
And yet most people call it a car, consider it real, and at the same time don't see a problem in reducing it to its physical properties. "is the qualitative experience of consciousness actually real, or is it reducible to third-pa
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by petervm 9y ago
Reminded me of this book I very much enjoyed about Stuxnet - "Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon". Stuxnet was a targeted attack directed at Iran's nuclear program. Quality,
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by petervm 9y ago
Here's some advice from a fellow beginner. After many failed attempts to make it stick, what worked for me was a combination of two things: - Reading about meditation in general just to learn more about it out of curiosity, not necess