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by quanticle 4y ago
I assume no such thing. Quite the opposite, actually. I'm pointing out that the author makes this assumption, implicitly, by suggesting that vision quests and other traditional shamanic interpretations of psychosis are a better, more
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by quanticle 4y ago
It threw into perspective for me how psychosis must have been viewed in those times, before medicalization: a potentially valuable journey of growth and transformation, rather than just like, “well that sucks”. It was view
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by quanticle 4y ago
Nobody cares what your code looks like. Nobody cares what your architecture looks like. … until it breaks. Nobody cared how the FAA NOTAM database was implemented either, until it went down. Part of being a professional engine
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by quanticle 4y ago
I want to skip over the static typing benefits argument, because I think it is well understood that static typing is a good thing and if we could bless JavaScript with a built-in and robust typing system then I don't thi
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by quanticle 4y ago
See my other comment [1] re: my experience at Potbelly. Restaurant usage is extremely bursty. For a lot of restaurants in business-y areas, you basically have a single spike of traffic from roughly 11:30 to 13:30 that drives >90% of th
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by quanticle 4y ago
Yeah, but on the other hand, just a few days ago, I went into a Potbelly and had to leave because the point of sale system was "rebooting", and they could neither process credit cards nor even get the cash drawer open to handle sa
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by quanticle 4y ago
It's easy to have a low-effort cynical take about Chick-Fil-A's use of Kubernetes in its restaurants, but the actual post outlining why they chose to provision each restaurant with a 3-node Kubernetes cluster [1] makes a fairly co
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by quanticle 4y ago
I appreciate the irony, but the kind of AI that Lisp was designed for (i.e. automated reasoning, expert systems, etc) is really not the same as the kind of AI that we have today. The AI we have today is very much a "worse-is-better&quo
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by quanticle 4y ago
Doing "more" of the same, throwing more bodies at it, rewriting the world because your UI or ORM needs a reboot, trying to attach checksums and technical proxies for dependencies as a substitute for the basic fact t
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by quanticle 4y ago
I used cold air and air conditioning as an example, but my problem is actually the opposite. I live in Minnesota. It gets cold here. I need a constant supply of hot air blowing at the windshield and side windows in order to keep them defros
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by quanticle 4y ago
but the ability to have more than 4-5 buttons is a huge benefit It is? For whom? A few years ago, I upgraded from a 2007 Hyundai Elantra to a 2019 Subaru Legacy. The new car is better in many ways (most notably, having all wheel d
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by quanticle 4y ago
You're proving my point. You're saying that the quality controls imposed upon developers by the console manufacturers resulted in fewer, but higher quality games. I'm saying that's a good thing.
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by quanticle 4y ago
No, I think that games that couldn't be patched were, at the very least, just as good and very likely a lot better than modern games. At the very least, the fact that the game couldn't be patched meant that companies invested in Q
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by quanticle 4y ago
All of whom copied it, in turn, from emacs :)
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by quanticle 4y ago
I would also note that the paper only covers the multiple choice portion of a bar exam, the Uniform Bar Examination (UBE) that has been adopted by most, but not all states. The UBE consists of a multiple choice portion (the Multistate Bar E
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by quanticle 4y ago
It's a bit odd to see the supplementary data repository linked, rather than the actual paper [1] (HN discussion [2]). [1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.14402 [2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id
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by quanticle 4y ago
If you were never allowed to provide tech support, in any form, what would have to change? Am I the only one who thinks that the answer to that question, for quite a few companies, is, "Nothing. Absolutely nothing. In fac
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by quanticle 4y ago
This is what works for me : - When reading, researching, listening to a lecture/podcast/video/etc, take notes on paper . Don't really worry about the formatting or the organization - Then, in a separate step, structure
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by quanticle 4y ago
Teachers (or school systems) that mandate this system, and, even worse, GRADE NOTEBOOKS completely misunderstand the point of it. In K-12, one of the goals is to help students become effective learners, which involves stu
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by quanticle 4y ago
Well, it's not as if the Gnome devs are listening to me as it is, so I don't really see the difference.
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by quanticle 4y ago
The part of the paragraph that really bothered me wasn't the hours, actually. It was the implication that you would be expected to code during those hours. Even when I've been on-call, I've never expected to write code, out
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by quanticle 4y ago
That is of course perfectly fine, but to me that represents a not-so-ideal fit between your interests and your job. If the day job were Clojure, I'd be hacking in Python in my spare time. Or some other language (Rust, Has
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by quanticle 4y ago
What if your job was open enough that you could find dozens of interesting fun things to code on the side? No job is that open. From your other comment in this thread: I have some days packed with meetings and calls,
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by quanticle 4y ago
I'll be sure to let my boss know about your definition of "working" when it's time for performance reviews :)
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by quanticle 4y ago
Nothing great has been achieved by teams where people shut down their brain after 6pm. Why do you think that the only options are: 1. Thinking about work or 2. Shutting your brain down If I want to go hack on some Clojure afte
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by quanticle 4y ago
If you're so uninterested by your work that thinking about it after 6pm makes you sick, why did you pick it? Doing anything continuously for long periods without rest is unhealthy, and leads to both declining physical and
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by quanticle 4y ago
Right, that's the contrast I wanted to draw. In many other professions it is routine and expected that you're available in the evenings or in your off hours to deal with urgent (potentially life-threatening) issues. Programming is
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by quanticle 4y ago
Rare work-life balance. In other professions, your work day ends at 18:00, and you forget about the job. Not here. You will most likely always be online and checking the code, even in the evening. If that's the case,
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by quanticle 4y ago
Programming is a "dream job" for me. I'm getting paid to do (approximately) the same stuff I would be (and am) doing on my own time, and I have entire departments whose job it is to handle the boring drudge work, like account
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by quanticle 4y ago
I don't know about bugs. I haven't really noticed very many bugs in KDE, XFCE or MATE. Those pieces of software seem to be no buggier than Gnome. And I'm not sure why "modern tech" or a rapid release schedule is a g

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