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by racktash 2y ago
In June I "accidentally" (I certainly never saw it coming...) got back into film photography. I bought a Lomography Konstruktor for fun and ended up having way more fun taking photos with it than I thought I would. It's going
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by racktash 2y ago
Highly subjective views to follow... 1. That most people (including me) are utterly clueless a lot of the time, including people in very high positions of authority. Don't sweat figuring out the big questions or trying to solve problem
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by racktash 2y ago
I work on games as a hobby. Each game takes around 2 years or so to finish, which means I need to be able to sustain PRODUCTIVE development over a long time and resume paused development (for when life gets in the way of the hobby or I just
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by racktash 3y ago
I've long meant to read more about the brain's final moments (I've heard a little bit a out its final, frantic surge in other articles but never read up on it). Your comment made me very interested in the topic again, so than
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by racktash 3y ago
I spent much of my 20s obsessing over the meaning of life. To me, the "answer" was to realise the question could only be asked because of quirks in language. We can ask the question, but it doesn't touch upon anything real. I
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by racktash 3y ago
Not looking to accuse the commenter of anything, but... I think the Imitation Game movie may have given some folks a rather simplistic notion of Turing (indeed, I was under such an illusion until I read the biography on which the movie is s
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by racktash 3y ago
Yes, therefore it is not required (by this I mean one can be within the EU without being in the Eurozone, whatever the treaty details) – just like Sweden continues to be productively within the union while retaining its own currency. The cu
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by racktash 3y ago
Even as a (still!) pro-remainer/pro-EU UK citizen, comments like this always sound a little gleeful to me. The Euro is not a requirement (obviously) of being in the EU. If the sovereign UK or sovereign Ukraine or sovereign Sweden (or N
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by racktash 3y ago
Thanks so much for this. I've been finding it hard to separate useful resources from the salesy/hypefilled pieces so recommendations like this are very helpful. I've never had a problem with programming languages – I'd p
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by racktash 3y ago
Cloud computing (especially AWS). I've spent the last decade working on application software and am increasing worried how many jobs expect cloud experience these days as I have none.
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by racktash 3y ago
* Operators And Things – a fascinating account of a woman's journey through (and out of) schizophrenia. Also, some very interesting insight into toxic office politics. * Philosophical Investigations – I've wanted to read and under
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by racktash 3y ago
I can relate to this comment. The Tao Te Ching had a profound influence on me. Reading it was the first time I engaged on a "spiritual" level with life (I'm a fairly pragmatic and reductionist guy, perhaps to a fault). But th
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by racktash 3y ago
I wonder how many millions of dollars Google spent to rediscover the value in capitalising proper nouns. :)
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by racktash 3y ago
I think most people that point to the historical use of the singular 'they' aren't trying to make any kind of bad faith argument – I think it's more an attempt to justify the modern usage by pointing to historical preced
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by racktash 3y ago
I was surprised when reading The Sense of Style by Pinker (not a book I would recommend incidentally) that the use of 'they' as a generic pronoun was still considered controversial. Pinker opts to alternate his chapters with he, t
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by racktash 3y ago
I suspect Elements of Style is at the root of "avoiding passive" being popular advice. It's a decent rule of thumb for those of us who accidentally slip into writing in the passive. Too much passive leads to writing that feel
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by racktash 3y ago
I didn't take notes when reading Meditations. I tried a programme of taking notes every time I read a "serious" nonfiction book a few years ago and for me it sucked all the joy out of it. Even when reading programming books I
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by racktash 3y ago
I agree with the other replier that describing autistic people as "chimps" is very inappropriate, though perhaps unintentionally so. I'm all too familiar with the coarse language some people like to use for those who are inte
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by racktash 3y ago
It's generally good advice. Although when I was younger I took it too much to heart and became obsessed with having a verbal and written understanding of everything when, sometimes, a deeper understanding at a subconscious, more intuit
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by racktash 3y ago
Yes – it's both the most fun and frustrating hobby. :) Nothing gets me in that focus zone like working on a level or cl oding a new gameplay system. I think it's the thrill of tweaking, testing, tweaking, over and over again, whic
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by racktash 3y ago
At the risk of sounding very green, what is the best way to learn serverless/cloud? My decade or so of experience in the industry has been solely application development in C and C++. I've some personal experience in server side p
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by racktash 3y ago
If a pressure group closed off the main roads into a city in protest of some government policy, is that the kind of disruption that should be tolerated? If yes, where do we draw the line in tiny groups being able to grind the operation of s
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by racktash 3y ago
I hear what you're saying. But I would argue that the Cornoation is an important public ceremony / event with every right to go ahead. It's the same as when a foreign head of state visits and the police cordon off the roads f
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by racktash 3y ago
There's definitely a balance to be struck between allowing protests to take place and also preventing a minority of protestors disrupting the lives of ordinary people. For instance – I worked in Belfast while a series of flag protests
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by racktash 3y ago
Some people definitely do fixate (and derive a sense of purpose, whether that's good or not) from perpetual productivity improvement – I think this is why online productivity and life hack gurus are so popular. But for some, it's
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by racktash 3y ago
Some movies benefit greatly from having room (runtime) to breathe. Historical epics like Laurence of Arabia, Ben Hurr, The Ten Commandments and Spartacus immediately come to mind. Their length adds to their "epic" character. I can
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by racktash 3y ago
Yes, and if that's as far as it goes – "Hey, are you sure you want to use that word? Okay, it's your call." – I have no problem with it. Some excellent writing involves getting into the heads of hard, mean characters who
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by racktash 3y ago
I agree. I love reading books from around the mid 20th century – Chaim Potok and Richard Yates being my favourites. There are lots of things in Yates that could today be considered sexist or insensitive, but they're such a wonderful wa
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by racktash 3y ago
It's been about ten years since I read it, but I don't remember anything particularly "anti-feminist" in it. Or anything political at all. I'm curious why you think so.
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by racktash 3y ago
I feel this can sometimes happen even when the writers stay the same. Highly subjective opinion incoming! By season 3, the characters on the BBC show Sherlock had become caricatures of their season 1 selves. Though maybe it doesn't hel

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